This is the gold rush

I couldnt agree more. My wife laughs at me when my daughter and I go out on trash night and load the truck up. Heck my daughter even likes stripping wire for me too. She is 15 so she knows how to use a knife. I had saved up a bunch of the black taped rapped cables from TV's and she wanted to go to a basketball camp. So I told her if she stripped them all she could have the money to pay for camp. She spent about 7 hours that day stripping them wires I had saved up and when it was all said and done she ended up stripping about 40 pounds of copper and had enuff to pay for camp. So again I agree and I think I have gold fever. If there is a cure for it please dont tell me im having to much fun.

I don't want the cure . I want more stuff to find . I take my kids with me some times to the yard , they go wild for all the action like cars being picked and such then when they see the money they know the truth. They sorta got used to me stopping like 10 times till we get to a destination, I might here a DAD come on !! then i shut em down, it's money kids !! we need it.
I don't know about you but i find allot of interesting things . I guess i got the fever bad Monday it starts.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

I couldnt agree more. My wife laughs at me when my daughter and I go out on trash night and load the truck up. Heck my daughter even likes stripping wire for me too. She is 15 so she knows how to use a knife. I had saved up a bunch of the black taped rapped cables from TV's and she wanted to go to a basketball camp. So I told her if she stripped them all she could have the money to pay for camp. She spent about 7 hours that day stripping them wires I had saved up and when it was all said and done she ended up stripping about 40 pounds of copper and had enuff to pay for camp. So again I agree and I think I have gold fever. If there is a cure for it please dont tell me im having to much fun.

Thats called a degaussing cable - just so you know (no sarcasm intended)

I knew that just couldnt remember how to spell it when i posted it so I did the redneck thing and just described it. No wait the hillbilly thing I forgot im from the hills of PA. (sarcasm intended)

I couldn't agree more. As a matter of fact, I took in a load of "ore" today....

A couple of days ago I had someone answer my CL ad regarding computer scrap. Here's what he had:

42 motherboards
26 Hard Drives
16 CD Drives
12 Floppy Drives
8 empty towers
about 35 miscellaneous cables
22 fingered boards (PCI, etc)
52 sticks of memory
abt 10 lbs of IDE ribbon
and the kicker..... 51 ceramic processors, ranging from Pentium 1 all the way back to a 286!

After getting a couple of quotes from escrap buyers I ran across an ad for a small gold refiner right here in my city. He's working his alchemy magic right now. From my own calculations/best guesses they should yield between 9 and 12 grams of pure gold! He and I will split it 75/25. So I'm looking at a payday of anywhere from around $375 to $500!!!

By the way... My initial investment was $50

PAY DIRT !!!! Way to go Billiard MD !!!

Then the next generation or later would be back to "mining the dirt." Digin up junk just for scrap.

I kinda doubt that, most(not all) are too lazy nowadays.

Originally Posted by Billiard MD

I couldn't agree more. As a matter of fact, I took in a load of "ore" today....

A couple of days ago I had someone answer my CL ad regarding computer scrap. Here's what he had:

42 motherboards
26 Hard Drives
16 CD Drives
12 Floppy Drives
8 empty towers
about 35 miscellaneous cables
22 fingered boards (PCI, etc)
52 sticks of memory
abt 10 lbs of IDE ribbon
and the kicker..... 51 ceramic processors, ranging from Pentium 1 all the way back to a 286!

After getting a couple of quotes from escrap buyers I ran across an ad for a small gold refiner right here in my city. He's working his alchemy magic right now. From my own calculations/best guesses they should yield between 9 and 12 grams of pure gold! He and I will split it 75/25. So I'm looking at a payday of anywhere from around $375 to $500!!!

By the way... My initial investment was $50

I think that's incredible I stopped putting my computer stuff in with the tin but i need to find a guy who can do alchemy (i do know they never really did make gold from iron and such) but great luck to you!!