Scrap Metal guidelines for Beginners

**PistoneScrapProcessing** · 04-06-2012, 11:13 AM

Pay 900 dollars a year and subscribe to American Metal Market they have every grade and price available for every market in America. They don't have a number or two grade. There's no such thing as those grades. The yard makes those up to rip you off they might have a 3 foot buyer of plate but its still plate and structural and the mill is buying it as plate and structural. There was also no mention of heavy melt scrap. You can also mix anything with plate even if its under a 1/4 as long as the mill is hungry enough they will take it and not reject it. Right now I could take a dump on top of the trailer headed to the mill and they would buy it as prepared plate.

**taterjuice** · 04-06-2012, 11:34 AM

The last part was a bit graphic lol

**PistoneScrapProcessing** · 04-06-2012, 10:02 PM

Just stating a fact that at the right time the mill will buy crap.

**mikedmissouri** · 04-08-2012, 10:32 AM

My scrap yards only has two grades of steel. Prepared and unprepared. Makes it real easy for me. Most the stuff i run across is prepared.

**taterjuice** · 04-09-2012, 12:31 AM

Cast, prepared, 3'x18"x18", and unprepared. That's how my yard does it.

**BurlyGuys** · 04-09-2012, 07:26 AM

Here (Detroit area) they call it all shred.

**Bull0525** · 04-09-2012, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by happyscraper

I am glade I live in an area that it dosn't matter steel is steel. Steel, iron, cast iron, if a magnet sticks to it- it goes in the steel pile no matter what size it is. In the port of Tampa they have a shredder that can shred a tractor trailor if they were to put one in it.

Completely agree with you. I drive by one steel quite often as its only a couple miles down the road. Right now the have school buses stacked way over plain view and tankers stacked right next to it. Amazing what those machines can do.m

**happyscraper** · 07-12-2012, 09:37 PM

Yeah Bull, I deal with one steel and several yards down in Pinellas co. and they all do things the same. They will put biger things like I beams and cars to one side but they pay the same price. You can fill a car with all diffrant kinds of steel.

**bluemeate** · 09-24-2012, 03:16 PM

i have lots of big old dull copper piping with no soldering, does that fall under 1 or two

**HipToScrapSquare** · 10-18-2014, 11:52 PM

Question:
Can I scrap Mylar balloons?
I know the Mylar from keyboards is scrappable, just wanted to check.
Thx,
Square

**eesakiwi** · 10-19-2014, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by HipToScrapSquare

Question:
Can I scrap Mylar balloons?
I know the Mylar from keyboards is scrappable, just wanted to check.
Thx,
Square

Is this question for real?
The reason why mylar from keyboards is brought is because its got Silver tracking on it.
Mylar balloons have a very thin, so thin you can see thru it, layer of Aluminium on it.