Anybody know about scrap metal?

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slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
I've acquired a fair amount of copper and brass plumbing tube and fittings from DIY capers over the last few years. Copper prices are pretty high right know. Does anybody know how I should sort/separate them before turning up at the scrappy? All other scrappy tips welcome.

Thank you.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
All other scrappy tips welcome.
Beware of the guard dogs when you enter a scapyard!:unsure:
 
I've acquired a fair amount of copper and brass plumbing tube and fittings from DIY capers over the last few years. Copper prices are pretty high right know. Does anybody know how I should sort/separate them before turning up at the scrappy? All other scrappy tips welcome.

Thank you.
Aye aye

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slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
They'll weigh it in and give you the price of the day.
If you have any old immersion tanks, they bang the crap out of it to remove all the scale so they only actually pay for the copper.

Oh, and @Accy cyclist has a point!! If it ain't on a chain... stay in your vehicle :laugh: :surrender:
We took eight copper hot water cylinders to European Metal Recycling, Bedford some years ago. (Don't ask, but it was all entirely above board). It was at the height of the metal commodity boom and the place looked like a scene from Mad Max. They paid you in cash in those days.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
Oh, and @Accy cyclist has a point!! If it ain't on a chain... stay in your vehicle :laugh: :surrender:

He entered the scrapyard to be met with a sign that read Beware of the guard dog. On seeing the German Shepherd chained up he thought he was safe. Then he was met by a crazed Jack Russell charging at him.

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The JR was the guard dog,not the German Shepherd!:ohmy:
 
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screenman

Squire
I've acquired a fair amount of copper and brass plumbing tube and fittings from DIY capers over the last few years. Copper prices are pretty high right know. Does anybody know how I should sort/separate them before turning up at the scrappy? All other scrappy tips welcome.

Thank you.

Just put them in seperate boxes, the people at the scrappie will do the rest, years of running in scrap and I have never had a single problem.
 

Oldfentiger

Veteran
Location
Pendle, Lancs
Oh, and @Accy cyclist has a point!! If it ain't on a chain... stay in your vehicle :laugh: :surrender:

Which reminds me of when I visited a similarly guarded establishment as a sales rep some years ago........
Having parked my car I observed around half a dozen guard dogs, all on chains.
Out of the car, briefcase in hand, I mentally plotted my route to the offices based on the length of chain available to each rabid beast. Easy to see as they were all straining to get at the newly arrived target (me).
I'd successfully negotiated all but the last one, a particularly large and angry wolf-like example. Having got past I glanced back wearing my best smug grin, which seemed to incense the beast into taking another lunge at me, and resting the strength of his chain.
What I didn't know was that a car had parked on his chain, and this last maniac lunge had released another 10 yards of chain I didn't know he had!!!!!
Within seconds I felt his hot breath on my right buttock, and then mercifully he ran out of chain.
I escaped physical injury, but he tore the ar$e outta my suit trousers
 

Mark Grant

Acting Captain of The St Annes Jombulance.
Location
Hanworth, Middx.
I split mine into 3. Brass. clean copper ( no paint on) and dirty copper or copper with brass or soldered fittings on.
I have to produce photo ID and get a cheque.
 
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