Weighing in scrap metal, worth it?

[Mprice3024]

Hi guys,
Just wondering if many of you have weighed in scrap metal before?
I have an old engine, gearbox, bootlid etc.. that I'd like to get rid of and I have a local EMR place not too far away. Is it worth the effort of taking what I have down there or am I going to be handed over something like a fiver?
Cheers

[town325i]

you might get £20 if your lucky depending on the price of scrap on the day whats the engine out of

[Brianmoooore]

You're about two years too late!

[psychochild187]

scrap here is about £110 a ton

if its a 325 lump they weigh a fair bit
but still about 20-30 max

[jonny323i]

ive been told cars are going for more like £140 a ton round here due to the special metals in alot of cars

[DanThe]

special metals in alot of cars

Dont think so, when you take a car in it just gets cubed and shipped out as light iron (dirty steel in effect) which is as cheap as it gets

[jonny323i]

not round here the local garage is getting good money for his cars a fiesta went for £130 only last week and that was to a middle man

[Nobby_N]

No special metal in a fiesta lol unless the special bit is rust???

[jonny323i]

lmao

[steviec_lj]

Last week, I scrapped;

1994 316i Engine & Box
1 Front Door
2 Rear Doors
1 Bonnet

Oh and a bbq from the back of the garage.

In total I received £29 for all that!!

Alloys are worth £5.25, but they won't take them with tyres on, so to get those removed is £1, then £2.50 to dispose of them. So thats not even worth it these days.

Apparently Brass is the way forward!!

[GrindCulture]

On the upside, I suppose a few pennies for beer is better than a rusting eyesore cluttering up the place.

[DanThe]

Cut the tyres off and fly tip them in a council car park, they will end up at the local tip eventually

[Dezzy]

Tut tut. Fly tipping isn't big or cleaver.

Getting rid of tyres is fooking excpensive.

[Speedtouch]

£90 a tonne, or 9 pence per kilo here. So, an engine weighing say 125kg, would fetch £11.25.

[DanThe]

Tut tut. Fly tipping isn't big or cleaver.

Getting rid of tyres is fooking excpensive.

The local tip will only allow 4 tyres per year, what other choice do peasants have? My theory is, if they have to pay some coont to pick them up and take them to the tip they might re-think the 4 tyres per year rule

I just hide them inside cars full of scrap

[nickso]

Apparently Brass is the way forward!!

brass and copper are making good money again. im weighing mine in tomorrow, from what my mate says from his weighing last week im looking at £100-150.

steel and iron are always worth fuck all. i still take it down cos a couple of quid in my pocket is better than just dumping it.

[e30mazm3]

No special metal in a fiesta lol unless the special bit is rust???

Cataylytic converter? You know whats in them bad boys?

Gold
platinum
another one begining with r i think???

Cats range from £30 to £80 each depending what car there from. Always cut it off before scrapping a car!thats your main value!

[nickso]

I just hide them inside cars full of scrap

late night run to the scrapyard....sling them over the fence.

[Dezzy]

We get rid of 350-500 casings a week mate. Could you hide them in your scap?

If we didn't have to pay for disposal we might make some money.

[DanThe]

I dont run a tyre fitting centre Dez

[Dezzy]

Oh yeh sorry mate. Thats me isn't it.

Could do with getting rid of a few for nowt like. Big bonus for me.
Probs only spend it with you anyway though mate.

[Speedtouch]

No special metal in a fiesta lol unless the special bit is rust???

Cataylytic converter? You know whats in them bad boys?

Gold
platinum
another one begining with r i think???

That'll be Rhodium.

[magpie]

No special metal in a fiesta lol unless the special bit is rust???

Cataylytic converter? You know whats in them bad boys?

Gold
platinum
another one begining with r i think???

Cats range from £30 to £80 each depending what car there from. Always cut it off before scrapping a car!thats your main value!

i got £55 for one off a tourer last year,Bonus

[Brianmoooore]

Local scrap yard here is offering £70/tonne for cars at the moment. Tyres are easy to get rid of around here - just toss them onto any local farmer's stockpile for his silage clamp. I've even taken the odd decent tyre OFF of the pile in the past!
Any surplus are 'disposed of' on November 5th.

[paddywack]

its a good question you got brian, ive a scrap engine couple of alloys and other metal and i was thinking about weighing it in so after reading through this topic i might as well do it as a few quid in the pocket is a bonus i suppose

[gareth]

it'll be worth more if seperated into steel and aluminium first, if you can be arsed. my brother got about £10 for a dead cable extension reel the other day so whipping the loom out of any fragger and weighing that in could be worthwhile too

it all depends on how bored/pikey/skint you're feeling at the time

[steviec_lj]

Can't complain really I suppose, I did advertise the Engine and Box (complete and running) on eBay for about 4 weeks, with absolutely no interest.

Bought me 100 ciggies, so not all bad..well thats argueable I guess.

Next to go will probably be a 325 lump and box, as again, theres no interest. Shame...

[gareth]

if the head is good, get it off and sell it here, they're worth money! the rest of the lump is not worth a lot though

[gcs325i]

Breaking gearboxes in to alloy/ steel is boring/hard work, had 20-30 mini gearboxes that i started on with a sledge hammer, couldn't be fooked and got the scrappy to pick them up with my severely bent mini stock. Unfortunately it was about 7 year ago when you got next to nowt for weighing in a car you were nearly paying for cars to be picked up. Copper, brass and stainless are always worth cleaning before weighing in.

[appletree]

Any surplus are 'disposed of' on November 5th.

Amen to that!

[psychochild187]

our local counsil dump will late you take 5 tires at a time and are opposite the scrap yard
so you basicly driv in with a car
dump car
cross the road and dump the wheels


BUT they wont let you take things from the dump.

(doesnt stop me though) i got a full set of new tires for my mums 15 inch bbs
all matching so thats perfect recycling
took an almost new push bike and gave it to my neighbours kids.

some rules need breaking.

[Morat]

I'm sure that rule is really just "First dibs" for the dayglo people.

[HairyScreech]

nope ours is the same, its because there now run by profit making "waste management" organisations and as such there greedy bastards.

[he30]

Coppers 4k a ton at the mo

[gareth]

Coppers 4k a ton at the mo

so that makes a policeman worth over £300