Long belated introduction

Hi,
My name is Chris and I live in Windham Maine.
I have been a member for almost a year but have mostly been a lurker. I found this forum when researching e-scrap. For 15 years my brother and I have been running a small business repairing business telephones. Also my brother builds, updates and repairs computers for friends and family and I don't think he ever threw anything away. Over the years we did toss a lot of old phones but at this time we had a lot of obsolete. and not worth repairing. phone equipment and a pile of computer parts dating back to pre 286 computers. In the past year I have probably scrapped out about $4000 [quite a bit of telecom grade].
Due to this forum I have gotten into other scrap also. My brother has moved on and now works for a company that sells business phone repair parts and I get all there scrap. They had there lights replaced and I ended up with the old lights and after braking them down I had 900 pounds of copper transformers and 250 pounds of clean cast Aluminum plus some wire. Not bad for a 6 hour day.
Due to this forum I have a lead on hundreds of fire extinguishers. I am going to give them a try this week. They want me to empty them and remove the valves before I take them. I do not think this is unreasonable because I would have to do this anyways if I just took them. Before they where doing this themselves and someone else took them, at no charge, so I am doing them a service by saving them time. I will call my local yards to see if they need to be cut in half today.

Welcome from Georgia! Love that area of Maine as I grew up going to our place in Casco off of Rt. 11. Spent many a summer night at the DQ as a kid in the 70's and 80's

Good luck with your endeavors.

Originally Posted by shendog

Welcome from Georgia! Love that area of Maine as I grew up going to our place in Casco off of Rt. 11. Spent many a summer night at the DQ as a kid in the 70's and 80's

Good luck with your endeavors.

Windham has changed a lot, we have all kinds of businesses around the DQ now. Lets see if you remember this. The house on the water in Raymond is gone but the giant walking service man is still there! [but he is old and does not walk anymore]
Chris

my memory isnt that good. I was up at SD Warren after the flood in mid 90's but cant remember those 2 landmarks. Cant wait to get back some day (still have family in the Portland area). Not much snowmobiling here in Atlanta

welcome from NJ

your location immediately makes me think of Sebago Frye's Leap IPA

cheers!

Welcome to the forum.

Originally Posted by submarinepainter

Welcome to the forum! I am from Westbrook and my son lives on Dutton Hill Rd in Windham

Perhaps you, or your son, have seen me. I ride a black sidecar motorcycle that looks like a 1938 BMW [Google Chang Jiang cj750] and also have a green Ural 2wd sidecar. I take Dutton Hill when I go to Gray to stay off of 202. Much better ride and the bike only has a top speed of 60mph.
Chris

Hello from central maine. You should get clean aluminum price for these extingushers and the valves are prob brass or alum. That's what we are getting here in central Maine so you should as well.

Good luck and welcome

-kmr-

Originally Posted by KMR

Hello from central maine. You should get clean aluminum price for these extingushers and the valves are prob brass or alum. That's what we are getting here in central Maine so you should as well.

Good luck and welcome

-kmr-

What percentage of the cans that you get are steel?
I called 2 scrap yards and one needs them cut in half but the other does not. Both are basically on the way home from where I have to discharge and remove the valves so I will separate the aluminum and steel cans and sell them on the way home. Only having to handle them once will be nice.
Chris