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good god, where do I start. first off whoever made that "catalog" must have been drinking Jack Daniels, and throwing darts at a chart.
80% plus of all cats contain at least some palladium, that includes the ones on his "catalog". I don't see alot of palladium readings. The fords and chryslers, especially were short, very short on Pd.
Almost all of his "assay" amounts were very, very high. I have seen this type of info before. All of the ones I have seen, have been in this format, and are very over valued.
The Double GM in the picture has over $200.00 in Pt. alone? not a chance in hell. And no Pd. values mentioned? should be 700 ppm.

And Rusty, the only people in this business making 50% plus margins, are the scrappers driving around picking up maybe 10 units a week along with their other scrap. If you want to buy any volume, you better figure out how to work on 5-10%. Also, converter life has little to do with contained ounces, we have assayed brand new units and identical units with 100,000 plus miles, and the maximum variation was maybe 10%.
 
I actually read a paper which claimed Platinum content *increases* over the aging of the catalyst, the paper suggested it might be from the fuel, which I don't really believe.
 

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