Metal recycling

[QuorumCAll]

What is that supposed to mean? The rest of the world never breeds anything? Or you guys just don't drink beer? Funny how, like Jim Carrey used to be funny, or like how people who say "peeps" are gay, funny?

Whoa you just turned into Texan Robert Dinero

[monticello]

metalprices.com

[Mulholland]

Sorry man - it just struck me as odd - pimping a dog out on the internet!

Please take it all in good fun! OK?

And with Maluco's recent luck, your dog would end up giving his dog, the doggie AIDs or something!!!

hahaha that was funny, poor maluco. I'm not serious, I was just giving you a hard time because it's fun... bitch

[Mulholland]

Whoa you just turned into Texan Robert Dinero

I'm glad to know at least one person got the reference :nice:

[browntown]

metalprices.com

those are for nice shiny billets from the refinery, scrap is usually bought at about half those prices.

[PiercedE30]

I dunno I have half a dozen beat up bottlecaps to get rid of, and because of the alloy the wheels are made of, the local scrap yard told me 69 cents a pound for the aluminum. Much lower than I was hoping for.

Ha, we get like 15-16 bucks for a scrap aluminum wheel.

[Jand3rson]

Because they do not waste their time with the little paying metals and go straight for copper and other precious metals they can get their hands on. But mainly copper is what they go after since it is the easiest to steal in bulk from many various locations. These bastards have been known around here to go under someones house, while the homeowners are at work, and rob every damn piece of copper plumbing pipes out from under it.

What they do around here is go into and under houses that are under construction, and chop out all the wiring. Then they take it and drag it behind cars down dirt roads, or run it over several times, to make it look like it's old and used, not brand new.

[browntown]

Ha, we get like 15-16 bucks for a scrap aluminum wheel.

That's a little more reasonable than the 15-16 bucks a pound you quoted earlier in this thread. If that were true I could make a grand on bottlecaps.

We are getting about 15-16 bucks per pound of clean aluminum...

[Tree18is]

I dunno, MY MOM! is making her living right now recycling copper steal and aluminum. not bad for a 49 year old lady.

[//MPower]

You need some Tin and Copper y0.

My little brother made $2700 last month scrapping tin.

[PiercedE30]

That's a little more reasonable than the 15-16 bucks a pound you quoted earlier in this thread. If that were true I could make a grand on bottlecaps.

Yea, shit. Sorry 'bout that.

[bmwpower]

Are E30 diving boards all aluminum?

[mrsleeve]

^^^^^^^^^

Yes once you take all the lights and the steel thing off the back

[Rigmaster]

I dunno, MY MOM! is making her living right now recycling copper steal and aluminum. not bad for a 49 year old lady.

Pics of your momz???


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To the OP:
Seriously, WTF did you think you'd get for 102 lbs of steel??? $12 is pretty damn good for something you'd otherwise throw in the dumpster.

There are guys who make $$$ selling scrap steel- but they don't do it 102 lbs at a time. More like 10,000 lbs (or more) at a time. Consider yourself lucky- if you had taken that 102 lb load in 2-3 years ago, you'd have gotten about $2-3 for it.

Around here, scrap cars are worth $8-10 per 100#, which is as high as it's been in a while. I took a couple of scrap cars in a while ago and was happy to get $5 per 100#.

Now, if you can get a flatbed 18 wheeler load of scrap cars together at one time, you can get probably $15-17 per 100 lbs right now. All the junkyards are buying cars one at a time, and then crushing the crappy ones and sending them straight to the large metal recycler that's 15 miles down the road where they pay $$ for full loads. That place will buy cars one or two at a time also, but they pay the same as the junkyard- so it's not worth it to haul the extra miles.

BMW radiators are a decent source of scrap $$$, take a large hammer and bust off the plastic end caps and pull the rubber o-rings off the ends and you have a higher grade of scrap aluminum. Wheels are OK too- especially bent or crappy bottlecaps or those damn TRX wheels.


Bret.

[Teaguer]

^texas peeps are funny

WTF ? They're NOT Texan....those two are dirty Mexicans .