Look what I've found in the garbage!

[shaman]

I found this in the garbage can at work:


It's a graphite fixture that our company's mfg operation uses for baking components. They degrade over time, and when they get cracked or corroded, they get pitched. I found the lady responsible for final inspection and started acquiring the broken ones. She gave me about a dozen a few weeks ago, and I'm getting a couple more every week.

I thought these would be good for a couple of boolit-related issues. The outside dimensions are roughly 6"X6." The holes are between .30 and .50 inch. The one in the picture would let me put 64 45 cal boolits neatly arranged on a tray prior to baking. It's graphite and fixture is meant for much higher temperatures than what you'd normally find in your average toaster oven. Another idea I had was putting one of these in the bottom of a pie pan prior to pouring pan lube. The graphite would take up a lot of room and reduce the need for lube to fill the pan.

What do y'all think?

[lightman]

Interesting, the things we rescue and reuse!

[Texas by God]

I bet you could fashion custom loading blocks as well. Good score.

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[Hardcast416taylor]

Some years back I was doing a plumbing job in a metals testing lab at a stamping metal plant. A lab tech knew I cast and asked if I could use some items they were tossing. The first was a 10 lb. ingot of tin that had been a door stop! The other metal item was an damascus bar of metal 2" wide by 10" long by 3/16" thick! He had no idea what that was there for and was being tossed. It made up into a really nice knife.Robert

[smokeywolf]

Walking into the Studio Machine Shop one morning at MGM, laborers were striking a set. Two of them carried a 2" thick, 3' x 3' sheet of Plexiglas with the paper still on both sides; through it in the dumpster.

[Oklahoma Rebel]

what!?!? that stuff is EXPENSIVE!!!!

[country gent]

We made guards and covers out of 1/2" thick clear lexan, The scraps made great loading blocks and other things. Dish washer safe and pretty much indestructible in use. Machines good and finishes nicely.

[bedbugbilly]

One man's junk is another man's treasure!

[Oklahoma Rebel]

so true!

[CastingFool]

When I was still working, I would go dumpster diving quite often. Among my prizes, there were two sets of Peltor earmuffs in pretty good shape, and two India sharpening stones that had not been used very much at all. I even found some money that someone had gotten back in change from a fast food place. and thrown away with the trash. Also, numerous pop bottles with the MI 10 cent deposit. I often carried $200-$300 in cash, from the bottle returns. Way I looked at it, it was free money to spend anyway I wanted.

[Hardcast416taylor]

The thing that I saw and rescued from being crushed in a plant baler was a wood pallet that was already broken in several places. What nobody saw that I did was that it was made from birdseye maple wood! I made knife scales and a pair of revolver grips from it for quite awhile. And people called me crazy for digging it out, but soon were wanting things made from it!Robert

[adcoch1]

Speaking of things thrown away, a good friend told me last night that his son in law just threw away 300# of lead alloy! Said it was too hard to make sinkers out of because it had too much tin in it. I coulda cried since I've been looking for cheap alloy... But the garbage truck had come already...

[smokeywolf]

Speaking of things thrown away, a good friend told me last night that his son in law just threw away 300# of lead alloy! Said it was too hard to make sinkers out of because it had too much tin in it. I coulda cried since I've been looking for cheap alloy... But the garbage truck had come already...

Somebody find a tree, I'll bring the rope.

[jarhead0321usmc]

Apparently he doesn't realize that, that's the kind of nonsense that gets you replaced.

[adcoch1]

Yeah he knew it was bullet alloy too, amateur caster, but he didn't toss his moulds. I am working on getting them from him, and the rest of his reloading stuff too....