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Ian

Ian

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SHYOLDMAN said:
Lucky I work at tire shop,scored 2 five gallon buckets yesterday
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I used to be the front-end guy at two different major dealerships. Life was good then for getting lead (and no trash or tobacco spit in the bucket), got a bucket every few months until at the last place it would suddenly disappear after it got about half full. Turns out the service manager had a friend who cast bullets, so the weights above one ounce started going in my pocket every time I did a balance job. Manager cornered me on it one day, I told him with a grin that I just started re-using weights to save him money. Not long after, he tried to force me to do an expensive job and falsify it under warranty and I quit on the spot. Been scrounging ever since, and the engineering of effective bullet traps to recycle it has sort of become its own hobby.
 
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SHYOLDMAN

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Ian said:
I used to be the front-end guy at two different major dealerships. Life was good then for getting lead (and no trash or tobacco spit in the bucket), got a bucket every few months until at the last place it would suddenly disappear after it got about half full. Turns out the service manager had a friend who cast bullets, so the weights above one ounce started going in my pocket every time I did a balance job. Manager cornered me on it one day, I told him with a grin that I just started re-using weights to save him money. Not long after, he tried to force me to do an expensive job and falsify it under warranty and I quit on the spot. Been scrounging ever since, and the engineering of effective bullet traps to recycle it has sort of become its own hobby.
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I spent some time in east Texas also, an alignment shop for trucks in Sulpher Springs....That 6 years was the longest century of my life
 
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