Which is worth more - Aluminum Screen or Light Iron?

I have never heard of such a thing... That seems like a cheap way for that yard to make cheat you from a fair price.

So your not suppose to leave the screens in window frames?

ya i knew to take the screws out but i thought the screens were the same as frames
Is there a decent price change by takin the screens out?

ok thanks

I always get a kick out of yards pricing things like this. At my yard clean aluminum is $.50/lb regardless if it is cast, painted, extrusion or sheet. Ironey aluminum is $.09/lb. Mixed shred is $.125 a pound. Why wouldn't I just throw it on the pile for the 1/3 higher price?

The screens can go in with Furnace alum by me which is paying .20 a lb. The high this year was .40 a lb. Sheet iron is .09 a lb with the high of .11 a lb.

There would be a huge oxide layer on those screens, probably paint too.
I've seen them turn to dust in my hands before.


The Ali oxide needs cryolite to turn it back into Aluminum & thats expensive as well as toxic.
Might as well make Ali from Aluminia.

Some stuff I know it isn't worth it so I let it go free, like tinned copper.
For 100Lb's of copper I'd get less then a Lb of tinned.

I am bringing this old post back to life. First of all most scrap yards that I have delt with won't buy al. screening, some will buy the screen if it's still in the fraim but pay dirty sheet. The fraims are sheet al. not extruded. Ware do you get die cast out of doors and windows, die cast isn't even al. it's zink and pays about .10 per lb.