How do u support ur hobby?

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DudeBruh said:
Lately has been a bunch of suburus. Worth About 50 each.... Just need aluminum to get back to where it was.
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If I remember right, 1 ton of matrix, from only foreign cars, the precious metals if extracted was somewhere like $300,000-$400,000. Depending on market price for metals.
 
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I operate a division that secures jumbo reverse mortgages for the wealthy to use as financial tools (private client 1M-25M properties).
 
Self employed contractor, ex mechanical engineer. Couldn't handle giving all my time away for my owners kids to have better cars and things than I do off of my work lol. Part time tinkerer and wheeler and dealer. I do wood working and sell saw dust to pet stores and farmers, amungat other things.
 
I teach college labs part time and do some commercial diving on the side. I also know the owner of the lfs and he gives me a call when clients tear down their tanks so I get some good deals on equipment. I also am a big DIY guys so I build a lot myself. I am also a grad student studying brook trout![emoji12] Oh ya, the wife works as well!
 
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Jomama said:
If I remember right, 1 ton of matrix, from only foreign cars, the precious metals if extracted was somewhere like $300,000-$400,000. Depending on market price for metals.
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. Yep but extracting them is usually done on the refining level.... if you want to get a hazmat suit out , have bulk and I mean a lot. and find a buyer I’m sure there’s money there.... I’d rather take the labor.
 
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Cherub said:
You moved even further! I was looking to invite you to a bbq a couple of weeks ago and couldn't send you a message on masc, or here
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Yup, we moved in late March. Actually left Colorado March 26th and got here on the 30th. 1986 miles.

I certainly haven't blocked you. I don't log into MASC very often, but I was just there last week. We'd have loved to come to a BBQ!! I'm sorry we missed that.

My wife was going to lose her job because her employer lost a giant contract in Colorado Springs. She managed to stay with the same company AND got a massive promotion to Manager 2, along with a fat raise. The company paid for our entire move and 2 months of corporate housing. We closed on our house the first week of May.

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Just realized I had not set up my messenging preferences on this site. Should be able to receive PM's now.
 
DudeBruh said:
. Yep but extracting them is usually done on the refining level.... if you want to get a hazmat suit out , have bulk and I mean a lot. and find a buyer I’m sure there’s money there.... I’d rather take the labor.
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Right, I think in 1992, there was a guy that sold a video, on extracting the metals, I remember, first heat matrix to red hot, no carbon monoxide come in contact when hot, then when red hot run air to it.add matrix to a bromine like fluid, he sold that too. After that he used electrolysis to recoup metals. My dad use to just sell them whole.
In Fullerton, Ca. there was small company that extracted it.
 
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A lead (leed) cable technician in the Hamptons. I get the wonderful privelage of repairing phone, internet, and tv service for some very appreciative VIP billionaires (/sarcasm) that have basements with more square footage than my entire house. I even had the nail-biting experience of doing the house of the CEO that owns the company I work for. At the time, this CEO also owned the NY Rangers, NY Knicks, Madison Square Garden, a news channel and the NY Newsday paper. They've sinced sold the company to a French pig.

I actually worked at Jerry Seinfeld's house, Michael J Fox, Billy Joel, sport team owners, and a few others.

My friends always say that it must be awesome getting to see the inside of some of those mega mansions. Heck No! Maybe the first two when I started, lol. When I pull up to a house where you have to be buzzed through a gate, can't see the house from the road, and a half mile driveway with signs pointing which driveway takes you to different parts of the house, I just know there's a huge headache waiting at the end.

They definitely treat the mega rich folks different than the average person. It'll say "VIP Customer" on the work order, and they only send the very best technicians to these homes because they're super complex with the wiring. Yet they expect a very complicated house to take the same amount of time as a 2-room bungalow, lol. Too bad I don't get any bungalows.
 
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Medical Technologist, doing all the laboratory testing/blood banking for a mid-size hospital. It pays all right, but I definitely have to wait for sales, scour for-sale forums, and space out my purchases. I used to sell plasma at Biolife, too, but first some health problems and now serious triathlon training have put a stop to that. I hope my serum protein and hematocrit levels will be high enough after my race in October- going to need to generate some more revenue without resorting to being a lot lizard!
 
SallyWho said:
Medical Technologist, doing all the laboratory testing/blood banking for a mid-size hospital. It pays all right, but I definitely have to wait for sales, scour for-sale forums, and space out my purchases. I used to sell plasma at Biolife, too, but first some health problems and now serious triathlon training have put a stop to that. I hope my serum protein and hematocrit levels will be high enough after my race in October- going to need to generate some more revenue without resorting to being a lot lizard!
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Lot Lizard... ;Hilarious

haven't heard that coin in a long time!
 
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