9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
6:53 a.m.
At 08:02 PM 8/8/01 +0100, you wrote:
Do you honestly think that the average garbage dump is even close to
being an anti-static environment?
Actually yes. All the ones that I've seen are dripping with
moisture. Besides the fact that cases, garbage, newspaper and the like
holds moisture extremely well, they also spray the area with water to keep
down the dust that's stirred up by the heavy trucks and other
machinery. Everything so damp that I don't expect that steel and the
like would last very long there. I expect static would be the least of
the problems with anything gathered from a dump!
Joe
Coins have value even to idiots, where old chips can
reach a point
where typical people will decide there value is less than storage
cost and into the trash it goes.
But that does not destroy them, just more difficult to locate. -tony