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69 tons Bob.
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This is a normal practice in the world. Don't encourage it by falling for it.

My normal yard pays more for magnetic stainless than for normal steel, and much more for non-magnetic.

use flux to solder to old or tarnished wires. You won't believe the difference.

A toaster oven or a heater will have either a Ni-Chrome element or a Ceramic-type element. Not sure if it is profitable to mess with unless you have a lot of them. I doubt the Ceramic-type are worth...

Please do, best of luck to you.

PS I hope it isn't freight collect!

Shipping scrap FROM Asia TO the USA? Texas? Ten tons of it? By truck freight? Via New York? :confused: I'm scratching my head trying to figure this out!

Depends, but quite possibly. If you have the patience, older printers have pretty robust gears and motors which are sought after by robot builder hobbyists.

metal gypsy, the ones with the stripes red yellow brown gold? Those are carbon resistors, they are almost as valuable as charcoal briquettes.

Notice the legs on the chips though? and the metal...

Well, common sense should tell you that when your currency is debased/inflated, you should run to hard assets. People who did that a year ago have done well. Look at Gold's performance for the year...

Just FYI, I would pay you a premium over the scrap value for that spool (better money, and you don't have to strip it), surely I'm not the only one.

You're right, I should have been more specific about which ones are okay to break. To whomever else reads this please don't damage or scrap chips like these two....

I thought you were being sarcastic, my apologies.

Other bigger fish to fry? I hope you at least try and sell the arcade games.

The big blue cans are electrolytic capacitors. They have some very thin aluminum rolled up inside them along with paper soaked in an electrolyte. Not worth much as far as I know.

As dherik says...

Well, there are lots of opinions and advice to take, out there so do your research.

My personal opinion right now is that metals, Cu in particular are underpriced. I also expect to see more...

Kris Kringle, I've been to China, and I can promise you that you wouldn't want to trade their air for ours here in Texas.

Probably also want folks to stop venting refrigerant. Which, actually, you ought to be able to collect it with a recovery machine, and sell it too. Or better yet, make friends with an A/C man.

Don't store it with iron oxide!

Seconded, also, don't pay too much attention to the prices of gold, and especially silver. JP Morgan is rumored to have a bad position and has been manipulating the prices by naked shorting in order...

A cathode ray tube is a wimpy type of particle accelerator. The image on a CRT is made by steering a beam of electrons from the 'particle accelerator' across the back of the screen, which is coated...

Maybe if you tried to sell it as new or made some guarantee about its quality.

Some of us use the little stepper motors in them for little robotics toys. That's probably who is buying your 5.25" floppy drives.

There are also those who collect old chips. But they mostly need...

No X-rays when off. **** few, if any when on. The vintage electronics folks won't care if you cut the cord. You might also look for good vacuum tubes, and check what they sell for on fleabay. Some...

Boyle's Law

If it is from a motor or transformer, it might be coated with varnish (electrical insulation). Or it may just be slightly oxidized.