Lysmachia

Yeah I thought that the cat clamp might cause the thieves to just go ahead and cut it out further up. So far not many problems here in Colorado.

Oh and ~tc~ is a metallurgist. I'll lean over the couch and ask him about separating the metals yourself.. LOL

mt_goat

You're pissin, there is no way you can seperate those metals out cost effectively.

If you're wanting to keep the cat shell I think there are people that will buy just the guts but you might not get as much that way because the different cats have different guts and they might not be able to ID the guts as well.

tc

Not sure exactly what the pellets are in a cat - I know palladium is what's in there that's valuable, but not sure if it's combined with something or not.

Regardless, you don't have the means to generate the heat required to melt significant amounts of metal - especially high melting point materials like palladium.

Oh, and if you don't have a chemistry lab, you're not going to get much more from a scrappy without them knowing the exact purity. At least if you bring in the cat, they know exactly what they're getting.

RRIND

Ok alright, it was just a thought, I'm probably gonna take it off and swap it out for an aftermarket anyway, before it gets stolen anyway. The one thing I don't want and can't really afford right now is to be replacing the whole enchilada like my buddy, he ended up replacing not only the exhaust from the headers back but the O2 sensor too.

Thanks again for the input.

RRIND

artofliphkd

went to work. went on my break. saw the pipes hanging and knew right away.
and the funny thing is that it happened in broad daylight. in a parking lot at the theatre! how can no-one see that? ! hahaha damn it i need to save up for one now.. and im poor. lol

mpavolka

My brothers cat got stolen on friday off his 95 4Runner during a high school basketball game! I told him when he is downtown he needs to start parking in a puddle or over mud... make them work for it.

Dare44

hook and aux. battery cable to the pipes, so when u shut ur truck off it runs electricity down the pipe. i dont think i would touch that pipe twice

904_runner

I never heard of people stealing them before! Id sure be pissed! But if i wake up to find a pair of legs under my truck! Ill make sure that guy won't ever be there again.

BTW i like the writing on the cat with sharpie idea! lol

mpavolka

I think I am going to spot weld my brother's next time I am home. He got a new one wholesale and it was still expensive.

artofliphkd

haha

4xJedi

That won't help when they're cutting them off.

DeathCougar

iTrader: (23)

Pallidium and Platinum are the big money makers in Cats, at thousands per troy ounce.

They also contain a small amount of Rhodium, but im not sure they bother taking that out.

DeathCougar

iTrader: (23)

BTW As of right now, Platinum is worth $2240/Ounce, Pallidium is $578/Ounce, and Rhodium is $9085/ounce.

Yes you read that right, Rhodium is almost ten THOUSAND dollars per ounce. Feb 2 it was $7000/ounce, so its jumped almost $3000 in a month. Wow.

Lysmachia

Crap. thanks Death Couger. Now the tweakers really are gonna start combing the back woods of colorado. It will be like a 2 FOR 1 BUFFET at the HOW (House of wrenching) with 2 93 Runners... Dammit!

904_runner

Same here! We got two yotas at my house, and my neighbor has oneacross the street! But we all own guns!

DeathCougar

iTrader: (23)

Dont thank ol Deathy, thank your friendly neighborhood Government, who allow the unrestricted sale of itmes like Copper, Cats, and other high dollar metals.

904_runner

Yea its just a matter of time before someone breaks in and steals all our copper wireing and pipes! I almost forgot, we have pit bulls!

yep, thanks government! NOT!!!

mudtoy1986

well i work in a junk yard and jap and euros cats go in excess of about 75 to 250$ all depending as to how big your cat is i would say a toyota cat is around 100 to 125$

Lysmachia

So what cat gets $250?!?! And I thought only scrap yards can buy them, and melt em down. I thought Junkyards are restricted from dealing them.. or is that just a CA state law?

Oh and if they come this weekend toour house the'll have like 20 yota's to go after!

House Of Wrenching... wrench-a-thon!

RRIND

I was at work the yesterday, when we got a call for a unconscious / unknown, person bleeding, so we roll on this call and it's at a well known tweakers house, been there a few times before. We roll up and he's sitting on the ground in his front yard with a huge laceration on his head and a compound mid-shaft ulna / radius fracture to his right arm.

So I start working on him and he's out of it, times zero can't speak, nada, nothing, so I ask P.D. what happened, they told me he got his ass beat with a 34 Easton by that big dude over there for stealing catalytic converters.

I looked over and there is this huge monster of a dude, I definitely wouldn't have messed with on my best day. Anyhow, P.D. was over chatting it up him buying his self defense plea, I think only because it was the tweakers own bat that he got his ass beat with and the huge dude had a bruise welling up on his right thigh.

After that, I kinda chuckled and said "Oh well" and then looked over at my partner and said jokingly while workin' this dude "hey, maybe your exhaust and cat are in that pile back there". If we didn't have to scoop and run with this idiot, I guarantee my partner would of been diggin' through the pile of cats and exhausts.

Anyhow, just goes to show you, once in a great while, there is sometimes a little justice in the world.

RRIND

P.S. Had to omit a few parts for privacy and legal issues, but I can tell you one thing, that's one tweaker that will be walking around with a few long term deficits from a good ass beatin'.