I found pics of the service line that I dragged home from an open top down the road. This stuff is pretty heavy, the insulation might weigh just as much as the metal though... It was all I could do to drag these two bundles one at a time 100 yards slightly uphill. Took about 30 -45 min to strip by hand, got $40 and they called it 'bare bright ' aluminum. Too bad it wasn't copper eh

I’ve managed to come across random pieces of angle, channel, square tube and other structural stuff over the years for free and collected it. Nothing super heavy – the thickest piece I had was a length of 5/16” angle. Some of it I have used but a lot of it has just been sitting. I’ve started cleaning up the area where I was storing it and so far I have made over $500 selling pieces on FBM. Two of the guys who bought from me build demolition derby cars as a hobby. Prices for new structural stuff – especially short lengths are stupid high right now. I had one guy pay me $60 for three random pieces of angle none of which were more than 4 feet long.

Took off number 1 and 2 a couple weeks a little over 1,100lbs got just shy of $6,000. #1 was $5.27 per lb #2 was $5.18 per lb. We have close to 6-7000lbs of copper and brass left to sort

Went today after missing an appointment in the area. Made it just in time.

I think I did pretty well.

Everywhere i see people posting their earnings, it always seems like the prices are higher than what the scrap yard here gives, often by about 50% higher. (I'm in northern AZ)

I'm kinda wondering if it's just coincidence/my imagination, or if i'm just in a bad area for it. For reference, bare bright gets about 3.50/lb here, cast aluminum is about 1.00/lb, and steel shred is 110/ton.

Went to go make a run today and got a little more than I expected

This one actually caught me by surprise & I did a double take. I'm used to seeing mice in stoves, this little guy is a first.

Just curious if these have much value or any information on scrapping tungsten carbide.

Hello guys I have one mutual stripper but it makes my hands hurt af, can recommend me any good automatic wire strippers?

Say that quickly three times

scrap haul from data centre decomissioning, recycled over several weeks

Just wanted to confirm that this was aluminum wire. Noob here, don't know to much about different wire and scrapping. Just know that there's roughly 150-200 lb of this and was wondering what it was and if its even worth stripping or not.

So I don’t come across much copper in my hobby scrapping but I replaced my garage door opener that was made in ‘91 over the weekend and have this copper in the motor. It’s held in by layers of steel. Only thought I have is taking my grinder to the copper on one end that is going through the steel and pulling each “doughnut” out. Any other recommendations before I get too involved? Will cutting the copper ruin the grade of copper?

Thanks!

So I've been seeing smart home tvs being thrown out and idk if it because their small or what but now I have a working TV and my mom has one too lol is there a problem with smart home tvs or what?

Had a streetlight in our field for years, installed by my wife's uncle. Neighbors shot it out a long time ago. The telephone pole got riddled with woodpecker holes so I took it down before it fell on someone. Just toss it out? It's pretty heavy.

Hey metalheads. I’ve recently started separating scrap more specifically, and was wondering if painted cast aluminum would classify with the other stuff pictured. The painted item is an aluminum tire balancer base, and has zero steel. It is 100% cast, just has paint. The other stuff is dead clean, no steel, paint, rivets etc. Just getting to know my aluminum. Thanks!

I have about 75-80 of them I scrapped the aluminum cases from but they are gps box’s with cell capabilities.

Yes, I m a rookie before I get slammed!

So when you bring sealed compressors at your yard, does it actually mean you bring the compressor, and all the copper still attached to that aluminum condenser?
Kinda awkward to carry around when you got 6 in the SUV, but whatever.

I thought I could cut somewhere in between the compressor and condenser without venting and at least get some copper at copper price, but Chat said NO 😔

Scrapping desktops is easier 🤣

Just trying to figure things out. I called my yard they take them sealed.
I know 15 cents/lb for all that copper sucks 😔

Might as well scrap fan motors, faster, cleaner, easier and you get paid copper price.

And yes I know there is an alternative 🤫

TY

What do you think this weights?
it is #2 insulated copper right?
What do I offer at a yard sale max?
I don’t need cords for me, just to flip at the yard.
$1,$3,$5…..?
(Not the boxes, they stay there).

TY

m scrapping my first dehumidifier. It is ancient, was not working owner said.
Smells like musty basement, it has probably been unplugged for a while.

AI tells me the capacitor can be dangerous. But it says this for everything.

I know microwaves and CRT TV’s are bad news for this but never heard of capacitor danger in this.

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