Been meaning to tell you this, cuz I think it is in your area of expertise. A most interesting fellow at our last meeting was talking about steel. I get the sense he is in to steam, because he was talking about building high pressure boilers.
He said that right now, the best steel is coming from China, but the best parts are made here; they don't do a good job of value added.
He said that the best source of steel might turn out to be 1940-60's old cars. Up here, that is a tremendous resource; typically a car gets driven til it dies, and then becomes something or nothing. In my case, a '70 van is a storage shed and the Corvair van that the first owners were able to drive up to their land and no further, became Fort Sloppy Jalopy. My ex abandoned her '71 van, but she had removed the block, to use in another van. Hippies like vans. She used my van for parts, too, so the engine lacks a carb and other stuff, but the engine is still there, and no, I am not going to fix it up. Damn good car, tho. Every once in a while, I talk with my son about using his trailer to haul off her van; think I'll bag that idea, just in case. There are cars all over the hills.
It occurred to me too late to mention that a lot of those cars might still have functioning generators, to use for home made wind and hydro set-ups Just look thru some old
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