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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sun Nov 08, 2015 12:57 pm

151 lb al cans @.90
98 lb #1 plastic @.40
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Thu Nov 12, 2015 11:36 am

300 lbs prepared steel $.0315 lb = $9.45
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:16 pm

26 lbs. #2 plastic @ $.04 lb
7 lbs #1 plastic @ $.15 lb
27 lbs dirty brass @ $1.00 lb
5 lbs #2 ins wire @ $.40 lb

$31,09 total
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:19 pm

17 lbs mlc alum $.35 lb
26 lbs cast alum $.37 lb
308 lbs electric motors $.13 lb

Total $55.61
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby scrapman1077 » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:50 pm

155lbs #2 insulated @.60
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Thu Nov 19, 2015 12:40 pm

scrapman1077 wrote:155lbs #2 insulated @.60


sucks! I have about 200 lbs #2 insulated and going to have to take what they give... last year was $1 - $1.10 for it!
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:05 pm

file cabinet as clean sheet

140 lb at 58/t
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:17 pm

cleaned out the yard at mammas insistence .
prices reflect a .10 bonus/lb

batteries 211 lb bat .25
ballasts 30 lb at .12
#2 wire 50% 62 lb at .60
#2 wire 25% 63 lb at .50
motherboards 32 lb at .22
#2 wire 25Q% 258 lb at .50 ---this was the years accumulation of cut up xmas lights
copper content 76 lb at .13 --bulbs and cord ends

dearest did a dumb thing,, drove home on a flat tire, then on the rim after the tire came off.
al wheel 30 lb at .58
new one would be 859, used was 169
dirty al 3 lb aaaaaaaaat .21
dirty stainless 8 lb at .19 what gives al more than ss.
dirty brass 3 lb at .45 a single faucet
#2 copper 1 lb at 1.61
dirty al 10 lb at .21'
prepared steel 113 lb at 73
clean sheet al 53 lb at .37
clean stainless 19 lb at .35'
clean sheet al 40 lb at .37
torch steel 26 lb at 63/t
prepared steel 21 lb at 60/t not sure why it was not 73
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:32 pm

cwgii wrote:cleaned out the yard at mammas insistence .
prices reflect a .10 bonus/lb

batteries 211 lb bat .25
ballasts 30 lb at .12
#2 wire 50% 62 lb at .60
#2 wire 25% 63 lb at .50
motherboards 32 lb at .22
#2 wire 25Q% 258 lb at .50 ---this was the years accumulation of cut up xmas lights
copper content 76 lb at .13 --bulbs and cord ends

dearest did a dumb thing,, drove home on a flat tire, then on the rim after the tire came off.
al wheel 30 lb at .58
new one would be 859, used was 169
dirty al 3 lb aaaaaaaaat .21
dirty stainless 8 lb at .19 what gives al more than ss.
dirty brass 3 lb at .45 a single faucet
#2 copper 1 lb at 1.61
dirty al 10 lb at .21'
prepared steel 113 lb at 73
clean sheet al 53 lb at .37
clean stainless 19 lb at .35'
clean sheet al 40 lb at .37
torch steel 26 lb at 63/t
prepared steel 21 lb at 60/t not sure why it was not 73


quite a bit of pounds you had...
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Nov 23, 2015 3:09 pm

2 more steel loads, one sheet iron one torch and then I can get the + $.10 bonus! I am going to have like 20 different categories of metal... should be fun!
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:10 pm

thought you had given up on them/ not worth going to can it for the one faucet . but at .45 vs 1.00 . if I had more I would have gone there.

too bad about your plastic at .15 when I am still getting .40 at normas. of course that is for 100 lb . or close to it.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:13 am

180 lbs. sheet iron $.0165 lb.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:54 pm

180 lbs clean sheet iron $.029 lb.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:24 pm

25 used ink printer cartages. Only got $4.40 total. Do not use Green Hippo Ink Recycling! Big rip off. They said that some were damaged then charges a $5.00 freight reduction as not enough were good... Most of there were from my home printer! I could see the ones that I removed from scrap printers could get damaged...
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Tue Dec 01, 2015 9:21 pm

250 lbs light iron @ $55/GT
30 lbs #1 steel @ $75/GT
150 lbs mixed wire @ $0.40/lb
20 lbs brass @ $1.10/lb
3 lbs #2 copper @ $1.50/lb

