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160# light iron 85/GT
6# #1 steel 140/GT
2# mixed Al 0.22
2# irony Al 0.07
10# #2 Copper 1.90
20# clean ACR 0.80
3# brass 1.20
2# mixed wire 0.50
29# compressor 0.07

Total: $48.66, rounded up to $49.00

Hey scrappers:

I might have some good news. Copper was up 21% for the second quarter. This is the biggest gain since Sept. 2010. That was right when silver began the big move from the teens to $49+/oz. in Spring, 2011. So maybe those depressed metals prices will start to go back up.

Alum cans #97 @/.80
Plastic #17 @.35

Sign of the times, one can n bottle place closed. Other lost its lease.

Say goodbye to Ol'Blue, the chip packaging machine turned coin processor

Chip packaging? Potato chips or computer chips? Is there a thread here that tells about this machine? Why was it decomissioned?

TXSTARFIRE wrote:Chip packaging? Potato chips or computer chips? Is there a thread here that tells about this machine? Why was it decomissioned?

Potato chips! Probably made in the 1970s. It had a hopper and conveyor system that moved product to three spouts which each dumped a designated number of conveyor bins into a chip bag, or in our case into three sorting machines. It was decommissioned as we no longer bulk sort copper pennies and moved to a different corner of the warehouse.

During the copper penny sorting heyday there were three Mach 9 machines running all day and they had to get fed. A forklift would dump about 3/4 ton at a time into the primary hopper and then Old Blue would feed the coin machines as they went, using optical sensors to tell when they were hungry.

End of an era!

During the copper penny sorting heyday there were three Mach 9 machines running all day

That is a lot of sorting! How often did you have to change the elastomeric pads? (And how many millions of coins did you utimately run through them?).

I worked at Brandt for 11 years (1989-2000) and the Mach9 was a great machine.

I was confused when I just googled "Brandt Mach9" and saw all the "Glory Mach9" results.

Poor Brandt, sold off yet again, now owned by Glory.

Brandt, founded by Edward Brandt in 1890-->sold to Triangle Industries 1984 (Nelson Peltz/Peter May) -->management buy-out 1994 -->De La Rue purchase 1995 (renamed to De La Rue Cash systems in 1997) --> Sold to Carlyle Group in 2008 and renamed Talaris--> Sold to Glory 2012

A good chronological history by the Watertown historical society http://www.watertownhistory.org/articles/BrandtManufacturing.htm


Funny story: when DeLaRue renamed Brandt to De La Rue Cash systems in 1997 and re-branded all the equipment to De La Rue to much fanfare, sales tanked, as everyone in North America wanted "Brandt" equipment (idiots threw away a 100 year old brand name); in six months they added the "Brandt" name back to the branding.

AGgressive Metal wrote:Say goodbye to Ol'Blue, the chip packaging machine turned coin processor

If I was taking a tour of your location and saw all those loose coins, I'd say "Excuse me while I tie my shoe!" (just kidding of course)

1102# light iron 85/GT
100# #1 steel 140/GT
181 mixed Al 0.24
48 extruded 0.34
90 irony Al 0.07
18# #1 copper 2.25
64# #2 copper 2.05
60# brass 1.25
52# clean ACR 0.90
3# THHN 1.35
12# mixed wire 0.55
16# electric motor 0.12
73# compressor 0.09
4# stainless 0.20
209# batteries 0.20

Total: $469.36, rounded down to $469.35

Recyclersteve wrote:Hey scrappers:

I might have some good news. Copper was up 21% for the second quarter. This is the biggest gain since Sept. 2010. That was right when silver began the big move from the teens to $49+/oz. in Spring, 2011. So maybe those depressed metals prices will start to go back up.

A couple weeks ago I gave some good news on copper.

Ditto for aluminum. Aluminum had about a 2-3 day period where it went from 75 cents to $1 (a whopping 33% increase) per the charts on Kitcometals.com.

2200# Tin/light iron--$114/gt
Total-$126.50

Aluminum went right back down to 75 cents a pound after trading a few days at $1 (Per kitcometals.com). Oh well...

I ho I ho its off to the scrap yard I go, tomorrow.

Good luck. Do they want you to wear a mask? And I hope they give change with the national coin shortage. Lol.

Hopefully prices are up some.....

#180 clean sheet $100/t
#8 dirty alum ,@ $0.06/
#17 clean alum radiator @$ 0.12

Li ion battery.. Sears tool..battery outlay had a rebuild.. Guy quit 7-1. Said anywhere else I would hane toPAY FOR FISPOSAL.

# 157 crushed water bottles.. $0.35

1392# mixed wire 0.48
17# Cat5 wire 0.70
90# transformers 0.35
41# adapters with wire 0.24

Total: $721.40

200# light iron 85/GT
60# #1 steel 140/GT
26# mixed Al 0.22
1# extruded 0.32
5# irony Al 0.07
3# #2 copper 2.05
1# copper powder 1.90
3# brass 1.25
5# electric motor 0.12
15# compressor 0.09
1# pewter 2.00
21# batteries 0.20

Total: $37.68 rounded up to $37.70

catalytic converter $50
half-full catalytic converter $25
120# light iron 95/GT
10# #1 steel 150/GT
10# mixed Al 0.22
21# irony Al 0.07
1# clean Al wire 0.32
1# #1 copper 2.25
3# #2 copper 2.05
2# copper shavings 1.90
49# copper/brass radiator 1.05
28# electric motor 0.13
49# compressor 0.09
20# clean ACR 0.85

Total: $173.45 rounded up to $175

545# of car batteries at $0.22
Our long iron at $5.
Tin at $5.35
They aren't buying cans.

The not buying aluminium can thing is crazy I don't understand it. One place here so far is not buying.

hobo finds wrote:The not buying aluminium can thing is crazy I don't understand it. One place here so far is not buying.

Let me clarify- at least in my area they ARE buying aluminum, just not cans.

My guess is they only had one company they sold to that paid a decent price and I did hear about a bankruptcy (out of business type- not reorganizing and attempting to reopen the doors) for what was presumably that company.

Wednesday was the first time since before the COVID crisis that I went to the scrap yard. Here are the results:

3# THHN wire @ $1.49 = $4.47
25# Extension cords @ .50 = $12.50
3# insulated wire (45%) @ .38 = $1.14
23# insulated wire (40%) @ .39 = $8.97 (why they pay more for 40% than 45% is beyond me- perhaps just an honest mistake)
3# yellow brass @ $1.05 = $3.15
1# copper piping #2 @ $1.90
5# insulated wire (aluminum) @ .30 = $1.50
Rounding down (his math mistake) (.02) I'm not gonna drive all the way back to tell him he short-changed me by 2 cents!
TOTAL FOR ABOVE $33.61