Scrap Metal~Fie Dream

DrunkenAnt Desu~

Ever since I saw a Dollfie Dream for the first time I fell in love and just had to have one. However after seeing the price tag for some of them were $500+ the hope of getting my hands on one went slim.

Image from http://www.wolfheinrich.com

Dollfies are a Japanese made Ball-Jointed Doll made by the company Volks. The dolls are Highly Pose-able and Customize-able. Customizing her hair, outfit, face and eyes as you wish (Or as much money your wallet has.)

For me dropping $500+ for a doll is a bit much. I'm saving most of my pay check for my sister's college and buying other hobby items every month. Not wanting to give up any of them I started to collect scrap metal while at work.

I work in a plumbing wholesale warehouse that deals with wholesaling pipe and fittings. PVC, copper, cast iron and water heaters are what we deal with the most. My job was originally to deal with shipping products out via the company truck that I drive.   
Now I deal with less deliveries and more sales.

We let our customers use our big dumper and yard to drop off their unwanted trash and water heaters out of their trucks and or work vans.

I noticed that there were some pieces of copper and brass in the dumpster, and copper still left on the water heaters

Copper Pipe and Brass Pressure Release Valve

At times we have people drop off their unwanted heaters and random guys come to pick up the heaters for scrap metal. Who ever gets it first gets to scrap it. After talking to a few of the scrap guys I found out they get about $10-$15 a heater.

I had no way of keeping and transporting the heaters but I was able to take the copper and brass off the heaters and whatever I could find in the dumpsters.

If I was lucky I would find a nice long piece of copper like the image above. Most of the time the heaters had nothing on them or a very short piece.

There were times when I saw some copper but was too busy with other work to collect it right away, than when I came back It was gone... another scraper had gotten to it first.

At first i just kept it all in a small box on my workbench.
When I got more I went ahead and went to the scrap yard when I had a delivery to do since it was on the way~

That junk to the bottom right isn't mine... It was there when I got there.

I backed my truck up to the scale and unloaded my metals I wanted to scrap.
(I was delivering water 4 heaters )

Wow~ What a mess...

I ended up with 2 boxes of copper and 2 boxes of brass.
The boxes of copper are on the bottom scale and the boxes of brass or on that top scale.
I also had that white back of aluminum cans, I wasn't that ambitious on collecting the cans but it was a good 10 pounds~

-102 Pounds of Brass
-88 Pounds of Copper
-10 Pounds of Aluminum cans

Brass going for $1.05 a pound
Copper at $2.65 a pound
Aluminum cans at $0.45 a pound

The prices are always changing and as of now copper prices are high. It was the best time to go and trade in my copper.

Now with a nice $344.80 buying a Dollfie Dream won't be too bad~
I'll put my order in for her very very soon~

~DrunkenAnt

Esquine Forêt (Scrapping Maid) At my Side~
From the deck building game "Tanto Cuore"