The amount of money you can make from recycling metal is based on several factors: 1. where you are located (they pay more in MI than NM); 2. the state of the economy and stock market; and 3. the type of metal you're talking about. Iron, which to recycling outfits includes basically everything from steel and cast iron to crappy unknown punch tin, will only bring a few cents a pound. Clean copper like that found on bass strings (removed from the steel wire), your old plumbing (but not pieces containing soldered joints-cut those out for selling as dirty copper), and electrical wiring (stripped by hand not by fire-fire is dirty copper) will bring $2-3 a pound. Dirty copper (and aluminum) will bring about 2/3 the price of clean. Brass will also bring $2-3 a pound as well as yellow metal (i.e. "chrome" plated brass-if you take your hacksaw to a piece and "shave" off the chrome and it looks yellow underneath it's yellow metal. No yellow means it's just iron.) It's easy to rack up a couple of hundred dollars will a truck load full of aluminum, copper, brass, and yellow metal. But a truck load full of iron will only bring about $20-25. If you're throwing everything into coffee cans anyway. Why not head over to the nearest recycling outfit and get a few dollars for something that would otherwise rust away in a landfill not do anyone any good? Barbara Stephens Mayhill, NM ----- Original Message ----- From: paul bruesch To: Pianotech List Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:56 PM Subject: [pianotech] Somewhat OT... metals recycling This question is mainly directed to those who have a metals bucket for things like old tuning pins, etc. Do you just toss anything metallic in there? e.g. old bass strings, copper wire from when you wired that additional light in the shop? The bent-beyond-belief tomato cage from the garden?? Thanks! Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN _________________________________________________________________ Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing™ now http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try bing_1x1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090930/3b5f30e0/attachment.htm>
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