Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Sorry if this is a stupid question. I tried to search for a thread about this but could not find one. Do the e waste buyers buy cpu chips by troy pound or regular pound? My current buyer buys my chips based on there being 16 ounces in a pound. I have been weighing my chips in troy ounces. There are 12 troy ounces in a troy pound. Played with the numbers and there is a difference.. any input will help. thank you..
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All e-waste buyers I've ever dealt with deal in pounds for that stuff, not troy pounds.
Experienced Scrapper
would be a whole lot easier if americans used the metric system.
you's sell copper by the pound, yet you buy it by the tonne.
doesn't make sense.
a tonne is 1000kg's, simple, sell copper by the kilogram, tweasy.
1 dollar is 100 cents, why isn't the US$ in pounds then?
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Because the English use poundsOriginally Posted by scrapperben
And before they decimalized their system it was even more messed up than us using imperial measurements with the rest of the world on the metric system.
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we have the SAE ton, and the metric ton. The standard ton is 2000 lbs, and the metric ton is 2200 lbs because its still 1000kg. which at 2.2lbs/kg, is 2200. its rediculous, but because we work with lbs and oz, its not gonna change anytime soon...
but i have a question for you europeans and the way you name numbers...
We're the renegades of Junk!
The buyers are buying pounds of scrap. Once processed the cpu will result in troy ounces of pm and pounds of other materials. So it is proper to purchase the cpu's in pounds. Mike.
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
eWaste Hunter
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That's it, blame us
For home use you can still buy bathroom scales that have pounds and stones on them, but they generally have kilos on them as well.
I know lying is wrong, but if the elephant man came in now in a blouse with some make up on, and said, "How do I look?" Would you say, bearing in mind he's depressed and has respiratory problems, would you say, "Go and take that blusher off you mis-shapened elephant tranny?" No. You'd say, "You look nice... John""
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stone. i forgot about stone... silly system that is
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Don't forget the farthing, shilling, pence, florin, threepence, sixpence, sovereign, crown, and halfpenny. Oh yeah, and Maundy money.
BTW, if anyone knows where I can get a 1970 set of Maundy money, let me know. I collect coins and this is one set I would really like to get a hold of.
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You guys are making my head spin. The britts don't wiegh things in pounds because thiere money is in pounds, could be comfusing.
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Shhhhhh don't give em any ideas .
"anyone who thinks scrappin is easy money ain't doin it right!"
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