kennySRi
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Im needing to weigh a shell in and have given up trying to find a trailor to borrow so the plan is to get the grinder out 
The car is fully stripped anyway, just the bare shell left. Thinking of cutting the roof and then the strut areas and ending up with the car in about 6 pieces. Has anyone done this? Do i just take it down to weighbridge as normal? Im hoping that all the other metal i have i can put in plastic crates and empty them once im there, do i just pull up and chuck the metal on the pile (after being weighed obviously)?
I've taken loads of cars to get weighed but never smaller parts. Any info would be great, hopefully it'll be just as easy as normal 
[Edited on 06-01-2012 by kennySRi]
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Generation
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Get somebody to collect ?
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kennySRi
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I probably have half a tonne of metal so may aswell make a few quid whilst im at it 
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Graham88
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You'll need a very manly angle grinder or you'll eat through discs
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jay26
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It's just the same did one at the start of the week
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kennySRi
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quote:
Originally posted by Graham88
You'll need a very manly angle grinder or you'll eat through discs
Il be using a still saw and will have the correct disc so i cant see it eating them that quick, at a quick glance it looks simple enough but i may regret thinking that 
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kennySRi
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Originally posted by jay26
It's just the same did one at the start of the week
That's what i wanted to hear. Didnt know if they didnt allow it or they were shifty about a random person just dumping metal onto the pile 
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Graham88
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quote:
Originally posted by kennySRi
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Originally posted by Graham88
You'll need a very manly angle grinder or you'll eat through discs
Il be using a still saw and will have the correct disc so i cant see it eating them that quick, at a quick glance it looks simple enough but i may regret thinking that
I just remember a couple of years ago I couldn't find anyone to pick a car I'd stripped and it was right in the way, so I thought I'd try and cut it up with a little angle grinder, used a disc just doing the B pillar and only had 3 more
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RichR
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they came and collected my shell, Free of Charge and gave me £140. Not worth the effort to do it yourself
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3CorsaMeal
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hold it to your ear first and you can hear the sea
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
they came and collected my shell, Free of Charge and gave me £140. Not worth the effort to do it yourself
out of interest, was it a completely bare shell? what car was it?
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Ste
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We use one of these
http://youtu.be/vRDUKQye4tI
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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scottyp1989
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Even with a still saw you will use a couple of disks, when you get to the double/tripple layers, but cutting it up and weighin it in is fine, done 6/7 since november
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jay26
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I only used a 10" grinder, with the same disc I always use
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RichR
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
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Originally posted by LiVe LeE
they came and collected my shell, Free of Charge and gave me £140. Not worth the effort to do it yourself
out of interest, was it a completely bare shell? what car was it?
Corsa, no doors, bonnet, wings, tailgate, bumpers, fuel system, exhaust system, roof rails, half the interior missing, loads of other bits removed too- so not an entirely bare shell but not a complete car by any stretch of the imagination
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DaveyLC
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Unless you've got a big disc-cutter its going to cost you more in little pissy cutting discs than you'll get in scrap money lol 
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dragon2309
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when i had my brocade shell stripped and sitting on the drive way, a company came and picked it up on the back of a truck and gave me £50 for it... I just wanted it out the way so money for it was a right bonus, would have paiud that much for them to take it tbh if they asked, lol
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Jake
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
they came and collected my shell, Free of Charge and gave me £140. Not worth the effort to do it yourself
140£? how long ago was this
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kennySRi
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I could probably get £50 if they came and picked it up but i suppose this way would be more fun.
Not sure what size of a grinder you guys are using to use so many discs. I'd be looking at a 10" disc i think, il have a go and see what's what. If it doesnt work then il think of a plan B
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Jake
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4inch i reckon
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scottyp1989
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I used 2 x 12" disks when i done mine, sayin that that was on a disco, corsa would probly just be one, id get atleast one spare disk tho
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jay26
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Just use a diamond tipped disc if you have one
[Edited on 06-01-2012 by jay26]
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kennySRi
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quote:
Originally posted by scottyp1989
I used 2 x 12" disks when i done mine, sayin that that was on a disco, corsa would probly just be one, id get atleast one spare disk tho
It's for a nova so im hoping half of it will just fall to bits anyway
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DaveyLC
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quote:
Originally posted by kennySRi
I could probably get £50 if they came and picked it up but i suppose this way would be more fun.
Not sure what size of a grinder you guys are using to use so many discs. I'd be looking at a 10" disc i think, il have a go and see what's what. If it doesnt work then il think of a plan B
Thats a Disc Cutter not a grinder.
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DaveyLC
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quote:
Originally posted by jay26
Just use a diamond tipped disc if you have one
[Edited on 06-01-2012 by jay26]
Now that would be silly.. Diamond discs are for stone.
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