Scrap prices

[rtbcomp]

You could put a sealed double glazing unit to the outside to protect them and keep the heat in, but there would be a problem with opening them.

 

[lexi]

Those windows must be the forerunners of the Crittal type.They are amazing. I don`t think Crittal started till after The War. Crittal types are now made with double glazed units but the tooling is modified to accomodate them.

Alex

 

[MrFluffy]

You could make one bizzare rotary opening window with all those fans I reckon.
Central pivot, lots of them like segments, to open sweep the leading edge one round and have a lip on it to catch the others.
Might have a bit of depth on it mind...
And it would have to be one hell of a pivot support....

Nah, ebay them, you'll end up carried away

 

[Ratty]

Nah, ebay them, you'll end up carried away

By the men in white coats?

 

[MrFluffy]

Yes, otherwise you will think of ideas like "crazy garden parasol" using them

 

[rtbcomp]

Today - light Steel (white goods) £954 per tonne; Cast iron £103 per tonne. Personally I though the cast would have been worth more, but that's what they paid me! Expected to be paid about £30 for the Volvo full, got £104

 

[irondarren]

light steel £954 a tonne, blimey ill order 20 tonne of sheet steel tommorrow and weigh it in and make a profit lol do you mean £95 a tonne?

 

[rtbcomp]

light steel £954 a tonne, blimey ill order 20 tonne of sheet steel tommorrow and weigh it in and make a profit lol do you mean £95 a tonne?

I'm looking at the ticket now

KG 473 (Amount of metal plus weight of bin)
T/DED 371 (Tare deducted)
Paid 102 (Weight of scrap)
Rate 954
Amount £97.31

I calcualte rate as
£954 per tonne = £954/1000 per kilo = 95400/1000 pence/kilo 95.4 p/Kg

With £7.62 I got for the cast iron I walked away with £104.90 in my pocket (They rounded down to the nearest 10p)

I know this is the weight of the light steel because that went in the bin, the cast went straight onto the platform of the scales and was weighed as 74 kilos.

 

[rtbcomp]

This might be useful http://www.cfaur.com/find/scrap-metal.aspx

 

[rtbcomp]

Heard on the radio that the old copper 1p & 2p coins are worth more as scrap that their face value. The later ones are copper plated steel and thus magnetic.

NB - It is illegal to melt coins down.

 

[Ratty]

Heard on the radio that the old copper 1p & 2p coins are worth more as scrap that their face value. The later ones are copper plated steel and thus magnetic.

NB - It is illegal to melt coins down.

I heard that too and rushed to my box of pennies with a magnet! 530gm of pure copper...handy for washers (don't tell or I'll be clapped in jail for drilling holes in the queens face )

 

[rtbcomp]

I heard that too and rushed to my box of pennies with a magnet! 530gm of pure copper...handy for washers (don't tell or I'll be clapped in jail for drilling holes in the queens face )

Great minds think alike! Drill the hole from the other side so she doesn't notice

 

[snowcat]

I'm looking at the ticket now

KG 473 (Amount of metal plus weight of bin)
T/DED 371 (Tare deducted)
Paid 102 (Weight of scrap)
Rate 954
Amount £97.31

I calcualte rate as
£954 per tonne = £954/1000 per kilo = 95400/1000 pence/kilo 95.4 p/Kg

With £7.62 I got for the cast iron I walked away with £104.90 in my pocket (They rounded down to the nearest 10p)

I know this is the weight of the light steel because that went in the bin, the cast went straight onto the platform of the scales and was weighed as 74 kilos.

There paying around the £88 ish mark at my local for mixed light, sheering's more, I tend to do about 3 ton every 2 weeks and mixed light has been around the same for a year or so, non ferrous is where the money is...

 

[rtbcomp]

I recently weighed some mixed light steel and got 9 p/Kg (£90 per tonne) so they obviously mixed the weights up between my cast iron and the steel.

 

[oddball90]

£954 is more like price for ally wheels.

 

[Ratty]

Great minds think alike! Drill the hole from the other side so she doesn't notice

 

[zardoz]

It looks like the price for steels is finally on the way down. I just hope that they remember to translate that downward price at the local metal suppliers !

 

[irondarren]

Scrap will go down in price, but as usual at the end of january steel will rise like it always does

 

[SC_BK]

BTW dunno if people heard the "news" a week or two back, the pikies are now nicking all sorts to weigh in. Road signs, bus shetlers, manholes, even brass door furniture!

The police say it's as bad as terrorisim and they've set up a special department to try and deal with it!

 

[SC_BK]

lol nah scrap prices up here are crap, you're lucky if you get £30 for a car


(btw don't think I've seen you posting on here before, whereabout in the 'ayelands you from?)