I just happen to have this 32" torsion spring with a 2" i.d. left over from an obvious home repair. I placed it in the garbage, at first, but I retrieved it--in case it may be valuable! ; )
Seriously, is it material suitable for making any sort of wood cutter? If it is, I think I can get a lot of 'em out of the spring!
Bill
You don't recycle where you live?
Scrap steel brings about $225/ton, or around eleven cents a pound. He'd most likely spend more on gasoline taking to a recycler than he'd get back in scrap value.
I recycle where I live, but I've never lived anywhere that the recycling pickup/dropoff would take steel other than food cans.
I'm digging out a 6' steel pole ('70s style satellite dish post) in the back yard, and I have no idea what I'll do with it when it is out of the ground.
Maybe you could make some sort of catapult and use it for disposing of things the trash men won't take. Like dead cats :)
...or live ones!
Ron
Of course. Why do you think they call it a CATapult??
What a waste! Don't you know that dead cats make great push sticks.
Luigi who squirrelled away a couple of garage door springs in his garage for
20 years (but not on the door) until he gave them to a locals sculptor last year.
Come on now. No fighting to be first in line to buy it!!! New one's are going for upwards of $60. This one's already been cut in two for easier storage! Serious offers only (please).
Bill
GEEESH! Talk to the solar PV people, especially if you have the mechanism. Somebody will want to build a solar tracker from that one.
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I'm digging out a 6' steel pole ('70s style satellite dish post) in the back yard, and I have no idea what I'll do with it when it is out of the ground.
My locality takes any scrap metal that fits in the recycling bin.
We just recycled the metal parts of a disassembled lawnmower the other day.
scott
If you lived in central Florida you could just put it out by the street and someone would steal it within a couple of hours. I get rid of all sorts of stuff that way, gotta drag an old fiberglass jon boat that someone left on my property down there pretty soon.
That's how I get rid of lots of semi-useless stuff, but in the pick-up sense rather than stealing. Our house is on a common cut-through-the-neighborhoods path, so things with a "free" sign don't last long. (I have an extra string trimmer I need to put out. Any mechanic could probably make it run, but I'm no mechanic.)
We aren't in a wealthy area, but definitely a "not hurting" part of town, so some people seem to make intentional shopping trips around trash day. That's especially true in better weather.
that begs the question: why won't they take dead cats? i put dead pack rats in my trash can (not the recycling one though).
(or not so dead, as my wife found out one night as she was making the late night deposit, which was the last time she ever did so)
Out here we can take it to the curb. Reminding me that tonight's the night ...
Where I live (Portland, or area), if it's legal (your pipe would be) and fits in the bin it's good to go. If it can't fit in the bin you can take it to the recycler or pay $35 for a pu load at the dump. Our dump won't take fluorescent bulbs or paint; they have to go to a special central recycling center.
Reminds me, got a couple junker lawnmowers need to go to the curb with a sign ...
That's what the beefy plastic bags are made for ...
Fluor bulb cost: $2 each. Fluor bulb recycling area: Portland only, nowhere else in Oregon. Fluor bulb recycling cost: ONLY $4, delivered to the recycler.
"Uckfay atthay itshay!" sez I. I recycle everything else, though, and when they make it convenient to recycle fluor tubes, I'll do those. As it is, it's a tax on eco idiots by gov't approved scammers.
-- You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
For disguising the cats or as freezer bags? What about the tail? ; )
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