Paul, I would suggest you might first find out where you would actually take your metal for recycling. Once you figure that out, ask them what they will and will not accept and to what degree it must be sorted. Every location is different, in my experience. And yes, as Ron alluded to, I wouldn't plan on filling a 30 gallon trash can with old tuning pins, etc. and then expect to actually be able to move it. A coffee can, or in my case, an old oil drain pan (hey - it was available) hold more than enough weight to carry in one trip. I'm waiting for my kids to get old enough to start stripping copper off bass strings, sorting/cleaning screws, you know, the high profile work.......... William R. Monroe On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > paul bruesch wrote: > >> This question is mainly directed to those who have a metals bucket for >> things like old tuning pins, etc. >> Do you just toss anything metallic in there? e.g. old bass strings, copper >> wire from when you wired that additional light in the shop? The >> bent-beyond-belief tomato cage from the garden?? >> > > How big a bucket are you seeing here? Whatever the standard can size is for > three pounds of coffee (arbitrary calibration) will hold a quite useful > cumulative weight of tuning pins for substitute "butt clamps" when you're a > butt or two short of a load. Bass strings don't fit, either physically or > categorically, into either secondary use, or recycling scenarios. Last I > heard, the copper guys wanted the wrap stripped off of the cores. That, > realistically, leaves either the arts and crafts folks or the landfill. Same > with electrical wiring, at the waste volume we typically generate for that > one. > > I do, I confess, have what may well be half a ton (possibly exaggerated) of > bass string takeouts on the premises, awaiting the residence artist's > attention. With me to look after, it's no great mystery that the project > hasn't quite come up on the wheel for her just yet, so that's one of the > easier calls. > > Compared to the killer wood pile, this is pretty much a non-event anyway. > Ron N > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090929/8396887e/attachment-0001.htm>
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