Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Starting a new thread always runs the risk of drawing the ire of the forum but I swear, I looked. I really don't know what it is exactly, what the yards call it, nor exactly what goes in there. Light iron, mixed metal/plastic, labor intensive scrap. Please check in. Thanks!
Experienced Scrapper
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Anything that sticks to your magnet.
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In my pile is nuts, bolts, tin, smaller steel bits, computer carcasses, covers from cd drives, mower handles, and any other mixed metal (mixed with a little plastic). My #1 is heavy pipe, pressure plates, wheel rotors, engine blocks, etc.
P & M Recycling - Specializing in E-Waste Recycling.
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Appliances, furnaces and anything I can stuff into refrigerators.
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Light Iron - Anything that has something that will stick to a magnet and won't go anywhere else.
People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.
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No offense intended , but I've sometimes gotten better search results for smf archives by using Google and adding "scrapmetalforum" as a keyword than by just looking here.
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Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
..and is less than 1/4" thick.Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee
Anything 1/4" or thicker goes in with #1 steel.
Experienced Scrapper
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also be sure your plastic has at least a few screws in it to call it shred and don't "hide" things in appliances.
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i ****ing love this forum... thanks!
We're the renegades of Junk!
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coax cable, low grade boards, light bulbs all get mixed in with my sheet iron / steel as we don't have a shread cat by me
Experienced Scrapper
Well there is Definitely magnetic Stainless Steel, no doubt about it
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me too.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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'Any sort of ferrous metal that I can bend using only one hand'.
This might help you out its a PDF file and describes every type of metal and grade out there. Enjoy the link straight from the institute of scrap recycling industries.
http://www.isri.org/iMIS15_Prod/ISRI...f-e56ce1ccfab5
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Yes, TIN,'Any sort of ferrous metal that I can bend using only one hand'.
And not,,
Last edited by Mechanic688; 12-11-2011 at 12:43 PM.
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Steel food cans, alakaline batteries, fake Christmas Trees
printers..no one stated that one yet.
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Beer bottle caps and the metal thing from floss!
Experienced Scrapper
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Anything that sticks to a magnet or will take way to much time to tear apart for little reward.
If I am tearing something apart for the precious metals and find it is taking to much time, I will toss it in the shred pile. Time is money, and its not worth spending to much time ripping some things apart for a few ounces of aluminum, brass, or copper.
CMHN Recycling
Experienced Scrapper
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Good point, CMHN. When I first started I spent hours peeling every hair of copper that I could find...that meant tearing apart every tiny little motor. I learned. But I still tear into those big motors.....love that big hunk of copper !
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