Three landfills truck was so loaded had to by-pass the fourth, might take the trailer for the mixer.
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Three landfills truck was so loaded had to by-pass the fourth, might take the trailer for the mixer.
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Heavy Metal.
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More computers.
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The treasure, insulated stainless steel tank, the new still.
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I can't believe you can still dig thru the landfill....they would arrest you here
Just a few select sites and the province is making a move to eliminate landfills in the near future.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
I'm going back next week for the 2 hp single phase electric motor from the mixer.Want to use it on a small hammer mill build to shred mother boards.
I have four of those mixers. Remove the motor and metal and the rest is cast iron. Nice payday.
Nice haul. I was wondering ...
There's the pic with the copper/brass on the tailgate.
Is the thing on the left an instant hot ... hot water heater ?
They can be fun. Sometimes the heat exchanger is all copper.
Very observant, yes copper and quit heavy. it's in the bucket for trip to the yard in the morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by hills
I'll post the results on my totals.
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The large blue insulated tank is an indirect hot water heater with a 60 gallon capacity, my original thought was to install a electric heating element from the bottom of the tank. Know now that I can heat the tank from an outside source is even better.
The outside source could be a wood fired, waste cooking oil fired heater.
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Any accessories - like the meat grinder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patriot76
no, my were found in the shelter belt, left decades ago.
It's hard to say about re-using those ones once they hit the junk pile. I had a nice one come in about a month ago but it was a working pull. The plumber's customer had decided to switch from fuel oil to propane as their primary heat & hot water energy source. That's really more the exception than the rule though. The Boiler Mates usually get swapped out because they have hit end of life after 20 + years in service.Quote:
Originally Posted by alloy2
Sometimes the heat exchanger is solidly plugged up with minerals on the inside. All depends on the chemistry of the water they are heating.
Sometimes you pull the heat exchanger and it's all plugged up with black mud like stuff on the outside where it's been in contact with the boiler water all those years. Worst ones are where they added non-toxic anti freeze to the heating system. What a mess.
Not saying that you shouldn't re-purpose a boiler mate but it might be a lot of time & trouble for what you gain. You know ... projects pile up, one hits a snag somewhere, gets distracted with something else, and the project never gets completed. Unfinished business is bad for one's self confidence. It feeds on itself to a point where nothing gets done. ( Especially at our age cause we're running out of time. )
It's a quick and easy job to scrap one out though. Pay careful attention to everything it's made from. You might like what you find. :)
Hear exchanger was corroded at the brass plate, the copper is on this load.
It's a nice little score. They usually seem to yield around 5 lbs of brass and 7 lbs #2 copper. It's a good bit less work than other ways of mounting up non -ferrous.Quote:
Originally Posted by alloy2
I wish i could find an example of a stainless steel heat exchanger they use on the lobster fishing boats here. They use heat from the engine coolant to heat a 55 gallon plastic barrel of sea water out on deck. Can't imagine they cost all that much and they last a long time. Had a copper one come in the other day. It was kinda corroded but still good for scrap. They seem to fix a piece of lead or zinc on to some of their fishing hardware to act as a sacrificial metal to slow down the corrosion process. The stainless coils don't seem to need that.
They look kinda like this but they're bigger and the winding is a lot looser so it has more height.
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The thin rod with two wire leads, thermo couple platinum wire possibility.
They shouldn't I mean it's junk that really shouldn't be there in the first place it's bad to bury things everything should be recycled�� if everyone recycled there really wouldn't be any trash except for food stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
It's complicated Mike. It costs us about 4 times more a ton to recycle plastics & cardboard than to just put them in with the trash.Quote:
Originally Posted by mike1
Most of our trash gets trucked to his huge incinerator plant and gets burned. The heat from the fire is used to make electricity.
Food waste is interesting stuff. We get a lot of crab waste at our Transfer Station. Fishermen catch the crabs and sell them to crab pickers who pick out and sell the crabmeat. We started a program where the crab pickers put their shells in a special bin last year. The bins are emptied and the shells get composted. It's working really well so far.
I'm looking to get us into collecting food waste for composting next. Most are in agreement that it's what we want to do. We just have to iron out the details of where the collection bins will be placed.
