{"id":1781,"date":"2013-07-29T18:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2013-07-29T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:49:53","slug":"recycling-and-my-husbands-latest-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Recycling and My Husband’s Latest “Win”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: \u00a05.50 miles<\/p>\n

We last found my husband winning the coveted Mass Spectrometer. \u00a0We brought that home a week ago in the back of our 1985 Ford F150. \u00a0The people from whom we won this gem loaded it into the truck using a fork lift. \u00a0Four fork lift loads of stuff.<\/p>\n

Since then, to pass the time, my husband has been dismantling his beloved Mass Spectrometer. \u00a0He has had to take it apart bit by bit until it was light enough for me to be able to help him lift it out of the back of the truck. \u00a0He has been a busy beaver and the truck bed is now empty and the garage is now full of parts.<\/p>\n

There are quite a few pumps, valves, etc that he has posted on Ebay.<\/p>\n

We took 55 pounds of stainless steel to the scrap yard this past Wednesday. \u00a0He was given $22.00 for his stainless steel. \u00a0I called it his winnings. \u00a0He called it earnings. \u00a0Either way, we went and bought ourselves malts at Sonic to celebrate. \u00a0He has three more dollars to go to break even for what he paid for the Mass Spectrometer.<\/p>\n

This has been a fun project. \u00a0When he has a break from work or in the evenings I will hear the power screwdriver going Bzzzz, Bzzzz, Bzzzz. \u00a0There will be a pause and I will hear a “clink” noise as he drops some screw, washers and whatnot into a bucket with other odds and ends. \u00a0This has been going on for a week now.<\/p>\n

Tonight was different. \u00a0Instead of the Bzzz, Bzzz, Bzzz of the power screwdriver I heard Bam! Bam! Bam!!! \u00a0Puzzled, I went out the the garage.<\/p>\n

There was my husband with a chisel and hammer. \u00a0He was pounding transformers in half! \u00a0I asked why he was breaking transformers and he handed me half a transformer and said copper. \u00a0Then I understood and got to work.<\/p>\n

The lining\/coils of a transformer are all copper. \u00a0Copper wire of different thickness and copper sheeting…lots and lots of copper. \u00a0Copper is valuable these days.<\/p>\n

He finished breaking the transformers while I started separating the copper from the sticky stuff and paper linings. \u00a0We put the copper into a bucket. \u00a0We ended up only doing two transformers but accumulated one bucket full of copper! \u00a0Not too shabby!<\/p>\n

So, next thing (probably tomorrow) we will head back to the scrap metal place and get some more money for our copper. \u00a0Maybe another trip to Sonic for malts? \u00a0We’ll see…<\/p>\n

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Today’s Run: \u00a05.50 miles We last found my husband winning the coveted Mass Spectrometer. \u00a0We brought that home a week ago in the back of our 1985 Ford F150. \u00a0The people from whom we won this gem loaded it into the truck using a fork lift. \u00a0Four fork lift loads of stuff. Since then, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}