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    Cool Last months scrapping =?$

    Over the last month I got into scrapping to save up some $$.

    Most of the metal is stuff I have found on the side of the road or gotten from a 'whiteware dumping ground'.
    They dump off scrap whiteware & I scrap it out to get the Copper/Brass/Ali/SS
    Theres a bunch of TV's microwaves & washing mc's, computer crts, a car wiring loom & fridge parts (inc a brass freezerbox)

    Over the last month I scrapped >
    45Kg of Copper = NZ$315
    13Kg of Brass = NZ$52
    38Kg of Ali = NZ$57
    28Kg of SSteel = NZ$56

    Total of NZ$474 or NZ$120 a week (US$ = NZ$0.80) or (1NZ$ = US 80cents)

    Cause I gotta carry everything (no car etc) I had to use the nearest place & that did cost me a bit.
    ie Copper $/Kg there is about NZ$6.50 a KG.
    While at another place it was NZ$8.20 a KG

    Also they screwed me on the last sale as I didn't look at the prices when he was writing it down & they had given me a NZ$1.60 Kg for stainless.
    While its actually NZ$2 a Kg.
    Something about "Mixed metal stainless" B*****!,
    I'd checked everything with a magnet & none of it was magnetic.

    They did pay me a bit more because the weight on
    another metal was 1Kg higher than I thought it was & so I sorta got even there.

    If I'd noticed, I woulda got the 1Kg extra & got the better price for the SS.

    Shoulda known too, they once weighed up 3Kg of Copper as 1Kg! Burnt for $12!



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