VERAULT
Veteran Member
Yeah I remember the card and comic shows.. Heck we had a couple come to our elementary school. Thats when I learned which kids were into comics or not. I had a spoiled friend whose parents were slumlords (The label is accurate in everyway, trust me) and bought him whatever he wanted. I found it odd how he old collected for value and I liked the stories. Anyway, same kid got all the new computer stuff too.
One of the reasons I stopped collecting (even though I was not a kid anymore) was my favorite shop Closed. I just sort of gave up on the hobby at that point. Weird thing was they moved only 2 blocks further just out of main BLVD and never posted a sign! I have no idea for years.. but by that point I moved on to other things.
Buying scrap previous metals is still viable.. You just cant buy them from shops who charge well above market. I keep ALL the copper I come across. I burn off shielding from wires and other things to get bare copper. I dismantle old coils and transformers. Every year or two I bring a bucket to the scrap place and sell off my copper.. Usually with a small amount of brass to make a few bucks.. Usually with some old car batteries as well. Good money in Lead ya know.. Shoot I bought a full trailler of steel scrap in when I decided to clean up my shed from things that I no longer needed or were just taking up space. They pay you, the dump makes you pay...which one makes more sense?
Reminds me of the guys who would scramble to call DIBBS on the scrap Tungsten from the Linear Accelerators which were being decommissioned. They would make on Avg $5K in scrap Tung..... That is until they caught on that the stuff was still mildly radioactive and started having uncalibrated dosimeters to see if the stuff was still "hot".. that made it messy until they were correctly informed on wait times and had proper meters.
Everyone wants to get rich quick.
One of the reasons I stopped collecting (even though I was not a kid anymore) was my favorite shop Closed. I just sort of gave up on the hobby at that point. Weird thing was they moved only 2 blocks further just out of main BLVD and never posted a sign! I have no idea for years.. but by that point I moved on to other things.
Buying scrap previous metals is still viable.. You just cant buy them from shops who charge well above market. I keep ALL the copper I come across. I burn off shielding from wires and other things to get bare copper. I dismantle old coils and transformers. Every year or two I bring a bucket to the scrap place and sell off my copper.. Usually with a small amount of brass to make a few bucks.. Usually with some old car batteries as well. Good money in Lead ya know.. Shoot I bought a full trailler of steel scrap in when I decided to clean up my shed from things that I no longer needed or were just taking up space. They pay you, the dump makes you pay...which one makes more sense?
Reminds me of the guys who would scramble to call DIBBS on the scrap Tungsten from the Linear Accelerators which were being decommissioned. They would make on Avg $5K in scrap Tung..... That is until they caught on that the stuff was still mildly radioactive and started having uncalibrated dosimeters to see if the stuff was still "hot".. that made it messy until they were correctly informed on wait times and had proper meters.
Everyone wants to get rich quick.