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    They are fazing the larger bulbs out so many schools and offices etc are either retrofitting old fixtures or installing new so I'm seeing more of these being scraped.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KZBell View Post
    They are fazing the larger bulbs out so many schools and offices etc are either retrofitting old fixtures or installing new so I'm seeing more of these being scraped.
    It would be a good sideline. They normally dump the lot in a wastetaker bin & they use up a lot of space.
    Since the whole light fitting (flouro ballast etc) is made from steel & copper wiring almost the whole things recyclable.

    I even went thru & pulled apart the little chocolate box wire connectors for the brass, I ended up with hundreds of tiny steel screws that I threw at a microwave magnet for my amusement.
    I can mould them into weird shapes since they all stick together magnetically.

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    Dropped them off, the yard said nothing about them. Was prob 100 pounds of extra week.

    Though tim/light iron dropped to 273/ton from 292/ton just 2 weeks ago.

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    Mine takes them as motor breakage. Was 20c lb now done to 15c

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