Nice scrapping work!
#16 looks like you have to do some work to figure out what it is. Smashbox it until you have time.
Just a suggestion, sort of what Brandon hinted...at these quantities you might do well to look for a yard that pays decent and just classes everything "aluminum." Some yards even take zinc in with aluminum. it would save you a lot of grief for the few cents you'll make by sorting through all this stuff. If you sort through 30 pounds of aluminum into three categories, then come out ten cents ahead on half of it you got an extra buck and a half for your trouble.
But you're also hitting the scale with 3 lots at ten pounds, likely more tare, not to mention less accuracy on the low end of the scale (like any "gauge" a scale is most accurate in the middle of its rated range; less accurate at the extremes)
Same with the motors and little transformers & such; find a yard that isn't fussy and lump as much in the same box as possible. And don't hesitate to earmark certain items for specific yards. My ali/zinc goes to a different yard than my elmos.
When you don't know what something is or can't get something apart, throw it in the smashbox. You save the smashbox for the dead of winter when there's no scrap to be found. That's when you have time to breakdown the more difficult items, touch the unknown item to the grind wheel, etc.
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