Profitable Outlets for Motor-trade Waste
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ARE there really remunerative outlets for motor-trade waste materials? Actually, there are many fields in which motor-trade waste can be exploited, and, although it is not a paying proposition to attempt to dispose of small quantities, when carried out on a large scale, nearly all the outlets ordinarily encountered prove to be profitable.• Motor traders and operators in the larger towns might, therefore, combine, so that each may share in the proceeds from what would otherwise be thrown away.
The toy manufacturer and especially the maker of fancy goods is interested in purchasing broken window glass. When the material is much cracked, and is in exceedingly small pieces, it is well worth while to allow it to accumulate until there is a substantial parcel, when one of the smaller glass concerns may buy it for remelting.
Obsolete . pistOns, connecting rods, etc., are often thrown away, or parted with at a nominal price to scrap-metal merchants. Model engineers are, it should be remembered, . interested in purchasing these components, and, although they may be too large in the first place, the, buyers will cut them down to the required dimensions. It is possible to get into touch with model engineers through the numerous periodicals which -are published in tho interests of boys. .
There is supposed to he no market for old engine parts. Many of these are, undoubtedly, relatively, useless, yet with modern processes of electrometallic deposition, worn components could often be brought into service again, provided that plant be avail
able for treating them in quantity. The model engineer and the experimental engineer will also buy them.
Motor traders make a mistake in giving away, .and, hi some instances, actually throwing away, old motor tyres. A great deal of the rubber, although it appears to be perished, is still usable. By subjecting it to one of the recovery processes, it can again be turned to account by industries manufacturing cheap rubber products. Prior to sale, as much as possible of the textile portion should be removed.
Special mention may next be made of outlets for waste grease and oils. The more fluid types can generally be purified by .careful filtration. The waste grease sometimes requires to be melted. There is an outlet for used' grease and ,oil in the production of firelighter bricks, blocks, etc. There are concerns engaged in this class of business in almost every town of moderate size.
How to Sell Worn Fabric.
Badly worn textile fabrics are sup-. posed to he difficult to sell. Actually,' however, if taken in groups, there, are several openings available. Wool tea-. tiles can be charred, along with potash and iron filings, for the production of
lerro and ferri-cyanides. .
Cotton textiles may be allowed to accumulate, anti then . subjected to mechanical tearing, so as to enable. them to be utilized as one of the raw, materials in 'the production of cheap paper, paperboard, and .50 .forth. Some soluble cellulose can also .he prepared from this class of textile waste, by treating it with a cellulose solvent,