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[Richard Cranium]

prescription Medications "Johnny" Manufacture and distribute.
Every thing has it own serial number and product code. If we use more than one product to make some thing special for the hospitals then we have a computer that generates a new number out using the numbers that we used. Lots of paper work, Lots of security.

 

[Strouty]

This trip was $528.91 bringing my total to $1,273.24, I may take one more small trip on the way home, but nothing major. This weekend I need to break down all the big stuff and then take a load or two next week. I figure I have about 20 hours to this point, probably not even that, so that would be about $60 an hour. I can live with that.

 

[Richard Cranium]

good wages

 

[drivesitfar]

Strouty: was that for aluminum and copper? nicely done because i think you were cleaning up or tearing down an old project and it wasn't like it had other uses that you had if you stored them.

are you still scheduling the elbow fix?

 

[Strouty]

Looks like elbow will be a week from Tuesday. All I brought in was copper and wire. There were a few batteries and about 100 pounds of stainless. Aluminum will be next week. Probably won't be nearly as much value, but I figure
It is better than nothing.

 

[drivesitfar]

Strouty: give your elbow a rest for a few days after your shot or mini operation and since it's the left one maybe a sling and doing paperwork the rest of next week would be the answer.

if you are like me you'll try to lift something or do something when you shouldn't like me. i think i moved 2000 pounds of gym weights a few days after my gallbladder operation at 45 pounds at a time so not the worst, but i didn't have a lift handy and lifted my planer on and off my trailer which weighs a bit more and almost caused a hernia through the scar from the operation.

have a great weekend big guy

 

[Strouty]

Last trip was not a good one, but I knew that, just wanted to get the stainless hangers out of the shop, I think I got another $22 for 112 pounds of stainless. Not anything that would be usable, so it was good to have it gone. I will post some pictures when I hit the shop this weekend. I figure I will start with all the antennas and then work on the radios, the antennas are wasting a lot of space!

 

[Thumper68]

$60 an hour is not bad considering that you got paid to take it out in the first place.

There have been times (when copper was way up) that I got paid three times as much for the scrap than I did to take it out of the building.

Good luck with the arm and take it easy and give yourself time to heal.

 

[dlcwent]

I hope you don't f#^k up your elbow any worse than it already is. You have time to get **** done after you heal up. Maybe while you're healing, we can get together for a couple of hours and STS.

 

[bczygan]

Reported the ads put up by rickolsen.

 

[DonPowers]

Was wondering what that was all about.

 

[Strouty]

I missed drama in my own thread!


Thumper, the $60 an hour figure is going to drop when I start getting into the radios and antennas, my guess is when everything is done it will still be near $30 an hour, but the cake has been iced, now I am washing the dishes.

DLC, maybe after I get the elbow worked on I can meet up with you at some point.

I got a bit of a late start to my morning, I guess better late than never. Still probably won't get to the shop until about lunch time. I will update this afternoon. I am going to do a bit of cleaning before I make the second mess, looks like I will also be completely filling the dumpster, but I think all the trash will fit.

 

[DonPowers]

Strouty, do you do Ham Radio Antennas?

 

[Strouty]

Very few, most guys that do HAM just want me to do it for nothing. I have two customers that run HAM radio and are probably the only ones I will continue to deal with. I used to get calls from HAM guys wanting me to repair a damaged tower, I would work up a quote for them and then never see any work, I figured out they were using my quote for insurance purposes, but doing the work themselves. I started charging $250 for a quote and told them if I did the work it would come off the final bill, no one seemed to mind and then I at least got something for my time.

 

[DonPowers]

Getting a HAM license is on my to do list ..... some day and will need antenna stuff.

 

[Strouty]

I will tell you that even though it started out as a inexpensive way to communicate, some of the guys put serious money into it. I would guess that one of my customers has more than a million dollars into all his equipment.

Setting up a tower can be very straight forward until you get to a certain height, then you need to know what you are doing.

