[TheForge] Fw: The Mother Load

[Ben Barrett]

Andrew, do you mean tap & die?

Since Schnitzer Steel stopped selling in my area (they only buy scrap
where I live now), I've been starting to find the actual SCRAP
yards.... the ones full of junk, where some poor guy spends all day
with an abrasive wheel tearing aluminum from copper, etc...

I would love to find anvils and swedge (is that a swedish swage?)
blocks amongst the scrap, but no dice yet.  The closest I've come to
that, is when I was hunting around asking everyone for an anvil, some
random college student I met said his grandmother had one.... next
month I heard that she had just taken it to the dump.  Now one of our
local smiths works at a rural dump out of town, and there is an
incredible wealth of material that goes toward the landfill.  When
will these bloody yanks learn??!

Tap & die...

Ben



On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
>
>
> David E. Smucker wrote:
>
>> You would be surprised sometimes what you will
>> find in the backroom when machine shops and fab shops go on the block.
>
>        Truer words have yet to be uttered.  Look at the auctions - the general
> public is so unfathomably ignorant anymore about how to do almost
> anything except screw and get high that lots of really good stuff goes
> for scrap price or less.  Check the scrap yards, too.  You almost would
> not believe what ends up there.
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