Creative metal: Scrap-hunting scrapped, then unscrapped

If you've ever brought scrap metal to Coiner's Scrap Iron and Metal on Meade Avenue, now a place called Cycle Systems, there's a chance that old gutter, gear, appliance, or tin slab is part of a custom lamp, a sculpture, a reinvented machine, or even hanging in a fancy art gallery in Washington, D.C. For decades, local artists, artisans, and junkyard combers have been going to Coiner's on Saturday mornings, perusing the heaps of iron, steel and tin scrap for anything that might be useful or attractive for their purposes.