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    When the sides of your truck are at a 45 degree angle, you might be a scraper.



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    If you never forget to pull the AL spouts off the salt boxes when they are empty...

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    you know your a scrapper if you find old electronics in the trash all the time
    Australian born and raised, Guitar player and TV Collector

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    Very true indeed

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    Quote Originally Posted by landmine View Post
    You go through work gloves every month

    You know never to sit in the back of your truck cause off all the grease back there.

    Your neighbors make separate piles of metal next to the trash for you
    You know your a real scrapper when you wouldn't even waste time or money on gloves!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
    You know your a real scrapper when you wouldn't even waste time or money on gloves!
    I like keeping my blood on the inside.

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    If you save the lids from your snuff cans.

    If you are reading this instead of doing your day job(like me)....

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    If yove ever cut out a square foot of chainlink fence and then measured the one around your backyard to calculate its value

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    When you cut the brass zipper off your old unpatchable jeans before you toss them out.

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    lol somebody put this on my FB wall. had to share. BroJer

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    If you've ever used Google maps to find dumpsters...

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    I bought a trailer for my bicycle, which I will sometimes use to collect scrap. I thought of towing trailer loads to the yard and cutting gas out of scrapping entirely, but now I have stuff that is too big for the trailer.

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    ... if you look at the skirt on whomever's avatar has a flashing gold skirt and drool over the metallic lustre of the skirt and not even see the beautiful woman who's almost wearing it - u r a hopeless, incurable scrapper, holmes.

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    Screws, bolts, washers, ear rings, pennies, pull tabs too, if I'm using my metal detector.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryB View Post
    Screws, bolts, washers
    if these things fall out of your shoes at the end of the day.

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    You look inside any dumpster before throwing away trash ( On job sites etc.)

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    you have a 5 gallon bucket of leverite

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattInTheHat View Post
    you have a 5 gallon bucket of leverite
    that's hilarious

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    Quote Originally Posted by rca987 View Post
    When you wash your hands BEFORE using the bathroom. (and after, of course)

    This is also important when clearing brush--------with poison ivy. I'm much better now. thanks for asking.

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    your walking thru a power plant / refinery and trying to figure out what each piece is worth
    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
    I AM ACTIVELY BUYING ESCRAP OF ALL TYPES. BOARDS, RAM, CPUS AND MUCH MORE


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