Prices for today

Just dropped off a load today. Been holding off til prices went up a little but I needed the space so loaded up a load of pretty much all but my bare bright bucket. Here's a list of prices I got. (Northeast Indiana)

#2 ins copper- .80 a #
Sheet aluminum- .40 a #
Cans- .66 #
Misc steel- $80 a ton
#2 copper- $2.15 a #
Elec. Motors- .08 a #
#1 copper- $2.25 a #
Yellow brass- $1.42 a #

Figured motors would've been a little more. Could've threw them in steel and got the same for them lol

Actually, on your electric motors you got twice shred. At 80 a ton, that is .04 a pound. At .08 a pound for the elec motors, you got double.

Just realized that lol. Was getting numbers mixed up in my head. Prettu sure I got .40 a # for motors last time I took them in so still heck of a drop from that. It's been months since I took them in though

40 cents for motors? You were lucky then. Average price for motors before the drop was around 20-25 cents a lb.

Brooklyn NY prices:

Light iron- 5 cents a lb
Low Grade Wire- 15 cents
Dirty aluminum- 10 cents
Stainless Steel- 30 cents
Clean Aluminum- 47 cents
Small lead acid battery's- 23 cents
Car battery's- $9 each
#1 copper- $2.00 a lb
Light brass- $1.15 a lb

Motherboards are still at $1.00 a lb as they've always been. Never dropped or gone up.

Whats interesting about my yard is for aluminum they buy it all as "old sheet" which I dont know if thats dirty or clean or a mix but I just throw all my aluminum clean, or with a bit of plastic or stuff on it and they pay $.45 / lb for it without cleaning it... Could just be for me because there nice but who knows, I keep it fairly clean anyway. But my prices are around the same $.03 - $.05 for shred. Taking a load in tmrow morning and ill know more, stockpiling shred still.

Old sheet is sort of the basic price for mixed aluminum if I'm not mistaken. If you separated it maybe they'd give different categories. My yard buys all clean aluminum in one category they just call it "aluminum" and they'll take things like aluminum screens, aluminum with a few screws, cast grill tops with the bolt still in it, crutches with the plastic and screws still on, and other stuff that would be considered dirty elsewhere as clean. For windows all you have to do is bust out most of the glass and they'll take the whole thing as clean. A few weeks ago I brought in 3 door frames from an industrial freezer I had scrapped and they deducted a lb cause I left a little too much glass on it but that was it. Anything with too much contamination goes as dirty.

At my yard they threw all the alum on the scale at the same time, I had cast, extruded, tubing, sheet alum all separated. Paid one price. I had asked about extruded having a better price and they told me that I was about the only one smart enough to separate it so it all went together.

Christmas lights, .10 lb.
Electric motors, .13
Old sheet alum. .53
alum cans, .60
#2 clean copper 2.10
Unprepared steel $150. net ton.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

At my yard they threw all the alum on the scale at the same time, I had cast, extruded, tubing, sheet alum all separated. Paid one price. I had asked about extruded having a better price and they told me that I was about the only one smart enough to separate it so it all went together.

Christmas lights, .10 lb.
Electric motors, .13
Old sheet alum. .53
alum cans, .60
#2 clean copper 2.10
Unprepared steel 150 net ton.

extruded pays the same as Old sheet @ .53?
I would find another yard.

There's not always another yard.

Got $110/NT for sheet iron today