Is there a website that will give me the price being paid for scrap metal? I looked around and didn't find anything.
I have some car stuff that I'm trying to decide if it's better to sell as scrap or not.
Is there a website that will give me the price being paid for scrap metal? I looked around and didn't find anything.
I have some car stuff that I'm trying to decide if it's better to sell as scrap or not.
I got $575 for a rotted out 1968 Caddy if that is any help
my F-I-L is a sales guy at an industrial steel supply house. their pricing system, and of course the contracts they sign with customers, can't keep up with the rising price of scrap. basically, scrap is about a dollar a ton less than the cheapest rolled steel that they sell, but i'm pretty sure it costs more than a dollar a ton to convert it from scrap into a finished product. it's nuckin' futs right now.
Here they give $9/100lbs.
Buy auminum foil lately? 200 ft. roll went from $3.50 to $8.00! Yikes.
Dan
On that show about China I posted on they were showing a group of people demolishing a concrete building. This was China, so they were doing it by hand with sledge hammers. They would push and hammer the walls down, then hammer them into pieces, the goal? to get the rebar for recycling!!
aircooled wrote: On that show about China I posted on they were showing a group of people demolishing a concrete building. This was China, so they were doing it by hand with sledge hammers. They would push and hammer the walls down, then hammer them into pieces, the goal? to not get executed by their government!!
fixed.
Hmmm, not sure that makes sense.
Yes, the government seems to come down REALLY hard on any sort of protest / anti-government thing. But China is HIGHLY capitalistic, and very much non-socialistic. Countries like France are MUCH more socialistic than China. The people scrounge from scrap for the same reason they do in the US, to make money, the more it is worth, the larger extremes they will go to (much like the stories of people stealing pipes an wiring out of buildings in the US for scrap). I am pretty sure the government has almost nothing to do with it.
i recently saw a documentary on that huge dam / hydroelectric project in china. one part of the show focused on the large number of people being displaced from their current residences. they were told:
[loose quote ON] on _____ (date) this location will be underwater. you must move. get your E36 M3 and go. but before you go, knock your house down and neatly distribute the bricks so there is nothing left behind that will damage any boats that will be coming through. [loose quote OFF]
they're highly capitalistic within their communism.
Yes I am sure that happens (as it does, or at least used to, in the US). But there are also cases of what they call "nail houses" who are people who refuse to leave in the path of development. The government does not come it and throw them out, they offer them money!:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-04/03/content_842221.htm
Here they give $9/100lbs.
Holy E36 M3! Are you kidding me!? It's $4/100 here.
My experience with this is that If I haven't called the local recycler within the past 24 hours...my information is probably outdated. The market rate changes daily/weekly at the local level. Not at all unlike gasoline prices.
Clem
Has anyone ever recycled an engine block? I've got a 2.3L Pinto block sitting in my driveway and it needs to be not sitting in my driveway. Do they take that sort of thing? Do I need to pressure wash it or anything before they take it?
--M
Scrap cars are going for $10/100 here, and copper and aluminum is so high that a vacant house with tubing and wires is going to be stripped by crackheads if you don't go by and check it every day, and often even if you do; it's quite frustrating for those of us in the house rental business. OTOH, tenants used to leave junk cars when they moved all the time, and we are seeing much less of that. Apparently even "civilized" countries have their share of scavenger theives.
AngryCorvair wrote: i recently saw a documentary on that huge dam / hydroelectric project in china. one part of the show focused on the large number of people being displaced from their current residences. they were told: [loose quote ON] on _____ (date) this location will be underwater. you must move. get your E36 M3 and go. but before you go, knock your house down and neatly distribute the bricks so there is nothing left behind that will damage any boats that will be coming through. [loose quote OFF] they're highly capitalistic within their communism.
We call it immenent domain.
aircooled wrote: Yes I am sure that happens (as it does, or at least used to, in the US). But there are also cases of what they call "nail houses" who are people who refuse to leave in the path of development. The government does not come it and throw them out, they offer them money!: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-04/03/content_842221.htm
Holy crap! The original offer for that place was $505,452, and they turned it down? That's ~500 year's salary. The article doesn't say what they did settle for.
