Save me from a certificate of destruction!
#1
Posted 07 May 2013 - 19:42
Staballoy machines very nicely, is exceedinly tolerant of harsh environments, specifically oil field down-hole applications - highly corrosion resistant. It has a .2% Yield strength of 140 ksi, UTS of 150 ksi, 18% elongation with 40% reduction and a hardness of 321 HB.
The specific piece I am left with is 33 feet long and 8" in diameter. I can't sell it to anyone that has a typical (IE oilfield) use for it but I can sell it. If I can't find a taker, it must be scrapped and destroyed with pictures showing the material destruction as proof that it won't end up in anyone else's hands.
The size is a tremendous issue - 33 feet doesn't lend itself to easy transport or indoor storage, and it's current location does not have a saw so it will have to moved as-is. This means whomever is going to acquire it should have some compelling yet non-oilfield use for it. I'm looking for possible ideas to pitch to smaller machine shops and the like that may entice them into action. The price is exceedingly flexible as it's only value is it's scrap value which hovers somewhere in the $.30 to $0.40 per pound range. I have proposed an absurdly large flagpole, billet cylinders for those machines with separate cases and cylinders, hubs, crank wheels for engines with multi-piece cranks (ala H-D), English wheel wheels...
If it wouldn't get me divorced and take up so much space, I'd take it home until I figured out what to do with it, but such is the hoarder in me.
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#2
Posted 07 May 2013 - 20:15
#3
Posted 07 May 2013 - 21:20
Try a shipyard, sounds like it would make someone a nice propellor shaft!
#4
Posted 08 May 2013 - 02:31
#5
Posted 08 May 2013 - 02:46
#6
Posted 08 May 2013 - 04:04
#7
Posted 08 May 2013 - 04:15
Couldn't it just be sold? Must be worth a couple of thousand?
#8
Posted 08 May 2013 - 04:26
#9
Posted 08 May 2013 - 06:00
can you wrap it in brown paper and post it to me?
5700 lbs postage from Canada to Australia. How many stamps would you have to lick, I wonder.
Too bad you guys don't work for global automaker. You could just use the company shipping code.
#10
Posted 08 May 2013 - 06:00
Scrap value = approx $2kCouldn't it just be sold? Must be worth a couple of thousand?
#11
Posted 08 May 2013 - 15:11
It's the perfect paradox. If you have the money and the facilities to accommodate / move / unload something this large, you aren't likely to casually use it as a substitute or throw it on the rack "for another day".
I have no idea how they plan to destroy it - curious about that myself.
#12
Posted 08 May 2013 - 17:46
#13
Posted 08 May 2013 - 18:17
Drill it, section it, clamp it around a mandrel, weld it, turn it to the desired OD. It would be interrupted turning on the OD but that's nothing a skilled lathe operator can't handle.