What did you scrap?

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Thogey » Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:44 pm

Your getting a good price for your shred!

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:23 pm

Thogey wrote:Your getting a good price for your shred!

Bully!


Let's say I haul a pound or 2 so I get a little better price. I was getting 215 till it dropped
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:18 pm

WHOPPING 138 lbs of glass, but, it was from one place
and 38 obs of cardboard.

in the am... 450 0f glass and 98 of cb
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:33 pm

648lbs copper/alum clean radiators at $1.40= $907.20
42 pound irony cast .20 a pound = $8.40
72 pounds sheet alum .45 a pound= $32.40
385 pounds electric motors .25 a pound= $96.25
106 pounds clean yellow brass $1.85= $196.10

total for everything= 1240.35

WISH copper would come back as ive not turned any in for 6 months :shh:
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby AGgressive Metal » Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:02 pm

Are you an air-conditioning or car mechanic, smackvay? Not trying to be nosy, that's just a lot of radiators!
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:00 pm

AGgressive Metal wrote:Are you an air-conditioning or car mechanic, smackvay? Not trying to be nosy, that's just a lot of radiators!


I break into a lot of houses and cut up the ac units. Nothing to see here guys. :thumbup:
Im kidding, I have a contract with my employer to recycle everything. We haven't been doing as many changeouts and have been doing a lot more complete installs. So this actually isn't a very big load as I like to have 1,000 pounds of the rads but I can only let it pile up so high
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:21 pm

same old,

132 lbs cardboard
312 glass
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby fansubs_ca » Sun Aug 04, 2013 2:27 pm

30 Lbs Aluminum cans at 45¢/Lb. on TH.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:56 pm

1390 pounds of ac compressor pumps at $.22 a pound=$305.80
My GMC Jimmy was squatting going down the road :clap:
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Tue Aug 06, 2013 7:43 pm

994 LBS of broken clear glass in the am.. stockpiled

166 brown during the day
30 cardboard

then a full truck to take home
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Wed Aug 07, 2013 2:22 pm

Not much

10 lbs #1 plastic bottles @ .30 lb
20 lbs alum cans @ .85 lb
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:17 am

380 lbs cardboard
290 lbs broken glass
360 lbs whole bottles
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby everything » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:09 pm

Someone was rehabing a house, got the aluminum storm door and shower doors, took em apart and it's in the back of my truck. Now that I'm back to renting, my dumpster is big and it's easy to get rid of the glass. Scrapped a bunch of coated copper wire a few weeks back and got about $30 for it I believe.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby creshka46 » Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:52 pm

Just brought a load to the recycler and got $29.80 :clap:

I was suprised I got that much. We tore out our old tiled tube with shower door and put in a fiberglass unit. I took the door apart and ended up with about 10 lbs of sheet aluminum.

Also, I bought an old floor buffer at a garage sale a while back for $5 hoping to use it on our hardwood floor. We ended up renting a machine so I scrapped this one. That thing was built like a tank! I felt bad dismantling it because it was so solid, but it didn't work very well and I really wanted the cord for an extension cord. I ended up probably getting about $15-20 scrap from it, plus a 40ft 10ga extention cord (easily a $40-50 value) the total breakdown for the buffer is below:

10-15 lbs cast aluminum
8-10 lbs brass
30-40 lbs steel/tin
10-15 lbs motor

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:28 pm

2780 pounds shreads 185 a ton = $257.15
282 pounds of #1 copper at $2.97 per pound= $837.54
119 pounds of #2 copper at $2.81 per pound= $334.39
39 pounds bare bright copper at $3.02 a pound= $117.78
Grand total $1546.86
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:43 pm

Today in So. AZ
63 lbs #2 ins wire $1.05 lb (price up .15 from May)
72 lbs Elect motors .22 lb (price same as Aug)
17 lbs yellow brass 1.80 lb (price up .15 from Nov)
10 lbs #2 coper 2.65 lb (price up .25 from April)
6 lbs dirty brass .60 lb
1 lb die cast zinc .15 (price same as May)

Total $142.84 :thumbup:
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:24 am

1154 lbs broken glass
160 whole,
302lbs cardboard.

yesterday at the marine corps there were two tvs. being unsure about them, I opened the cases. took the circuit boards, the speakers and the ''cone''.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby everything » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:06 pm

Took the shower doors and door in, 22 lbs. some was painted white, but much was clean, only gave me .30/lb or 6.60 for the lot..

everything wrote:Someone was rehabing a house, got the aluminum storm door and shower doors, took em apart and it's in the back of my truck. Now that I'm back to renting, my dumpster is big and it's easy to get rid of the glass. Scrapped a bunch of coated copper wire a few weeks back and got about $30 for it I believe.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Sun Sep 22, 2013 4:11 pm

HAD A GOOD HAUL TODAY
Electric motors 524 lbs at $.28/lb = $146.72
#1 copper 51 pounds at $2.96/lb= $150.96
#2 copper 64 pounds at $2.82/lb= $180.48
Copper aluminum radiators 591 pounds at $1.49/lb= $880.59
Alum radiators 101 pounds at $.52 a pound= $52.52
Sealed compressors out of ac units 1,225 lbs at $.18lb= $220.50
Total for this trailer(had 2 trailers today)
$1,631.77
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Treasurekidd » Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:43 am

Cashed in a small load today, maybe 10lbs of cans, 10 lbs of brass, and some copper motor windings, got $29. Not much, but good beer money.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby INTRINSICK » Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:43 am

I bought a 55 gallon drum to hold my crushed cans. finally filled it up.. 54lbs
280lbs cardboard.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:02 pm

20 lbs alum cans .85 lb
9 lbs #1 plastic bottles .30 lb

Beer money!!
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:47 pm

970 lbs sheet iron / steel .07 lb
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:23 am

last week I cleaned the yard

171 lbs of plastic
119 lbs of al cans.

hoping that the compactor at normas gets fixed soon., the cardboard is piling up at home
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby NotABigDeal » Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:51 am

cwgii wrote:last week I cleaned the yard

171 lbs of plastic
119 lbs of al cans.

hoping that the compactor at normas gets fixed soon., the cardboard is piling up at home


Lot of stuff in the yard, hehe....

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