[Shop-talk] Leaf springs replaced - what to do with them?

[Bob Spidell]

re: "... the machine that cashed me out gave me 3 crispy $2 bills.   Are 
they work anything?"

$6. But you can probably expect some funny looks from the whippersnapper 
running the cash register.



On 2/13/2023 7:58 AM, PJ McGarvey wrote:
> The "junkyard" on the side of my garage got a bit overwhelming so I 
> dropped off an 8' bed of junk recently for $120.  A V8 crankshaft, a 
> car door, years of old nuts/bolts, control arms, mufflers, etc. It 
> makes sense to wait until you have too much 😉.
>
> In hindsight, it also makes sense to weigh the cost (pun intended) of 
> a possible flat tire in the scrap yard, injury from the guy next to 
> you blindly throwing junk into the pile, a rusty cut on your hand, and 
> the lung damage from the terrible air quality.
>
> Then the machine that cashed me out gave me 3 crispy $2 bills. Are 
> they work anything?  lol.
>
>
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> *From:* Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Jeff 
> Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2023 10:40 AM
> *To:* shop-talk at autox.team.net <Shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Shop-talk] Leaf springs replaced - what to do with them?
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 8:46 AM old dirtbeard <dirtbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had not thought about a scrap yard.
> >
> > I just checked and scrap steel looks like it is about $0.04/pound. I 
> did not weigh them yet, but it could be two or three dollars, as you 
> say, beer money.
>
> I took a bunch of scrap metal to the yard a few months ago.  50 or 60
> pounds traded for $7.00, in the form of a check.  Wait to get spotted,
> wait to unload, wait for the ID check, wait for the receipt, walk
> around to the cashier's window to get the check, use the bank app to
> deposit it online... I don't think I'd go through all that again for
> one beer.  If my time is worth money, then I came out in the red.
>
> Meanwhile, there was a guy there who either has a bar or is a
> prodigious drinker.  He had a pickup truck full of bags of aluminum
> beer cans.  That was enough to pay for the time and the gas.
>
> >
> >  But then at least I could say I turned gas into beer...  :-)
>
> I turn beer into gas.  So there's that...
>
> -- Jeff
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