Full Circle Salvage and Metal Recycling
Horace Usari: Owner/proprietor
Open Monday- Saturday 8 AM to 10:30 PM
Sunday 1:30 PM to 9 PM
Sunday 1:30 PM to 9 PM
There is a vast industrial district 12 miles east of Station Square that serves the city, and within the fifteen acres between the area's largest steel mill and a petrochemical refinery sits Full Circle. A 10-foot tall chain-link fence surrounds the property, topped with razor wire with more razor wire skirting the inside base. Every 10 feet there is a prominent sign: Trespassers will be shot; survivors will be eviscerated, then eaten.
There is a small parking lot just off the small road in front of the yard, and behind that is a plain building that serves as the sales office, garage, machine shop, and Horace's living quarters. There's a basement underneath that houses a vast collection of repair/shop/maintenance manuals on shelves organized (in order) by language, vehicle type, manufacturer, make, model, and model year. If one were to come down here, one would find not only manuals in English, but Spanish, Italian, German, French, Sweedish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hindi, and not just civilian ground vehicles, but watercraft, aircraft, and static mechanical installations for both a variety of military and civilian organizations.
What everybody notices about the yard though is the massive piles of scrap first, then the towering structure that stands in the center: the shredder. Like other large scrap shredders, this one employs dozens of solid steel hammers to beat the scrap up into much smaller chunks. Unlike other shredders, this one uses two hammer wheels spinning in opposite directions, at an average speed of about 6,000 RPM. It uses a massive amount of electricity, partially from the grid, but partially from his own generation system that incinerates used lubricants.
There are some outbuildings among the scrap, which house some sorted parts such as engine/transmission assemblies, pumps, and jet engines. One in particular houses a small arc furnace that he uses to melt non-ferrous metals into ingots for sale, and steel for casting parts.
Horace mostly sells parts to and buys scrap from the public, but industries often order special parts and bulk metals (his biggest customer is the steel mill next door), and large businesses (such as railroads and insurance companies), and municipalities sell scrap to him as well.
((Don't know if this belongs here or Station Square subforum, so I thought I'd play it safe...))
