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BDAScrapper Beginners luck..... 01-07-2015, 04:10 PM
jimicrk That's awesome. 01-07-2015, 04:15 PM
logansryche I'm happy that you're finding... 01-07-2015, 04:17 PM
BDAScrapper Thanks! Picked up a few... 01-07-2015, 04:23 PM
logansryche those tantalum caps go for... 01-07-2015, 04:44 PM
BDAScrapper So I hear, I have to make a... 01-07-2015, 05:05 PM
Metalbestos That's awesome you can save... 01-07-2015, 05:43 PM
BDAScrapper Hah, we think alike! The gent... 01-07-2015, 06:26 PM
jimicrk Personally, I don't believe... 01-07-2015, 07:37 PM
sawmilleng Good on ya! Are there many... 01-07-2015, 09:48 PM
logansryche Volkswagen Polo - Wikipedia,... 01-07-2015, 10:02 PM
BDAScrapper No worries, the more... 01-08-2015, 04:23 AM
hobo finds The one that Marco drives! 01-14-2015, 11:18 AM
junkfreak Yours is a perfect example of... 01-08-2015, 04:48 AM
travistemple202020 that's awesome and like... 01-08-2015, 06:55 AM
DevinThaScrapper Is there yards on the island... 01-08-2015, 10:06 AM
BDAScrapper No yards on the Island yet. I... 01-08-2015, 04:11 PM
junkfreak God luck BDA. Keep us posted.... 01-08-2015, 05:10 PM
BDAScrapper Little update, it will cost... 01-13-2015, 03:01 PM
sawmilleng BDA, I guess you now know... 01-13-2015, 08:03 PM
BDAScrapper Agreed, I do seperate ALL of... 01-14-2015, 04:23 AM
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    Beginners luck.....

    So as others on the Island think that scrapping is easy, pick away at the limited amount of scrap that's around and the pros (I consider myself in between) and I battle it out over picking grounds...... Scrap is getting harder to find,and the easy stuff is snapped up by wannabes....
    So I moved over to EWaste, and decided to give it a shot. So Monday rolled around and I rolled out, armed with the knowledge dug up from old threads and archives, and headed down to the dump.
    As it was Xmas, the weeks before,everyone seemed to have gotten a new CPU... Or printer. (Tvs and microwaves close third) I grabbed a half dozen and headed home.



    Once home, I started dissembling them, and I was hooked, MBs, HDs, Chips and other things that had gold on them, sink towers etc etc...

    That night I couldn't sleep,thinking about all the scrap sitting at the dump waiting to be snapped up, and worrying about the other scrapers getting ahold of it. It's mostly Indians, and the others that seem to go for the gold finger cards.

    So the next day after work, I hopped in my little old Polo (not allowed to have trucks etc on the Island roads to small, we are only 21 miles long) and raced down to the dump, after sorting through Piles and piles of trash needed up with 21, I had to pile me on the front seat I had filled the car up. (I started panicking after going around a few corners,mans the CPUs sliding, thought they might punch out a window......)

    And tonight my buddy called me, his company was writing off another 24..... So back down the road and over to one of the big hot shot company's. And spent the last hour loading up the trusty Polo.
    To cap it all off his father who works at another company has another potential 50 for me to collect and will pass the word around that I do free pick ups.

    Talk about beginners luck!

    If it wasn't for all of e old threads, and this Forum period, I would have passed up this, and many more to come, opportunity.

    So a word to all of the newbie scrapers out there like me, take your time to read the old threads and forums, they are worth more than the scrap you already have......

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