junk yard find
junk yard find
my $13.00 find. They shut a local factory down last summer and after the auction this stuff has ended up in the local scrap yard
Re: junk yard find
Nice, congrats! A few years back I just got the urge to go by a local scrap yard that still let a few folks poke around. Anyway, someone had just dropped off an old CNC machine that was pretty clapped out. But surprise surprise, there was a lot of the tooling there. That's where I got my first Top-Notch insert holder and a few other relatively high dollar bits of tooling. Some of it, including a half dozen WN (trigon negative) holders I didn't really want. I don't use W inserts, preferring to stick to the more commonly available and seemingly less desirable (read often dirt cheap or even free) CN and TN inserts. So I traded those for tooling I wanted. It was a crazy haul for (IIRC) $0.10 a pound, no idea what my final value was on that...
Russ
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scrap yard
yea we are still lucky to have a scrap/junk yard you can still walk around in.
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Most recycle and 'scrap yards are closed to the public here, due to insurance demands. I have a long history in talking to the workers , and they can sometimes meet my requests. It is always under the cloud of 'NO'. tho.
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We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Smart. My computer beat me at chess, but not kickboxing
It is not getting caught in the rain, its learning to dance in it. People saying good morning, should have to prove it.
Re: scrap yard
Hopefully Harold or Glenn can recombine these threads.
Yeah, I got to walk around for a while after it closed to walk ins because the owner/operator knew me (from my earlier walks). Then he hired a new manager who cut me off.
Yeah, I got to walk around for a while after it closed to walk ins because the owner/operator knew me (from my earlier walks). Then he hired a new manager who cut me off.
Russ
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Re: scrap yard
Done!BadDog wrote:Hopefully Harold or Glenn can recombine these threads.
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Re: scrap yard
Same heresteamin10 wrote:Most recycle and 'scrap yards are closed to the public here, due to insurance demands.
But! In the a nearby town (20 miles by Texas standards) there is a machine shop that will sell me drops at scrap price. A lot of their business is agriculture-related fabrication (there is a cotton gin next door to it, for example) so I have gotten some nice pieces of plate, shafts of diameter as large as I can manage on a 12" lathe, and so on. Ideal for a low-budget hobbyist.
I don't get there that often since my previous trips piled up metals a lot faster than I can convert them to chips. But this may be something you could look for locally to get some project materials (where tight material specifications are not needed).
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Re: junk yard find
We have a scrapyard here where I can poke around; the trouble is the owner is totally nuts with his pricing; I can buy new steel, delivered, for the same price [in 20' lengths only]; and for "good stuff" he wants even sillier prices.
I sometimes pick up some short pieces of heavy material from him, 2 to 4 inch rod etc.
Maybe I'm getting 'foreigner' prices, but he doesn't seem to sell much.
I sometimes pick up some short pieces of heavy material from him, 2 to 4 inch rod etc.
Maybe I'm getting 'foreigner' prices, but he doesn't seem to sell much.