I read over this thread as I find the topic interesting as it is something that I "deal with" most everyday here in a TIME capsule of post consumer goods.

I try and keep a eye on the important things such as the economy and it's ever changing trends in ways that most do not as I'm eccentric to the core and always have been.

I can understand that those that make a Living from the scrap biz need to have a operation that flows and keeps up with the TIMES.



I have been watching the copper prices as that is where a good size piece of my vintage scrap pie is.

I have always been attracted to most anything that had lights or wires. So over the many years I hauled all I could and just mostly piled it up and stored it away till later.

I greatly enjoy taking things apart that I don't have to put back together. I always have. I even enjoy fixing things from the knowledge I gained in part from taking things apart that didn't have to be put back together.

I have always believed in having a very dirverse operstion here in the yard. Basically I view my whole property and what is contained as my own personal camp ground that resembles a salvage yard. I just prefer larger nic naks then many others. But I do like the smalls and tiny things.

I have many other avenues for keeping busy and moving in a forward direction at a reasonable speed. So the scrap possibilities I have are gravy that can wait until a later TIME.

I will be getting things sorted and more organized in as far as scrap items go. I will try and get some aluminum ready for scrap as I have plenty of it that is best scrapped and it takes up a lot of room for it's weight and value.

As for copper, brass and other weighty treasures. I figure that I will mostly keep hoarding it and play it from there.

With China having such a large hoard of copper, brass and other metals stock piled and with the price of new copper, brass and such being reasonable and with little problems of supply to the manufactures that require it. The copper prices will keep going down and slightly up and down as they are doing in this phase of seasons.

Now if China was to unload some of their stock piles on the open market, think what that could do.

The FIX for all the problems is in the works and just hasn't had the proper interest and motivation to of materialized as of yet.

A large increase in "war type" concepts. War on a larger scale would make the metal markets and related industry boom.

Remember now, I'm not normal as I'm very eccentric as that is what I am. Was born that way,lol...