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    eesakiwi is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    Wow, I stayed up all of last night, got a hours sleep this morning.
    I spent all last night on the internet (here & such) and scrapping down the very last hard drive I have.

    So I now have a full sack of Ali hard drive chassis, dunno what it weighs, too heavy to pick up almost, drag it out the door..
    Sorted out the fancy escrap jewellery anodised heatsinks and separated 'Cast Ali' from 'domestic Ali'.
    Piled up my light gauge steel outside.
    Had a 1 hr sleep.
    Packed all my lightgauge sheet steel into my car & took it to the scrappers, unfortunitly the price dropped yesterday from $65 to $40, ouch.
    . So I got just over $20 for near 1/2 ton... Brexit anyone? Golds gone up heaps though, $100 from normal average lately.
    Wish I had near 1/2 ton of Gold.....



    Found out my clothes driers not working, the other two I have, ones got a cut cord, the others got a 'no heat' note taped to it.
    Its winter here, its not going to dry 100% on the clothes line (our NZ method of drying clothes, solar powered)
    So after a shower where I had nothing to change into afterwards, I used the laundromat to mostly dry what was washed.
    Like 95% dry, it cost me $3 for the 'silicon chipped' key, $9 for 3 x 20 minutes of drying.
    That's $12 off my $22 scrap metal $$ already.
    I'm not paying another $3 to dry the last 5% of the moisture out....

    Put on almost dry but clean tee shirt & went home to wash the rest of my dirty clothes. Tomorrow I can dry the other almost dry stuff and then all of today's washing.
    . Amazing how quickly it drys in just 20 minutes, that'd take me 90 minutes at home.
    Feed cats, to McD's for a meal & newspaper, internet and home to watch video & sleep.

    Tomorrow, make space for last lot of motherboards, maybe clean some (large sockets) down, alls left is large sockets & telecom heatsinks & some Ali sheet to clean. With any luck I could have some escrap weights for you.
    I think I had 108 CPU, 40 of them purple ceramics of all sorts.
    More hard drives than I thought because some computers had two of them.
    Its raining tomorrow.

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