Scrap and Stuff.

Got a lot of cleanup done and good lot of that went go to the scrap yard for some sorely needed cash infusion.
I want to clarify some things. I do not value gold. It is scrap metal as far as I'm concerned.  I also do not believe in wealth retention, Wealth retention is a lie foisted on the gullible to part them of their earnings. I saw my father get bilked in a gold scam back in the "70's". Gold is a pretty useless metal rumored to favored by reptilian types and their like.
If you want to invest, do it in intangibles.

I was asked to clarify my bottom feeder choice for the blog. When I was scrapping I was taunted with that name by many people. Many told me to get a "real job". I retort that they should  pay livable wages.
Put me down as a something from nothing kind of person after SHTF or even TEOTWAYKI.
The 2012 will be a decade long events ( plural ). Start thinking it of  a decade long endless buffet of $hit sandwiches. It starts with the sun and noone knows where it will end.

Proud Announcement

My baby Sis Owned an armed mugger with my Grandfathers "Walking" stick that he brought with him from Ireland.
 Sure it's the same old shillelagh,
Me ( Grand)Father brought from Ireland. 

You cain't make this stuff up.

In Her words...

"So the police officer taking the report says "it's not a good idea to fight back when someone shoves a gun in your face and trys to rob you...you could have gotten shot!, you were lucky!" I said well it's just my instinct to fight back when threatened! And the bloodcurdly war scream ,,,well you can blame that on my heritage, lol!"

"no worries! I'm fine!.....I was attacked early this morning on my walk to work guy ran up behind me in the dark I felt him coming and turned slightly and he shoves what looked like a 45 in my face and says gimmy your money I let out a blood curdling scream right in his face and hit him with my blackthorn walking stick across the face! Dude couldnt beat feet away from me fast enough!...hummmm...You think I scared him?....lol!"

"here's the thing I've been walking with my walking stick because I have an injured foot...doc says bruised bone....lol....mugger got served by a gimp!...lol"

 STORMY LOWERED THE BOOM

Now STORMY was a peaceful woman, if you know what I mean.
The cops picked up the pieces after Stormy left the scene.
She never looked for trouble, that's a fact you can assume.
But never-the-less, when trouble would press,
Stormy lowered the boom!
Oh, that Stormy! Oh, that Stormy!
Whenever they got Her Irish up,
Stormy lowered the boom!

I'm so proud....

Working The Mother Load

To start, I'll have to clue folks in to just how much  consumer electronics I have been pack-ratting away. It's somewhere on this order of 50 busted computers and peripherals. Add to that about a mid-sized suitcase of legacy RAM chips. Some of the stuff was high end stuff in it's day and there's where the good color resides. Gold plated wire throughout. But, like I've said, It's a sideline. copper from there is break down process the bread and butter, and it's where the fast money is. I keep enough of the copper wires back for my radio projects.  The big bonus is all the  components I can get my hands on. It looks like I could start my own swap meet booth. Cause most of the QRP parts aren't available from radio scrap stores anymore. I clean a lot of the boards in a small and a medium sized electric frying pan, the trick is to keep the temps high enough to work and low enough to keep from cooking the  components.
On the safety end. I recommend good gloves and a good first aid kit. Also Tea Tree Oil is good to have around for minor scraps and burns as such.
I am no stranger to scraping, but this takes the cake. Volume is key here. The fair weather guys in the pickup trucks don't realize how much the lose on each and every load by being lazy and not breaking down more completely.

Talking about things radio scrap doesn't sell any more, add toroids ( inductors ) to the list.
I got the last bunch they had local on closeout. I'll had them to the coffee can full I've rescued over the past few days.
 Well, I just got a new Download of LXDE Desktop to try and burn for this crash and burn machine. See ya'll on the flip side if it works out. Dragon.

GOLD! There's Gold in them thar hills.

It was cleanup time here at El Rancho Del Norte....Bad Joke.
I was breaking down a dozen or so PC's and found gold in those mobo's. Not a lot.
But enough to start saving the wires and $hit in a medicine bottle. It is worth saving those things.
And I have another dozen for the taking. TV's and monitors yield a few pound of copper too. The last lot that I broke down yielded 66 lbs of copper. It is easy if you get organized and have a few tools.
Also, one of the last TV's I broke down had several crystals that can be used in QRP radios.
Cool.
Another thing I could mention is that a rocket stove can help clean some of that copper with out the side effects of toxic smoke. I love my rocket stove. I can even smelt down hard drives in it.
Next up, I got a truck load of electric motors to break down. No rest for the wicked.

Tools needed:
Safety Equipment. Or don't cry to me when you get hurt, cut, or poke you eye out.
3/8 variable speed drill and bits (drivers and drill bits).
1 cheap sawsall ( harbor freight and blades).
Misc hand tools, screw drivers, side cutters, Dykes, Line mans pliers, tin snips, Hammers.
4 inch grinder and wafer blades.
misc air tools and compressor ( harbor freight). don't spend a lot. You're gonna trash them quicker than shit.
And last but not least, sorting containers. start with drywall buckets and work up to 55 gallon pickle barrels.

Gold stuff I'll take to a refinery.
Other metals, take to a scrap dealer who has square deals and a honest scale. If they ain't dealing fair. Report the SOB.

I'm, Back

Got a used computer from a rummage sale and I'm back online. Thanks to The Puppy Linux OS.
It's a newer old HP that has some miles left in it.


Mkay.......

In case Ya missed it.

VIA:http://www.universetoday.com/93499/video-freaky-dancing-plasma-on-the-sun/
Normally plasma from the Sun either shoots off into space or loops back on the Sun’s surface. But the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured some plasma that couldn’t make up its mind. Here, darker, cooler plasma slid and shifted back and forth above the Sun’s surface for 30 hours on February 7-8, 2012. The view is shown in extreme ultraviolet light. As a backdrop, an active region just rotating into view shows bright plasma gyrating into streams — normally how the plasma behaves. SDO scientists say the darker particles are being pulled back and forth by competing magnetic forces, tracking along strands of magnetic field lines.

And by the way, tomorrow is SDO’s 2nd anniversary! It launched two years ago on February 11, 2010. Happy anniversary, SDO and thanks for all the great videos and data so far! We wish you many more!
http://youtu.be/YYK7puA9WZo


http://www.space.com/14620-sun-tornadoes-nasa-video-sdo.html
 http://stereo.ssl.berkeley.edu/multistatus.php

2012-02-18 Saturn through telescope


http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/planets/

VIA: Spaceweather.com
AURORAS OVER THE USA: A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the waning hours of Saturday, Feb. 18th. Although the stream was expected, the bright auroras it produced were not. Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into US states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota:

Collapse : Part 1

This National Geographic production looks ahead to a bleak hypothetical future, in which our civilization has completely collapsed. In the year 2210, a team of scientists set out to learn exactly what took down our seemingly indestructible society. Did we make the same mistakes the Romans, Incas and Mayans did that led to the collapse of their empires, or did a whole new set of circumstances lead to our downfall?



Multi-part see the rest via you tube.