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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Jul 15, 2023 16:00:34 GMT -5
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Jul 15, 2023 16:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by tom5518 on Jul 27, 2023 20:00:04 GMT -5
Wow, Time passes quickly, pun intended. Launched in 1987 by Palmer Johnson, she was a real covergirl for all the boating magazines. It is a little shocking to see her today not even worth scrap value.
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Jul 28, 2023 6:01:08 GMT -5
Yeah Tom, that was a lot of the unknowings thoughts, but when a pound of aluminum is 25% fairing filler and coated with another 10% by weight of bitumastic, its like selling copper wire with the insulation on it. Its gotta be re-smelted and thats what the chinamans air quality is about. Think the bunny huggers would allow that here? This is probably at the Fung & Fung & sons backyard smelter LLC, using RDF for the fire (Refuse Derived Fuel) like sewage and plastic...
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Post by rsmith on Jul 28, 2023 7:07:19 GMT -5
Back when copper went crazy. In the 70’s we were selling incinerators for wire burners. The secret was to dump it into a quench while it was hot to keep it from losing value. We sold a few to the Camden scrap yards. Wire strippers killed that business for us. Fortunately there is always medical waste. We sold one unit to a one man operation in the middle of the Jersey pine barrens. He couldn’t afford anything fancy so he had a bathtub buried in the ground behind the clean out door. he had a load of transformers he’d break open for the copper. I watched him dump the oil out on the ground. Glad I didn’t live near there.
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Jul 28, 2023 7:31:03 GMT -5
After I retired, I did a stint for Joliet Electric, a big electric motor rewinder, building an oven from a big container box. All electric to burn all the copper clean. I never got to see it run but it mustve made a ton of smoke.
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Post by Avenger on Jul 28, 2023 12:07:06 GMT -5
Back when copper went crazy. In the 70’s we were selling incinerators for wire burners. The secret was to dump it into a quench while it was hot to keep it from losing value. We sold a few to the Camden scrap yards. Wire strippers killed that business for us. Fortunately there is always medical waste. We sold one unit to a one man operation in the middle of the Jersey pine barrens. He couldn’t afford anything fancy so he had a bathtub buried in the ground behind the clean out door. he had a load of transformers he’d break open for the copper. I watched him dump the oil out on the ground. Glad I didn’t live near there. Out of curiosity, did your company operate on Long Island at any point? Long ago we had a customer who did medical incinerators.
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Post by rsmith on Jul 28, 2023 14:35:55 GMT -5
We built the first commercial medical waste plant in Farmingdale. Mediwaste inc. long story but 2 funeral directors were burning it in their retorts. Your loved ones ashes might be mixed with biohazard waste ashes. They ruined the retorts and called us. That was in about 85. We put a system together that burned 5000lb per hour and ran the flue gas through 2 fire tube boilers then ran the steam through two condensing turbines that produced 2 meg of power. LILCO was paying for the nuke plant that nev went online so the buyback was incredible. We ate lunch everyday at Frank Stalones place.
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Post by badhattitude on Jul 28, 2023 15:30:13 GMT -5
I remember Frank well. A true Italian man in every way.
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Jul 29, 2023 5:46:01 GMT -5
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