I should add that for the time being, scrap metals are at fairly low levels. I got 43-cents per pound for my aluminum cans back in June, but I hear that they’re down to about 25-cents per pound now. If the scrap metal prices stay down, we should be able to compete less with the “scrappers” to buy our vintage sewing machines.
Back a few years ago, when the price of scrap metals was up, I know that I competed with a scrapper at a farm auction for a Singer treadle base that I won the bid on. He was buying anything metal, and bidding high for it....
CD in Oklahoma