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Post by stc1993 on Jul 17, 2024 21:30:24 GMT -5
I was at an auction once and saw a random pallet of shiny balls. They looked like the 12 inch flow through balls in ball valves. They surface was slick as can be. I thought they were stainless and pretty cool, so I bid based on scrap prices. One old man offered $5 I countered with $20. He let me buy them. The next week I put them in my box truck and headed to the Newell scrap yard. We already weighed then at 2100 lbs. I get to the scrap yard and they said oh you have stainless take them over there to drop the pallet. I get to the stainless Bins and one of the workers sticks a magnet to it and it sticks. He said I can only pay you steel prices. I said clearly these are stainless and he said if they're even slightly magnetic I can't pays you. He then says you can take these to our facility in College Park (GA) they have a spectrometer. They'll pay you if they they test stainless. Cool I'm headed that way. I get there and the manager comes out with the spectrometer and burns a spot. He looks at the display and says I'll be right back. 5 minutes later he comes out and says it's Alloy 49 and I can give you $5.19 per pound. He then says I might can get you 15 cents more if you let me useshop it for a week. I said nah ill take the check now. Almost $11k Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! Carpenter Technology www.carpentertechnology.com › ... High Permeability 49 - Specialty Alloys High Permeability "49" is a 48% nickel-iron alloy that possesses the highest saturation flux density of any nickel-iron. Hope this helps. It's almost 1/2 nickle.
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Post by toldya on Jul 17, 2024 21:59:46 GMT -5
I was at an auction once and saw a random pallet of shiny balls. They looked like the 12 inch flow through balls in ball valves. They surface was slick as can be. I thought they were stainless and pretty cool, so I bid based on scrap prices. One old man offered $5 I countered with $20. He let me buy them. The next week I put them in my box truck and headed to the Newell scrap yard. We already weighed then at 2100 lbs. I get to the scrap yard and they said oh you have stainless take them over there to drop the pallet. I get to the stainless Bins and one of the workers sticks a magnet to it and it sticks. He said I can only pay you steel prices. I said clearly these are stainless and he said if they're even slightly magnetic I can't pays you. He then says you can take these to our facility in College Park (GA) they have a spectrometer. They'll pay you if they they test stainless. Cool I'm headed that way. I get there and the manager comes out with the spectrometer and burns a spot. He looks at the display and says I'll be right back. 5 minutes later he comes out and says it's Alloy 49 and I can give you $5.19 per pound. He then says I might can get you 15 cents more if you let me shop it for a week. I said nah ill take the check now. Almost $11k That's a nice score. I have a couple buckets of what I believe is mostly Monel scrap. I went metal detecting along a railroad track with a siding , and the detector wouldn't quit beeping . There was metal in the ground everywhere. Local farmer came by and told me they use to clean out the scrap cars there . I started at the bottom of the banks and worked my way up. I eventually filled 75 buckets (5 gal ) with various non-'ferrous scrap . Copper, brass ,aluminum ,stainless etc. all clean . Sorted and sold it for around 4k but kept what I believe is Monel.
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Post by Tarponator on Jul 18, 2024 0:54:10 GMT -5
Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! Carpenter Technology www.carpentertechnology.com › ... High Permeability 49 - Specialty Alloys High Permeability "49" is a 48% nickel-iron alloy that possesses the highest saturation flux density of any nickel-iron. Hope this helps. It's almost 1/2 nickle. For those who cannot recall and/or do not know (to include me before 20 seconds ago), saturation flux density is, as I understand it, the ability to hold a magnetic charge.
Neat! Just learned something today, and the day is very young.
Thank you.
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Post by bswiv on Jul 18, 2024 5:06:35 GMT -5
Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! Carpenter Technology www.carpentertechnology.com › ... High Permeability 49 - Specialty Alloys High Permeability "49" is a 48% nickel-iron alloy that possesses the highest saturation flux density of any nickel-iron. Hope this helps. It's almost 1/2 nickle. Nickle explains it........
