I'm starting to feel like a scrapper now!

I type this with cuts on my hands stained in the ink of a printer, the glint of copper still in my eye, the tired arms from the weight of copper clad coax (the shame), and a smile on my face.
Scrappers I think I have found the down time hobby I needed.

After I posted my intro I put a free ad into the paper asking for junk electronics, days passed with no bite, but then...a nibble. Got a call to pick up a scanner and a printer. The two nice old people then tossed in another scanner and a old microwave! Then a guy I work with gave me his old huge box tv and now I got a old pc monitor and a copy machine today! So slowly I'm getting stuff and feeling good. Nothing like the sound of broken plastic.



Tho my story is not all grand
Starting out as a scrapper I find my self at lack of bits to open some stuff and the need for new wire snips. But this I knew (mostly) and have on my great "stuff I need to buy list" (insert trumpets here).
That and now I have to find a new scrap yard. I heard ok things about the one in town and looked over the prices. $2.50 a pound 1 bright, $2.40 a pound 2 bright copper not the worst I heard of. But all the stuff I would gather from electronics I needed to call. So I talked to him about random stuff lowgrade board, .02 a pound , price of random gage wire $0.10 - $1.14 and then when asked about copper baring motors (he called electric) the small ones from electronics and the transformers all counted as shred! Shred at this place is $9.50 for every 100 pounds so if I'm right thats .09 a pound. So looks like I need to go shopping for place. Luck holds two in 30min drive and a few more 45min from me. So not to bad gas wise. just much calling ahead of me.

So tho I stumble I hold my head up high. With the makings of a business card in hand and the will to go on, this is the makings of a fun time ahead.

Death list:
1 old scanner
1 old (and messy) printer
1 large box tv
1 computer tower

Sentence to death:
1 microwave (security bit needed)
1 scanner (micro screw driver needed)
2 cable boxes (must kill inventor of that security screw)
1 old computer monitor
1 copy machine

All sentence to death were found unusual by society and deemed a greater use parted and/or reforged.