I am tunch and im new to junk, I joined because i want to learn and not get burned.

Hello from Joliet IL, I am 39, new to scrapping and work with hospice patients providing medical equipment. My supervisor gave me 17 O2 concentrator motors and figured I would make more taking them apart than selling the whole thing, that's how I got started scrapping. I also live in my deceased grandfather house which is jam packed with all kinds of various metals. He was a machinist and the basement has tons of brass, copper, steel and aluminum. There is everything from copper wire, pipes, and 20 lbs chunks of brass and copper. I also have portable oxygen tanks. I have taken beer cans to local junk yards a few times but I'm pretty sure I got ripped off. I know about the grinding test to find out if its stainless or aluminum but I never knew there are so many different types of brass, copper, aluminum and steel and DO NOT want to get taken advantage off! Any help/advise you guys can give me will be greatly appreciated.

So I'm glad I found this place and hope to learn and get honest advice from veteran scrappers. thanks

Welcome to the forum from just a bit east

Welcome to the forum.
If your grandfather was a machinist, some of the metal you have could be sold for more than scrap value.

Going to get burned a few times its part of the learning process... but if you read some of the info on here the burn will not be as bad. Information to help is waiting!

thanks everybody. I'm going to learn as much as I can before I take anything.

I know I should look up old posts but what do you mean by " more value as stock"?