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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 😉. </div>
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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.</div>
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Then the machine that cashed me out gave me 3 crispy $2 bills. Are they work anything? lol.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 13, 2023 10:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> shop-talk@autox.team.net <Shop-talk@autox.team.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Shop-talk] Leaf springs replaced - what to do with them?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 8:46 AM old dirtbeard <dirtbeard@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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> I had not thought about a scrap yard.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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I took a bunch of scrap metal to the yard a few months ago. 50 or 60<br>
pounds traded for $7.00, in the form of a check. Wait to get spotted,<br>
wait to unload, wait for the ID check, wait for the receipt, walk<br>
around to the cashier's window to get the check, use the bank app to<br>
deposit it online... I don't think I'd go through all that again for<br>
one beer. If my time is worth money, then I came out in the red.<br>
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Meanwhile, there was a guy there who either has a bar or is a<br>
prodigious drinker. He had a pickup truck full of bags of aluminum<br>
beer cans. That was enough to pay for the time and the gas.<br>
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> But then at least I could say I turned gas into beer... :-)<br>
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I turn beer into gas. So there's that...<br>
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-- Jeff<br>
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