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Scrap metal prices

MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
Checking to see what scrap metal is bringing now that the economy is off.
I sold 300 lb. of scrap brass 2 months ago at $1.40 per/lb.
Called this last weekend to get price on a new load ---.40 per/lb.
How is it in other areas?
I am in Alabama.
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  • MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anyone know what the current rate is for no.1 cleaned aluminum? How about copper prices?
    I have a pile in my back yard that is growing QUICKLY, but I don't want to GIVE it away!
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  • MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anybody sell any scrap brass or aluminum lately ?
    Getting a load up and hoping the prices are up .[:p]
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  • MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Checked today on metal prices in Birmingham.
    Brass is going back up --- .70 per lb.
    Alum cans ----.35
    Builders alum--- .25

    Any changes elsewhere ?
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  • MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rufe-snow was seeking scrap brass prices on the Experts forum and received some interesting answers.

    So, just curious, what does scrap copper and lead bring in your areas?

    Since I'm not moving far, I'm seriously considering keeping all my lead . . . I'm guessing it's well over a ton, much of it in ingots of various hardnesses (pure lead, Lyman #2, wheelweight, linotype). Someday, I'll have a new place and can fire up the Magma furnace again. Won't have to buy any handgun bullets - or at least no revolver slugs - for the rest of my life.

    "There is nothing lower than the human race - except the French." (Mark Twain) ". . . And liberals / DemoWipes" (me)
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  • KnifecollectorKnifecollector Member Posts: 3,266 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I sold a load of #1 Aluminum the other day at 10 cents a pound.
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  • mp5shootermp5shooter Member Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    check here

    http://www.recycle.net/
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 16,926 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Copper here #1, about 1.45 per lb. Cans .33 cents a lb..nambu
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Prices suck right now. I am sitting on about 150 tons of scrap rail and around 7 tons of clean aluminum.... no kidding!


    Waiting for the price to comeback.


    got guns?
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  • MgderfMgderf Member Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mp5shooter
    check here

    http://www.recycle.net/

    Thanks. Guess I might sit on it for awhile[:(]
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  • mp5shootermp5shooter Member Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    Prices suck right now. I am sitting on about 150 tons of scrap rail and around 7 tons of clean aluminum.... no kidding!


    Waiting for the price to comeback.


    got guns?


    i smell b.s.

    just kidding
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,010 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I took in about 30# of spent primers last week and got .26/# for it.
    The guy claimed his buyer didn't like scrap ammo brass/primers due to some live stuff getting mixed in. It takes a LOT of old primers to make that much. I was expecting quite a bit more $$$.
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mp5shooter
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    Prices suck right now. I am sitting on about 150 tons of scrap rail and around 7 tons of clean aluminum.... no kidding!


    Waiting for the price to comeback.


    got guns?


    i smell b.s.

    just kidding


    Yea, whatever buddy! If I didn't have a crapload of your computer scrap in the building, maybe I could stack some more of my scrap in there.[:D][:D]
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    Originally posted by mp5shooter
    Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    Prices suck right now. I am sitting on about 150 tons of scrap rail and around 7 tons of clean aluminum.... no kidding!


    Waiting for the price to comeback.


    got guns?


    Gonna be waiting a long long time.

    I'm still getting grief from my wife cause we're still scrapping. She says the price is too low. I says the price ain't coming back and it's time to clean the place up. I remind her that her brother is still laid off from the idled steel mill and therefore the demand for scrap is low.

    I think there are 5-6 vehicles to go plus a low of small stuff.
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    the way prices for scrap has dropped,i woulder why bullets and caseings have not gone done? greed i guess. eastbank.
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah I'm guessing the same for steel. They hedged their inputs at a high price and don't want to sell their output at a lower price which the market is demanding.
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  • mp5shootermp5shooter Member Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    quote:Originally posted by mp5shooter
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    Prices suck right now. I am sitting on about 150 tons of scrap rail and around 7 tons of clean aluminum.... no kidding!


    Waiting for the price to comeback.


    got guns?


    i smell b.s.

    just kidding


    Yea, whatever buddy! If I didn't have a crapload of your computer scrap in the building, maybe I could stack some more of my scrap in there.[:D][:D]


    you better dump some of your scrap cause i really could use some more of your space for my scrap
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