GLOW PLUG RECYCLE PROGRAM , it figures
06-25-2011, 03:22 PM
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RE: GLOW PLUG RECYCLE PROGRAM , it figures
They are recycling the Platinum coil, Platinum is a rare precious metal. I clean my "worn "plugs in alcohol and then soak them in jewelery cleaner for gold. I get almost another half life out of the plugs once again. Essentially, I'm cleaning all of the carbon and burned residue off the platinum coil and allowing it to be exposed to the alcohol vapors and they work again.
06-25-2011, 07:28 PM
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Yes if we didn;t have to mail them back to Japan it would be worthwhile. Maybe a more local company will want to do it here too.
06-26-2011, 10:19 AM
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OK so if I've figured the return point value correctly it will take me about 30 years to get enough credit for a new plug.
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06-26-2011, 02:49 PM
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RE: GLOW PLUG RECYCLE PROGRAM , it figures
If you notice, they give you more credit for the #6 VS the #3's. The #6 plugs contain a higher percentage rhodium, that stuff is about $2000 a Troy ounce. Back in 2008 it hit $10,000 an ounce during a frenzy.
06-27-2011, 05:05 AM
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A few years ago I was vacationing in Cape Cod and, making a long story short, I would up sharing a lunch table one day with a young man who made his living salvaging rare metals. He said there would be a good deal of money to be made by recycling glow plugs. He wasn't even remotely interested in RC stuff, but he was well aware of the platinum that is in the plugs.
The only problem is, they are only worth something when in quantity. So he suggested that all hobby shops should have a bucket that you could throw your old plugs in and someone like him could come around and pay the shop owner for them.
But I told him that the chances of actually getting something like that going were slim.
The only problem is, they are only worth something when in quantity. So he suggested that all hobby shops should have a bucket that you could throw your old plugs in and someone like him could come around and pay the shop owner for them.
But I told him that the chances of actually getting something like that going were slim.
06-27-2011, 06:12 AM
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A few years ago I was vacationing in Cape Cod and, making a long story short, I would up sharing a lunch table one day with a young man who made his living salvaging rare metals. He said there would be a good deal of money to be made by recycling glow plugs. He wasn't even remotely interested in RC stuff, but he was well aware of the platinum that is in the plugs.
The only problem is, they are only worth something when in quantity. So he suggested that all hobby shops should have a bucket that you could throw your old plugs in and someone like him could come around and pay the shop owner for them.
But I told him that the chances of actually getting something like that going were slim.
A few years ago I was vacationing in Cape Cod and, making a long story short, I would up sharing a lunch table one day with a young man who made his living salvaging rare metals. He said there would be a good deal of money to be made by recycling glow plugs. He wasn't even remotely interested in RC stuff, but he was well aware of the platinum that is in the plugs.
The only problem is, they are only worth something when in quantity. So he suggested that all hobby shops should have a bucket that you could throw your old plugs in and someone like him could come around and pay the shop owner for them.
But I told him that the chances of actually getting something like that going were slim.
06-27-2011, 12:13 PM
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RE: GLOW PLUG RECYCLE PROGRAM , it figures
LOL all my plugs have the coil burned up after one flight. maybe i am pushing my engines to hard lol i have been saving my plugs for about three years now and have about 2-300 plugs maybe in an after noon i could get the coils out and get 50 bucks.
