One thing to remember with selling small weights of
scrap metal, like under 10 Kgs/Lbs.
Is that on average every sale you make is X lbs + 1/2 lb.... (Or Kgs... Yes its worse for us guys in 'Metric land'. :-) )
So 3 lbs is actually 3 & 1/2 Lbs. In two sales of 3 lbs, you are giving them not 6lbs, but 7lbs... You just lost 1lb by selling smaller in weights.
And it took you and the scrap buyer twice as much time to do the transaction(s).
I try and save up as much of any one metal class before selling it.
What really matters after that is that you get the best price for each class of metal you sell.
Looking at what you have done above is good really, you learnt a lot and that means $$ to you, its also called 'Experience' and we all go thru that.
The amount of money I didn't get because when I first started I was not removing and selling the fridge compressors, ....... = $$$.
And now I cut them open for the Copper $$ (its legal to do that here) more $$ for me.
The wiring looms puzzle that you have found might be because if you cut the plugs off (I'm guessing you just cut the plugs off and stripped the outer layers of tape/plastic off) the plugs contain Brass, it adds up.
The wiring looms also use Brass where they ttach wires to other main wires in the loom.
So maybe what you sold them has to go thru the same chopping machine anyway and since you cut the plugs off, it cvost you time and a loss by weight.
The other funny thing, is that in China where they chop up shipping container loads of car looms every day, they actually make money from selling the chopped up insulation.
I have a choice of 3 Scrapyard's to sell to here. I sell to the big name scrapyard.
Its not worth their time to try and 'rip me off'. They will end up with fudged figures and somebody in accounting is going to notice it if its happening.
Truck, 4WD and Boat battery's are made differently than car battery's. They are made stronger because they take much more physical abuse in their work environments. They also don't last as long...
The internal plates are heavier and stronger.
My yard buys them all at the same price per Kg. Its actually a lower price than elsewhere in NZ because they have to travel further and get processed at least twice more before being shipped overseas. Plus the environmental cost factor for each processing.
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Originally Posted by JnJunk
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