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**alloy2** · 05-22-2023, 10:49 AM

Went back for the 2 HP motor on the old commercial mixer, new hammer mill build coming up. The finger and chips from 130 mother boards are waiting to be fed into the mill.

After passing through the mill the gold bonding wires will be liberated without having to incinerate any of this junk.

**alloy2** · 06-10-2023, 10:31 PM

The hammer mill build, purchased the bearings, found some grader blade cutting edges to use for the hammers, once cut into the proper size, just this evening discovered the cutting edge drills easy with titanium bits.

Metal cutting bandsaw this afternoons landfill score, missing the blade / coolant pump and it need a new belt.

Yesterday purchased the quarter inch flat plate I'll need for the mill build, pretty good scrap yard price $30.00 for half a 4 x 8 ft sheet. Next week the actual build begins.

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**alloy2** · 06-13-2023, 05:29 PM

This mornings dump score, catalytic converter with DPF filter attached, best Canadian price thus offered $200.00 / $20.00. At those prices I'll keep them.

How much would you guys in the USA get for the FoMoCo converter with the following number, 7C34-5K282-AA

Briggs 8 Hp engine for inventory, upcoming projects.

**hills** · 06-13-2023, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by alloy2

This mornings dump score, catalytic converter with DPF filter attached, best Canadian price thus offered $200.00 / $20.00. At those prices I'll keep them.

How much would you guys in the USA get for the FoMoCo converter with the following number, 7C34-5K282-AA

A quick & easy $220.00 in the pocket might not be a bad thing. It's not making any money sitting in the shop. It's a hard call as far as PM's go. The commodities prices on some of them are all over the map.

**alloy2** · 06-13-2023, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by hills

A quick & easy $220.00 in the pocket might not be a bad thing. It's not making any money sitting in the shop. It's a hard call as far as PM's go. The commodities prices on some of them are all over the map.

I already have slightly over 600 grams precious metals recovered from cats that has been sitting in the shop for the past two years, rather than sell for a lousy $200.00 I'm going to cut n process these as well.

Yesterday a couple of A&W burgers no fries or drink cost me $28.00 Canadian dollars.

**alloy2** · 06-13-2023, 08:20 PM

This converter has a least 15Kg of comb, coming off a diesel most likely using platinum as the catalysis, we know the price of platinum has fallen but still a high dollar item.

From these numbers below, I would say we're safe to assume 5 grams platinum per kg, given I have an estimated 15 kg there's 75 grams of platinum with a value of $3,143.23 CAD or $2,360.67 USD

Another thing I've learned over the years, any engine equipped with a turbo charger has extra PGM loading.

in catalytic converters the average loading concentration of PGMs is 5–7 g per kg of catalytic device depending on the size of the catalyst, the type of the vehicle and the displacement of the engine.

Yea $200.00 would look good to a man starving.

Article from, Johnson Matthey.

Platinum Catalysts for Diesel Engine Exhaust Purification

**miked** · 06-13-2023, 09:10 PM

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Yesterday a couple of A&W burgers no fries or drink cost me $28.00 Canadian dollars.[/QUOTE]
I've eaten a few of those burgers in my youth, can't imagine them being worth near that price. 73, Mike

**alloy2** · 06-13-2023, 10:40 PM

Not a bad estimate, the large comb weighs 9.38 Kg, tomorrow I'll cut and weigh up the smaller one.

The white blanket is ceramic wool, wear a respirator when cutting these open.

**hills** · 06-14-2023, 05:26 AM

I guess i'm just practical minded about things. Seep it simple ... turn n burn ... ya know ?

Getting the extracts and not selling them isn't much different from just letting the cat sit in the shop for years. Either way it's unfinished business that isn't making money for you.

Unfinished business undercuts your self confidence. After awhile ... it feeds on itself and you don't get anything done.

Just sayin' is all. Truth is ... i don't know your situation. That might not be the case at all.

**alloy2** · 06-14-2023, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by hills

I guess i'm just practical minded about things. Seep it simple ... turn n burn ... ya know ?

Getting the extracts and not selling them isn't much different from just letting the cat sit in the shop for years. Either way it's unfinished business that isn't making money for you.

Unfinished business undercuts your self confidence. After awhile ... it feeds on itself and you don't get anything done.

Just sayin' is all. Truth is ... i don't know your situation. That might not be the case at all.

Hills I'm at the stage of my life where I'm no longer influenced by money.

A couple of years ago while on Vancouver Island needing directions for an address i was looking for asked a young woman who was carrying two coffees.

She gave me the extra coffee, we ended up at a dinner had a meal and chatted, I learned she was from the northern part of the mainland, became stranded and was camping out.

The extra coffee she gave me was going to be for her morning.

When i dropped her off at the campground gave her $100.00 no strings attached, the heartfelt hug she gave me in return will be with me forever.

**hills** · 06-15-2023, 06:14 AM

I hear what you're saying. It's just money. You kinda need it for the day to day survival ... but ... beyond that ... it doesn't account for much. There are more important things in life.

Personally ... i get a certain sense of satisfaction from a job well done. Lookin' around the shop this morning and there are more than a few projects sitting uncompleted. It's a busy life. Something more important always comes up. Sometimes it's months or even years before i can get back to the project i started.

There never seems to be enough time and energy to get everything done.