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    Sadly, but I must scrap you

    Hey Fellow Scrappers, have you ever picked up an item and then feel real guilty that it must be scrapped. I picked up a 36 inch tv today but it looks to be in awesome shape and I am starting to feel real bad about having to bust it apart first thing tomorrow morning when I hit my garage aka, my office.

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    If it works, toss it on Craigs for at least $50.00

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    If it's that nice, I would try to sell it complete first...

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    donate it

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    No one buys tv unless its a flat screen. Bulty tvs are a dime a dozen.

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    It was donated to me. Can't do that.

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    I felt both a little sad and a little cannibalistic when my cordless drill bit the dust after 10 faithful years. :eek:
    If it wasn't for the $ in $crap, it would just be.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by RustyDollars View Post
    I felt both a little sad and a little cannibalistic when my cordless drill bit the dust after 10 faithful years. :eek:
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRecycler View Post
    Hey Fellow Scrappers, have you ever picked up an item and then feel real guilty that it must be scrapped. I picked up a 36 inch tv today but it looks to be in awesome shape and I am starting to feel real bad about having to bust it apart first thing tomorrow morning when I hit my garage aka, my office.
    almost every day

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    Its a weird day when you get a huge screen CRT thats far far better than the 25inch CRT TV I paid NZ$1500 for...........

    It happened to me last week.

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    Had a nice 22 in rim for a newer GMC Yukon that was brand new but only had one. Tried to sell it for a couple of months...kept dropping the price till I got to a C note then scrapped it for $82.
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    I guess you can only keep so much stuff, and a CRT TV of that size is super heavy.

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    Like hell it is. I am scrapping it as we speak right now

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    Quote Originally Posted by KZBell View Post
    Had a nice 22 in rim for a newer GMC Yukon that was brand new but only had one. Tried to sell it for a couple of months...kept dropping the price till I got to a C note then scrapped it for $82.
    That reminds me, I had a rim and the temporary spare from a Porsche. Don't remember the size, never knew what year. Tried to sell em both. For some reason no one was interested. So after a few months I popped off the center cap (still got that) and scrapped em. Wish I woulda held on to em tho. It kind of neat. Probably the closest I'll ever to come to owning one. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by skylinejack View Post
    That reminds me, I had a rim and the temporary spare from a Porsche. Don't remember the size, never knew what year. Tried to sell em both. For some reason no one was interested. So after a few months I popped off the center cap (still got that) and scrapped em. Wish I woulda held on to em tho. It kind of neat. Probably the closest I'll ever to come to owning one. lol
    lol ive already scrapped my mercedes, bmw, but ive still got my porsche and jaguar the spare tire is neat they go for about $50 on ebay but ive not listed mine yet

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    My son works for a tire store now and is going to try making a few glass top rim tables from aluminum rims that he got for cheap, he's targeting "Man Caves"....I will have to let you all know how it goes.

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    Curb - hunt - dismantling - One day will bite us all in the ass, how could it not . When you consider you wish you had your child hood toys to resell - one day one can only imagine what ramifications we will feel when we see the countless scraped items selling vintage and because we scraped them so much. Some odd ball might want a old TV in the year 2050 . But the vintage computers and the CRT's that match them I feel some one will want some of them some day !!
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    may the television rest in peace lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Copper Head View Post
    Curb - hunt - dismantling - One day will bite us all in the ass, how could it not . When you consider you wish you had your child hood toys to resell - one day one can only imagine what ramifications we will feel when we see the countless scraped items selling vintage and because we scraped them so much. Some odd ball might want a old TV in the year 2050 . But the vintage computers and the CRT's that match them I feel some one will want some of them some day !!
    That is what will make the ones that do survive worth something, look at metal things made before the 40's, WWII kicked off and every piece of metal got scrapped.
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    may the television rest in peace lol
    So sad! (a tear goes down my face).

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