Took in all my bulky steel yesterday, dad wanted it off the side of the house. Remnants of a hot water heater, back of a plasma TV, remains of a vaccum cleaner I took the motor out of (old Hoover, I wasn't chucking plastic into the steel pile). Also brought in a heavy, real small generator, a bathtub, small water tank, and a self-propelled push lawnmower. Totaled 340 pounds, unless I'm reading the receipt wrong. Steel was 0.035/lb, ended up with $11.90 in steel. 33 pounds of electric motors, a pool pump motor, a vacuum cleaner motor, and a few misc small motors out of electronics. Only 0.10/lb, that seems low to me, but I don't really know. Finally, took in my cans at 0.35/lb, not amazing but I'm perfectly happy with that price.
Since it was a Friday, I decided to try out a second local yard that's only open Mon-Fri, called Space Coast Recycling. All I had was a tub full of circuit boards- the guy actually separated out the few mid grade I had instead of just penciling in the whole bin as low-grade like I expected. Now that I know roughly what mid grade is, I can separate it next time. I ended up trading the like $1 in scrap I had to walk out with a Denon cassette deck and a TEAC equalizer from their pile of stereo equipment- they let me take the deck and the equalizer was in "trade" for the bit of circuit boards I had. Denon needs a new cord spliced on the back, but looks intact inside. Equalizer works perfectly. Really nice people there, gonna try and get to that yard more often. The other yard I go to is gonna be relegated to a steel yard, and I'll take copper and aluminum and escrap to this place.
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