It is not all that funny when the taxpayers are picking up the tab and the
"owners" are getting off free.
Ralph Salerno
REPLY
I can't help but wonder what the old hulls can be recycled as. Maybe they
can be chopped into pellets for use as as an aggregate mix in road beds,
cement blocks, or similar construction material. Back in Toronto I recall
seeing how they recycle old pavement. One way is to pelletize the broken
asphalt then mix that into fresh asphalt and the other way is with a
continuous reform machine. Tires have been pelletized for road bed
material.
I knew a plastics engineer who invented the first process for recycling
the perspex canopies from war surplus aircraft. He did that shortly after
WW2 at a time when everybody was complaining about all the solid waste
resulting from scrapping so much war surplus material.
So why not recycle old boats? Many of them were fitted with real bronze
fittings. They had lead or cast iron keel ballast. With so many people
complaining of being out of work, surely some of them must be located
close to where the old boats are being scrapped. After the hulls have
been stripped of all metals etc. the hulls can be ground up in a
pelletizer machine. The few used boat equipment places that I know of,
seem to do okay business wise.
Look at how often someone is asking the list if they know of a place to
source a fitting from an older model boat. If the boat salvage guys listed
all their used fittings and equipment on something like eBay, they would
be providing national access for the market place.
Arild
> It is not all that funny when the taxpayers are picking up the tab and the
> "owners" are getting off free.
>
> Ralph Salerno
REPLY
I can't help but wonder what the old hulls can be recycled as. Maybe they
can be chopped into pellets for use as as an aggregate mix in road beds,
cement blocks, or similar construction material. Back in Toronto I recall
seeing how they recycle old pavement. One way is to pelletize the broken
asphalt then mix that into fresh asphalt and the other way is with a
continuous reform machine. Tires have been pelletized for road bed
material.
I knew a plastics engineer who invented the first process for recycling
the perspex canopies from war surplus aircraft. He did that shortly after
WW2 at a time when everybody was complaining about all the solid waste
resulting from scrapping so much war surplus material.
So why not recycle old boats? Many of them were fitted with real bronze
fittings. They had lead or cast iron keel ballast. With so many people
complaining of being out of work, surely some of them must be located
close to where the old boats are being scrapped. After the hulls have
been stripped of all metals etc. the hulls can be ground up in a
pelletizer machine. The few used boat equipment places that I know of,
seem to do okay business wise.
Look at how often someone is asking the list if they know of a place to
source a fitting from an older model boat. If the boat salvage guys listed
all their used fittings and equipment on something like eBay, they would
be providing national access for the market place.
Arild
