Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[Strouty]

Door is gone, no second chance.

Going to try and pick the tank up in a bit, waiting for the trailer that it is going on.

 

[cbacres]

I don’t know about the rest of you all, I’m of the opinion that Strouty may did something with that door behind the scenes.

Hes on record on my thread talking about not having a circular piece of steel, I think he’s just not likely me having one up on him.

 

[Strouty]

I promise that it went to China to make new **** box cars.

We have decided that the tank was much heavier than estimated, Perk did it, but not happy about it. We are going to cut the tank down a bit before putting it on a trailer.

 

[casmurbax]

cbacres, I think you are right on that. I could practically see him drooling over yours.

now in regards to the fence, I am pretty sure there is unused fence in Texas.

 

[Strouty]

If I recall, CB’s round plate was at least an inch thick, I would have kept that door if it was that thick.

I don’t need a fence quite that tall.

 

[harley jim]

I remember that conversation Craig, I said something about wanting a piece of steel like that and the next thing I knew........ well anyway.

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[speedracer_uk]

A thought on the fence... if you park all your trucks and burbs nose to tail voila! A fence!

 

[xtremek]

What the H would you do with a 1" thick, round piece of plate steel that's 6' in diameter?

 

[Strouty]

Make a kitchen table.

 

[xtremek]

Thank you. I needed a good laugh. Use a Cat engine for the center piece?

 

[Strouty]

Laugh? I am serious.

 

[xtremek]

Why would you want it 1" thick? Wouldn't 1/4" be thick enough for a kitchen table?

 

[F451]

What the H would you do with a 1" thick, round piece of plate steel that's 6' in diameter?

Is it not going to be used for the ultimate survival bunker door?

What the hell? You've got all the equipment to dig the place up, throw the whole tank in the ground. Now that I think about it, weld that door back on it, voila, instant He-man Women Haters Club House, Lol.

 

[cbacres]

What the H would you do with a 1" thick, round piece of plate steel that's 6' in diameter?

With all the stuff he brings home, that plate is nothing. LOL

The engine block is a good idea!

The one that got him started is actually 1-1/2” thick.


It’s my future welding table.



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[86turbodsl]

Laugh? I am serious.

I hope the table is on a slab or you are going to have an interesting ride.

 

[Strouty]

Luckily I don’t have any 6’ round 1” thick plates, otherwise my house would get sucked into the kitchen like a black hole.

I wouldn’t pass the plate up, but I could find much better uses than a kitchen table, just had to give X some ****.

 

[xtremek]

Owned.

 

[Strouty]

I guess you never know, someday I may end up with a kitchen table like that. It would be cool to water jet out a pattern and then put glass over the top.

I am loading tires today, some of them aren’t ours, my Friend has too many and his tire guy is MIA, so I figured we could make another load of it. Not sure if we will get all of his loaded, but we sure can try.

 

[xtremek]

Water jet a pattern, fill the pattern in with colored epoxy, and underlight the table.

 

[racer-john]

Don't give him more ideas, he's already got enough before him for at least the next couple of years. LOl.

 

[Kev442]

A thought on the fence... if you park all your trucks and burbs nose to tail voila! A fence!

Might as well, he never does anything else with them. Still driving the same one as 13 purchases ago.

 

[Strouty]

Be nice Kev!

I didn’t buy the other 12 to drive....

 

[86turbodsl]

Lol!!!!

 

[Strouty]

Loaded up all the fence panels today, then brought them to the Salvage Garage. Started and moved Bev, going to try and get her home tonight. I think Bev will be my replacement for the 550, at least for the not 4x4 situations.

 

[Strouty]

Working on cleaning up the shop at the Hill, need to be able to use the space and I am getting annoyed tripping over everything. So when I don't get it cleaned up today, I wonder how bad it will have to get before I reach my breaking point????

 

[Strouty]

I took all the wiring out of the old panels from the tower site (technically there is another pair outside, but I don’t care about those), cut up the existing scrap from the plumbing of the office, and put some other things away. Now I think I am going to load the panels into Bev, probably end up taking them to the SG for storage. There is a lot of big copper wire, I am going to remove the jacket, but not for a while, don’t have the time for that right now. I figure I can do that when I am looking for something to do, probably set up the wire stripper in the small garage attached to the house. Anyways, enough rambling, I am going to eat lunch and then get back to cleaning.

