Hello from MI

Figured I'd join up since I finally started rolling on the scrap side of things.

From West Michigan my entire life, working close to Lake Michigan currently. I consider myself an opportunist, doing the scrapping on the side as I see fit. I have a hard time sitting still, so this gets me in the garage to keep me busy and make a little cash on the side to fund my other projects (4x4ing, hunting, fishing, quads, etc, etc, it never ends)

I'll start having more questions as I get further into this.

Don't have much else to say, but hello all!

Hello LP, welcome to SMF, and good luck! Cool name, I musta one time been a lousy pirate too haha, had to get a job

Originally Posted by Bear

Hello LP, welcome to SMF, and good luck! Cool name, I musta one time been a lousy pirate too haha, had to get a job

picked that name 10 years ago when I was 13 for all my videogames, forums, and whatever else. It stuck.

Currently a Manufacturing Engineer. just trying to make some extra on the side without picking up a part time job. I like setting my own hours. Plus, I like going to garage sales, flea markets, and antique stores. sometimes you just never know what you find.

Hello, and yea, I agree. If a nickle can turn into a dime I'm game. Looking more these days to turn a nickle into a quarter.

"Scrapping is like a magic show, things just appear. Have a good plan, perfect it, seize the moment and enjoy the performance"

There's a quote for you Sirscrapalot

Welcome from south of Chicago

Welcome to the forums from a sandbar off the coast of NC. The home of non-lousy pirates.

Enjoy your stay, make use of the search box, an read lots. Even if you think you know everything there is about scrap, I assure you, you will find something on here you didn't know. Good luck, an stop being lousy at being a pirate, your giving the rest of us a bad name.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler, and pirate that quotes when he's not on strike.

already made a purchase since I was getting some other stuff (looks like I got a 40-55 gallon aquarium for $5 with a bunch of extras), so I bid on some other things.

Got an oscilloscope for myself (paid $4 for an old tabletop one), as well as a CB radio and an external speaker (with a ton of other small speakers) for $2 between the two lots. and an omega enlarger, which looks like it has quite a bit of aluminum extrusion for $2. I plan on keeping most of it, but things add up.

I also picked up 6 laptops from a friend, one desktop, a giant plotter, a bag of cables, and a few other odds and ends for free.


My biggest problem right now is my local scrap yard doesn't pay for low grade board, they also do a terrible job of classifying board. Need to find a better dealer. I was less than amused when they threw my low end board into their hopper without paying me for it, including several daughter cards, and one laptop board that they claimed wasn't mid/high grade.

Welcome from Cincy!

BroJer-hiding behind KZ

Your first lesson...don't sell your boards to the yard. Your here now, make use of our wonderful buyers if you don't have a local connection. See if they take low grade at scrap price. Bout the only thing I sell to my yard is low grade boards, an I dislike even that. Sadly no local buyer for the low grade. Everything else is shipped to buyers here, or saved for refining.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler