Hi, Help pls

Hi! im new to the scrapper world, well sort of ive been a scrapper for about a month, scraped some small stuff, keyboards and just scraped an old Boxy Monitor, i got a lot of copper and a small ammount of breass out of it, as well as some gold plated boards, i plan to sell all my gold plated boards once i get enough on ebay, but when bringing ammounts of copper and brass wire E.T.C to a scrapyard will they sort it out to make sure its all copper, then weigh it and pay me by the LB or what ever mine does? cuz im not perfect yet at sorting metals im hopeinh they will confirm it for me, am i correct on this? or no

First, thanks for the introduction and welcome to the forum. Second, since you are new to the scrapping world this is not an urgent matter. Slow down, chill out and start reading. There is so much info here about sorting and grading all kinds of scrap if you are really interested in learning and willing to take the time to research. You are not going to find all of the answers right away but if you stick with it they will come. Find scrap yards in your area and ask about pricing. Don't rely on them to sort your scrap for you. When you have enough scrap to sell, go to the yard knowing what you have, have it sorted and know the price per pound.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

First, thanks for the introduction and welcome to the forum. Second, since you are new to the scrapping world this is not an urgent matter. Slow down, chill out and start reading. There is so much info here about sorting and grading all kinds of scrap if you are really interested in learning and willing to take the time to research. You are not going to find all of the answers right away but if you stick with it they will come. Find scrap yards in your area and ask about pricing. Don't rely on them to sort your scrap for you. When you have enough scrap to sell, go to the yard knowing what you have, have it sorted and know the price per pound.

ok. ik the general idea of it but im horrible at sorting, doing tons of research i still have a cup of metal i pulled from old car chargers and what not, that i have no idea what it is, its all non magnetic, and i was hopeing the scrapyard could sort it so i threw it all into the cup... if i needed would they sort it for free?

Absolutely not. What will happen if you take them mixed metal is they will pay you the lowest price for all of it. So you might get 10 cents a pound for it instead of the $1.85 a pound or whatever they are currently paying for the copper. Keep searching and sort what you can for now. It's really not that hard. Concentrate on learning what is brass, aluminum and the different grades of copper.

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Originally Posted by HipoGear

Absolutely not. What will happen if you take them mixed metal is they will pay you the lowest price for all of it. So you might get 10 cents a pound for it instead of the $1.85 a pound or whatever they are currently paying for the copper. Keep searching and sort what you can for now. It's really not that hard. Concentrate on learning what is brass, aluminum and the different grades of copper.

Looking online, i see brass is light and coppers redish, so i think that is completely sorted, now as an IT tech also, i know most computer wire and regular wire is made of copper, yet 95% of my wire sofar ive striped appart has been very light like brass, so i put it with brass, i have a ton of aluminum and steel, as for that cup of metal ill sort what i can but its all no ferrous so :/ but i got huge chunks of aluminum and steel, just got about 2 pounds of i believe steel, ill sort it later, from an old screen, thanks for helping i dont plan to go to my junkyard till i can gert some more stuff to scrap, i was told the sheet in keyboards have silver, and you can use chemicals to get them off, is this true? cuz if so i got 2 and ill sell em on ebay once i got like 50 for someone to take all the steel off of

sorry guys i quit scrapping due to this forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...ors-chips.html i will no longer reply to anything nor agnolage anything here

Sounds to me like you're blaming the forum for your ignorance. I think you were given some pretty good advice to which you turned a deaf ear. (no offense to the hearing impaired)

Why would anyone who is new to scrapping start ripping things off circuit boards? I guess you might consider that a rhetorical question. Most of us already know the answer.

As for the dust you saw, I hope you were outside when that happened and not in your house or apartment. You may have just contaminated everything.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

Sounds to me like you're blaming the forum for your ignorance. I think you were given some pretty good advice to which you turned a deaf ear. (no offense to the hearing impaired)

Why would anyone who is new to scrapping start ripping things off circuit boards? I guess you might consider that a rhetorical question. Most of us already know the answer.

As for the dust you saw, I hope you were outside when that happened and not in your house or apartment. You may have just contaminated everything.

nope,ihaventblamedthe
forum once, and why? because i thought it was worth somthing, ive done it with chips and made money, so i decided to take a look into capacitors, it was inside as its to cold to actualy do it outside, it iwas VERY little dust and as i saw it i backed away for 5 Secconds, then go tan inch closer and blew it off into the distance, it was just circut board dust, then breaking circut boards in half dust appears, its the sotter ripping up part of the board, a microscopic piece of it, and thats what that did, causeing the circut board dust, i never rlly do this outside as its freezeing, and now that i quit scrapping i will nolonger do it Period, i unsubscribed to this thread and will no longer reply to anything inless you send me a Private MSG, bye all

Did a goat just walk through?

Originally Posted by ItAllAddsUp

Did a goat just walk through?

I think it was one of those funny looking goats with the real long neck.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

Could this be our old buddy DopenScrapple (or whatever his name is)

No, I don't think it was DS. DS is still a member and is not on vacation and has not been banned. I think he would post using original member name. I do hope he is ok though.

Originally Posted by LamoidTheScrapper

nope,ihaventblamedthe
forum once, and why? because i thought it was worth somthing, ive done it with chips and made money, so i decided to take a look into capacitors, it was inside as its to cold to actualy do it outside, it iwas VERY little dust and as i saw it i backed away for 5 Secconds, then go tan inch closer and blew it off into the distance, it was just circut board dust, then breaking circut boards in half dust appears, its the sotter ripping up part of the board, a microscopic piece of it, and thats what that did, causeing the circut board dust, i never rlly do this outside as its freezeing, and now that i quit scrapping i will nolonger do it Period, i unsubscribed to this thread and will no longer reply to anything inless you send me a Private MSG, bye all

sorry guys i quit scrapping due to this forum

Your words not mine. I know you've said your good byes 2 or 5 times already but I do wish you would stay and read and learn and quit watching youtube videos where people are ripping circuit boards apart.
I remember when I first started scrapping electronics and how excited and on fire I was. I've been working with phone systems and computers since 1984 and know that there can be some harmful stuff in circuit boards and their different components.
I would suggest to any new member here to read, read, read, read and when you're sick to death of reading, read some more. There are so many threads here with pictures about identifying different metals and circuit boards and how to sort them. Don't worry about depopulating circuit boards right now.
If you are into electronics, get you some boxes or buckets and put the boards that look alike together. Computers are easy. Motherboards go in one box and gold finger PCI cards go in a different box, ram in another and so on.
I always have several boxes of "I don't know what the heck these are". Those boards are usually sorted by my buyer when I go to see him.
Everything you need is right here but you have to learn to walk before you can run.
I've been a member since Sept of 2013 and I'm still learning from old and new threads. Some of what I learn is about goats but most of it is about scrapping or selling for better than scrap value.

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Originally Posted by LamoidTheScrapper

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What does i DS mean?