scrap metal

[turbojolt]

Anyone have much to do with scrap merchants?

I've got brass, copper (clean and dirty), stainless steel and other assorted bits of metal

What's the going rates on this stuff now days, I don't have a clue as I've never done it before lol

[Alex J]

take it to the scrap yard, get it weighed, hey presto!!!!

[turbojolt]

Don't have enough yet and don't want to scrap it whill its not worth much

[Alex J]

scrap goes up and down, so this thread is pointless then lol

[Nick J]

Make sure you seperate it all accordingly as you get more that way. ;)

Nick.

[turbojolt]

Yer I'm doing that right now mate been striping back cable all morning lol

[Alex J]

Yer I'm doing that right now mate been striping back cable all morning lol
is this your retirement payment for british gas lol

[turbojolt]

Yer mate lol

[t40nova]

yeah mate get it weighed in seperate more money that way your talking £150-£170 a ton :thumb:

[turbojolt]

Is that all :o

[Andy]

yeah mate get it weighed in seperate more money that way your talking £150-£170 a ton :thumb:
For what? you dont have a clue obviously.

[mowgli]

non ferrous is worth loads more, look in the yellow pages for your local non ferrous dealers..

[turbojolt]

Sorry for being dim but non ferrous metal would include what brass and copper

[mowgli]

anything not iron or steel.....as in ally copper brass etc.

if you take some mixed scrap into a dealer, you get bottom dollar as it needs sorting, even making sure your steel scrap is sorted makes more money...

[AndyGTE95]

recenty copper was £4000 a ton up my way
brass was also quite expensive

not a great amount of money in steel thought recently got 120 for a mk3 astra but that was in a scrapyard not a metal merchants

[turbojolt]

I've got a good 15 kgs of brass already and haven't been collecting for a month thinking I might keep saving it for a rainy day

[16v Nova Kev]

best to phone the local one and ask what they are paying. about a tenner an alloy and 7.50 for a car battery up here.

[mowgli]

get round the car boot sales & buy up old coal buckets, horse brasses etc....

[Nova_Tek]

So a scrap engine would get naff all really.

[Andy]

So a scrap engine would get naff all really.
I got £12 for a 2.0 8valve

[t40nova]

For what? you dont have a clue obviously.

well usually mixed metals only done the scrap a few times when times get tough.so no i would not have a clue how much copper is a ton! think you need to climb back into bed mate and get out the right side :thumb: and i should explain what metals i'm on about lol

[Bubba]

you mean weighing a car in.

we got a nice bag of titanium swarf at work :p and nickel solids. i think alu is usually around 800-1000 a ton but its light metal. stainless is a bit more iirc. and carbon steel is crap. £80-100 a ton.

[sionrow]

bright wire is £5500 a ton
clean copper pipe is £5000 a ton
and brass is £2700 a ton
and scrap cars a £180 a ton
but that at my scrap yard and at this time scrap is sky high at the moment
but because every one is doing scrap the demaned for scrap metal will so end i think it will
go dwn by mid may so crap it so if i was you and the prices are at my scrap yard other
crap yard may pay less or more it depens on what they get back.

[L14MNP]

When weighing in your ferrous, you don't want to hear the proprietor say 'iony ally' or is it irony?
Took me a few times going before I realised what they were saying, even though I knew what it meant. lol Separate everything, they use magnets! lol

As for where to weigh, go to EMR IMO. They usually pay the best prices for both ferrous and non-ferrous, all of the other dealers just take their scrap to EMR anyway!
Go to the source for the highest prices. As a bonus, you get to see some right pikey gyppos when waiting to drive into the non-ferrous shed. lol