Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Anyone figured out how to break them? I used to tap the old, plastic and screw, ones with a lump hammer. Like cracking a nut. These bloody things though? Anything short of tossing them in the fire? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sjt657 191 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Why ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Brass Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Bigger hammer? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,523 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Fire? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Fire? Anything short of tossing them in the fire? Like I say, mate ..... Just making that last ditch effort to find another way. I've even tried 'biting' them apart with side cutters. Bast@rd things are an environmental and economical disaster. Hate them! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 hope you have a lorry load,hardly worth the hassle otherwise? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Scothunter; Several decades ago I came across my old friend, Ron Lee, sitting with a motor lump between his legs. He was twisting little things out of it with pliers. Chucking these things into a biscuit tin. I asked him WTF he was doing. That was a thirty bob lump of cast iron there. Why was he picking at it?! Ron explained; " Young man " (Ron was always scrupulously polite) " The mass of the thing is cast. But, these pins are brass! Always break your scrap down and separate it! " I looked around me. At the various, distinct piles of metals heaped upon the grass. I looked, hard, at the Two Westmoorland Star trailers. The gleaming, 'this years' Mercedes trucks ..... I figured Ron knew his shit That was the day I started whacking three pin plugs with a lump hammer. Putting all the pins, screws and fuse clips in a bucket. The day I pushed a hand cart of 'Scrap' to the yard. Weighed that in. Then put my bucket of brass on the scales ...? Ron seriously knew his shit!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Strong Stuff 2,171 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Blow torch and pliers. That should stop the nosey Jock asking any more questions!!!! Seriously though, plug on it's back in a vice, quick directed blast, pull the pin out.Won't take much longer than tw@tting them and running around after the fragments! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,589 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 (edited) Edited March 5, 2013 by TOMO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Strong Stuff 2,171 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Yep it's amazing how much you can collect, in a short space of time,,,, I used to work at a engineering firm,, drove the forklift as well as doing deliveries, in a wagon,,anyhow,, we used to collect the turnings out of variouse lathes and milling machines,, and it was always put in separate skips and barrels,,, . The barrel that contained fosreouse bronze,, brass,, was always, 3/4 full,,,, cos the top 1/4 always came home..... Who's that at the door mate ............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 collect them all in a 40 gallon drum along with plastic coated wire, when its half full add holes and a liberal sprinkling of diesel, a box of matches, warm your hands on the nice blue flames and bobs your uncle Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Blow torch and pliers. Seriously though, plug on it's back in a vice, quick directed blast, pull the pin out. Won't take much longer than tw@tting them and running around after the fragments! Sounds like a plan, actually. Something I could do in my shed ..... collect them all in a 40 gallon drum along with plastic coated wire, when its half full add holes and a liberal sprinkling of diesel, a box of matches, warm your hands on the nice blue flames and bobs your uncle Those days are long gone Try that round here now? Govt. f**king helicopter lands and there's some twat going " Now; Give me money! " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted March 5, 2013 Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 Blow torch and pliers. Seriously though, plug on it's back in a vice, quick directed blast, pull the pin out. Won't take much longer than tw@tting them and running around after the fragments! Sounds like a plan, actually. Something I could do in my shed ..... >collect them all in a 40 gallon drum along with plastic coated wire, when its half full add holes and a liberal sprinkling of diesel, a box of matches, warm your hands on the nice blue flames and bobs your uncle Those days are long gone Try that round here now? Govt. f**king helicopter lands and there's some twat going " Now; Give me money! " i forget i live in the village that time forgot :laugh: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2013 i forget i live in the village that time forgot :laugh: (Notice how I've even managed to learn how to selectively Quote now? IanB notices me and you'd better watch out for your job, mate! ) It's all f****d up. If I want to burn old tires in my stove? That's fine! Smoke's pouring out of a domestic chimney? No worries. Take a bucket of plugs a few yards from my domicile and set light to them? Even some old paper? Black helicopter time! Thing is, I simply don't want my living room stove gunked up with melted rubber Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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