What did you scrap?

[mightyhunter]

Took in 200 lbs of #1 copper at 3.10 lb ($620.00)
30 lbs of cans @ .60 lb ($$18.00)
Total: $638.00

[hobo finds]

430 lbs scrap steel, fridge and stove .07 a pound $30.10

[scrapper2010]

615 lb steel (washer, lawn mower etc) @.08/lb - 49.20

[hobo finds]

took in 330 lbs extruded alum .6363 a pound for it so $210.00 (price down .0137 from Oct)

[scrapper2010]

57 lbs. cast aluminum @.55/lb. - $31.35
885 lbs. shredder steel $185/gross ton - $81.85
79 lbs. electric motors @.18/lb - $14.22

Total - $127.42

[Thogey]

11/3/10

steel-unprepared 560lbsX.08 44.80
al cans 47lbsX.55 25.85
yellow brass 36lbsX1.4 50.40
#1 copper 7.12lbsX3.00 21.36
Al Cast 20.80
Bare Extrusion 17.92
Al Breakage 1.20
Electric motors 49lbsX.22 10.78


total $193.11

[smalltimeopn]

1 broken camera tripod == .50
3 lbs copier drums and fusing rollers == .90
3 lbs Al cans == 1.20
2 lbs #1 copper == 4.90
9 lbs electric motors == 1.62
16 lbs steel == 1.28
$10.40 take home!

[Thogey]

Took in 200 lbs of #1 copper at 3.10 lb ($620.00)
30 lbs of cans @ .60 lb ($$18.00)
Total: $638.00

Where did you get 200# of copper?

[Devil Soundwave]

Question if I may - why would you scrap copper rather than keeping it for the stash?

[Thogey]

Pipes wire and tubing take up a lot of room.

I plow my scrap money right back into coins.

Not only that, most of the time scrap is free money.

[Devil Soundwave]

Ah. Perfectly sensible then.

Might have to investigate this scrapping lark and see if they pay decent rates over here... I have tons of junk!

[glockngold]

New to the forum. south central PA.
Today I took in:
10 lbs #2 copper at $2.90 per (mostly copper windings from small wallwart power transformers I am dissecting while I sit on break at work).
560 lbs light steel at $.09 per (2 wash machines off of freecycle & some tire rims that I was tired of walking around)
39 lbs of insulated wire at $.90 per
Total for the day was $115.00

About the insulated wire. Over half of that was Christmas lights. This yard had been accepting as is with the light bulbs still in & paid 1/2 rate.
Last week I took in a tub & they said sorry no more. They had 3 bales with glass in & they can't find a buyer.
Told me that if I pull out the bulbs they will call it full price insulated wire.
so I watched a couple shows on Hulu & cleaned em off.
I'm going to keep the Christmas wire separate from the other insulated wire because I don't trust that they'll keep paying out for it. It's mostly insulation & sockets by weight.

[hobo finds]

350 lbs scrap steel .07 a lb in So. AZ. $24.50

[TXBullion]

Scrapped some copper wire and copper pipe. Not sure how many pounds but is was 7.50$. i later bought a morgan dollar at the local coin shop for 20$

[Heartkill]

480 lbs. tin @ $10.25 per 100lb. = $47.15

Prices for steel are way up right now.

[Hades12]

Old cast 48# .50 $24
Electric motors 193# .31 $60
Enamel Wire 37# 2.94 $109
Bare Bright 36# 3.31 $120
#1 Copper 72# 3.10 $223
Alum Copper Rads 304# 1.60 $486
Contaminated Brass 22# 1.90 $42
Brass 8# 2.01 $16
#1 insulated 55% 17# 1.40 $24
Cast Rim 16# .85 $14

1117 Total Still have to take costs out of it. I had a bit of #2 but yard guy threw it in with the #1. Enamel wire was from the larger motors and compressors I tore apart.

[schilcott]

Made the mistake of taking mine to a small scrap yard near by cause i didn't want to run to the city

107 lbs #2 insulated wire @.90 =96.30
40 lbs christmas lights @.15= 6.00
24lbs 304 stainless @.65 = 15.60
18lbs yellow brass @1.05 = 18.90 <-----$1.92/lb in the city

total $136.00

next time i'll make the drive to London, On

[hobo finds]

the other prices don't look too bad...

[michael3065]

$172.00 worth of old broken water pipe less $3.18 for 3 coffees at mickey d's for the guys at the yard.

net....$169.00

[hobo finds]

today in SO. AZ

36 lbs furnace alum .25 lb (+.05 lb since Oct)
33 lbs alum MLC .65 lb (+.05 lb since Sept)
88 lbs Cast Alum .58 lb (+.06 since Sept)
58 lbs Ins wire #2 1.05 lb (+.05 lb since Sept)

Total $142.40

[ilyaz]

MD near DC today

80 lbs alum cans @ .60
80 lbs insulated wire #3 @ .85
49 lbs electric motors @ .30
28 lbs cast alum @ .55
36 lbs copper #2 @ 2.70
22 lbs 6000 series al ex @ .65
some other stuff
---
$290 total

[Heartkill]

Today's load:

47 lbs. irony aluminum high grade 80% (half of a Honda dirt bike motor) @ $0.12# - $5.64
15 lbs. yellow brass @ $1.75# - $26.25
51 lbs. #1 copper @ $3.11# - $158.61
32 lbs. #2 copper insulated 39% recovery @ $1.05# - $33.60
1 lb. die cast clean @ $0.05# - $0.05

Total - $224.15

[hirbonzig]

47lbs of Alum. cans @ 0.70/lb=$32.90. Went down to the local coin store and bought 5 silver quarters at 21X face. Turning my scrap into silver.

[fire medic 160]

190#s shred steel 15.20
22#'s alum cans 14.30
27#'s electic motors 4.58
2#'s copper 1 6.10
16#'s copper 2 47.20
1# stainless steel .70
88.09

Still got a good chunk of the cans, brass, lead, wheel weights, and alum scrap left. Just needed some cash for some bills.

[maoguinn]

3 old car batteries @ $7.00 each - total $21.00