My scrap buyer once told me that 'anything Steel that you cannot bend with one hand is HMS'.?
Probably anything over 1/4 inch thick without rubbish stuck to it.
Gotta be shorter than 3 foot long too.
Oh, sometimes the head of the fridge compressor is Ali too. The pistons look cool though, neat inspiration for a 'project'.
What I do with the Iron Cores from the motor, electric motors, transformer, is, I get a old Freon bottle and use the angle grinder to cut a square around the handle, about 6 inch square.
Then I put a couple of slots in its base, and fill it with the Iron cores.
Then I put the handle/square back in and turn it 45° so its corners are sitting inside the bottle, then use the welder to tack a few welds there to hold it together.
It makes a good chunk of Iron weight and I tell/show the scrap guy (who knows what I'm doing now) what's in it and he says its OK to include in with the HMS.
I point out that the slots/holes will let any water drain from the bottle. He liked the idea.
It saves a lot of space at home and keeps the place neater.
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