Hi pretty much totally new to scrap metal, cleared out a ton of old bicycles that were in my garage once and got light iron price for that, Then noticed it was bulk garbage day in my town the other night so decided to drive for a few hours and see what i can grab and made about 49 bucks in light iron between what i found and a few things that were sitting at my house.. Anyway..
I set aside two tv's and a monitor i had found that night to break down and am wondering when scraping the wires in theese do i have to remove all of the connectors, zipties, tape etc? Just how clean does it have to be really? so far i have been cutting them all off but i guess im shorting myself a lot of weight if they can be left on... How about with power cords do the plugs have to be cut off?
Ive read on here there some of the wire is actually aluminum and not copper? does this matter if im not going to strip it? and how do you tell the diffrence if you dont? Is there any other sorting of the wire that needs to be done or does it all just go together? Ie is a power cord the same as a tiny wire on a circuit board as far as there concerned?
Also i noticed that there seems to be kind of braided chains that connect to the degausing cable and 4 bolts on the corners of the tvs, i read in a post on here that this is actually copper? i had assumed it was aluminum until i just read that cause its not yellow/orangeish etc just wanted to make sure this is correct before i start throwing it in with my copper?
Also kinda wondering how does getting payed seperatly for all the diffrent things work at most yards? When i went i pulled up on a scale someone said go i tossed all the crap and got weighed again, How does getting payed for a bunch of smaller amounts normally work? is there normally a smaller scale somewhere?
I will be taking this stuff to scrap yards in and around Newark, NJ btw if anyone else is from the area and can tell me specific procedures or recomend the yards with the best prices.
Oh and one more question, Will yards take aluminum cans? I allways just put them out on recyclables day for the town but i figured hey if im gonna start going to the scrap yard anyway maybe theres a couple extra bucks to be made taking the soda and beer cans etc myself? Anybody do this and is there any money to be had in it?
Thanks a ton for any help everyone it is appreciated!
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