if so how much you getting? and were do you get it?
Does anyone here Scap Metal for $$$
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I did this in my college days - $18 to $36 a ton for "scrap iron". There are web sites that give prices for various scrap metals. Separate out the copper and aluminum as they have a higher price. Dealers should be listed in the phone book. Have an idea what the going rate is for your metal...I've sold some silver lately and the going rate seems to be about 80-85% the spot price that you see on CNBC, etc. The first guy I dealt with was going to give me about 50% of the value, when I told him I wanted my coins back he renegotiated.
Getting less than I was, last time out got $260/ton for mixed iron/sheet, hoping it will creep back up over $225 as my collection of old stuff is getting big. I take it wherever I can get the best price (usually Western Cincinnati).
We do at work. We contract to the local gas utility and replace a lot of their old lines so we'll end up with decent piles of cast iron and steel pipe after a while. Some of the guys save the brass from the valves we remove from service but I don't really waste my time with that. We'll go about twice a year with a dump truck load and split the money up amongst the crew. Just took a 97' F-150 parts truck to scrap yard about a month ago for a friend and they were paying $11.50 per 100lbs. for cars, my buddy got just under $500 for it.
Originally Posted By: leaves and lawns
if so how much you getting? and were do you get it?
I don't, but a fair number of my clients do -- and end up in jail or prison for doing so. Of course, they stole the metal that they converted. . .
if so how much you getting? and were do you get it?
I don't, but a fair number of my clients do -- and end up in jail or prison for doing so. Of course, they stole the metal that they converted. . .
We scrap out the dead Radiator cores for our X-Mas bonus.
Last year Aluminum cores were getting about $.35 a lb and the copper were $1.07 a lb or so.
Last year Aluminum cores were getting about $.35 a lb and the copper were $1.07 a lb or so.
I've brought several catalytic convertors in, they pay $50-65 for small ones. They read the brand/ ID numbers off the part and like AC (no delco?) off GMs.
I understand the truck ones are worth several hundred, which lead to an army of sawzall equipped thieves. To combat that my junkyard checks ID, but not me (a 2x a year visitor) b/c they "know me".
I understand the truck ones are worth several hundred, which lead to an army of sawzall equipped thieves. To combat that my junkyard checks ID, but not me (a 2x a year visitor) b/c they "know me".
JHZR2
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We have an oil collection spot in town, and other stuff gets dropped there. I collect batteries any time I see them, as I can get around 10c/lb for them, iirc.
Only cats the rest someone just picks it up once a week and takes it away.The scrap price for mixed isn't worth my time or trouble.
Kestas
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I save copper, brass, and aluminum. Every few years I take them to the scrap yard and cash them in.
Cats are only paying scrap prices which was $.03 a lb last week.
I'm about to resort to scrap metal for extra income. There's a small pile of things my roommates and I have broken, destroyed, or otherwise used up sitting in my garage. It's mostly steel, but there's a good bit of copper left from the washing machine we set on fire, and a little bit of aluminum. Unfortunately the pile is only maybe 500-600 lbs. at this point...about enough to pay for the gas to get to the scrap yard.
My children collect Al cans. It's good to see them collect stuff, turn it in, and get cash. When I was a kid, it was 5c/can, which was huge bucks.
When I got my E-30, it came with a broken sump, holed block, and 5 pistons in the boot. An afternoon separating them, and I learned a whole lot more about what's running under the hood...and got $90 versus nothing for a complete set-up.
BTW, chrome off recycled bumpers in the 50sand 60s is keeping many of your US power station workers alive, and the lights on, due to creating partially out of spec materials.
While contamination is creating dramas in the copper industry.
When I got my E-30, it came with a broken sump, holed block, and 5 pistons in the boot. An afternoon separating them, and I learned a whole lot more about what's running under the hood...and got $90 versus nothing for a complete set-up.
BTW, chrome off recycled bumpers in the 50sand 60s is keeping many of your US power station workers alive, and the lights on, due to creating partially out of spec materials.
While contamination is creating dramas in the copper industry.
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I don't, but a fair number of my clients do -- and end up in jail or prison for doing so. Of course, they stole the metal that they converted. . .
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Cats are only paying scrap prices which was $.03 a lb last week.
Crime apparently don't pay that well.
I don't, but a fair number of my clients do -- and end up in jail or prison for doing so. Of course, they stole the metal that they converted. . .
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Cats are only paying scrap prices which was $.03 a lb last week.
Crime apparently don't pay that well.
A friend of ours used to do scrap for a couple years when the prices were higher. The other year they made 100K just doing scrap in the very early mornings. They would go out at 3:30 am every day and have a huge full load. They also got higher prices at the scrap yard because they were there every day with big loads. They do sheet metal and there heating and AC buddies would bring them truck loads of old AC units, duct work etc etc. They would separate the copper cores from the AC units and let them build up over a couple months in a huge pile. Then when they had enough for a full truck load they would take it in and get 3K to 4K for a full truck load.
Once the economy tanked scrap prices dropped like a rock. When the china olympics ended is when the scrap prices really dropped. China was buying all the metal. With the terrible economy everybody and there brother decided to start scrapping and our friends (father son) started having a hard time getting enough to be worth the time and effort to go out every day so they stopped except for the loads there customers bring them off of job sites.
Once the economy tanked scrap prices dropped like a rock. When the china olympics ended is when the scrap prices really dropped. China was buying all the metal. With the terrible economy everybody and there brother decided to start scrapping and our friends (father son) started having a hard time getting enough to be worth the time and effort to go out every day so they stopped except for the loads there customers bring them off of job sites.
Kestas
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True. The prices peaked some three years ago. Now they're roughly half of where they were.
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