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I do not know why I do this, but I have been saving the metal roller bars from printers and other electronics. I have all different sizes and thickness. I guess my thought was maybe I would find someone who makes metal projects and they could use. The pieces just seem to nice just to scrap, at least to me. Anyone else do this and if so ever sold any. I probably have at least 75 of them.
I have some nice machined pieces that I've saved out of scrapped items because I thought they were neat but I haven't sold anything. Saved some nice threaded metal tubing. There's got to be uses for them besides the "tin" pile.
I have some printer ones and have also been saving the smaller DVD/CD ones too. If I get tired of them, I can always put them up as one big lot on Ebay lol They would work real nice as axles for toy cars and trucks.
I had some of them I had left outdoors and they did not rust. Maybe some higher alloy than just tin/shred. Some people use them for a punch.
I saw a grain mill for crushing grain beer brewing once.
I expect they can be sold to model engineers, home engineers/lathe work/gunsmiths, as 'barstock'.
Its accurate, tough, sometimes stainless and often there's the same size dia material. I have a few boxes of it, I now include tubing and Ali rod as well.
At $2 a rod you could make a fair bit of money qnd $2 is not much to pay if you actually need it. So you could get more for it.
I'd like somebody to try and sell it on eBay just to see what the results are like.
I've sold some bars from printers on ebay. I think the guy that bought them used in his blacksmith shop.