The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-08-05
Burn OFF Wood
to Get the Metal

Only occasionally can the cushions be saved in
their entirety, but there is often scrap value in
the felt, hair, moss, leather and other material
When everything of value, scrap salvage has
been cleared from the body, a few hammer blows
knock off the body bolts and rivets, and the body
is pushed off. In a specially reconstructed fire
chamber the wood and other useless material is
burned away. Then the sheet steel or aluminium is
put through alligator shear or otherwise cut
into convenient size for SALE
Next the radiator comes off While the Jugs are
being loosened and the tires made ready for re-
moval others of the crew cut the universal joints
and loosen the spring shackles. chain is wrapped
around the motor the subframe freed and the
motor hosted out The motor is trucked to an
elevator which lifts it to the motor room
After the tires removed, the springs I'M
fastened from both front and rear axle and frame,
the frame is ready either for the shear the
torch Almost always these frames in excel
lent physical condition, but for just this reason
no one ever needs to replace one, and they are
valueIess except scrap. Light frames are cut
with the alligator shear while the heavy ones get
the torch In either case, the scrap provides
heavy melting steel
The propeller shaft is left attached to the
rear axle If the springs are to be stocked for
resale, they are thrown in with the heavy melt
ing steel.
All bolts nuts, washers and similar small parts
are saved. They are put up in twenty-pound cans
TO De SOLO 1OF 30 cents. opdTh plugs dIe CoHSStSu
and put on the counter at cents each, and so on.
In the motor department the scrap parts are
carefully assorted. Rubber hose connections are
thrown into pile Aluminium crankcases are
separated from the cast-iron cylinder blocks. The
bronze or brass water pumps are sorted The bah
bitt metal in the bearings is removed for its
somewhat higher scrap value.
Motor Blocks Must Be
Smashed Flat
Inclusion of all low steel parts in scrap for
eastern Pennsylvania furnaces has been of sufi-
Gent volume to compel meters to watch their
purchases, and considerable attention is being Civ
en- to the rising tide of automobile scrap. Most
foundries object to receiving entire motor blocks
and frequent reflections occur. The situation is
remedied by first smashing the heavy blocks into
fiat pieces
If million cars were scrapped last year, as one
estimate puts it, about 100000 tons of scrap, the
bulk of 1t iron, yielded
Most of the passenger cars being strapped now
range between the 1918 to 1922 models, inclusive.
1t Is rare that earlier than 1918 makes
an appearance Those from 1918 to 1920
usually the higher priced ones into which the
makers naturally have built more life and durabil-
ity than in cheaper cars. Many low-priced cars
Of 1922, and occasionally some as young as 1924
are junked.
It is true of almost every car of not too an
Client origin that it has considerable potential
service left in it, but the cost of rehabilitation
is too high when new car prices are considered.
Our last two years Of prosperity have been re-
sponsble, too, for the flood of cars into the
stream flowing toward the wrecking yards Almost
everyone would rather possess bright, mechani-
caly perfect automobile than used one if by any
means he can afford it. And with the popularizing
Of the installment plan Of purchase, almost every
one can at least bring into his possession if only
temporarily this bright. new by making
down payment it of almost less actual cash
than would be demanded for used car. So he
buys the new car. trusting that he will be able
TO continue to meet the payments, and con-
sequently the used car he might have purchased
gets the impetus which finally lands it, often pre
maturely, in the "auto graveyard"