It was time to get some material stocks so I went looking for the scrap yard. Several that I knew from years ago are long gone but I did find one.
Not a yard exactly just a big building with trucks going in and coming out. So I went to take a look with my nutating engine in a bag in case I got a chance to show it. Well the chaps were pretty interested alright but they had almost no scrap! Trucks dumped stuff off which was mostly sheet metal, steel and aluminium but also copper, all worthless for what I was looking for but I was invited to look at the pile out the back (that sounded interesting), not! Hardly a decent bit to be seen just tangled water pipes, a few smashed car engines (mildly interesting) and stuff like car and truck cross members. Apparently they 'process' just about everything as it arrives, it is sorted, crushed and baled or ripped to shreds and packed in containers to go to somewhere (China maybe?).
So I went out of town a bit and found another place I remembered, only a fraction of the land it once was with almost no piles but several skips being filled, this was more like it but pretty much the same sort of stuff. Some could have been interesting but if it is at the bottom of a skip there is not much I could do. I must visit them again one day and hopefully they will have something available.
On the way home I called in at my neighbour Carl's place, he is somewhat of an artist and a clever man with metal. Please look at his work at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/differentperspective/sets/72157594551949221/and at
http://carlucci-land.blogspot.com/He is building some sort of park with junk and clever constructions. Carl gave me some information and I was able to obtain a scrap of 20mm plate that I was looking for.
