American Power Group Corporation and VFG Energy Leasing and Finance Announce a New Leasing Program for APG Dual Fuel Conversions

American Power Group Corporation

Over $18 Million of Natural Gas Related Transactions Funded by VFG in Calendar 2013

LYNNFIELD, MA--(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2014) - American Power Group Corporation (OTCQB: APGI), today announced a new leasing program for APG dual fuel conversions and related natural gas tank systems that will be offered by Vision Financial Group, Inc. through its specialty unit VFG Energy Leasing and Finance ("VFG") of Pittsburgh, PA.

Lyle Jensen, American Power Group Corporation's Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Many fleet owners interested in natural gas conversions of their existing fleets have found it challenging to obtain traditional bank financing for alternative fuel add-on systems for their diesel trucks. We are excited that VFG has seen the value of APG's dual fuel technology and are willing to provide financing terms with and without a perfected security interest on the entire vehicle chassis. This is critical for many of the fleet operators we've spoken to who are looking to convert multiple units at a time. We believe our ability to offer fleet customers with a viable financing solution will provide them with a path to convert a larger percent of their fleet sooner rather than later."

Mr. Jensen added, "APG's vehicular conversion technology is generating customer validated net monthly fuel savings of $1,000 to $1,800 per month depending on the miles driven and cost of fuel. While each customer's circumstance will differ, we believe that after lease related costs, a fleet owner can see his take-home income increase by $200 to $1,000 per month. We know of no other truck-related technology that can create that kind of incremental savings and income."

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Sapphires - Synthetic or Real

With scientific advancements comes the potential to run into more and more convincing synthetic stones.
How can you tell the difference?
The most effective way to tell the difference is in their Refractive Index of the natural stone. Also all stones formed from the earth will have some inclusions. 
Specific Gravity is not helpful in determining a synthetic from a natural stone.




3 simple tools together -- Loupe, Chelsea filter, and Dichroscope -- which are also useful in the field. And if you have a portable LW/SW UV lamp, that's also an important tool. For example, garnet is single-refracting and will show no dichroism (with a dichroscope, a dichroic stone will show one color in one window, and a different color or different "shade" of color in the other window of this small instrument). So this will immediately separate a garnet, glass or synthetic SPINEL imitating another gem from ruby, sapphire or emerald. In terms of tsavorite, when viewed through the Chelsea filter, tsavorite will appear reddish, but green glass or syn green spinel will NOT. Tsavorite is SINGLE refracting so it will show the same color in each window of the dichroscope, but some of its imposters (syn corundum) are double refracting and show dichroism, but in any event, those stones do not go red through the Chelsea filter. And then, the loupe will show inclusions in tsavorite that you will never see in glass, syn spinel, and so on. Natural, untreated blue sapphire will usually show no fluorescent reaction (under either wavelength) whereas treated-blue sapphire usually shows a blue/white reaction and synthetic blue sapphire will have a stronger reaction, and even stronger under short-wave. And so on. There is never just one test that will tell you what you need to know....it's a matter of collecting the "clues" from information provided by at least a couple of tests, and putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Do you have my book "Gem Identification Made Easy" (published by Gemstone Press -- www.gemstonepress.com)? I talk about how to use a variety of instruments, and explain how valuable small, portable tools can be when you know how to use them PROPERLY, and when you use them together to collect the "clues" you need.

The Copper that I have scavenged

Bare Bright Copper

 Scavenge Scrap Copper

After scavenging and stripping copper for over a span of two years I have accumulated a mound of insulated wire and a small amount of bare bright. The small amount of bare bright that I spent a long time stripping only amounted to 13 pounds.... at 2.20 a pound did not seem to be worth the time I had spent.
The rest of the wire was graded at insulated 50/50 but I had around 130 pounds of that.
Overall the end result was about 175 dollars...The effort to collect all the copper was not very difficult so this is a viable source of secondary income. I was even considering applying to work at the place.

Stripped Scrap Copper

I feel pretty good about the wire that I could recycle because most of it came form an old farm. I went with a friend to his family farm while he did some other maintenance while I began stripping the place of all discarded wire. It took me a while to eventually gather and secure all of the scrap but eventually I got it done and in return for recycling I got about 175$

Scrap Copper