Sell your scrap copper.

pre 1992 1 & 2p coins are apparently worth twice their face value in scrap value - although its illegal to melt them down! Jon

A pity you cannot melt coins down, I could have made two new 10p pieces out of one old one.

Adam

That sounds as though you either didn't have a lot of copper or didn't separate it out.. Copper by itself should fetch around £2.80 - £3.00 / kg this week. £2.20 / kg is about right for brass swarf or heavy brass pieces.

Colin Bignell

"nightjar .uk.com>"

Yes, we're very careful about sorting - except for ferrous metals which at the moment aren't bringing a huge amount. Copper, brasses and lead are valuable. We have a separate bucket for each, Spouse takes them down every few months. The ferrous stuff goes more or less to get it out of the way.

Mary

In message , nightjar writes

How much is aluminium then?

I just happen to have three redundant grain silos. Or, perhaps someone would like a 60' long Nissen hut:-)

regards

I forgot about ally :-) We take that too but prices change, sometimes daily.

If I were anywhere near you ...

Mary

I'd live a 60' long Nissen hut (even better three of them).

I don't think it'll fit inside a 24' flat though. :-(

Owain

i have a decent amount of lead ... where would i take it?

Find prices here:

Whats the difference between heavy copper and braziery copper . A copper cylinder and some pipe ..Is that heavy copper .???

Heavy, in this context, usually means big chunks.

Colin Bignell

Back to the church roof?

Scrap metal merchants are the place to sell scrap metal though.

Colin Bignell

I've never bothered with getting money for steel scrap. By agreement, it just goes into the scrap skip at a neighbouring factory. However, there appears to be enough money in it at the moment to make it worth while for people to pay our industrial estate for every dumped car removed. A few years ago we had to pay to have them collected.

Colin Bignell

|!>> I got GPB 70 for a 32 kg of rubbish. |!>> I probably got a good price because my neighbour who was in the trade |!>> took |!>> it in for me, but still GBP70 is a loot. |!>

|!> That sounds as though you either didn't have a lot of copper or didn't |!> separate it out.. Copper by itself should fetch around ?2.80 - ?3.00 / kg |!> this week. ?2.20 / kg is about right for brass swarf or heavy brass |!> pieces.

|!Yes, we're very careful about sorting - except for ferrous metals which at |!the moment aren't bringing a huge amount. Copper, brasses and lead are |!valuable. We have a separate bucket for each, Spouse takes them down every |!few months. The ferrous stuff goes more or less to get it out of the way.

Agreed my neighbour did the sorting and I got GBP 2.15 per kg for uncontaminated copper, slightly less for copper with solder contamination and less for brass. Still IMO a lot of loot for small quantities of rubbish.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:31:14 +0100, "Roger R" wrote:

|!"Tim Lamb" wrote in message |!news: snipped-for-privacy@marford.demon.co.uk... |! |!> How much is aluminium then? |! |!Find prices here: |!

In message , Dave Fawthrop writes

I might find a ton:-)

Pay for taking them down, anyway.

Now anyone got a use for lots of 6mm stainless nuts, bolts and washers?

regards

"nightjar .uk.com>"

We don't have any local factories, we wouldn't make a special journey (the scrap yard's a mile away for goodness' sake!) but when we have enough other stuff the ferrous stuff goes along.

We have a very good relationship with our scrap yard, we've been dealing with them through four generations - theirs, not ours. For instance, when we want copper sheet they often 'sell' us a hw cylinder.

Mary

i have a decent amount of lead ... where would i take it?

Look in your Yellow Pages for metal scrap merchants.

Mary

Wouldn't there be six from three silos?

Put the flat in the hut.

Mary