A city wide blackout at Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:28:22 -0800 did not prevent Jim
Stewart from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the
following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:

A city wide blackout at Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:13:45 -0800 did not prevent "lane"
lane_nospam@copperaccents_dot_com from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking
the following:

A couple of years ago it was a nice place to shop. Now the prices have gone
up and the selection down.


Boeing is getting out of the manufacturing biz. When you don't make it,
you don't have "surplus."
I found some "neat" stuff there, but then again, I hi it the week they were
half-pricing the "scrap" metal. Aluminum for 80 cents a pound - such a deal!

Are you kidding me? The everyday price is $1.60 a pound?

At Boeing Surplus, for aircraft aluminum "scrap", yeah, they're asking and
getting $1.60 US a pound.

I pay $1.00/pound, minus the $1.25/pound I get for the
empty soda cans I bring in.

Where are you getting $1.25 a pound for pop cans? Best I've been able to
do is 33 cents.

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."