<div dir="ltr">On intrinsic values: fondness aside for the "king of drinks," as RL Stevenson would have it, the pages of a tattered and well thumbed copy of Architectural Graphic Standards (8th Edition), which was my closest brush with formal training in the subject, are approximately 9 1/2" X 11" X 1 1/2" thick. If that represents one board foot of pulpwood, it should be worth about fifty cents. to me, like a fifth of Talisker, "priceless."<div>
<br></div><div>AA</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM, RT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:archilogic@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">archilogic@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:51:49 -0400, Grace Alden <<a href="mailto:speireag@gmail.com" target="_blank">speireag@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2013/09/01, at 19:37, Topher wrote:<br>
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Scrap copper is currently around $2.50 / pound around here. That might<br>
give you a basis for pricing the tank.<br>
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30 gallons is a lot of thermal mass if you were to use it as a radiator;<br>
it might well over heat the bathroom.<br>
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True. The bathroom idea is probably unworkable. But I can think of a few such applications which might work.<br>
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My guess is that a scalpel blade contains less than a bucks-worth of steel in terms of scrap value but in the hands of a surgeon it could save a life and as such, it'd be priceless.<br>
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A copper tank built to withstand pressurised boiling water is IMO worth far more than its scrap value.<br>
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What if that 30 gallon boiler were used as a still to make single malt whiskey ? 30 gallons of single malt at a conservative price of $40 per 70 cl ? About $7,000. (To AA-Man, he'd probably say "priceless". Me ? I'm a tea-totaler.)<br>
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If I were selling that copper tank, I wouldn't give it away for $200.<br>
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