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Aspiring millionaire scrap dealer, needs direction before ordering new Ferrari

My query is loosely aligned with your usual subject matter, my surfing skills are a little below par, so I consider it a small miracle to have landed somewhere near a mark. Bearing all that dribble in mind my grand plan is......to use a caustic bath that I had as a parts cleaner for my mechanical shop in perth Australia to plonk all my irony scrap in for , how ever long & bingo ! the alloy goes into the caustic solution the ferrous metal collects on the bottom of the tank I extract the alloy from the solution (need a bit of help with that one ). What I am looking for is ,1 slight maybe to facilitate the Ferrari deal, or 2 a total poo poo , get lost you idiot ,don't you think someone would have done it before if it was that simple you moron, type of thing where upon I might hold on the ferrari and sink some cash into the 78 F100 or maybe even just some soapy water and a sponge . Cheers

Simon James McNab
Carbusters , automotive scrap recovery & recycling - Perth, Western Australia
2006

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The answer to your question, I believe, is: "the devil is in the details". If your scrap metal were gold and platinum heirloom watches it could be very practical to process the metal into valuable pure precious metals; if your scrap metal is automotive scrap steel, it probably isn't practical to chemically treat it for recovery. There may be a recovery technology for a very specific item that no one has developed yet; but there will not be a magic recovery technology for mixed metal scrap.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2006