Copper
Anyone else like it? It is $4.75 per lb now. I do part time work as an HVAC tech. We usually just threw the cut-offs away.
Now, I am collecting them in a bucket.
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I like it clad to the bottom of my cookware.
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everything is a commoditie now
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Junk washing machine and two dryers brought $33.00 yesterday at our scrap yard.
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Have an older home with all copper lines in it... main lines and drain lines. Changing it out soon.
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When you have autonomous federal bureaucracies such as the EPA staffed with leftist ideologues fining and halting mining operations, toss in activist courts with their injunctions, and last but not least POTUS support............ look out because prices will go up. Dont blame me, I voted for Trump
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About 10 years ago copper peaked at about that price . I sold almost $1000.00 worth that i had hoarded over about a 12 year time frame . Friend of mine owns an electrical wiring company . All scrap is saved , sold once a year and is evenly split among his employees
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How much is scrap lead going for?
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Around a $1.00 a pound in nc
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Scraping the old IH DT20. Just hoping she don't come a Kamatsu.
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Old copper pennies are probably verboten for recycling?
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RobOz,that old IH TD20 was almost the official vehicle of the SeaBees in the late60s and early 70s.
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Not sure about the price of copper, but last week I took 8 or 9 large garbage bags of crushed beer cans to the local recycle place and got $72.00...😁
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I was at the scrap yard a month ago and copper #1 was $3.80, and # 2 was at $ 3.46 a pound. Hauled in some brass and that was going for $2.30 a lb. Sheet aluminum is at .52 cents a pound, making another run on Monday. Being retired I make the rounds checking garage sales and picked up a lot of my brass and copper on the trinkets, while searching for vintage tools. The brass candlesticks and copper pots are priced less than scrap so i make something for my time, and i didn't tell the old lady that the nice copper angels she wrapped up were going to get flattened and put in the scrap barrel.
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Brookwood: 31517011647259/comments/31517027602203
Old copper pennies are probably verboten for recycling?
technically illegal to destroy currency outside the mints.........but during the last spike there was a company built on sorting through copper vs. the zinc ones. Don't know how it worked, but they were being sold in bulk for what amounted to much more than .01 per.
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mac10: 31517011647259/comments/31516993821723
everything is a commoditie now
yes......lumber prices are up over 150%
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thorhammer: 31517011647259/comments/31517041478555
I was at the scrap yard a month ago and copper #1 was $3.80, and # 2 was at $ 3.46 a pound. Hauled in some brass and that was going for $2.30 a lb. Sheet aluminum is at .52 cents a pound, making another run on Monday. Being retired I make the rounds checking garage sales and picked up a lot of my brass and copper on the trinkets, while searching for vintage tools. The brass candlesticks and copper pots are priced less than scrap so i make something for my time, and i didn't tell the old lady that the nice copper angels she wrapped up were going to get flattened and put in the scrap barrel.
Goodwill and Salvation Army stores are my friends.
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