What Should I Look Out For?

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I work in an industrial food processing plant and have access to lots(!) of steel. Everything from bearings to conveyors to industrial robots to file cabinets... Whenever I go to the 'boneyard' (which is easily many millions of dollars of scrap) I get overwhelmed... Yesterday I saw a bin with hundreds of boxes labelled Temkin. When I opened one it had a new taper bearing in it. I can't imagine that this stuff is useless. One really neat find was 2 blocks of steel that had '1000 lbs' labled on them, i know they are for calibrating the truck scale but damn it if they ain't sittin there in the elements like everything else. Anyway what should I really keep an eye out for? Those weights would make incredible anvils... Im lost...
 
What a place to be lost!!!!!!!!!!!:jerkit: :cool:

Now to the boxes labeled Timken. Timken bearings (the steel the bearing itself is made from) that steel will be of a good enoungh quality to make knives from.
As to the exact make-up of the steel, Timken may be able to shed some light if you email them with the product #.
This is from the Timken site:
http://www.timken.com/en-us/products/Steel/Pages/default.aspx

A place like that kind of makes you feel like a kid in a cookie factory, just make sure you got clearance to have "your hand in the cookie jar", otherwise it's not worth losing your job over! Oh and happy hunting!:D

Most componets that come into contact with food will more than likely, be high quality Stainless steel.
 
Thanks for the correction in spelling Timken. Normally my posts are more accurate Im having a hell of a time with my ps3s browser... please forgive me. Standard in my findings are thousands of motor gears along with hundreds of pounds of motorcycle/chainsaw type chains. Its takingg ALOT of time to type this otherwise id explain more... As for thebearings so far what i have found looks too hard to dismantle... When I have asked the head engineer for clearance there has been no probs at all in terms of taking stuff . Im sure if you knew who i worked for youd see why they have the $ to waste... iets just say you no doubt have some of our product in your fridge. ;)
 
If they have the money or not does not matter. Get caught and it is stealing, plain and simple. You will most likely get fired and possibly go to jail. Not worth it if you ask me. Spend your own money, stay out of jail.

Or talk to whoever is in charge of ordering the stuff, pay them to order some extra and you get it at their cost which odds are is a lot cheaper than you will get it just being an individual and not a major corporation. Or see if you can buy some of it. You get a felony theft charge and good luck getting any kind of job that is worth getting up for.
 
your advice does not fall on deaf ears i assure you! :) My main concern however is what to keep an eye out for. I wouldn't dream of taking without permission as both myself and my wife are employed there. As it is they have purchased many SOG Powerlock multytools on my recommendation (my wife and I edc these) as do a number of thankful colleagues. It so happens that because of a relatively recent acquisition there is a large swelling in available 'scrap'.
 
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