Is it that difficult to write "Chinese" correctly? On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> There is a steel mill up the coast a bit in a little town that has been > open/closed off an on. It closed again a year or two ago, talk about > opening it again, but I don't think the numbers can work. Plus the little > harbor is silting up and it would cost a lot to dredge it out to get some > reasonable ships in there as they used to. I think they were making some > sort of specialty product, I forget, but they said foreign competition > (mostly chinee) was killing them. > > --R > > > > On 10/11/17 11:25 PM, clay monroe via Mercedes wrote: > >> In disputing value of the SD, insco claimed it was worth $350 scrap. But >> I called a number of local yards as the best I could get for two tons of >> car was $70. That scrap price is much less than the coparts price. Makes >> me think the plan was to sell Allen on with the hope it would bring very >> close to the payout. Had the car actually gone to a PnP, it would have >> been offered as a rebuilder, which would be priced close to $1800. >> >> The time is coming for the shuttered steel plants in Amreeka to be fired >> back up. Anybody recall the current stories about the steel out of asia >> that had QC data falsified? Do we trust our weapons systems to chinese >> metal? >> >> clay >> >> On Oct 11, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> The chinee steel market is way down. >>> >>> --R >>> >>> >>> On 10/11/17 2:45 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >>> >>>> I got $150 in 2009 for a stripped but rusty 300TD. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < >>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Wow scrap is way down. I used to get $200 for a hulk sometimes as high >>>>> as >>>>> $400 >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 11, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < >>>>>> >>>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I deconstructed the 86 420SEL and pulled most everything of any value >>>>>> >>>>> off it (and probably a bunch of stuff that isn’t) and took it to the >>>>> scrapyard today. Got $78.20 for the hulk. I have the window sticker, >>>>> cost >>>>> was $50,950 including $1050 gas guzzler tax. That was a lot of money 31 >>>>> years ago. >>>>> >>>>>> <image1.jpeg> >>>>>> >>>>>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
