wow bummer that he took the old unit. They are worth a fair bit of coin at the scrap dealers these days.

 

Took the old unit? Who said that? I got the price, then told him to leave the unit.

 

oh I had you confused with stinky for a second.

 

btw maaco just ran a commercial here, its their "summer special," $299 for single stage enamel paint job.

Honestly my truck is a beater, but when I get a new door and fix the floors and cab corner, I'm probably gonna strip and mask everything myself and rough sand it, either take it to my gf's brother, or to some place like maaco, and just have them give it a quick spray of enamel. I'm not looking for a perfect shine. Just everything one color.

 

All the time, unfortunately! Now that I have the dent I've always wanted, as I restore it I'm squirreling away $100 a pay period for a '67-68 Mustang project.

 

Have you seen member co425's truck. It's a matte black "tractor and implement" paint. That's exactly what I'm going to do to mine. No waxing, or a clearcoat to scratch off-road.

 

In my neck of the woods they just passed a new law, and the scrap yards won't take any HVAC units or coils unless you have an HVAC license. But, they will turn you in to the authorities, and then you'll have to explain how you didn't steal the unit for scrap money.

 

gotta love the "gub'ment" protecting the people...

 

In a way I can see their point. We are getting a lot of a/c unit, copper, wire, etc. theft going on. Thieves are stealing from vacant houses, occupied houses, businesses, and even power stations, among other places. They are turning the stuff in for scrap, for pennies on the dollar. My neighbor woke up hot in the middle of the night, only to find out the next morning that his a/c unit was gone, and so was the one in the house next to him.

 

In a way I can see their point too, but in MANY ways I cannot.

We have way too much goobernment regulation & involvement as it is. That is a whole other can of worms we can avoid opening though...

 

I feel the same way. I'm in the HVAC business, and I was just telling someone about this guy that owns some rental trailer parks. When he has someone change out the old units, he was scrapping them himself. After all, they are his. Now, he can't do it anymore. I feel there ought to be a way for someone to scrap stuff that is actually theirs.

 

Yup.

My thought is you do the "service" of recycling the things for the guy & take a cut of the returns for the "service". The question then becomes is there enough cash for the material to give him some cash & still pay you enough to make it worth your time.