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    I don't like my setup either and need a warehouse.
    can't justify the cost though, around here a good little warehouse rents for $2000 a week, that's a hell of a lot of tv's each and every week before I make a cent.

    but on the good side, a warehouse doubles up as a transfer station where people can drop things off,
    that's where I think it would balance out in the end, if it's all coming in for free, like other places around here,
    and I can process them at the same time, unlike the rest, they still have to truck them to the e-waste company, I think I can make it work.

    and blubox, if I can process flat screens and flourecent lights on site then I think I can catch a very large market.
    you know that the white powder, or terbium oxide that comes out of flouro's? it sells for $130,000 a tonne, so a tonne of rare earth would pay my rent for the year and at the same time eliminating the toxic waste from landfills.

    so until I get a blubox down here, i'm just a bum kinda.





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    Quote Originally Posted by taterjuice View Post
    I wouldn't mind the 3 mill in the bank but why retire ? I plan to scrap til the day I flat line, too much fun to not do and if you enjoy it why quit ?
    One of the things on my bucket list is to go on vacation and pay for it by scrapping or selling on Craigslist each day in the city or town we are in.
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