scrap metal questions

[Rotore]

well like i said in my for sale thread i got kicked out my house and am a parent of a pair of twins so me my girl and daughters are planning to move to puerto rico so i need $600 or exactly $588.

SOOOOOOOOO i have alot of scrap metal and some insolated wire in my room so i was wondering if anyone could tell me if i take this to the recycling center would the work be worth the money?

 

[frederic]

I live in NJ, and one town over is a metal recycler that pays $11.50 per hundred pounds of mixed metal - 500 lbs mininum which is why I toss scrap on the side of the house until I have a full pickup full (typically about 1500-1800 lbs). Mostly short 1" - 4" cutoffs. the longer stuff I keep for projects.

they pay more for aluminum, brass and copper but they want it seperated, cleaned and all other substances (like wire insulation) removed before they weigh it. I personally cannot be bothered and toss everything into the bed, run over the scales, then dump it in the big scrap pile and drive over the scales again. Im too lazy to get out of my pickup aand sort.

I even sort my chips between steel and non-ferrus in rubbermaid containers bolted to moving dollys to collect scrap weight on all the chips and shavings from my lathe and milling machine.

 

[Rotore]

oh ok im dont have the time to sort the metals but i think i have a good 300lbs of metal outside

 

[frederic]

in NJ that would be worth about $34.

 

[Rotore]

dont they take taxes off that in nj?

(hates his travel agent for charging $24 in taxes)

 

[frederic]

they don't take taxes off because I'm supposed to report it via a 1099 form to the irs. yeah right.

 

[Rotore]

oh ok lol do you know any other good ways to make money

 

[crazycart]

How old are you dude...

1 thing out there works pretty well to make money its called a job...

 

[toofarnorth]

The price has dropped considerably on scrap metal from last year I know a guy with a wrecking yard who would get almost $300 for a crushed car early last year now he's lucky to get $100 maybe less.

 

[Rotore]

How old are you dude...

1 thing out there works pretty well to make money its called a job...

17 i've been looking for jobs for the last three months so yees i know what a job is.

 

[t0x1k]

Metal ain't worth the effort and gas to hual it in this economy. I had roughly 500lbs of scrap and i wouldn't even make what it would cost in gas to drive it to the scrap yard. I just threw it to the curb and let some guys who do it for a living take it.

thought 3 years ago, i took about 100lbs of copper guttering to the scrap yard for my boss, got close to $240 for it.

 

[Rotore]

that sucks

 

[frederic]

i often have a 33' two car trailer behind my crewcab, and sometimes on trash night i'll drive around a little and push appliances onto the trailer just by tipping them over, then take any metal i see loose and toss it in the fridges, stoves and dishwashers.

the last run I did was about a month ago... was a good run... had the truck bed overflowing with metal crap and the trailer was full of appliances stacked three high in most places... after three hours of collecting I ran out of room and called it a night. The next morning i went one town over to the scrapyard with 3700lbs of mixed metal.

$400 for a nights work, and no I didn't spend nearly that in gasoline even with my 11mpg crewcab. *maybe* a quarter tank tops.

 

[Rotore]

i'll talk it over with my girl since shes about to kill me for selling all my stuff. (the things i do for my family)

 

[newrider3]

17 i've been looking for jobs for the last three months so yees i know what a job is.

You're 17 and have 2 daughters?

Sounds like you ****ed up dude, no offense. You're going to have to do a lot of things the hard way now.

 

[Rotore]

yea everything is alot harder but i dont regret it me and my girl work things out together. and no offense taken i get that all the time.

 

[porsche930dude]

yea scrap steel aint worth crap but aluminum and copper are worth the effort. Mow lawns, clean gutters, go to the junk yard buy parts for cheap sell online for a profit (I do this with old jeep parts and make a killing)

 

[newrider3]

The thing about scrap like copper pipe/wire, brass, old car cats etc is the scrappers will get real suspicious if you start bringing in loads, due to shadier individuals going around and stealing these materials for the scrap value.

 

[Rotore]

yea scrap steel aint worth crap but aluminum and copper are worth the effort. Mow lawns, clean gutters, go to the junk yard buy parts for cheap sell online for a profit (I do this with old jeep parts and make a killing)

i just recently started doing that with factory turbo's, intercoolers, injectors and honda parts no luck yet but i guess it'll take a some time to get out there.

The thing about scrap like copper pipe/wire, brass, old car cats etc is the scrappers will get real suspicious if you start bringing in loads, due to shadier individuals going around and stealing these materials for the scrap value.

old cats are worth more then people think dude they have valuable metals inside them.

 

[oscaryu1]

old cats are worth more then people think dude they have valuable metals inside them.

Obviously, and due to that, many druggies have taken a hacksaw and started to cut off cat's to people's cars.

Was a big thing about a year ago... I dunno about now. I do have two old 87' Camry cats