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However, the staff at Stroger said there is no reason why those patients should not get their pain medications rapidly."A lot of our broken bones are seen in our trauma area right next door," Schaider said. "Those patients are seen immediately."Scott Cole has spent several years developing a new tool that easily strips the coating off copper wire for recycling, but the Zoda Wire Stripper hasn't had the sales that he envisioned."I knew it would be tough to get the ball rolling," said Cole, president of Zoda Tools Inc.,TG Collet manufacturers based at his DeLand home where he's lived for 34 years. "Those who see it, make the connection and see the potential, buy it and love it."

An online video at Zodatools.com demonstrates how the tool is used. It retails for $58.50."Wire is everywhere and there's a lot of money to be made in recycling it," Cole said. "This tool is a must-have for scrappers, salvagers, electricians, heating and air conditioning installers and repairmen and anyone who recycles wire."According to Mark McLeod, manager at K&M Recycling in DeLand,China Spring Collet supplies stripped copper wire can net 20 to 30 percent more per pound than wire that still has the coating.Cole spent more than 30 years in the cold-storage building construction industry. His jobs forced him to travel the globe for extensive periods. During those travels to construction sites, he saw a lot of unused wire thrown away as well as recycled.

As the 2008 recession nearly stopped his job opportunities, Cole turned to scrapping as a way to make some additional cash. He even developed a stripping tool about five years ago that was a "crude" prototype to the Zoda Wire Stripper."Each time I used it I thought how I could market this," Cole said.In March 2010, his wife, Deb, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her treatments in 2012 prevented Cole from accepting jobs in Texas and New Jersey that required extensive time away from home. So the couple decided in early 2012 that Scott would stay home and devote his attention to the wire stripper.