Starter Kit: What is Missing?

[scrapman]

ghurd
Sad the way looking for a way to sue someone or business instead of taking responsibility has ruined the ability to get materials for projects which would never happen due to costs of new material.
The way around this we purchased metal as scrap (eg aluminum) sold as scrap metal with no recommendation to its use ,refusal to sell is extremely frustrating.
Large companies make mistakes to ,a shipping container of magnesium wrongly identified as aluminum was tipped into furness of aluminum and photos showed bottom burnt out and 40 tons of contents 3 ft thick on floor.
Peter

[MadScientist267]

 Holy crap, that had to have been quite the event to witness...

Does seem to be a widespread thing tho, scrap-anything disappearing... It's as if the concept of recycling has been taken too far...

I guess when the economy gets to the point it has, the fat all gets trimmed from every nook and cranny there is, and where people like us see the intrinsic value of a given scrap item, the economic model only sees the monetary value of the raw materials, and so direct recycling suffers as a result.

I too am one of those "repurpose anything into anything else" types, and miss the availability of seemingly trivial items to others.

The show must go on tho, so.... ?

Steve