 

[DonPowers]

I won't be one of those guys, maybe a couple grand into everything, could use a dipole until I come across a good used antenna. I have access to a small crane with 100 ft of stick, though I doubt I would want an antenna that tall.

 

[Strouty]

Tall towers are only an issue if you use a really big/rotating antenna.

 

[bczygan]

Tall towers are only an issue if you use a really big/rotating antenna.

There's a 200' tower 5 blocks away, at the high school.

If I lived next door, I'd have someone mount me a 2M/440 antenna on it one dark night.

Don, It's easy to get your HAM license now. No code required, just a written test. My wife Julie, passed the no code-tech license test with a perfect score. She had no idea what it all meant. She just memorized stuff.

Here's the stuff you need to study.
http://ky4ky.com/vetesting_materials.htm

Bill AA8MF

 

[DonPowers]

Bill

I went through the study guide and passed the on line test for both Technician and General. Just haven't got around to sign up and take the real one. Then I would have to start spending money.

 

[bczygan]

Bill

I went through the study guide and passed the on line test for both Technician and General. Just haven't got around to sign up and take the real one. Then I would have to start spending money.

$60 for a radio kit.
http://www.buytwowayradios.com/products/btwr-essentials/GSK-HAM-UV5R.aspx?source=voltage&gclid=Cj0KEQiAr8W2BRD2qbCOv8_H7qEBEiQA1ErTBtikwkUxuyP042ii0QVnriX9NIT4OwBU4jslxe0YcNoaAnZd8P8HAQ&ad=53736626959

Go take your test!
http://www.arrl.org/find-an-amateur-radio-license-exam-session

Bill

 

[DonPowers]

I was thinking of something like this.

http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-012287

 

[reader2580]

Don, It's easy to get your HAM license now. No code required, just a written test. My wife Julie, passed the no code-tech license test with a perfect score. She had no idea what it all meant. She just memorized stuff.

Same thing I did. I just went through the online test questions for a a few hours and then went and took the test and passed. The silly thing is there was a 16 year old at the test who had studied really hard and still failed on his sixth attempt.

I never learned a darn thing the way I did it. I only got a ham license because I needed it to buy a radio transmitter for hobby use. The transmitter came programmed with my call sign so I didn't have to do anything.

 

[bczygan]

I was thinking of something like this.

http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-012287

Very nice!

I picked up a used Kenwood Ts-440S and worked all states with an inverted V multiband wire antenna with the ends 5' above ground.

Check around if you have a local dealer for used stuff.

Lots of late night work, and got into my neighbors TV a lot.

Got a lot more use out of a 2meter/440 handheld on local repeaters while driving around.

Still kind of cool talking to people in Europe and South America on HF.

Bill

73's

 

[Strouty]

Took longer to get to the shop than anticipated, I had some algae growing in the fish tank and thought I might as well clean it up and do a partial water change while I was at it. Took almost an hour to do. Of course I had just ordered my new water changing system, but the algae had spread all over in two days, so I figured I better not wait for it to arrive. I am looking forward to not having to use a bunch of buckets!

Yesterday I turned the heat off at the shop while I was doing something outside, I guess I forgot to turn it back on. Last night was chilly, so the temperature inside was 39, I am in the office giving the heat a chance to catch up. It is usually set at 45 and I turn it up to 55 when I am doing light manual work, maybe a bit more, but usually I like it at 50. Anyways the antennas will have to wait a little longer, but I think I can make a nice dent in things today.

 

[Strouty]

The larger sections of antenna are taking about 30 minutes to break down each. I figure the one newer style antenna will take even longer. Coolest part is I found that I have some aluminum pipe that is exactly the same size, so I can use some of the collars they fabricated for a future project. Not much copper in them and they don't weigh a lot, so this is really going to drag down my cost per hour. Hopefully the transmitters will have some nice copper in them to make up for it.