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Post by garycoleco on Jul 18, 2024 6:38:26 GMT -5
I was at an auction once and saw a random pallet of shiny balls. They looked like the 12 inch flow through balls in ball valves. They surface was slick as can be. I thought they were stainless and pretty cool, so I bid based on scrap prices. One old man offered $5 I countered with $20. He let me buy them. The next week I put them in my box truck and headed to the Newell scrap yard. We already weighed then at 2100 lbs. I get to the scrap yard and they said oh you have stainless take them over there to drop the pallet. I get to the stainless Bins and one of the workers sticks a magnet to it and it sticks. He said I can only pay you steel prices. I said clearly these are stainless and he said if they're even slightly magnetic I can't pays you. He then says you can take these to our facility in College Park (GA) they have a spectrometer. They'll pay you if they they test stainless. Cool I'm headed that way. I get there and the manager comes out with the spectrometer and burns a spot. He looks at the display and says I'll be right back. 5 minutes later he comes out and says it's Alloy 49 and I can give you $5.19 per pound. He then says I might can get you 15 cents more if you let me useshop it for a week. I said nah ill take the check now. Almost $11k Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! It's strange stuff. It almost felt oily. It's beautiful stuff
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Post by bswiv on Jul 18, 2024 13:53:45 GMT -5
Come on.....you can't not explain Alloy 59!!!! It's strange stuff. It almost felt oily. It's beautiful stuff I might have had to keep one....
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 18, 2024 14:16:05 GMT -5
I wish I had a hobby that paid, all of mine cost money! 🤑🤑🤑
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Post by gandy on Jul 20, 2024 6:09:39 GMT -5
You pick your hobby.
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Post by toldya on Jul 21, 2024 22:28:11 GMT -5
A real sleeper has been zinc die cast. Hot wheel cars, vintage car grills and many other things . Over a year ago we took a load of stuff to the scrap yard and I had about 6 five gallon buckets of die cast. When I called for current price I was told 45 cents but when I got there the guy said it was only bringing 5 cents a pound so I brought it back home.
I'm sure I have over a ton, maybe 2 of clean die cast. Current average price is around 70 cents. They must need it for something.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jul 22, 2024 6:01:02 GMT -5
Scrap is like the stock market. I sold over 4,000 tons of crushed cars once. The price had just doubled. Oar and boats couldn’t get in to the steel mills when the Great Lakes were hard frozen. That felt real good 👍😊
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Post by toldya on Jul 25, 2024 18:20:19 GMT -5
Got caught up in the shop so took some more stuff inside from the pile. I'm behind on listing stuff in my ebay store but will put the hubcaps back for later rather than scrap them. Saw some mid 60's Super Sport ones in there as well as some nice older truck ones. It's interesting cause it's been quite some time since I've seen this stuff and a lot was just dumped from an auction haul. Work got in the way.
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Post by garycoleco on Jul 25, 2024 19:22:49 GMT -5
Scrap is like the stock market. I sold over 4,000 tons of crushed cars once. The price had just doubled. Oar and boats couldn’t get in to the steel mills when the Great Lakes were hard frozen. That felt real good 👍😊 Before the Bejing Olympics Newell recycling in Atlanta bought copper on a friday at $3.40 /lb based on orders from China. The following Monday the price dropped to .70/lb. Newell had 11 barges on the water total and I think 3 or 4 in harbor in China. China said fuck yall let's renegotiate pricing. Newell said no and China said ship them back to the US. Newell gave in. China was paying them 20% as a deposit and paying 80% on delivery. There was a moratorium on manufacturing to clean up the air, so manufacturers were forced to shut down. China ripped everyone off...
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jul 25, 2024 19:29:45 GMT -5
Man. That had to hurt. 😳
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Post by jstubby2 on Jul 26, 2024 7:40:02 GMT -5
I've been needing to clean out the garage, I just got some motivation:)
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Post by toldya on Aug 9, 2024 18:29:45 GMT -5
I came across a bout a dozen aluminum wheels with tires in my pile. I called Discount Tire and told them what I had and they said 5 dollars to take tire off and 3 dollars disposal fee. Independent shop wanted 10 dollars for take off and 4 for disposal. I have an old tire changer somewhat buried in the shop and could dig it out do the take off, but would still have to haul and pay a disposal fee somewhere. I'm jumping on the Discount Tire deal at 8 dollars apiece. The wheels are bringing 16 dollars apiece locally so probably at least 20 where I would sell them. I'll also be able to better check the wheels to see if any are ebay material, but I doubt it.
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