Guess What? - Page 2

Originally Posted by Julie

I worry that all I do is trip over the dollars for the dimes! I don't have any other scrap work to do right now so it's not like I'm choosing this over something else so at first it seemed like it was worth it but now i'm starting to wonder... If I had employees i wouldn't pay them to do this though - their hourly would most likely be over what i would be gaining.

Thats something you have to look into as part time said. Sometimes its not worth spending the hours it will take to make a small amount. So take an item and work on it to get good at it (so you can get a good test) and then time your self to see how long it takes you to do X amount of weight. Don't rush your self to "beat" the clock, just work as you would any other day, this way you will know how much more you made by doing blank.

Another thing to take note, I will "dumb" it down to make it simple. But lets say copper is $3.00 and you have wire that recovers at 45% and they pay you $1.45 or $1.50 a pound. Its not worth cleaning at all. Reason being you are getting the same price either way.

Back when I first started with motherboards and I still see it from other people who sell to me. They will remove the metal on the PCI card. That metal strip can be left on as the pricing is based with it on..not off so why remove it and lose that steel weight. Another item that's removed alot that does not really need to be removed is the north bridge heatsink on the motherboard. They want to remove it to add it to there AL bucket that will sell at $0.8 or so when they could leave it on the board and get $3+ per pound.

Some things are worth braking apart, Something are best to leave as they are for the fact of the time it takes or the weight factor.

That 'cat 5' wire burns really well in a fire.

Since the strands are single & thickish, it transfers heat really well & since its a single strand, theres no gaps for the molten plastic to get into.

I find that if you weigh your plastic coated wire, the burnt off weight is 2/3rds of the plastic coated wire weight.

Oh, yeah, 3 phase cable, with 7 strands of copper wire in it, weighs 140 grams per metre.

I found out how to combat 'Scrappers claw'? (what happens to your hands after stripping wire...) by accident.
I got stung by a bee on my left hands middle finger, not badly stung - just a nip.

After that my hand got warm & itchy, swelled up a bit & the next day I could get movement in my fingers.
The day after there was more movement & by the third day I could move my hands like normal.
The scars & cuts started healing up real quick too.
At the end of a week, my hands were better than they were beforehand.

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

I will "dumb" it down to make it simple.

Not sure that's necessary, she seems pretty smart to me.

Originally Posted by Victor

Yes you do. You could be using that time to increase your customer base. The most important kind of work in my opinion.

I actually have a full time job that I commute to Monday-Friday (leave at 545-6am home at 5-530 for the most part) so by the time I get off of work most places are closed. That does leave my weekends open though. Plus considering that I am in a motel until next month I am trying see if I am even capable of taking anything on before I get back into my place because the last thing that i want to do is commit to something i'm unable to do. That's just bad business and in a small town word of mouth travels fast.
Plus I am still a little scared to try to get customers.... lol

Originally Posted by harrisvh

Well modern medicine is always looking for cures for ailments in animal toxins, maybe you just found a new one. Best patent it before another does, but first you need to do some more trials lol.

I had heard of the 'bee sting /arthouritis thing before it actually happened, but I was suprised how well it worked.
Someone I know was affected by artheritis when he was 12, was told he'd never be able to work past age 20.
The same Doc then said "Get a job on a bee apiry & see what happens". His uncle had one by coincidence, he employed him & after getting stung a few times his movement got better.
After working there for a few years it went away & he's got full movement. He's actually on a add on NZ TV, running....

The bee gave me a light sting, I could feel the sissor like action of the stinger as it went in & then I wiped the bee off me, it didn't kill the bee like most bee stings do.
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I would love it if I could sell my plastic coated wire to a scrapper. For about 60% of the weight, at Copper prices.
Just the wire & plastic coating. I would have all of the plug ends & connectors cut off like I do when burning it.

Its just that the scrappers have a low price for 'Wireing looms' because they expect them to be covered in oil & dirt & plastic tape & tubing with the plastic & rubbery brass connections still on the looms.

In theory I can return more than 70% of the pre chopped weight in Copper if its chopped up, unlike burning.. = less than 66%
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Basicly, I would like to walk in with 100Kg of cleaned plastic coated wire, with no brass etc on it & they would give me the money for 60Kg of Domestic copper.
They would chop it up, seperate the plastic & copper & then sell it as #2 Copper at their comercial weights

Yay I came across a wire worth stripping i think!
Here are a couple pics - Sorry about the quality cell phone cam
Connector under metal casing

wire stripped a little

What the end looked like before I got to it