Tire weight alloy

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 12:09:59 AM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote:

Gunner Asch <gunnerasch@gmail.com> on Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:49:16 -0800
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
This is for a small 1-2 pounder, so the danger factor is low. I've busted
sledgehammer handles before by missing, and seen taped up, split handles
which is even more scary.

I was fortunate and happened to be in a store that was closing..and I
bought for very very very little money..about 40 hammer handles. From
small ball pein through claw, through hatchet through sledge hammer
handles. A guy had come in before me..sneered at the wooden handles
and bought up all the fiberglass ones. I think he got 5 handles for
$40..I got 40 for $25. Ive given handles to all of my friends, picked
up hammer and ax heads at yard sales for pennies and I still have 2
drawers full of handles (Grin)
One of my better investments. My wife looked at me chortling like a
bandit when we went out to the truck with my big box of handles...and
asked me "what the FUCK are you going do with all those handles?!!"

When I bought her a TV for her bedroom with the proceeds from some of
the refitted axes and hammers...she suddenly realized I might..might
know what Im doing.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/high-end-dumpster-diving-matt-malone/

Dumpster diving for fun and profit.

"Malone called Luce in 2006 after stumbling upon a huge find in the
parking lot of Discount Electronics, a local Austin chain. The store
was clearing out its warehouse and had hauled everything to the
parking lot of its main store on Anderson Lane. Malone focused on the
40 prototypes of Dell's newest high-end desktop computer, which
Discount Electronics had contracted to test. He was still loading them
when Luce showed up and walked right past the computers to the photo
paper and toner. "Coulter taught me to stop going after the big prize
and get the consumables," Malone says. People aren't going to need new
printers that often, but they constantly need paper and toner."

There it is. The way to make money is to sell the supplies to the
gold miners.

(Mys SO was appalled to learn that in some cases, it is cheaper to
buy a new printer than replace the ink cartridges. Heck, the Pixma
MP500 is $54 to refill at Costco.)

Forget the business side, I'm still wondering why the pizza slices at their food court are so good (for so little).