Pots and pans

**lastchance** · 03-12-2013, 05:39 PM

Are all aluminum pots and pans made of cast aluminum?

**zito** · 03-12-2013, 05:59 PM

By me, fry pans get graded as sheet.

**Mick** · 03-12-2013, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by lastchance

Are all aluminum pots and pans made of cast aluminum?

No. Try bending them. If they bend, they're sheet. If you hit them with a hammer and a chunk breaks off, it's cast.

**lastchance** · 03-12-2013, 06:23 PM

Thanks Nick. I just started working at a scrap yard last week and I was doing some sorting today and pulled out a ton of pots and pans that were thrown into our extrusion pile. I knew they didn't belong in there. I cut the handles off and started sorting them. Some of them I knew were sheet and some in knew were cast however some i was unsure of so I asked my manager and he had no clue so I've been on a mission to find the answer. I feel dumb that I didn't think to hit it with a Hamer lol kinda common sence

**lastchance** · 03-12-2013, 06:24 PM

Mick

**happyscraper** · 03-12-2013, 08:38 PM

It boggles my mind that a manager of a scrap yard doesn't the diffrance between sheet and cast aluminum. Was this yard buying aluminum pots and pans as extruded aluminum or did somebody throw them in that pile because they didn't know any better?? Maybe I should bring my pots and pans to that yard.

**Mick** · 03-12-2013, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by happyscraper

It boggles my mind that a manager of a scrap yard doesn't the diffrance between sheet and cast aluminum.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe I should open a yard across the street. Lastchance, maybe you'd come to work for me?

**bluemeate** · 03-13-2013, 10:38 PM

are forks spoon and knives generally just shred/tin? I had some and was just wondering if they might be something more than that

**jghilino** · 03-13-2013, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by bluemeate

are forks spoon and knives generally just shred/tin? I had some and was just wondering if they might be something more than that

usually they are stainless

**sledge** · 03-14-2013, 07:14 AM

Even if silverware is stamped "stainless steel" Touch them with a magnet. I remember when I got into doing this- I proudly brought a good slug of stamped "Stainless Steel" Forks, knives and spoons to the scrap yard, guy hit them with a magnet- steel, shred, crap steel- he said! I even was dumb enough to argue with him- I said "They are STAMPED stainless steel" he said it has an iron content- so not true stainless!

**BurlyGuys** · 03-14-2013, 10:54 AM

At my yard all aluminum pays the same, $.45.

**skylinejack** · 03-14-2013, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

At my yard all aluminum pays the same, $.45.

Same here.

**MsPotatoHead** · 03-14-2013, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by skylinejack

Same here.

I've been going to Southern scrap and extrusion goes @ .50. Cans @ .58. If you're getting higher, please share the yard.

**eesakiwi** · 03-14-2013, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by sledge42

Even if silverware is stamped "stainless steel" Touch them with a magnet. I remember when I got into doing this- I proudly brought a good slug of stamped "Stainless Steel" Forks, knives and spoons to the scrap yard, guy hit them with a magnet- steel, shred, crap steel- he said! I even was dumb enough to argue with him- I said "They are STAMPED stainless steel" he said it has an iron content- so not true stainless!

Yeah, Try gold refining inside your kitchen & watch as all your 'stainless steel' cutlery gets rusty....

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