NYG95GA wrote: Scrap cars are going for $10/100 here, and copper and aluminum is so high that a vacant house with tubing and wires is going to be stripped by crackheads if you don't go by and check it every day, and often even if you do; it's quite frustrating for those of us in the house rental business. OTOH, tenants used to leave junk cars when they moved all the time, and we are seeing much less of that. Apparently even "civilized" countries have their share of scavenger theives.
Shoot here in Columbus Oh Hi ya, they don't wait for the house to become vacant. Just kick in the door after you go to work and you come home to bare , empty walls.
Gas grills loose their lids.. and one of the local soup kitchens had to shut down, when they returned one morning to find all the food in the walk-in spoiled
A quick check out back revealed all the refridgeration equipment in the wind.
If only my co-workers were that industrious!
I get 16.00 each for alum wheels.
The Original BMW cat from the E30 went for 150.00
the cat from my K2500 was 30.00
Scrap metal is going so high that I make more selling Spitfire parts to scrapyards than bothering with e-bay and the like.
foxtrapper wrote: Scrap metal is going so high that I make more selling Spitfire parts to scrapyards than bothering with e-bay and the like.
I can't blame you. At the same time, the high price of scrap is going to strangle the supply of salvage parts for restoration and the like.
Jensenman wrote:foxtrapper wrote: Scrap metal is going so high that I make more selling Spitfire parts to scrapyards than bothering with e-bay and the like.I can't blame you. At the same time, the high price of scrap is going to strangle the supply of salvage parts for restoration and the like.
Yep, I know. Fwiw, almost everything I've scrapped has been true junk quality. Broken axle shafts, cracked engine blocks, flywheels, etc. Stuff you just really can't sell very well. Of course after the last big load I needed about a half dozen of the things I'd just scrapped.
Selling stuff has gotten to be quite the challenge in the past few years. Ebay has pretty effectively killed the selling of small stuff, as have a number of swap meets and car shows by their tent space costs. Spitfire groups like NASS are so unpleasant to deal with I just don't bother to sell things to them any longer. Mention NASS to Ted Schumacher and watch his jaw clench.
I get to scrap an F150 soon. plus we have an olds 350 short block in the basement that will be going, among other things. The big part will be driving a truck with a blown brake line to the scrap yard. 
The huge bummer is with scrap prices so high it's hard to score cool stuff cheap. The above mentioned Caddy probably had a 472, but for nearly $600 scrap weight I wouldn't buy it. I remember when stuff like that was less than $100.
aircooled wrote: Yes I am sure that happens (as it does, or at least used to, in the US). But there are also cases of what they call "nail houses" who are people who refuse to leave in the path of development. The government does not come it and throw them out, they offer them money!: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-04/03/content_842221.htm
Awesome! They should've just stayed another few years on their little "island".
I can't stand Cali's $1000 buy-back program for old cars to "reduce pollution" makes finding <$500 a lot harder out here. Tons of ads read "the state will give me $1000 for this, so first offer over $1000 takes it" for some POS Fiero or something. They're forcing me to look out of state for POS Fieros!
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/avrp/avrp.htm
"Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program"
disgusting
Well...the thing is...it's working.
They're getting those cars off the street. Presumably they're being replaced with cars that don't pollute so much.
And it stinks for us "reusers" (recyclers).
Clem ...who's happy MO doesn't have a government junk-buying program...though we've got so much rust, they might as well...
Scrap metal is going so high that I make more selling Spitfire parts to scrapyards than bothering with e-bay and the like. i ve got about 25 LBC s going crushers coming, members of my club no money and jeweling me down .
I can't blame you. At the same time, the high price of scrap is going to strangle the supply of salvage parts for restoration and the like <<<<< exactly every beer hound has an ad in the paper for junk cars :(
The big part will be driving a truck with a blown brake line to the scrap yard.
Go down to the scrap yard and wait around till the guy with an old rickety truck pulls in hauling a car he will probably do it for $35 bux save you the grief incase something goes wrong follow him then scrap it .
I have about 100 cars going and just gonna keep the good stuff ahhhhhh its all good stuff :( MYFUNDSARELOW
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