Solar, the main thing with scrapmetal is to break the items down into their own seperate metals. Then sell them.

Brass & copper are worth the most & sheetmetal is the lowest.

If you want to see it in action, go to a scrapmetal dealers & watch what people bring in & how they worked on it to get it into the seperate grades.
Get a price list (though most dealers won't give you one as its probably out of date a week later) or pull one off the internet.



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