Re: FIRE !!!

[Matt Ion <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe wrote:
> Bob Worthy wrote:
>> "Joe" <spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:yv_1k.886$pc.453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> alarman wrote:
>>>> Nick Markowitz Jr. wrote:
>>>>> I just took 300 + pounds of batteries down to interstate battery today
>>>>> trying to find room in garage.
>>>> I dropped all of mine off yesterday at ADI.
>>>>
>>> shouldn't we be getting money for all those old batteries?  wonder what
>>> the scrap value is?
>>
>> About the same as the value of the copper in scrap 2 conductor wire.
>>
> oh, man,  now I gotta start saving that too!?

Scrap yards around here will give you a buck a pound for wire.  They
don't seem to care what kind it is; my co-worker just collected a tote
full of tails and scraps from the last few months' installs and took the
thing in to a scrap yard, where they just threw the whole thing on a
scale and gave him $50 for the contents.