Larry Jaques on Mon, 07 Apr 2014
22:40:28 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:45:23 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:16:28 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:52:03 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:46:16 -0500, Ignoramus30810
wrote:

On 2014-04-06, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:48:01 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:
A Sawzall has always worked nicely for me.

Yeah, they're quick, but Ig doesn't want to waste a few ounces of
copper each cut on large pipe. It adds up after filling a truck with
cut pieces. Plus, catching all the filings is damned frustrating and
time consuming. I'd want the same thing if I had lots of scrap.


It is both, time, an copper sawdust, that I want to save.

Simply cut the copper with the saw over a big cardboard box. Copper
sawdust is heavy and it doesnt fly very far.

Yabbut, you lose half of it down the tubes, which aren't always easy
to tilt into the box. OK, it's doable but not worth the hassle.

Ok..now about the hassle of building a hydraulic shear.....?

blink You don't get it?

There are 50 New Toy points riding on this, sir. Ya gotta think it
through.

New Toy points - and "Applied Scrounge Points" and "I knew I would
find a use for this some day" points and, of course "I made it
myself!" points, which is the point of the whole exercise.
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