On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 12:09:59 AM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote in rec.crafts.metalworking:
Gunner Asch on Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:49:16 -0800
> typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
> >>This is for a small 1-2 pounder, so the danger factor is low. I've busted
> >>sledgehammer handles before by missing, and seen taped up, split handles
> >>which is even more scary.
> >
> >I was fortunate and happened to be in a store that was closing..and I
> >bought for very very very little money..about 40 hammer handles. From
> >small ball pein through claw, through hatchet through sledge hammer
> >handles. A guy had come in before me..sneered at the wooden handles
> >and bought up all the fiberglass ones. I think he got 5 handles for
> >$40..I got 40 for $25. Ive given handles to all of my friends, picked
> >up hammer and ax heads at yard sales for pennies and I still have 2
> >drawers full of handles (Grin)
> >One of my better investments. My wife looked at me chortling like a
> >bandit when we went out to the truck with my big box of handles...and
> >asked me "what the FUCK are you going do with all those handles?!!"
> >
> >When I bought her a TV for her bedroom with the proceeds from some of
> >the refitted axes and hammers...she suddenly realized I might..might
> >know what Im doing.
>
>
>
> Dumpster diving for fun and profit.
>
> "Malone called Luce in 2006 after stumbling upon a huge find in the
> parking lot of Discount Electronics, a local Austin chain. The store
> was clearing out its warehouse and had hauled everything to the
> parking lot of its main store on Anderson Lane. Malone focused on the
> 40 prototypes of Dell's newest high-end desktop computer, which
> Discount Electronics had contracted to test. He was still loading them
> when Luce showed up and walked right past the computers to the photo
> paper and toner. "Coulter taught me to stop going after the big prize
> and get the consumables," Malone says. People aren't going to need new
> printers that often, but they constantly need paper and toner."
>
> There it is. The way to make money is to sell the supplies to the
> gold miners.
>
> (Mys SO was appalled to learn that in some cases, it is cheaper to
> buy a new printer than replace the ink cartridges. Heck, the Pixma
> MP500 is $54 to refill at Costco.)
Forget the business side, I'm still wondering why the pizza slices at their food court are so good (for so little).