The Gustavus Thread

[gustavus]

Are you keeping track of how many and what type you put in your refiner barrel? I would be interested in knowing how much of a difference there is when you sell.. Or how much of a killing the local buyers are making off them I should say. If it is a minimal amount, buying them would be high risk if you pay a high amount for them in case the prices drop.

All I'm keeping track of is how many pounds goes into the barrel,my feed stock is the guts from cats and oxygen sensors.

I'm no longer buying cats so I have very little money tied up in inventory, its the scrap cars that keeps me afloat.



Everything gets a run through the ball mill in small 100 lb loads, during the mill run they're pulveized and homoginised at the same time before adding to my drum I pull a small sample for an assay later. My accumulated samples will represent the contents of the drum once full, from these samples I'll get an indepenant assay along with one from several refiners before shipping the mother load.

The refiners hit you up with perks, like free assays, free shipping, no need to mill the comb.

If I did not mill the comb it would take 4 drums of un-milled whole combs to have enough to ship regardless of who is paying for the shipping, plus I would be at their mercey on their assay.

By milling my own I can ship in one drum, pay my own shipping costs, the advantage this is I'll have proof of the weight shipped and who received it, the assay would have been worked out before hand from my samples sent to the refiner and theres will have to come close or better than my indepnedant assay before shipping the mother load - no surprises.

If the wires from the map sensors would break up and become part of the homoginsed lot coming from the mill these could be added for their platinum. As it is now I'm keeping them seperated.