Thursday, August 14, 2009
Gold from Digital, Telecommunication &amp Personal computer Scrap Part three
RecyclingSecrets.com
by Michael Meuser

This is the 3rd in an ongoing sequence of posts about my expertise in the electronic salvage, recycling and gold recovery business. At first, I was likely to publish this up as an ebook and sell it, but I made the decision – offered the hard financial instances we all encounter – to give it absent in installments. New installments, resources, how-to posts and information can be identified at www.RecyclingSecrets.com.

In the final submit I talked about searching at the materials and bringing back again some samples so I could start to create a market for the salvage – be aware that marketing for reuse nearly always brings in more profits than recycling for the metal worth.

In this submit I am going to talk a bit about acquiring gear and marketing.

The moment I noticed the substance, I understood that I required a actual truck. I had brought back again quite a number of huge batteries. Each two volt cell weighed roughly 500 lbs and was about a foot square and 2 ft tall. I lived in a rural place where a lot of folks ran choice power techniques so I set an ad in the local free advertising and marketing paper looking to sell the batteries or trade for a big flatbed truck.

I received a response virtually right away. A fellow had a nice outdated GMC five ton flatbed. It didn’t run nicely, but he was inclined to trade it for a set of batteries. Recall that I bid so low on the batteries that I hoped that i wouldn’t get them – well, I’m confident glad I did – they turned out to be a “goldmine.” It took about to get the truck working well and I thought, “now I’m in business.”

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I imagined I could lease a forklift in Nevada and alongside with the truck, haul all the stuff back to California. NOT! Turned out the only forklift was a large weighing 14,000 lbs and was a hundred and fifty miles absent. It took me five hrs to haul it all the way to the station and seven hrs to get it again when I was loaded. Not very good.

So… my next job was to get a forklift. That first load with the a5 ton truck was almost entirely batteries – ten sets in all. I discovered an substitute electricity vendor who would buy them for for each set so I made the offer and headed to a forklift vendor with money in hand. I bought a really nice forklift that weighed about five,000 lbs trailer and all. Excellent issue to was that it was certain for a calendar year and had a seventy five% get back policy. My cost was ,000.

Now I had a forklift and a market for at minimum some of the batteries – I had about 200 sets altogether.

I nonetheless failed to truly have a market for much of the relaxation of the devices. There was copper cable and wire of all dimensions and some hundreds of feet in length, big radio bays created of extruded aluminum, racks, racks, and far more racks, generators, alternators, rectifiers and a good deal of gold plated connectors and attenuators.

I stripped down many of the radio bays, taking out all the gold bearing things and headed to the bay location. I was dissapointed with the cost for “unclean” aluminum, but one dealer told me that an overseas customer might be intrigued. In days I had many dealers calling me and seeking to see the materials. It turned out that I was provided ,000 per load of racks, one particular load for each station. I hesitated and it paid off. I told him I would have to think about it and get other bids. He questioned what it would just take to decide appropriate now and I mentioned “,000 up front in addition to the ,000 for each and every station would do it.” He bit and I walked away with ,000 money.

By now I recognized that I could not haul plenty of fast adequate even with my five ton truck so I ran yet another advert searching for a semi to lease with or with out driver (I had a business license so I could generate it if need to have be) and yard room. In a week I had identified a fellow with forty foot flatbed rigs, himself and son as motorists and a five acre garden that I could use completely if I’d give him the career to haul every little thing from the stations. He charged me for each load flat and it took 2 loads per station. I failed to even have to be there to unload. He held all the abroad content separate and was paid by the overseas purchaser to load it into transport containers. The rest was arranged in neat rows and stacks waiting for me.

I ought to back again up a bit. The five ton truck turned out to be really beneficial. It was my operate truck. With it I could pull the forklift and transfer points close to and load up my drivers plus I could use it to distribute the large ex-agricultural bins I bought as containers for the more compact salvaged things.

Of course, I kept all the gold bearing things and didn’t ship it.

A lot more to come. New posts will be listed at www.RecyclingSecrets.com (information, instruments, and resources are also available here) and also at www.recyclingsecrets.blogspot.com.

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