Sold some copper and brass and got this!

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I'm new to the forum. I live close to Chattanooga, TN and I sold a few pounds of No. 1 Copper and Yellow Brass yesterday. The Copper was mostly 18 gauge bright wiring and brought $3.13 per pound. The Yellow Brass was pipe fittings and brought $1.57 per pound. I also sold some Cast Aluminum pieces which brought 51 cents per pound and some heavier pieces of Aluminum which fit into a scrap grade the buyer refers to as MX6000 Aluminum. It brought 70 cents per pound.
Regards, Chris Hyder.
 

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Welcome to TreasureNet! Very good work, congratulations on the sale of the scrap metals. Your success once again proves that "treasure" comes in many forms. Anything of value can be considered treasure.

Do you also hunt for conventional forms of treasure? Coins, jewelry, relics, bottles, etc?
 

I'm working to set some money aside to get a XLT metal detector. My father had one of those old analog signal detectors that picked up everything in the ground. He was doing metal detecting before most people even knew what it was. Before he passed away he gave me his coin hoard which numbers in the thousands. I haven't had time yet to go thru all it to determine what all he has. Very few people do MD around southeast Tennessee. I have a business in recycling and consulting in scrap metals and related areas so you will see me posting regularly here. Thanks for the reply. Regards, Chris Hyder.
 

From experience I've learned that scrap metal prices can vary a lot in different areas of the country. There are several scrapyards in the Chattanooga area so competition is keen. Most of them work hard to get your business and give you a good price for your metal. But not always! I get a lot of copper wire transformers out of battery backup and computer equipment I scrap out. A transformer in a UPS battery backup usually weighs 5 to 15 pounds each. In Chattanooga there is only one scrapyard that offers to buy them and only offers 10 cents a pound. Instead I take mine to a scrap dealer just south of Chattanooga in Trenton, GA and he pays me 35 cents a pound; a big difference!

I sold several different things this last Friday and this is what I got:

No. 1 Copper (mostly 18 gauge wiring) paid $3.13 per pound.
Yellow Brass (mostly pipe fittings) paid $1.57 per pound.
Diecast (electric motor and pump casings) paid 38 cents per pound.
Cast Aluminum (dismantled harddrives) paid 61 cents per pound.
Insulated wire (appliance cords and power supply wiring) paid $1.33 per pound.
MX6000 Aluminum (computer heat sinks) paid 70 cents per pound.
Irony Aluminum Solids (electrical motors) paid 10 cents per pound.
Corrugated Cardboard (cardboard boxes) paid 5 cents per pound.

regards, Chris Hyder
 

Wow, I am surprised that anyone pays for cardboard. I know it is recycled but was not aware that anyone paid for it.
 

I not that surprised that prices paid for scrap metal are considerably different in different parts of the country. As to why this is so I can't give you an exact answer. In some cases there aren't a lot of scrap scrapyards around in a particular area so not much competition so not as much paid for it. Last fall I was up in Morgantown, WV with my wife for a two week stay at a therapy clinic. While she was in therapy I checked the local yellow pages and only found two scrap metal yards. I called one of them up for test prices. Clean Stainless Steel was paying about $1.35 back in Chattanooga at the time while in Morgantown they only offered 80 cents per pound. No. 1 copper was lower also by about the same amount. I would advise anyone with scrap metal to sell to check all scrapyards for their prices. Big differences in prices paid can abound even in one area. Whoever you are dealing with keep in mind that they are selling what they buy from you to another company which may or may not be an end refiner. Check with all the scrap yards in the biggest cities around your state and area. You could save your scrap metals for a good while then make the long trip to the better paying yard. Regards, Chris Hyder.
 

Transportation is a large part of the difference in prices.I live near the harbor in L A and our prices are usually higher then what I see on these boards.Much of the scrap collected here goes to china.If you ask for a better price and have large quantity's or steady flow you may get the better price locally.With scrap it's all about volume.
 

wayne1956 said:
Wow, I am surprised that anyone pays for cardboard. I know it is recycled but was not aware that anyone paid for it.
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There is a place in Hamilton Ontario Canada that pays for it, but you pretty well need 3000 lbs of it to make $100. Found that out the hard way, had a bunch of paper products and books I thought would be worth something as I must have had 800 lbs in my van, I was extremely cheesed off when I got there and they told me the books were were worth zip because the spines weren't cut off.

I simply don't have the time to be doing that, too busy scrapping computers and electronics which is more lucrative.

I had 100 lbs of cardboard as well, it was only worth $1.50, I told them to void the transaction, because I wasn't getting into cardboard recycling for such a low return.
 

BCR said:
wayne1956 said:
Wow, I am surprised that anyone pays for cardboard. I know it is recycled but was not aware that anyone paid for it.
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There is a place in Hamilton Ontario Canada that pays for it, but you pretty well need 3000 lbs of it to make $100. Found that out the hard way, had a bunch of paper products and books I thought would be worth something as I must have had 800 lbs in my van, I was extremely cheesed off when I got there and they told me the books were were worth zip because the spines weren't cut off.

I simply don't have the time to be doing that, too busy scrapping computers and electronics which is more lucrative.

I had 100 lbs of cardboard as well, it was only worth $1.50, I told them to void the transaction, because I wasn't getting into cardboard recycling for such a low return.
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This is the time to contract out the book binding work. Offer some kid a nickel a book (or whatever) and then sell the paper to the recycler. It's a win-win situation that way. That is how millionaires become millionaires.
 

Sounds like something I could easily get into, how does one cut the spine off a book?
Also doe they take newspaper or is it in a different category.
 

If I can Sale Cardboard Here im Ordering more free Card Board from ebay and the Post office.
They Will send you as much as you want for free.

CC
 

coincollector101 said:
If I can Sale Cardboard Here im Ordering more free Card Board from ebay and the Post office.
They Will send you as much as you want for free.

CC
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Are you talking about new, unused cardboard from the Post Office? Oh please don't do that. The postage rates are already sky-high. Maybe you could solicite used cardboard from stationery stores (Staples, for example), moving and storage companies, or furniture stores? Although, around here the garbage company gives a break on our garbage bills if we recycle our cardboard, aluminum cans, bottles, etc. with them. We in California have to reduce our garbage by 50% by the year of 2010. We are close, but not there yet.
 

Ben_banned said:
Sounds like something I could easily get into, how does one cut the spine off a book?
Also doe they take newspaper or is it in a different category.
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I'd probably use a table or a band saw ;D Ya they take newspaper
 

coincollector101 said:
If I can Sale Cardboard Here im Ordering more free Card Board from ebay and the Post office.
They Will send you as much as you want for free.

CC
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No, please dont do that. That is not considered recycling scrap. :D :D
 

Nice prices, I notice they vary quite a bit on some scrap from state to state!!
 

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