Well it depends on the size.If you keep all steel under 3 ft you get short steel price and pays more.So always keep your rotors and drums, and stuff like that seperate.Yes, copper is sky high.I was getting almost $3.00 per pound for grade 2 copper, grade 1 would be over $3.00 lb.If you take copper pipes, cut all joints, and fittings off and put them in a buck, you will still get about $2.00 lb for dirty copper.Stainless Steel is also bring good money.Another thing that is easy to get and does not take alot to get a ton is Batteries.Last time I checked they where $120 a ton.Alum is not bad, but I have never seen it at $1.20 lb Average was .50-70 cents per pound.Another good thing to take is old facuets because of the brass.I have made good money taking old air conditions from people, and just cut the to rad out of them and then the copper, you get about $6-10 when you do this, and only take a couple minutes with a saw saw.Cars where only bring $110, the other thing to take off cars is the catylic converters, some of these will bring you $50-$75 each.
Ya catalytic converters will bring in some good coin! In western washington there starting to have some problems with drug adicts stealing the cats from parked cars! they just crawl under there and hack saw them out. would you be shocked if you started up your dd in the morning to the suprise of it being open header!
Around here people are going it buildings and stripping the copper pipes out with portable grinders.Does not take long to cleanup doing that.Also at the local yard, copes showed up.2 guys where bring this nice copper in over $10,000 worth,turns out they where stealing it off the train tracks about 50 miles away.
metals are shown in the newspapers in the stock market section.we get alot of wire and cooper fields and stuff when we do full mods on elevators and i have never gotten more that the low 2' for any thing even when copper was at 4.00 per pound at the exchange rate.the stuff we sell is picked up by an outside scrap guy who than turns it around and sells it to the real scrap yards but with the size of the stuff we get its the only way to go.i know we lose some money but hey its found money and were also on the clock!!!! phil
Copper in Orlando is going for around $2.70/lb. One of the other foreman at the electrical contractor I work for demoed two water plants in town and ended up walking away with almost $7k after he turned it in.
I made around $5k off the job that I ran in Daytona after I turned in all the scrap copper. And that is with splitting some if with my apprentice. All told it was probably somewhere between $8k and $9k in scrap. That is how our company works our bonuses though. Scrap copper goes to the foreman and he determines how it gets split up.
I made around $5k off the job that I ran in Daytona after I turned in all the scrap copper. And that is with splitting some if with my apprentice. All told it was probably somewhere between $8k and $9k in scrap. That is how our company works our bonuses though. Scrap copper goes to the foreman and he determines how it gets split up.
i work at an alum fab shop making oil pans and valve covers and there used to be a huge trailer FULL of aluminum, old mess ups and scrap metal. it was like 8 years worth of stuff piled up in the trailer and we took it down to the scrap yard one weekend. turned out the trailer had like 2.5 tons of aluminum and my boss got like 3000$ i think alum around here is 60 cents a pound. it was ALOT of metal and it took rakes and elbow grease to unload it all. sucked for the scrapyard, they have a huge magnet on a crane to move stuff around but for our load it was useless, so it was even harder for them to load it back up hehe.
Where do you work? Maybe Ill buy an oil pan off you sometime!
I got a 3lbs or so billet of Inconel 718,what you guys think thats worth?
And a couple 5lb billets of stainless (309 and 316 I believe they where),and alot of cold rolled low-carbon steel shafts,as well as some special alloyed shafts.
the pans and VCs are just aluminum. alot of buyers have ran our pans and have noticed nice drops in oil temp using aluminum. and on some wet sump pans we use the extruded fin looking stuff. like the cooling fins on a computer, we use that on some wet sump pans to dissipate heat and it seems to work well. you can see it in some of the pics on the website.
we make fox chassis pans for a mustang. with the front sump and all.
we make fox chassis pans for a mustang. with the front sump and all.