C4, I understand more than enough on living day to day and wondering when the ceiling will open up so that I can climb out. It does get better eventually, but never feels that it will happen. My wife went into hospital with blood clots a few years back with no insurance. Crappy place I worked didn't offer it. Son went into hospital before we got him on medical card. I had surgery 2 years ago on an eye with insurance that didn't pay squat. Last year we got hit by a twister and was in between switching out insurance on the house and trying to save up money before we had another bill to pay. Didn't do that soon enough.

After the tornado I got into scrapping so that my real job money could remain going to bills and scrap money could go towards fixing up house. Doesn't always happen that way, cause the scrap funds for the first year went towards bills.

The plus side is that after 4 years, my wife has a job and all scrap money can finally go towards the house repairs.



As far as the motors go, I just take grinder and slice the outer casing and then the windings on 1 side. I have a screw driver that I cut back a bit so that the tip was thicker and I punch it through each channel where the wire runs and it comes out fairly quick. If nothing else. Just copper salvage an hour here and there and sit on it if you can afford to and it will build up and then you could run to a place that pays better than where you are at.