Useful topics worth reading for a newbie?

**matador** · 01-28-2020, 08:16 PM

There is enough knowledge here from over the years to write an encyclopedia. Where to focus depends on what you want to do? For example, I work in E-Waste primarily. I've hauled in some loads of steel to clean up the yard, and once to help the neighbor out. But, you get the point- what you do with steel and E-Waste can be totally different.

The largest tip that I can give you that will be true for ANY type of scrapping: "The scrap value of an item should be the lowest price you'll get out of something, not the first". If you can sell something as a whole assembly or as parts, you should make more on it than scrap. If you can't, scrapping is your "Worst option" in terms of gain. But, if you scrap everything out, you're throwing away a lot of money that you could have earned

**Drenkoool** · 01-28-2020, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by matador

There is enough knowledge here from over the years to write an encyclopedia. Where to focus depends on what you want to do? For example, I work in E-Waste primarily. I've hauled in some loads of steel to clean up the yard, and once to help the neighbor out. But, you get the point- what you do with steel and E-Waste can be totally different.

The largest tip that I can give you that will be true for ANY type of scrapping: "The scrap value of an item should be the lowest price you'll get out of something, not the first". If you can sell something as a whole assembly or as parts, you should make more on it than scrap. If you can't, scrapping is your "Worst option" in terms of gain. But, if you scrap everything out, you're throwing away a lot of money that you could have earned

Thank you, extremely useful information and inference.