Scrap metal FYI

[jawjaboy]

Granny been doing aluminum recycling fer years. Here recently wit da run up in metal prices she doing my scrap brass, copper, etc as well. Dat gal know she a pinch a penny. :wink5:

I been knowing fer years dat pre 1982 pennies were 95% copper, but never put the 2+2 together 'til today. Damn. :rolleyes5: I checked da market, pre 1982 pennies have a scrap value of $.0249989 each.

Jes say'n, check ya pockets, 2.5 cent pennies need ta go in ya recycle buckets along wit ya brass, ww clips, etc.

[MullahElRon]

Don't the man say we cain't?

[jawjaboy]

If da junkman pay me 2.5 cent fer my penny, he can daggum sho hold it. It on him then.

http://www.coinflation.com/

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[AlPackin]

Don't the man say we cain't?
prolly felonious ... illegal to profiteer on the stupidity of the govment

[AlPackin]

speakin a scrap ... got me a gear I shipped home from a job in MI back in the mid 80's ... was gonna make a revolving birdbath outta it. Anyway, been in my front yard ever since ... 600 lb steel hub with a 200 lb bronze gear tooth ring on it ... should check into trading it for lead ... make Mama happy to see it go

[Steve Koski]

Recycling pennies makes baby jesus cry.

[MullahElRon]

Some of 'em gonna be worth more intact.

[MakeMineaP99]

Damn the man!

[jawjaboy]

Some of 'em gonna be worth more intact.

Ya sell a legible date "wheatie"(pre '59) fer 2.5 cents ya jes plain crazy. I a buy all ya got fer 5 cent or bettah. Now then. :thumbsup:

[Steve Koski]

Will you pay shipping too?

[ept000]

Ya sell a legible date "wheatie"(pre '59) fer 2.5 cents ya jes plain crazy. I a buy all ya got fer 5 cent or bettah. Now then. :thumbsup:
Careful JJB, my FIL has an entire suit case full of them. For real.

[Fatdaddy]

A year or two ago I got alot of WL pennies back as change at a couple different places in Albany. I wondered how they got back into circulation.
It's strange getting one back as change occasionally but to get 3 or 4 back at a time, at different places in the same week is really odd.


By the way JJB, where you sellin' your scrap at? Shnitzers Southeast?

[nitesite]

By the way JJB, where you sellin' your scrap at? Shnitzers Southeast?

With a name like that, I bet Shnitzers is the shiz-nit for shifting your schcrap into shillings.

[jawjaboy]

:incazzato:

Dagummit, read da post. :rolleyes5: She da recycler, not me. I da collector(collecteur).

Pay ship'n? :rofl: Yaass ain't cuttin in ta my profit.

[MakeMineaP99]

We're in American, JJB, none of that French spelling.

[Steel Talon]

Granny been doing aluminum recycling fer years. Here recently wit da run up in metal prices she doing my scrap brass, copper, etc as well. Dat gal know she a pinch a penny. :wink5:

I been knowing fer years dat pre 1982 pennies were 95% copper, but never put the 2+2 together 'til today. Damn. :rolleyes5: I checked da market, pre 1982 pennies have a scrap value of $.0249989 each.

Jes say'n, check ya pockets, 2.5 cent pennies need ta go in ya recycle buckets along wit ya brass, ww clips, etc.


Same goes for pre 82 nickles..

[nitesite]

collecteur is definitely someone who eats snails and surrenders. A lot.

I think Shnitzers is Pennsylvania-Dutch. They OK.

[jawjaboy]

Chitlins far as I go NS.

[AlPackin]

like I told susan28, hijacking threads is what we do :)

[jawjaboy]

Susan who?

[AlPackin]

Susan who?

a newbie, types a lot, must have fast fingers

[Fatdaddy]

Wasn't that Johnny Cash's alter ego?

[Fatdaddy]

JJB, find out how much she's gettin' for the scrap. Shnitzer's pays double what the guys in Tifton and some other scrap yards pay.
No 1 copper is bringing $3.10 a lb, No 2 is bringing about $2.85 lb, good prices for around here. (It's how I support my gun\reloading habit)
If'n she gettin' much more than that, let me know where and I'll start toten' mine over your way.:driving:


It just makes me sick thinking how much money (in scrap wire) I've thrown in the trash during my 20 years in the comm bidnes'.:cryin:

[MakeMineaP99]

Up north:

20 ibs, either Cu, brass, Al.

500+ ibs for ferrous.

[nitesite]

Sorry, Mark.

I was tagging my question to get email notification.

What's the minimum amount of copper that a reputable metal recycler will accept for cash? And what about brass?

I'm not talking something like less than a few pounds, but do they want to see 20+ pounds to get a good reading on their scale?

[AdamN]

Nitesite Ive seen guys take in stuff that only neted a few dollars. Usually they will have a little aluminum, copper, stainless, pop cans

[copdills]

:rofl: she doing a good job , keep it up

[GLOCKENNBOOMER]

What about copper jackets left over from berm mining?

[Fatdaddy]

What about copper jackets left over from berm mining?
$3.00/lb in these parts.:patriot: