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My name is Lenny Bassin.

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I'm the Operations Manager

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for Asner Iron and Metal Company

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in the greater Kansas City
Kansas area.

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This is a scrapyard that's been here

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for in excess of
one hundred and ten years.

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This facility here that
we're looking at

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is where we do all of our processing.

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We are currently on our second edition

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of the Olympus gun.

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I believe this one is two years old,

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we had the previous model
for about four to five years.

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It was still operational,
the first gun.

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The only reason we changed

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was the newer model had an
enhancement of the library.

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They have a fantastic
service department.

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We've had to send it in
under warranty before.

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We get a loner gun so
we're not dead in the water.

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Without the gun I'm not going to say

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the operations would cease,

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but we put a lot off to the side

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until we get that gun back

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The gun is imperative
to this operation.

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The gun takes all
the question out of it.

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At the beginning of the day

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we start to receive product in

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And we get everything in from pallets

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to banded material such as this,

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We'll take the analyzer,

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we'll just do a quick test
on the material.

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After it runs it's first scan

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we realize that what
the material is shot,

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I will identify it with a magic marker

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so we can segregate
it as we go through the pallet

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Sometimes we'll receive plastic
containers

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of material in, of smaller items.

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A lot of times people
can misconstrue this

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for like a casting

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but upon closer verification
by the DELTA analyzer

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this is an extruded so if we bought it

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for a cast alloy we can
definitely upgrade it

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for maybe one and a
half times the price

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for an extruded alloy.

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Here's another piece of
some thick aluminum.

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The gun shows that this is 6061 exact.

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So you sort of have a
checks and balances

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within the analyzer itself.

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Looking at something like this
that's been cut

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I would have thought it's initially

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maybe a yellow brass alloy.

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And it's coming up with an
alloy of C-220

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which is a bronze

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which means it's better
than a yellow brass.

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Yellow brass is going
to be 65 percent.

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This reflected 84 percent

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which this can go to a red brass

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consequently reaping
a better reward for it.

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These look like some
type of an organ pipe

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that has some type of
an annealment on it.

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So as the gun is tracking

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it says no grade

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but yet it shows the
chemical breakdown,

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the second line item
"SN" which is tin

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has got a very very high content

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almost 44 percent
the analyzer is saying.

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So this would be an item
that would be practical

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for us to segregate

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We'll size it,

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we'll package it in a gaylord,

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and we'll send this as
a high tin content

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again to reap the rewards.

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I've been in the scrap business

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for quite a long time.

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It used to be the tool of
the trade was the magnet,

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which is still a reliable instrument

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but this is what we base
everything on pretty much.

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I feel fully comfortable
referencing this,

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that it is a positive resource

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to have in a day to day business.