Loving the scrap yard

[andy_con]

took a load of metal to the scrap yard today and whilst there i said got any aluminium.

he showed me where it was, but there wasnt much of interest. i said have you not got any thick sheet, he says follow me. so we walk into a building into a back room etc... and he pulls out this big arse sheet of alum.

18.5mm thick, 600x400 in size, i said how much, he goes 20 quid. deal!

needs a bit of a clean but in very good nick, it will make a great test bed. im loving the scrap yard.

and i come away in profit as i took a load of copper there

[danielbriggs]

You're such a pikey Con...

[andy_con]

love the scrap yard its such an interesting place.

i might go back tomorrow for some metal draws

wana buy a caravan briggs?

[LaNeK779]

i also got lucky today. got a big odd shaped piece of alu from work.
10mm thick, around 50cm across one side, around 30 cm across the other.
with a bit of cutting it could be really usefull. that was in an obsolete medical machine that was going to be recycled

scavenging can sure be fun and this came right at the time that i was looking for a baseplate. it even has a ground terminal on it

[Vidal Wolf]

I got lucky yesterday at a scrap yard and got a nitrogen laser and a Jodon 50 milliwatt He-Ne laser.

[sugeek]

I got lucky yesterday at a scrap yard and got a nitrogen laser and a Jodon 50 milliwatt He-Ne laser.

Sweet, both of you guys scored!

-Adam

[hobbybob]

Once a month i go to the scrapyard and always take something (sheet metal, aluminium bars, they also have some plastics (great for engraving...)
It's only 4 euro a Kilo for aluminium. So most of the time when i come up to the guy i have already weighted it and say, ok this is 3KG and he says: 10 euro ?
They also have a circular saw which i am allowed to use now (mainly used for metal bars but i last cutted a sheet with it too ;-)

Scrapyards rule.