If you have spare scrap metal in your workshop, this is how you can sell it for some extra cash.
Scrap prices changing weekly is more common in general. Usually, when scrap prices change, it is a few cents per pound or dollars per ton. Those in the industry will try not to have a knee-jerk reaction as soon as prices change (unless necessary with a large increase or drop) and will...
How much material are you bringing in? The yard will ask you how much you must bring in, whether it’s copper, steel, aluminum, or brass. Think about it: scrap yards get thousands of pounds of material daily. Why would they give you a better price for, let’s say, 100 lbs of mat...
or again a tiny bit more accurate (in real life probably not that much better): N=159891/(128*L+509) which is again the number of screws in a one pound box. As a side note, i found on the web some reference to having a certain number of pounds of screws for a given number of...
(Technically, it retains some magnetic properties but not much and not for very long). With a run-of-the-mill permanent magnet, like the ones holding the family dog's picture to the refrigerator, the atoms always align, and the strength of the magnet is constant. Did you know that you...
The most popular way to buy “Junk” silver is a 55 pound bag. A 55 pound bag is $1,000 in face value of the coins, but that also equals 715 ounces of silver. So, for example, a bag of dimes may have a face value of $1,000, but you pay the same as you would if you pa...
I’ll wager that the single biggest reason for differences in choice relates to how people respond to the fear of things going wrong. When your non-user-serviceable internally geared hub breaks (and they do), you send it back to Germany and spend a couple of weeks waiting in whichever cit...
The first step is to strip the mower down to the frame. Modern mowers usually have a single stamped piece of steel. Older mowers like this one have frames made of square tubing or slabs of steel. This will give you an idea of how much of the mower is actually usable and how you can...
Next we’re going to attach the long boards to the squares to create a tall rectangular frame. For this, turn one of the squares up on its side. Attach another long board to the other bottom corner of the square. Then flip the square over so you can attach long boards to the remaini...
it was stiff and waterproof. The process worked so well that I also waxed my black hat. I’ve been wearing my hats for about a week now and I am very pleased. I may have put a little too much wax on the inside of the crown of the black hat because there is a slight white waxy...