 

[xtremek]

Are you all done cleaning now? I wish i could make more than a small dent it the mess.

 

[Strouty]

I am not, got a bit sidetracked, will be back at it soon though. I will get some pictures for posterity.

 

[Strouty]

It is funny how much effort goes into things that you really don’t want to do. I am a sucker for scrap, especially copper. Still plugging away at things.







Just finished the entry port, lots of screws and bolts, but it is probably $60 worth of copper for 30 minutes of effort.

I still have to deal with the pipes that went to the boiler for the radiant heat, then what is left of the old plumbing that went to the office.

 

[shortykorte]

Do you have a trick for stripping the sheathing?


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[Strouty]

A couple years ago I bought a tool that uses a drill to spin a feeder pushing the wire into a cutter that takes the jacket off pretty easily. It paid for itself in one load, but I want to set it up with a motor and foot pedal so you have both hands for the wire. It was a stripmeister. Worked very well, a bit under $200. There were cheaper ones out there, but in this instance I think it was worth a bit extra, the quality was great.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I9GJH9W/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[harley jim]

Have you ever seen the guy on FB that makes bars out of his scrap. He melts and pours the bars then sands and polishes them. Kinda cool to see the process.

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[mybigwarwagon]

I have a strip meister and it works great. I bought mine used so it was an even better deal.

 

[Strouty]

When I had a few thousand pounds of lead, I thought about making ingots. It would be cool to deal with copper, lead, brass, and aluminum, takes up a lot less space too.

 

[quattro_sinko]

A couple years ago I bought a tool that uses a drill to spin a feeder pushing the wire into a cutter that takes the jacket off pretty easily. It paid for itself in one load, but I want to set it up with a motor and foot pedal so you have both hands for the wire. It was a stripmeister. Worked very well, a bit under $200. There were cheaper ones out there, but in this instance I think it was worth a bit extra, the quality was great.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I9GJH9W/?tag=atomicindus08-20

+1 for the stripmeister. 6 years ago I split the cost of one with the electrician that handles the wiring on all of my remodels. He had 6 55 gal drums full of wire that came out of remodels. Awesome tool, and at the time it was cheaper than most of the other options out there.

Edited to add: I had an acquaintance that randomly got into melting/pouring metal (mostly lead) and was extremely casual about it (doing it in his kitchen, no hood, no mask) He got really sick in less than a year and didn't make it. I never got any solid information if it had anything to do with his cancer, but I think about it whenever melting lead comes up. I was never a very safety conscious person, and still am not, but that stood out to me as an anomaly

 

[xtremek]

Andy, the Old Iron Farmer has a thread where does just that and then makes castings. I would think it would take all of your profits to run the forge for a melt.

 

[Strouty]

Lead is the easy one, the melting point is way low compared to steel. Even aluminum and copper are half what steel melts at. My GF’s Dad used to make his own fishing weights, he was also casual about it and he is no longer with us. I don’t think the lead was the cause of his pulmonary embolism though. I would imagine melting lead isn’t a quick cause of cancer, but you never now (especially if you live in Cali).

 

[Strouty]

Almost done with the scrap, next step is the plumbing removal, then cut up that copper. Temporarily I am loading the scrap into the Jersey Burb, then once everything is ready I can go to the scrap yard.

 

[F451]

Lead, kinda scary stuff.

Back in the 80's I worked at an GM/Delco battery factory when I was in college. A great paying job with full medical benefits, very tough to get a job there. The only downside besides the mind numbing repetition of assembly line work (brutal), was the danger of lead poisoning.

They told us it was perfectly safe and they gave us regular blood tests to monitor our blood lead levels. If its so safe, why do we need to have our blood lead levels regularly checked? Lol.

There was also the constant smell of battery acid, its was everywhere, even in the offices, you could smell it in the parking lot. Remember thinking, that doesn't seem too healthy.

It was a strange place to work, I remember the charging dept was the place to be, they sent down hundreds of batteries at a time to be hooked up to chargers. The guys would hustle through them all, get them hooked up, then they would lay down and take naps until the next batch rolled down. They would take turns being on the lookout for supervisors.

I lasted about a year, as far as I can tell, no residual effects, thank goodness.

 

[Two Door]

If I were around lead I would worry about other things before cancer. Neurotoxicity (bigtime), endocrine disruption, heart problems. You couldn't ever pay me enough to breath lead fumes (again).