stainless-n-alumunim breakage price?

[Caveman]

I've got some stuff that is beyond me to break down any more that is stainless steel and aluminum stuck together. What pricing should I try and get at the yard for it? Aluminum breakage, stainless, stainless breakage, or what?????

[jghilino]

my yard does a magnet check, if your is magnet clean id just put it with aluminum, if magnet sticks put it with stainless

[Caveman]

My yard does a magnet check also. If it sticks it's not stainless. http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/image...s/confused.png This stuff is obviously not all al or all ss. Maybe 60% cast al/ 40% SS.

[wavecrazed]

One of my yards here will give me stainless price if it is slightly magnetic. However Stainless is around 45 to 50 right now.

[jghilino]

well thats about the same as clean alu price so i guess it dosent matter

[Caveman]

Local yard gives 13 cents a pound for breakage. Al breakage or SS breakage. 40 cents for SS. Abouts 50 for AL. I could travel a bit and get 20 for breakage.

The thing is none of it is irony. Shouldn't I get something close to SS prices for the stuff?

[taterjuice]

My yard does a magnet check also. If it sticks it's not stainless. http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/image...s/confused.png This stuff is obviously not all al or all ss. Maybe 60% cast al/ 40% SS.

There is such a thing as magnetic ss, but it's bout as valuable as regular metal.

[eesakiwi]

I think I asked about this once at the scrappers & they told me "I'd get the price of the lower priced metal per Kg."

Our Stainless price is pretty much the same as out Ali price anyway. Its just that Stainless is heavier & takes up less room. Returns a better price per volume of metal.

[SikoraMetals]

At our yard, if it didn't look like a piece that could be taken apart easily, we would pay you stainless breakage for it. If it could be taken apart easily, we would pay a little less than the clean stainless price for it.

Stainless is a metal the mills a very finicky about when it comes to classifying clean and contaminated. Even high dollar red metals like copper and brass being attached to stainless causes it to be graded as contaminated. It has something to do with the temperatures the different alloys melt at.

[BohemianLush]

The only stainless that is magnetic is 17-4 and 400 series, and 301 is also slightly magnetic. These should just be brought in with your regular steel. 304 SS and 316 SS (your most common flavors) will NOT be magnetic.

+1 on what Sikora said. You would probably be better off trying to get it labeled as aluminum breakage, as opposed to ss breakage because any contaminates of ss significantly drop the price, whereas aluminum price is not reduced as drastically.

[CTscrapman]

I work in a machine shop. Any ss that is 303 or under is slightly magnetic. But the value in the ss is actually nickel and there is a standard amount which must be present in its composition. So any yard that tells you its not worth as much is just hosing you and pocketing the difference.

[hobo finds]

If you get lucky you could get dirty stainless for it, but yea I've seen any stainless that pulls to a magnet go in with the steel. If it is stainless and aluminum together go with dirty aluminum!

[Bear]

fact is here, dirty aluminum doesn't pay much better than shred anyway

[hobo finds]

Alum mlc is .65 lb
Stailess is .59 lb
Dirty Alum is .25 lb
and sheet iron is .08 - .10 lb

So worth it around here to seperate out Dirty Alum