I was talking with a re-marketer I purchase lab equipment from, he was complaining that about a quarter of his giant warehouse is filled with junk he can't use. I'm currently trying to set something up where I can truck it away to another company that will break it down for me, but a lot of it is just stainless steel and other metals, not electronics.
Point is, if you get in good with people who sell remarketed equipment, they always have junk, scrap etc laying around and are always producing it. Specially in this day and age. Remarketers often purchase entire businesses, or in the case of the one I mentioned above he purchases entire manufacturing lines, lab rooms, and businesses that are relocating in Silicon Valley.
An easy way to find remarketers near you, because they often do not advertise in the yellow pages, etc, is to go on
ebay and change the search settings to look for people in your area. Then type in heavy equipment that you see scrapped on a regular basis, or other search terms like hospital equipment, etc. You will of course come up with pages and pages of stuff. Then you look for an ebay seller that has hundreds of items up for sale, this is most likely going to be a remarketer. Then email them and just simply as if they have anything they want hauled away. These individuals are usually pretty savvy, and are most likely going to want something for the material so be prepared, but still, you never know. It's just another place to find scrap, and most of it is fairly higher grade.
I'm going to show an example of what I am talking about, here:
All I did initially was type "fume hood" as my search string because I know from experience that people who sell used fume hoods, are usually also buying and selling other lab equipment. This is what I come up with:
fume hood | eBay
The first one on that page is a 4 ft fume hood, so I look at that posting, I have no idea yet who is near me I am just making a point in this:
Hamilton 4 ft Fume Hood | eBay
Then I check their items for sale and get this:
alternativelaboratorysolutions | eBay
So now I know this person is a player, they are buying and selling equipment and more likely than not, have scrap laying around that needs to be removed.
But still I haven't found someone close by, so now I change my search from "best match" to "Distance nearest first" and come up with this:
fume hood | eBay
A few down I find this company, and check the items they are selling and see there are a lot, so this is a potential source for scrap, it looks like he's moving a lot of material, on a regular basis, his ebay rating is good. So this is someone who I might call if I were looking for scrap. Their facility is 60 miles from me which isn't too bad.
Anyway, just another way to find high grade scrap, hope this helps.
Scott
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