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    Yesterday's Prices

    Sheet Iron $220/T
    Mixed Al Clips $.62/lb
    Painted Al siding $.75
    Old Cast Al $.66
    Al breakage $.34
    ACSR $.47
    Yellow Brass $2.17
    #1 Copper $3.77
    Bare Bright Cable $4.01
    18/8 SS $.82

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    26 lb Stainless steel: $0.70 / lb.
    280 lb Mixed aluminum (siding, gutters, soffit & extrusions): $0.60 / lb
    600 lb light iron: $12.50 / 100 lb

    Wilmington, DE

    I have not been so crazy about them flat rating my aluminum even if I sort it and Dapper's aluminum prices are a lot higher than mine except for breakage. I should know this, but what exactly is breakage?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meadowview View Post
    ... I should know this, but what exactly is breakage?
    Probably Cast (breakable).
    People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dapper scrapper View Post
    Sheet Iron $220/T
    Mixed Al Clips $.62/lb
    Painted Al siding $.75
    Old Cast Al $.66
    Al breakage $.34
    ACSR $.47
    Yellow Brass $2.17
    #1 Copper $3.77
    Bare Bright Cable $4.01
    18/8 SS $.82

    Green Bay, WI
    Samuels in green bay?

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    According to my yard here, breakage aluminum is anything still on it that sticks to a magnet. Say you break up a garage door, taking the plastic fiberglass panels out and call it good and leave rivets and screws in there, then they call that breakage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tjlock View Post
    ... Say you break up a garage door, taking the plastic fiberglass panels out and call it good and leave rivets and screws in there, then they call that breakage.
    Here, that's called "Irony Aluminum".

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    I get aluminum breakage price for things like weed wackers that have aluminum blocks and aluminum guards. It is almost half aluminum by weight, so they buy it at a special price worth more then shred, but far less then aluminum.

    I couldn't tell you their current price, because anything that has that much aluminum, I usually break down before bringing it in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tjlock View Post
    According to my yard here, breakage aluminum is anything still on it that sticks to a magnet. Say you break up a garage door, taking the plastic fiberglass panels out and call it good and leave rivets and screws in there, then they call that breakage.
    By me its Furnace Alum or Dirty Alum

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    5/5/11 (Yesterday's Prices)

    Sheet Iron $200/T
    Yellow Brass $2.15/lb
    Bare Bright Cable $3.82/lb
    #1 Copper $3.58/lb
    #2 Copper $3.42
    #2 Insulated Cu $1.50


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