Anyhow ... Alloy did mention that the province is looking to close it's landfills. We started closing ours here in Maine about 35 years ago. Most cities and towns have a transfer station instead of a landfill now. Most charge a fee for the different things you bring in. A large bag of trash might cost $ 4.00 to dispose of.
$420.00 for the load, went back and got the electric motor from the mixer.Quote:
Originally Posted by alloy2
Motor will be used on a small hammer mill build.
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Went back for the 2 HP motor on the old commercial mixer, new hammer mill build coming up. The finger and chips from 130 mother boards are waiting to be fed into the mill.
After passing through the mill the gold bonding wires will be liberated without having to incinerate any of this junk.
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The hammer mill build, purchased the bearings, found some grader blade cutting edges to use for the hammers, once cut into the proper size, just this evening discovered the cutting edge drills easy with titanium bits.
Metal cutting bandsaw this afternoons landfill score, missing the blade / coolant pump and it need a new belt.
Yesterday purchased the quarter inch flat plate I'll need for the mill build, pretty good scrap yard price $30.00 for half a 4 x 8 ft sheet. Next week the actual build begins.
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This mornings dump score, catalytic converter with DPF filter attached, best Canadian price thus offered $200.00 / $20.00. At those prices I'll keep them.
How much would you guys in the USA get for the FoMoCo converter with the following number, 7C34-5K282-AA
Briggs 8 Hp engine for inventory, upcoming projects.
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A quick & easy $220.00 in the pocket might not be a bad thing. It's not making any money sitting in the shop. It's a hard call as far as PM's go. The commodities prices on some of them are all over the map.Quote:
Originally Posted by alloy2
I already have slightly over 600 grams precious metals recovered from cats that has been sitting in the shop for the past two years, rather than sell for a lousy $200.00 I'm going to cut n process these as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by hills
Yesterday a couple of A&W burgers no fries or drink cost me $28.00 Canadian dollars.
This converter has a least 15Kg of comb, coming off a diesel most likely using platinum as the catalysis, we know the price of platinum has fallen but still a high dollar item.
From these numbers below, I would say we're safe to assume 5 grams platinum per kg, given I have an estimated 15 kg there's 75 grams of platinum with a value of $3,143.23 CAD or $2,360.67 USD
Another thing I've learned over the years, any engine equipped with a turbo charger has extra PGM loading.
in catalytic converters the average loading concentration of PGMs is 5–7 g per kg of catalytic device depending on the size of the catalyst, the type of the vehicle and the displacement of the engine.
Yea $200.00 would look good to a man starving.
Article from, Johnson Matthey.
Platinum Catalysts for Diesel Engine Exhaust Purification
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Yesterday a couple of A&W burgers no fries or drink cost me $28.00 Canadian dollars.[/QUOTE]
I've eaten a few of those burgers in my youth, can't imagine them being worth near that price. 73, Mike
Not a bad estimate, the large comb weighs 9.38 Kg, tomorrow I'll cut and weigh up the smaller one.
The white blanket is ceramic wool, wear a respirator when cutting these open.
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I guess i'm just practical minded about things. Seep it simple ... turn n burn ... ya know ?
Getting the extracts and not selling them isn't much different from just letting the cat sit in the shop for years. Either way it's unfinished business that isn't making money for you.
Unfinished business undercuts your self confidence. After awhile ... it feeds on itself and you don't get anything done.
Just sayin' is all. Truth is ... i don't know your situation. That might not be the case at all.
Hills I'm at the stage of my life where I'm no longer influenced by money.Quote:
Originally Posted by hills
A couple of years ago while on Vancouver Island needing directions for an address i was looking for asked a young woman who was carrying two coffees.
She gave me the extra coffee, we ended up at a dinner had a meal and chatted, I learned she was from the northern part of the mainland, became stranded and was camping out.
The extra coffee she gave me was going to be for her morning.
When i dropped her off at the campground gave her $100.00 no strings attached, the heartfelt hug she gave me in return will be with me forever.
I hear what you're saying. It's just money. You kinda need it for the day to day survival ... but ... beyond that ... it doesn't account for much. There are more important things in life.
Personally ... i get a certain sense of satisfaction from a job well done. Lookin' around the shop this morning and there are more than a few projects sitting uncompleted. It's a busy life. Something more important always comes up. Sometimes it's months or even years before i can get back to the project i started.
There never seems to be enough time and energy to get everything done.