Long belated introduction
Hi,
My name is Chris and I live in Windham Maine.
I have been a member for almost a year but have mostly been a lurker. I found this forum when researching e-scrap. For 15 years my brother and I have been running a small business repairing business telephones. Also my brother builds, updates and repairs computers for friends and family and I don't think he ever threw anything away. Over the years we did toss a lot of old phones but at this time we had a lot of obsolete. and not worth repairing. phone equipment and a pile of computer parts dating back to pre 286 computers. In the past year I have probably scrapped out about $4000 [quite a bit of telecom grade].
Due to this forum I have gotten into other scrap also. My brother has moved on and now works for a company that sells business phone repair parts and I get all there scrap. They had there lights replaced and I ended up with the old lights and after braking them down I had 900 pounds of copper transformers and 250 pounds of clean cast Aluminum plus some wire. Not bad for a 6 hour day.
Due to this forum I have a lead on hundreds of fire extinguishers. I am going to give them a try this week. They want me to empty them and remove the valves before I take them. I do not think this is unreasonable because I would have to do this anyways if I just took them. Before they where doing this themselves and someone else took them, at no charge, so I am doing them a service by saving them time. I will call my local yards to see if they need to be cut in half today.
