Question about large brass pipe with steel fixtures and cast iron pipe

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Where I sell, if the vast vast vast majority of the weight is cast iron and is otherwise "contaminated" with only tiny amounts of non-cast irons then it can go with clean cast iron. But otherwise expect HMS prep or something like it whether you separate the steels or not. By your description, see if your yard will give you "95% brass" or something like it for the brass pipe as is. They might categorize it as 80% brass breakage (high grade brass breakage" if it's not a yard that has flexible categories.

So for the brass I would get about 80% of the brass price? $1.60/lb if it were $2/lb?

Thanks for the help.
Cheers.

Originally Posted by bjybjy

So for the brass I would get about 80% of the brass price? $1.60/lb if it were $2/lb?

Thanks for the help.
Cheers.

No because there is recovery costs built into the pricing. They'll either have to pay someone to cut it to separate the non-brass or it goes to a shredder. Either way 80% as a category will usually pay around 55-65% of clean brass. Around Las Vegas anyway, your mileage may vary