SALAD
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:29 PM |
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Cat Recycling?
No, no, not the furry pet kind!
Has anyone had a go at extracting the Platinum (and Palladium and Rhodium) from scrap cats?
Starting to look like just another silly idea but I thought a bit of research wouldn't hurt 
Could you just smelt the platinum scrap and add flux to sepparate the pure platinum from the other metals? (simply put there)
You wouldn't need to faff about with the assay process unless you wanted to know the platinum content, and therefore its worth, as the end
user/buyer could do that to determine how much to pay you.
Once you've chopped the cat open, how do you determine/seperate what is needed to start processing? As there would be ceramic dust in there too
wouldn't there?
This is probably totally unfeasable......I just like to cut the middle men out! 
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:33 PM |
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The platinum is a microscopically thin coating over a lump of ceramic with thousands of holes through it.
I doubt if you'd end up with much money, and you'd probably spend more on gas and/or chemicals to separate it! It would probably be quite
polluted as well.
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ch1ll1
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:35 PM |
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scrap value is any where from £30 to £75 at the moment.
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COREdevelopments
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:35 PM |
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down my way the tinkers pay good money for old cats
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:39 PM |
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I've just had a google - as chilli said above, there's good scrap value in a used cat. Apparently there's a rising crime level in
some US states where SUV's and other vehicles with high ground clearance are losing their cats to thieves with a hacksaw!
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SALAD
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:42 PM |
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Basically.......my friend buys/sells/fixes/scraps cars and has accumulated about 100 cats and wanted me to cut out the middle men and find him a
company that the middle men sell to. I have found 3 companies, one will only take 200 at a time.
I just thought lets cut everyone out and extract the platinum ourselves!
Not really worth the hassle/expense then.
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COREdevelopments
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| posted on 17/3/08 at 09:46 PM |
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david its not just U.S, its in wales too we had a customer come in with no cat on his hilux, robbing bastards cut it clean off!! 
[Edited on 17/3/08 by COREdevelopments]
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James
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 01:11 PM |
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There was summat on the radio the other day about people nicking fuel now....... by drilling a hole in the tank and draining it out!
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iank
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 01:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
There was summat on the radio the other day about people nicking fuel now....... by drilling a hole in the tank and draining it out!
The unforeseen cost of decent locking petrol caps and Gordon's greed. Now you have to replace the tank as well as the fuel you've had
nicked. Hope the scum forget to put out their tabs.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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saigonij
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 01:36 PM |
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you know what, im surprised there are not more fuel tankers being stolen....
its gonna come to it with the rising prices of fuel.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 01:47 PM |
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Got to be more money in it than re-cycling pet cats. You can only make Davy Crockett hats with them and the demad for them is minmal these days. 
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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ch1ll1
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 02:06 PM |
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got 3 cats for free if you want them.
just dont tell the wife !
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DarrenW
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 04:09 PM |
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My mate has just weighed in 5 LandRover cats today. Got £240 for them
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 07:41 PM |
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Last nights Cambridge evening news reported a break in at a garage in Cambourne , 30 alloys and a load of cats cut off vehicles in compound . 40 years
ago platinum was £40 per ounce scrap price , can't imagine what it is now?. We had some scum bag nick a propshaft off of a Renault Scenic 4x4 in
the last few weeks
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 18/3/08 at 07:50 PM |
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Somewhere around 1000 pounds per ounce!!
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