Thats miserable!

John
On Jun 4, 2016 11:34, "Stephen Grisanti" <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Or you could do what some lowlife did, get yourself a cordless sawzall or
> cutoff wheel and apply it to the exhaust system of my neighbor's Honda
> Pilot and my Westy while they were parked in their respective slots behind
> our houses.  They actually got away with his converter while only
> destroying my J-pipe.  There was a rash of these thefts around here several
> years ago.
>
> Stephen
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>
> On Saturday, June 4, 2016 12:05 PM, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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>
> Cruised Youtube this morning and stumbled over this. Platinum mining on the
> side of the road.
>
> https://youtu.be/v5GPWJPLcHg
>
> All of us carry platinum in  our vans catalytic converters. This shows how
> the stuff winds up on the roads, and can actually be recovered by those
> interested enough to pursue it. I have worked with precious metals in the
> past by way of jewelry, and I can tell you, jewelers go to great lengths to
> recover gold and platinum. They even have filters that collect the dust off
> of a polishing wheel, refine it, and extract the precious metals "flour"
> that comes off jewelry when its being polished. I have right now a coffee
> can full of gold and platinum flour-bearing dust collected from a polishing
> wheel.
>
> When you consider the price of platnum, and the number of cars on the road,
> and how many miles driven by the American public, it makes you want to get
> out with broom and dustpan in hand and start sweeping the highways.
>
> Similar things are done in Alaska. The corregated aluminum culvert pipes
> under the roads and else where act like sluice or riffle boxes and settle
> gold out of the runoff waters. People mine this and often find enough gold
> to at least pay for their trip to Alaska.
>
> At the price of platinum today, for the ambitious this could be a way to
> pick up some extra shekels. 'Course you would have to learn a bit of
> chemistry, and get a jewelry burn out oven. But even so, it could be fun
> and financially rewarding.
>
> So (Vanagon content) load the old vanagon with brooms and dust pans, and
> your sweeping crew, and make it out to your favorite highway spot for a bit
> of sweeping. You might learn something about materials, chemistry, and
> precious metals, if nothing else, and, you might make some bucks!
>
> John
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