I Seperated my metals today and they still payed the tin rate for steel???

[abharrison83]

I just started scraping on my vacation about a week ago, and i like it so much i'm thinking about working part-time so i can do it more. However, i was told to separate my metals and i did that today but they wouldn't let my steel be considered steel because it wasn't an inch think. I'm i missing something here who gets inch thick steel. I work around Las Vegas if that helps at all. thanks

[Mick]

Never heard of anything having to be an inch. Here's some generally common guidelines I'd written up a while back:

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/showt...light=Beginner

[hobo finds]

Yards by me in So. AZ pay sheet iron price for most steel. Right now it is .095 a lb.

[Scrap man]

I get paid the same rate for iron, steel, tin, and mixed, no matter the size.

[trashman]

plan on many more times of scrap yards bending you over in many different ways. in ten years, the tables will be turned. yard see you as a virgin.

[trashman]

if you have a job that gives you a regular pay check, DO NOT do less of that to do more scrappin! i wish i had my old job still!

[BigRyan]

On the contrary, I will never work for another person ever again. I like being the boss now (of myself, of course!).