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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:51 pm

114 lbs al cans
60 lbs plastic
54 lbs glass
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sat Jun 22, 2013 2:12 pm

284 lbs glass
90 lbs cb.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:51 pm

2 lbs ink jet cartridges $19.55
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby messymessy » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:16 pm

hobo finds wrote:2 lbs ink jet cartridges $19.55


Do you have someone buying inkjet cartridges by the pound? Or did they buy them based on brand and cartridge #?
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:50 pm

Based on Cartridge. I should have got $40.00 but they said some were scratched! :thumbdown:
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:13 am

whopping 135 lbs of glass and 25 of cardboard yesterday. the heat is a factor at 108
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:15 am

cardboard== 184 lbs
glass== 256 lbs.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:03 pm

Today in SO. AZ
1020 lbs sheet iron / steel .07 lb
$71.40 total
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:21 pm

#1 copper is at $2.15 here and i have a STACK unfortunately im holding it and ALL other scrap till it comes back
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:25 pm

smackvay wrote:#1 copper is at $2.15 here and i have a STACK unfortunately im holding it and ALL other scrap till it comes back


Holding most everything, but when the steel pile gets too big I need to move it :sick:
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby mrlaufer » Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:16 pm

Went to a customer's building today and saw they had a pile of sealed lead acid batteries in the corner. I asked if I could take care of it for them. He helped me load them in my truck. Went to scrap yard during lunch and at 25 cents a lb got $36. Not bad for a little lunch run.

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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby fansubs_ca » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:51 am

On TH I took in 200lbs of steel @ 8¢/Lb.

About 52 lbs of it was the old heat exchanger from my furnace I replaced about a year and 3/4
back. (I weighed that item before loading it up.)
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby AGgressive Metal » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:18 pm

smackvay wrote:#1 copper is at $2.15 here and i have a STACK unfortunately im holding it and ALL other scrap till it comes back


Yikes, $2.15 is rather low. I'd hang on a little longer too. Its $2.50 here.


Scrapped 140 lbs of steel from a friend's basement re-model (old utility shower walls/base and steel gas pipes) at $0.10/lb for "unclean sheet".
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:09 am

80 lbs cardboard
610 glass
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:10 pm

Today in So. AZ
372 lbs electric motors .22 lb
45 lbs stainless steel .35 lb

$97.59 Total
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby OneBiteAtATime » Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:53 pm

18.5 lb alum cans $8.33
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:26 am

70 lbs al cans... @90 ==63.00
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:28 am

380 LBS tin cans and bottle caps, $30.40
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:15 am

747 lbs glass
100 lbs cardboard
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:39 am

589 glass
56 cardboard
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Thogey » Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:22 am

hobo finds wrote:Today in So. AZ
372 lbs electric motors .22 lb
45 lbs stainless steel .35 lb

$97.59 Total


Wow stainless has really taken a dump!
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby AGgressive Metal » Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:43 pm

Thogey wrote:Wow stainless has really taken a dump!


Most of the "stainless" from China is debatable, or has just barely enough non-ferrous in it. I got a "stainless" made in China kitchen ware from IKEA and it stuck to a magnet. Maybe that's why, who knows.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby 68Camaro » Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:53 pm

AGgressive Metal wrote:
Thogey wrote:Wow stainless has really taken a dump!


Most of the "stainless" from China is debatable, or has just barely enough non-ferrous in it. I got a "stainless" made in China kitchen ware from IKEA and it stuck to a magnet. Maybe that's why, who knows.


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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:57 pm

Nah I wish I got paid for magnetic stainless, it goes in with the steel by me. Last time stainless was that low was 2009.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:44 pm

4,460 POUNDS OF SHREADABLE STEEL
AT $200 A TON TOTAL $464.00
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