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Nice haul. That's the fun of scrapping for me. You just never know. Some days are a bust. Every once in awhile ... you hit the motherlode and it's game on. :winner:

Nice score ! Dumb question but does the silver plate go as brass or do they have a different category for that ?

There is a lot happening on the global level. Gold set a record high of $ 2364.00/oz on Tuesday. The link below provides pretty good information on some of the different forces in play.
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Still rattling on about fakes CD ? ;)

I was just playing around awhile back and experimented with depopulating the boards. Had an old 4" planer / jointer that wasn't being used anymore and tinkered with planing the back side of the...

It's amazing how resourceful people can be. Some folks don't have much but they make the most of what they do have to work with.

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That's all i needed to know. The rounds and bullion never did make sense to me back when i was investing in PM's. You want something in the way of coinage issued by a reputable government. I did all...

The story is too generalized to draw any conclusions about intentional deception CD. It might have been grandma's silverware or silver tea set. Most folks wouldn't know the difference between...

Absolutely! You nailed it alloy.

Just dumb luck when i was starting out as a young man. I bought in when the price was a bit lower and sold just before the crash. Right place / right time was all.

Ummm ... thinking back ... it's been over 40 years since i bought & sold silver as an investment / hedge against inflation. The concern back in the late 70's & early 80's was that the U.S. economy...

I don't know about timing, but inflation is bound to exert upward pressure all commodities. PM's have traditionally been used to hedge against inflation so that would result in higher demand. That...

I'm not an ewaste buyer but i ran across some industrial special application stuff back in the early 80's. It can be kind of a hard sell because nobody knows what to make of it. Each alloy of gold...

Now Jim ... everybody knows that zombies cant swim.

I live on an island off the coast of Maine. :cool:

So your main concern seems to be fraud.

Not quite sure what to say. I've bought and sold over the last 50 years and have never known it to be a problem when doing business transactions with...

I wouldn't call it a craze or a fad CD. People routinely buy and sell PM's every day. They are commodities. This has been going on for centuries. This isn't anything new.

The PM's are also what...

It's timing Sara. The time to buy PM's was back before the pandemic when prices were relatively stable. They would have been purchased as a long term investment with the added benefit of insurance...

It's not a bad idea to keep a few thousand rounds of the most common calibers on hand for barter & trade. .22 for small game. 12 ga. for just about everything. Maybe 30-30 or 30-06 for deer & larger...

It's pretty much the same here in regard to prices going up. Electricity has just about doubled over the last few years. Prices at the grocery store are crazy. A dozen eggs are up over $ 4.00 again....

I ran across a few good stories about buying military surplus trucks & generators and putting them back into service lately. It's something to watch if you're into that kind of thing and have a...

I wired all the bedrooms,kitchen,and living room with phone jacks back 25 years ago. We even had two phone lines coming into the house. It probably seems excessive but it made sense when we had four...

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It just seems like scrappers can be kind of superstitious sometimes. When it comes right down to it .... a thing is only worth what someone will pay for it. It's not worth anything till it's been put...

Ignorance is bliss ! :cool:

This is a hard post to respond to Sara. The e-waste thing is a steep learning curve. Certain understandings only come along after you've done it for awhile.

The standing policy here has...

Ohh hell no. I've been known to eat crow on occasion. A few bugs ain't nuthin'.;)