$93.63 total
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:33 am

80 lb of a filing cabinet ,,,, clean sheet at 58/t

lost money , paid 3.00 got 2.32 , I thought It weighed more. as the last one was 140 lb. oh well.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:16 pm

34 lbs. Painted Aluminum @ $.35 lb.
63 lbs. Extruded Aluminum @ $.49 lb.
9 lbs. Green Boards @ $.18 lb.
11 lbs. Dirty Stainless @ $.19 lb.
16 lbs. Brown Boards @ $.18 lb.
14 lbs. Coax Cable @ $.14 lb.
59 lbs. Compressor @ $.12 lb.
18 lbs. Ballasts @ $.12 lb.
30 lbs. Yellow Brass @ $1.24 lb.
133 lbs. Irony Cast Aluminum @ $.27 lb.
111 lbs. Copper Content @ $.13 lb.
14 lbs. Die Cast Zinc @ $.30 lb.
10 lbs. Dirty Brass @ $.42 lb.
30 lbs. Stainless Steel @ $.35 lb.
11 lbs. #2 Copper @ $1.60 lb.
5 lbs. Auto Batteries @ $.25 lb.
5 lbs. Auto Radiator @ $1.25 lb.
5 lbs. Cast Aluminum @ $.52 lb.
167 lbs. #2 Insulated Wire @ $.60 lb.
2 lbs. Wheel Weights @ $.21 lb.
1 lb. Lead @ $.40 lb.
5 lbs. NiCad Batteries @ $.25 lb.
117 lbs. Dirty Aluminum @ $.21 lb.
27 lbs. Aluminum Copper Raids @ $.88 lb.

All prices have the +$.10 bonus pricing. Made an extra $89.30 with the bonus
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:10 pm

a computer messup at the cfs scrap yard left me with getting 27.00+ for 2.70 worth of refridgerator.

being too honest, I called the owner over and told him. there were 5-6 people in line . so he said, ''take the gift and shut up :: well sort of.
to which I replied, MERRY XMAS TO YOU TOO.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:38 am

Yep that's cool of him. 1636 lbs. is one big fridge! :lol: Several years ago I had the same thing at a different yard they gave me #1 ins wire price for my #2 I told the guy he thanked me for the info and said keep the money.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Mon Dec 07, 2015 1:12 pm

Had to empty out truck full of fake Christmas trees in order to get our tree... 140 lbs sheet iron @ $.0165
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby everything » Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:37 pm

I love scrapping, went to my favorite place, some of the stuff I bring in they don't know what to do with, have to take it home and figure it out.. anyways. No more circuit boards, what a waste of time those were, should of kept them because I think my other recycler pays more. The batteries were the easiest thing, I'll definitely keep my eye out for those. Actually, I think I'm done for the winter, but I always say I'm done. 49.93 for a whole lot of dumpster driving.
Old sheet Aluminum, 26 @.28 = 7.28
Aluminum Breakage 1 @.05 = .05
Yellow Brass Solids 8 @ 1.20 = 9.60
#1 Insulated Copper 9 @ 1.08 = 9.72
#2 Insulated Copper 15 @ .64 = 9.60
Auto Batteries 101 @.11 = 11.11
Clean Die Cast 1 @ .30 = .60
18/8 Stainless Steel 1@ .22 = .22
Miscellaneous + .10 3 @ .08 = .24
Small Copper Transformer 12 @ .08 = .96
Low Grade Board 11@ .05 = .55
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby hobo finds » Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:16 pm

220 lbs clean sheet iron .029 lb $6.38
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:23 pm

fridge... freezer was 12 inches of solid ice. took the door off and faced it south. came back an hour later and it was loose enough that when I tipped it over most of the ice broke free.

folks had already taken the power cord and most of the copper. then I tipped it, all the oil in the sealed unit came spewing out. ..

100 lb. at 33 /t a whopping 1.65 ,. if I was not going next door anyway, it would not be worth it.
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby smackvay » Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:27 pm

if anyone around west Virginia wants a good place to sell car batteries I can get $12 each for normal batterys and up depending on size :shock:

just shoot me a message if I can help
WVU fan thru and thru, Just ask i will tell you
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Re: What did you scrap?

Postby cwgii » Sun Dec 20, 2015 9:33 am

smackvay wrote:if anyone around west Virginia wants a good place to sell car batteries I can get $12 each for normal batterys and up depending on size :shock:

just shoot me a message if I can help


here in Tucson the prices range from .15-24 /lb so a 60 lb battery nets up 9-14$
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