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Thread: India: Scrap metal heaven
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15th Jun 2015, 03:11 AM #1
India: Scrap metal heaven
Tomorrow is my last day in India and I finally have time to write a post.....
I travelled here with a 32kg tool trolley to build some special machinery with an Indian school. We built a large steel table with a 1.2m wide simple sheet metal folder on one end and then a sort of large horizontal axis drum type washer drier for herbal material. I've been flat out collecting the materials all over the place and found scrap metal heaven in Bangalore: a whole city block with nothing but second-hand machinery and metal.
Amazingly good prices and very helpful and friendly people. They'd bend over backwards to help you find what you are looking for. It seems no whit person ever foe there and the whole street stopped, stared and then clapped and laughed when I picked up an end of a length heavy 4"x4"x1/2" angle iron I bought and helped carry it to the cutting 'shop' a few doors away.... I've had a great time!
I'll post more when I get home in about a week.
Cheers, Joe
retired - less energy, more time to contemplate projects and more shed time....
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15th Jun 2015, 03:26 AM #2
Hi Joe,
What a wonderful place to find ! Scrap yard heavenBest Regards:
Baron J.
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15th Jun 2015, 09:02 AM #3Member
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Oh&s
Love the Japanese safety boots on the workers, and the invisible welding goggles on the guy using the cutting torch.
Might be a business opportunity up there opening a safety equipment supply shop?
As you say, a great place for sourcing materials for metal based projects.
Enjoy the rest of your stay,
Alan...Last edited by Uncle Al; 15th Jun 2015 at 09:13 AM. Reason: Minor typo
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15th Jun 2015, 09:14 AM #4Senior Member
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Do they ship internationally? I Wonder what the postage is like?
Peter.
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15th Jun 2015, 12:19 PM #5
Wouldn't our wonderful OH&S have a field day there
Shane
Got the square peg in the round hole, now can't get it out !!
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15th Jun 2015, 01:12 PM #6Diamond Member
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Good on you Joe for trying to make a difference.
Re poking fun at the Indian work practices, don't forget it was little different in the West a generation or 2 ago. Just saying. Nice looking work with the oxy torch.
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15th Jun 2015, 02:09 PM #7
Am I correct in seeing a propane & oxy setup on the blokes cutting torch???
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15th Jun 2015, 04:10 PM #9Most Valued Member
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Thanks for posting Joe!
Looks like your kicking goals with the project.
SimonGirl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that." I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightning babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good.
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15th Jun 2015, 04:21 PM #10
I can only dream of scrap metal like this.
Ratty 05/2004 -05/07/2010 COOPER 01/08/1998-31/01/2012
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15th Jun 2015, 04:27 PM #11
The guy on the Oxy is doing pretty well with his layout to minimize waste as well as the cutting accuracy. Interesting place. Better than shopping malls, and shoe shops
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15th Jun 2015, 10:47 PM #13
yeah it would be good to find somewhere like that round the corner!
Frisky wife, happy life. Then I woke up. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".
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