To "Final Destination" that guy, he merley has to slip and fall and visibly "accidentally" drop it, and keep repeating "oh no! oh no! oops! how do i raise it? oh no!"
In Texas that would have had a munch better ending.
I just found out someone tried taking my catalytic converter had to have it welded back today. Cost 15 bucks but the way my car sounded I thought it was going to cost a lot.
Yeah I start wondering about the economics of the thefts .. YouTubers Mmblic and Sreetips both have videos where they use highly complicated procedures that take up to a month or so to complete to recover precious metals from cat converters, one bloke finished with a pellet of palladium the other fellow got nothing.
There is another video the fellow was talking three months, there is no way known you would get a return using the same methods which require loads of highly expensive chemicals and lab hardware .. so how does processing CC's become economic at any time.
Whereas a plant built to process CC material that needs thirty days or so in an acid bath to leech out all of the minerals would cost a fortune to build and to operate. Maybe there is a secret process they use, there is said to be a booming commerce in stolen CC's somebody is financing it, I can't see how or who.
Their video shows ppl breaking the housings apart and feeding the lot into a crusher before the crushed product goes to a bagging plant, PGM does not process the material any further they sell the bags of product to whomsoever is willing to pay for it.
Platinum Price Per Gram $49.77. Palladium Price Per Gram $93.5. Rhodium Price per Gram $893.79.
Which begs the conclusion that if there was any profit to be had there would be a recycle plant adjacent to the removal and break facility, that being said PGM appears to be a viable concern so someone must buy their stuff.
Anyone with a grounding in mining accountancy and chemical engineering will tell you the costs are astronomical .. stories abound about mines closing down not because there was no mineral but because the extraction costs were too high.
Case in point .. aluminum starts off as bauxite which is laterite that forms when water pressure in the deep oceans squeezes the minerals out of sea water, the stuff is crushed before it goes into vats of boiling caustic soda to separate the alumina from the crushed bauxite.
The tailings are called "Red Mud" which is high in gold, however it is never processed because the costs are too high .. it appears things must be about the same with the CC scrap. Another mine had a mountain of tailings that were high in silver, they likewise remained unprocessed until the price of silver rose sufficiently high to justify the costs.
I remember watching a video where a guy swept up the "brake dust" off the side of a freeway. He took out the junk and melted it down at specific temps in a forge he had. Had a few bits of metal he sold off. Made about $40/hr all told IIRC.
And soon those cars are going to be so expensive to insure nobody can afford them, but hey you are not allowed to drive gas anymore, while the promised public transportation isn't happening.....
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Final Destination!
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000699250/
To "Final Destination" that guy, he merley has to slip and fall and visibly "accidentally" drop it, and keep repeating "oh no! oh no! oops! how do i raise it? oh no!"
tee hee heeee
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*WRONG!*
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Its palladium, more often now.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/use-of-palladium-in-catalytic-converters-driving-demand-for-the-precious-metal-300937620.html
But equally valuable.
I was just being technically correct. It's not the platinum.
As for truck? You are correct. Thats the money maker. They get 5 cents on the dollar and fuck over Whitey better.
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Now imagine the same situation where the neighbors were armed.
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I just found out someone tried taking my catalytic converter had to have it welded back today. Cost 15 bucks but the way my car sounded I thought it was going to cost a lot.
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There is another video the fellow was talking three months, there is no way known you would get a return using the same methods which require loads of highly expensive chemicals and lab hardware .. so how does processing CC's become economic at any time.
Whereas a plant built to process CC material that needs thirty days or so in an acid bath to leech out all of the minerals would cost a fortune to build and to operate. Maybe there is a secret process they use, there is said to be a booming commerce in stolen CC's somebody is financing it, I can't see how or who.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6q-67IcqY
PGM - The Leader in Platinum Group Metals Recycling - Catalytic Converters.
Their video shows ppl breaking the housings apart and feeding the lot into a crusher before the crushed product goes to a bagging plant, PGM does not process the material any further they sell the bags of product to whomsoever is willing to pay for it.
Platinum Price Per Gram $49.77.
Palladium Price Per Gram $93.5.
Rhodium Price per Gram $893.79.
Which begs the conclusion that if there was any profit to be had there would be a recycle plant adjacent to the removal and break facility, that being said PGM appears to be a viable concern so someone must buy their stuff.
Anyone with a grounding in mining accountancy and chemical engineering will tell you the costs are astronomical .. stories abound about mines closing down not because there was no mineral but because the extraction costs were too high.
Case in point .. aluminum starts off as bauxite which is laterite that forms when water pressure in the deep oceans squeezes the minerals out of sea water, the stuff is crushed before it goes into vats of boiling caustic soda to separate the alumina from the crushed bauxite.
The tailings are called "Red Mud" which is high in gold, however it is never processed because the costs are too high .. it appears things must be about the same with the CC scrap. Another mine had a mountain of tailings that were high in silver, they likewise remained unprocessed until the price of silver rose sufficiently high to justify the costs.
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Ahhhh Cali.
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