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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1164989, member: 66"]There seems to be some kind of idea that if they didn't have the no melting law people would be melting them down in their backyard furnaces. There are plenty of business that deal in scrap metal that buy from the public and then ship it off to the commercial smelters by the semi-truck load. That's where the cent and nickel hoards would go and they would then handle the shipping and the commercial smelter would handle the melting. The recycler would buy them because he is gathering enough to make the shipping worth while and the smelter would be getting enough in to make the melting of multi ton lots economical. After all, if you melted it down yourself what are you going to do with it? Sell it to the scrap dealer of course. So why melt it twice when he will buy it in its original form.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1164989, member: 66"]There seems to be some kind of idea that if they didn't have the no melting law people would be melting them down in their backyard furnaces. There are plenty of business that deal in scrap metal that buy from the public and then ship it off to the commercial smelters by the semi-truck load. That's where the cent and nickel hoards would go and they would then handle the shipping and the commercial smelter would handle the melting. The recycler would buy them because he is gathering enough to make the shipping worth while and the smelter would be getting enough in to make the melting of multi ton lots economical. After all, if you melted it down yourself what are you going to do with it? Sell it to the scrap dealer of course. So why melt it twice when he will buy it in its original form.[/QUOTE]
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