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    scrapper's dictionary

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    Ferrite: If a magnet sticks, it can be added to shred. That's fair, right?

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    ***facepalm*** Now I get it. Talk about slow on the uptake lol.

    E-waste: How many broken computers will 'e waste before he realizes he can recycle them?

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    Batteries: "Better go grab the batteries gonna spend all day takin' them tiny screws out!"

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    Sawzall: It'll take 100 blades until Joe sawzall those I-beams into 5-foot sections. He really should buy a cutting torch.

    Stainless: I don't own a stainless t-shirt, they all have grease spots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SparrowMetals View Post
    Stainless: I don't own a stainless t-shirt, they all have grease spots.



    I'll submit: LEVERITE... When you see a 19" RCA television, you know it'll have a glued-on yoke and an aluminum degaussing cable, so you should LEVERITE where she sits.
    Out of clutter, find simplicity. --Albert Einstein

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    Those guys have better picked up all those nails, cause if Iron over them im gonna be ticked!

    That TV is made with aluminum!? You gotta be yolkin me.

    I love lame scrap jokes, but some just make you scratch your lead.
    If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...

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    Wire you just standin there get your hands on somethin

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    tantalum: he's gonna throw a tantalum if he misses anything on his boards

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    Cutter: well I would just cutter but sometimes she helps me load ovens

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    Burners - some residents of Colorado and Washington.
    Learners - Residents of other states that want to become burners.

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    Quote Originally Posted by auminer View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by SparrowMetals View Post
    Stainless: I don't own a stainless t-shirt, they all have grease spots.



    I'll submit: LEVERITE... When you see a 19" RCA television, you know it'll have a glued-on yoke and an aluminum degaussing cable, so you should LEVERITE where she sits.
    AUminer, I wish Ida seen this post a week ago...

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    Degaussing cable.
    When I cut myself on that tv, I covered the cut with 'degauss 'n cable' tie..

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    Flyback transformer.
    If you don't cut the red wire connected to the suckercup on that crt. When you yank on the degaussing cable....
    It will 'Flyback 'n transform yah'
    face..

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    Iodine
    I should put some antiseptic on those cuts I got from pulling out 3 tons of scrap steel today...
    But who cares.... as 'I'll dine' well tonight......

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    Bismuth

    Merry bismuth to you all. (Sorry about the lisp, I got a toof pulled today n the anithstetiks not worn off yet)

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattInTheHat View Post
    feel free to add your own

    Ferrite: If a magnet sticks, it can be added to shred. That's fair, right?
    Mags will stick
    to some brass
    if you throw it in shred
    you'll lose your a$$

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    Tosheroon: a lump of mud and garbage with valuables concealed inside. Commonly found in street drains. Scrappers who use the term may be called toshers.

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    Freon

    Get your refriderant recovery license and paperwork and you will get all the fridges, freezers and AC units given to you for 'free on' your doorstep.

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    Most of the leverite I see is on floor model TVs, which are grounded appliances (the fiberboard and other worthless weights keep them on the ground).



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