I wonder if things have changed. Maybe there's not much call for the forum anymore ?
So many of the scrappers in my local area have either aged out or died. Up until a few years ago ... you could pick up an extra hundred dollar bill here and there with scrapping as a side hustle. It's was not a bad gig for a retired guy on Social Security that had time on his hands.
It's kind of discouraging. That same $ 100.00 bill hardly buys a bag of groceries in the store these days.
The resource also seems to be a lot less than it was ten years ago. My thing has been copper, brass, and
e-waste. The e-waste is only a small fraction of what it was six years ago. The trend has been from large items like towers & desktops to small things like cell phones. They don't use much copper & brass in plumbing anymore. It's all gone to plastic and stainless steel. That's bound to be reflected in the waste stream over time. A lot of the electric motors are wound with aluminum instead of copper now. Same with transformers. It's all about the money and the cost to manufacture. The manufacturers have gotten pretty good at doing more with less over the years.
< sigh > Everything has it's life cycle. People, technologies , industries ....... even forums.
Reminds me of the old shoe maker back when i was a kid. It used that every city and town had one but then the world changed and that trade became obsolete and fell by the wayside. (Most young people these days would have no idea of what one was if you asked them.)
Not trying to be a "Debbie Downer" here ... just a realist. The prospects don't seem all that good for reviving the forum.
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Originally Posted by mikeinreco
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