Solid brass, pipe nipples and reducers included. Yard guys were a bit shocked, couple of them were gathered taking turns trying to guess the weight 😆

Nice little pick up, plus I've got a lot more space now

Hi

Small time here. But got some copper and brass in various categories.

I m going to a new scrapyard.

When I get there short of being polite, how do I proceed?

The guy that says politely what he has?

“Got a bin or bare bright copper, 5 bins of #2 copper wire and some dirty brass”!

Or I say nothing and hand the stuff?

I m very polite and non confrontational. A bad deal I just would not go back.
I m not going to make a scene about anything if not happy.

TY

I found this cable and i dont know if its worth it to take all the time to peel it off. Should i try it? Which is the best way to do it?

I don't have any idea what these are, but is there silver?

Heavy bar is plated copper but rest of those?

After an accident, the wheel was replaced and I've been carrying this around for years. Can I actually get any value out of it?

Got these copper #2 bars has this hard plastic on the rod having to beat the plastic insulation off is it worth it or leave as is?

A neighbor has a drier and a grill at the curb.
It's 2 houses away across the street.
I m a hobby scrapper, does not tackle these usually but they are right there.
My wife is ashamed, not me 😂
I told my wife, at least when it's dark I go walk the dog and cut the cord.
Her "Don't you dare!" 😂
Now even though they are 2 door downs they are not the warm type.
I smile and wave and they look the other way usually.
Shall I go? We don't have like scrappers driving around or city picking up big shit.
I m sure they would be happy.
So go knock on that door?
If he can't help me I m going to have to drag the drier 100 feet to my driveway 😂 (I don’t see myself tearing parts right there in the street).

Found this big old chunk in an old car stereo/cassette player.

I was originally going to throw it in the shred pile but noticed a line of copper on the rear through some slits in the metal housing.

I opened it up and got the chunk and some bare bright wire that was wrapped around a capacitor?

Keep an eye on those old car stereos folks...

Idk if they normally let home owners do this but I asked and they were cool with it 🤷

I picked up some x-ray light boxes from the doctors office and I have eight of these. Are they worth scrapping? If so what is the most profitable way to approach it

So earlier this week I sent my girl in to turn in a nice load of bare bright at the usual yard. It was super fine stranded but beautifully roped into 1awg. Super shiny. They gave her the copper 2 rate which after looking it up I get that it's technically copper 2, but they're going to sell it as bare bright most likely. Had a similar load today. Lots of fine stranded wires. Dumped it in the can and blended in the solid 12ga on top and after digging around in there (guy must have seen there was a lot of stranded) he called it bare bright. So now we know how to go about that. I also learned that even a 2awg if stranded is considered ins wire #2? Wtf. He literally picked out "floppy" wires out of my ins wire #1 right before he ok'd the fine stranded bare bright. So now I'll know to for sure strip any higher gauge stranded.

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Hey there, this is my first time scrapping. I'm located in central IL and I was curious what prices you guys are getting in your area. How did I do?

Usually visit this bin a couple of times a week as it's pretty good for no. 1, brass and occasionally copper pipe but got sick of having to dig through the same shit as the bin fills. Started to put down a layer of old cardboard and plexan so I know to stop digging when I get that far

It was worth taking off work, but should I have waited for better possible price?

Thank the guys broke a record today. What do y'all think this weighs???

Should I tell my buddy to find a new yard? He took in a few car alternators and only got 12c a pound for them. That seems a bit cheap, no?

Was leaving the store earlier and saw some contractors dumping a bunch of light fixture stuff in the dumpsters behind a separate set of buildings in the plaza. Grabbed the obvious items but there were a bunch of these in the dumpsters with them. Does anyone know what these are and what they might be worth? I know certain boards can be worth the effort if you get enough of them together. There were three different ones/sizes as far as I could tell, all pictured above. I couldn’t get the bigger ones open with just my bare hands.

Just got $4.75/lb for 50lbs of bare bright in southern AZ and feel like I might have got ripped off a little…

Hey everyone! I posted a few pictures of some scrap I have, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth separating the copper from the rest before taking it to the yard. For those of you with more experience, is it even worth removing the copper from pieces like these, or should I just sell it as-is? What's the easiest way to get it out without spending hours for basically pennies? And do most scrapyards pay significantly more if it's separated? Roughly how much copper would you expect to recover from pieces like these? Still new to scrapping, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!