Used a special wrench last night

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Cadill, errr, FIAT Ranch.



yard art going to the scrap yard tomorrow after work.

[CajunMike]

Nice was that an open end 10mm you used?

[Zaffer]

Probably an 8mm, since it looks like the front of an 850?

[garion]

Ah, the old can opener wrench.....

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Ah, the old can opener wrench.....

yep, the reciprocating type.

nothing really worth keeping left. part of a panel here and there but, anything that suspension mounts to is junk.

[mscafide]

I think it looks good as yard art.

Just sign it.

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oddly, the missus does not.

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Funniest/weirdest thing in years - called the nearest scrap place and was told that steel is down to 4 cents a pound. Decided that it's not worth my effort to take it in and searched CList for scrap haulers. Found one in town that is a student at a local university and uses scrap proceeds to help pay his school bills. Sent a text, arranged date. He and another guy pull up and the other guy looks oddly familiar. Then he speaks and I know I know him from somewhere. Turns out we worked for the same racing team 25 years ago. Hadn't seen him since. Bizarre how things work.

[WOOM]

Should have saved/sold the door hinges...

[RRoller123]

I have a radiator for sale here on the forum...FREE. Why do I post this here you ask? Because I wasted yesterday trying to find a scrap yard that was still in business in Eastern MA, to sell the 17lbs of brass in the radiator. (well it wasn't wasted because my lovely wife tries to get out as much as she can so she came with me and we enjoy exploring). Seems like all the scrap yards are failing here because of the commodities crash. If they have any employees left at all, they are not buying anything, just limping along like the frackers,, waiting for higher prices. Thank you China. Build another useless steel mill, why don't you, and use the worthless steel to build entire cities for nonexistent citizens. What a mess.

[DieselSpider]

Scrap metal dealer I used when up in Massachusetts appears to be doing well. Even was offering a $5 G/T incentive for new customers over the winter.

http://www.tombarello.com/

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I did save the hinges from one side (since sold). The other side simply didn't want to comply even with an impact driver and I had had enough. I could have drilled the heads off the screws but, by then it wasn't worth the effort to get maybe $10.

As for the scrap metal story, sort of the same thing here. Everything is down. China's economy is a double-edged sword. Hell, the whole 'global economy' thing is.

[RRoller123]

Glad to here tombarrelo is doing well. Just a guess, but they may have protected themselves with derivatives. The scrap business here on the South Shore is a mess. Anyone who continued to expend cash to purchase falling scrap during this extended drawdown has been pummeled.

[DieselSpider]

Glad to here tombarrelo is doing well. Just a guess, but they may have protected themselves with derivatives. The scrap business here on the South Shore is a mess. Anyone who continued to expend cash to purchase falling scrap during this extended drawdown has been pummeled.

Dumpsters, trash hauling, reselling metals direct to consumers, etc they catered to everyone to keep people flowing in their gates. If you needed a girder, boiler plate or sheet steel you went there first. They even for a while had welding materials available since they purchased so much. When times were good they were willing to take a loss on the little guy and made themselves a household name and it stuck. The expression was, once something was beyond repair, "Guess its time to give it a crushing experience at Tombarello's".