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    good auction score

    I went to a tool and machinery auction looking for stuff to re sell. got a couple of good things but to my surprise there were pallets of scrap there. it was obvious it came from a scrapper. I was only going to be able to fit a couple of the long pallets in my trailer. One guy who out bid me took 4 pallets with heavy 4' x4'x4' (maybe a little larger) card board boxes filled with aluminum some where just north of $160 at high bidders choice. (not cast, the type you would find in a machine shop, like cut offs and filings) so he paid around 160 each.
    I took 4 50 gallon drums of #2 insulated wire (one was half full) with a few catalytic converters on top of one of the barrels for $60 and a 4" cube box of aluminum/copper fin (small ac and computer heat sinks, all clean)
    with a few buckets of stuff like solid copper, brass, yellow brass and I got that for $90. I am sitting on the #2 insulated because its only 50 cents a pound right now and its in easy to move (maybe not easy) barrels. I took most of the big box to the yard and totaled $365 for it. still have 3 buckets of stuff I havent recognized yet but each bucket was sorted with something special

    so basically I got my money back on one pallet of scrap and still have a LOT of wire AND a machine i'll clear at least $600 on. it was a nice trip.

    still wish I could have gotten that aluminum but it was a 1.5 hour drive so I was only buying what I could carry. and I was so shocked at what I calculated the weight at I figured I was wrong. I estimated between 6,000 and 7000 pounds
    64 cubic feet times 160b per cubic foot of solid aluminum would be about 10000 minus 30% because it was not solid but a pile pieces put it at 7000 lbs. could that be correct? $3000 per box?

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    I can give you a free quote on your catalytic converters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by APA View Post
    I can give you a free quote on your catalytic converters.

    I only have a 200 byte limit for uploads. don't know why that is but it prevents me from posting pictures

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    Quote Originally Posted by APA View Post
    I can give you a free quote on your catalytic converters.
    this is the one one I took a picture of so far. it just happened to be at hand. there is one on eBay very very similar to 2 I have and it starts at $49. don't have a link to it but its the second one up for bid under "catalytic converter for scrap" and is 21" around and 10" high (same measurements as the ones I have)







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