MTFCA Forum

Have you heard about this. The ships from WW2 disappearing from sea bed? Seems there is a big demand for “Low Background Steel “.
Means Model T just went up in value. My place is covered in it!!!!!! NICE.

Yea anything made before the nuclear testing and or bombs went off supposedly has higher scrap value than regular steel for use in manufacturing medical equipment and some test equipment regarding radiation. But i have yet to ever see a scrap yard test or check metal. I guess you would use a gieger counter?

Isn’t some vanadium a product of uranium mining? I know it’s a rare earth produced out of China and Russia. The biggest known deposit in this country was probably Model T Haven

Wow! I guess there are cameras everywhere! Even at the bottom of the oceans.

Google WW2 shipwrecks disappearing. You will find that entire large ships are disappearing off the bottom of the ocean. If it pays to do that our prewar cars should be worth more.

If your car is worth less than the scrap price, then yes, the value could go up.

Thinking a little more on this, the value will increase, but for the wrong reasons. If scrap prices exceed the market value of whole cars and parts, well, we know what happens next.

tdump wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 20, 2023 3:11 pm

But i have yet to ever see a scrap yard test or check metal. I guess you would use a gieger counter?

Mack, I've been in two steel mills during scrap remelt. I've seen them pull samples from the molten steel and test for radiation before further processing. I didn't ask what they do with the melt if they find radiation. But, they said they cannot sell it.

Depending on the sunken ships site, it may well be a grave site. Especially if it was a ship of war being salvaged for the metal.

Grave robing is alive and well on the high seas.

Google it and you will see that it is WAR SHIPS. Both Allied and Jap.