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    Bronze pricing

    What would it be priced as at a scrap yard...copper or something else?

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    THey pay clean brass price here for bronze.

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    Why brass when it is copper/ tin?

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    My old yard (in Jersey) paid above brass for bronze. $2# brass, $2.35# bronze.
    I just moved so i dont know what yards here are paying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER View Post
    Why brass when it is copper/ tin?
    Both are copper and tin, just different amounts.

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    I thought bronze was copper/tin and brass was copper/zinc?

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    Sorry I stand corrected, brass is copper and zinc.

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    I have a call into to someone selling bronze yard sculptures. Is a garden supply place going out of business so i figured i would get an idea of what i could offer and not take bath on it. Have to call my yard tomoorow.

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    the last time i had a chunk of "bronze" on the scrap scale it was priced as red brass and was a few coins higher than the yellow brass per#
    below is a screen shot of another online buyer that lists prices and breakdowns i check against the yards i use

    watch out for bronze plating on some of those "bronze" lawn sculptures


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    brass is usually copper / zinc where as bronze is copper / tin. Bronze should be paid out 30% higher than brass. The problem would be finding a buyer for it. I am sure the yards love to pay brass price for it.
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    There is Alum Bronze and Mag Bronze both should have a slight draw with a magnet that hangs from a chain. Some places pay more some less depends on if they sell to a mill or another scrap yard. High Tin/Copper brass is usually a machine brass found in gears and bearings its also has lead but no zinc.

    The only way to tell the difference between the 2 is silver nitrate.

    Just throw it all in your yellow unless you have mass quantities of.

    Also some gear brass is Al or Mag bronze so i wouldn't throw it in with your machine brass which is a higher price than red brass.

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