Beamer 
Update:
Showed up tonight with a generator, lights, sawzalls, strong backs and weak minds. We put in about 5 hours and probably got 1/3rd of the way through the main part of the building. It got late and we all had already put in 10 hours of work before we showed up. Haven't finished the main halls and haven't done any of the drops to any of the rooms. The halls that we did do, are cut off clean at the wall. I tried going into one of the showers (they're like old school dorm room showers. 8 "stalls" of shower heads). I beat the tile off of one of the stalls and tried cutting the wall. It's all got hardy backer behind it. I'm leaving that pipe in the wall. Way more trouble than it was worth at the time. I'll get all of the overhead lines. Someone had mentioned "Get the best first". That's what we decided early on which is why we hit the halls first. It's the bulk of the copper and also the largest.
We checked the electrical yesterday. Gone. They somehow talked the electrical company into opening a transformer and pulled from the transformer to the MDP. There's still wire in the building, but everything larger than number 10 is gone.
Haven't seen any X-Ray rooms or anything like that. This place might have been some kind of low budget retirement center. It doesn't look like it was "nice".
We had 2 guys going one direction with a child laborer tagging along and 2 guys with another kid going another direction. Each guy was gutting hallways while the boys were taking off insulation and hauling lines to the trailer (wasn't asbestos insulation). Worked pretty good. The boys lagged behind by the time we got to the end of a hallway but they held their own.
At this point, we've smoked one sawzall from water I'm assuming and another one is "slipping". It won't last much longer. They were old before we started and I figured they wouldn't last. We had several there, just in case so no biggie.
I'm rambling....Not sure if anyone honestly cares how this job is going. lol. I'll throw a few pictures up if I can figure out how to do it.
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