 

[Strouty]

I got the smaller antennas all broken down, I also took apart the radome around the larger antenna to see what was in there. Unfortunately it appears to be all aluminum, I had hoped that there would be more copper. Can't win them all I guess. It will take a while to knock that one down as there are lots of little screws and bolts. I have a bunch of parts that I will be saving for future use, it is always nice to have some prevent aluminum parts as well as small flat pieces. Here are some pictures from the afternoon. Looks like I have about another four hours into this.

 

[Strouty]

I still need to figure out what I am doing with this thing, it appears to be aluminum. It is about six feet tall and pretty damn heavy. I will have to remove the brass bushings in order to get a good price for it, there may be more goodies inside, but I won't know until I open it up.

 

[mdbeck1]

I still need to figure out what I am doing with this thing, it appears to be aluminum. It is about six feet tall and pretty damn heavy. I will have to remove the brass bushings in order to get a good price for it, there may be more goodies inside, but I won't know until I open it up.

So how about breaking it down to two section groups and make some woodburning stoves out of it????

 

[Strouty]

Do you think that aluminum would hold up? With the price of scrap aluminum at 30 cents a pound, it isn't worth much, so it would not hurt my feelings if it hangs around for a little bit. I will post some pictures when I start taking it apart. Probably should show some dimensions too, that way you guys can give me some ideas.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

I still need to figure out what I am doing with this thing, it appears to be aluminum. It is about six feet tall and pretty damn heavy. I will have to remove the brass bushings in order to get a good price for it, there may be more goodies inside, but I won't know until I open it up.

Looks like a prop from Lost In Space. Maybe it's Doctor Smith's casket...

Tommy

 

[rmalkow2]

Each one of those sections looks like a potential table base to me. Leave the brass and aluminum fittings for that industrial look and put a nice round or square wood top on each section piece and hipsters will beat a path to your door to pay way more than $0.30 per pound.

 

[bulletpruf]

How difficult would it be to melt the scrap down? More trouble than it's worth, right? I was just thinking that you have some bulky stuff; if you could melt it down and pour it into molds to make ingots, it would be a lot easier to store and transport.

 

[Thumper68]

The table base idea is good, but I would go with a round glass top and color changing led in side to light it up.

What is the diameter? if it is small enough you could do 2 different size tops, and sell as a 3 piece set, 2 end tables and 1 coffee table.

Ad would read like this:

Custom lighted 3 piece industrial table set made by local craftsman

Vintage Aluminum base with round glass top.

$2100 firm, calls only

 

[Strouty]

I did not make it to the shop today so I can't give exact dimensions, but the sections are about 12" tall and maybe 16" in diameter. It was used as an RF filter, so I have no idea if it is just hollow or if there is something in it. The table could be a winner, I could make two end tables easily.

Melting it down would be may more trouble than it is worth, if it was gold I would consider it.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

The table base idea is good, but I would go with a round glass top and color changing led in side to light it up.

We think alike.

Tommy

 

[Thumper68]

I did not make it to the shop today so I can't give exact dimensions, but the sections are about 12" tall and maybe 16" in diameter. It was used as an RF filter, so I have no idea if it is just hollow or if there is something in it. The table could be a winner, I could make two end tables easily.

Melting it down would be may more trouble than it is worth, if it was gold I would consider it.

Looking forward to seeing what the innards look like.

We think alike.

Tommy

Great minds and all that

 

[Strouty]

I really wish I had just gone to the shop first thing this morning. I got up at 6, did nothing until 9, then about 11:30 I felt so down and tired that I went back to bed until 3. When I got up, I unpacked a few boxes at the house, watch 2 hours of The Love Boat, then ate dinner. After that we watched Specter and that was definitely a waste, now I am back here feeling depressed I did nothing today. Tomorrow has to be better, if not I am going to fire my manager.

 

[DonPowers]

Its Sunday Strouty, you're supposed to kick back.

 

[Thumper68]

Its Sunday Strouty, you're supposed to kick back.

I'm guessing that Strouty is a lot like me, if I don't feel as if I do something productive everyday then I feel a bit down.

I hate it when that ******* work ethic gets in the way of relaxing.