Biscuits Catylitic Converter Project

Originally Posted by freonjoe

Thanks for the update. I wonder if the cat buyers already figure that in when they set pricing on cats?

The problem is there is no possible way to determine how badly the comb is degraded poking a stick into the end only tells the buyer the cat has a comb inside. but not the condition the comb I split last night was unforeseeable.

This catalytic business is one big smoke screen then the refinery keeps the little guy out by imposing large lot sizes to get in the door creating middle men who purchase cats then send out to a de-canner who then sends out to the refinery. I can now see the merits of starting up a de-canning operation but it would take deep pockets to pull it off.

Because of the damage and natural degrading that occurs to a catalytic over its lifetime I'm not making any attempt to keep a body count or distinguish one cat from another it's only the finished weight I concern myself with.

Besides I'm finding that there are many different car models using the same type and style of catalytic converter, making identification even more problematic. I'll leave this to the buyers so that they can BS the public.

If the car is not equipped with a pre cat the rhodium is in the biscuit closest to the engine so I'm assuming pre cats would have the rhodium, current market value for this metal is weak which would account for the low buy value on pre cats.