Fresh Ideas on Where to Find Scrap Metal

A untapped resource in most areas are the local shooting ranges. Try going to a shooting range and picking up the discharged brass shells; near me they fetch contaminated brass! It may be worth while if people shoot all the time at your nearest range without picking up their shells. Maybe you could work it into your route.

man , you were reading my mind on that one. I called my local shooting range and just from shooting there myself I have seen thousands of rounds (large caliber stuff....223, 7.62x39, 308, etc, etc, just laying around in the ground, So I called and said i was a shooter up there and was wondering if they, or anyone was collectikng the used brass, and to my surprise they said yes they were now picking up all the thousands upon thousands of casings embedded in the dirt at the firing line. Now the sense I got was that I must have been the umpteenth caller on the bras casings subject because I know a guy who shoots up there almost daily and he said that they are picking up only the really good reloadable rounds like the .338, .308, and on. So, I just think it was to pacify my interest in the cartridge situation, so I guess that avenue is shot (no pun intended)

i got a problem that i just cant solve!! i get metal shavings everyday and its a pain! there are these wads of strug together pieces and they are just in the way. what i want is under it. i want the actual shavings and shaving dust. thats where the weight is. i fill up a 4 regular size trash cans and make around $65.00. can someone please help me. i just bought a cordless saw saw.......cant wait to try it

i live in the philly suburbs on the main line and have about 25 colleges within a 20 minute drive of me. most are closer than that though, and the stuff they toss is ridiculous. i dont scrap professionally but i make "artistic" items out of the copper i glean from crap people throw away so im constantly noticing the excessive waste around the end of semesters. im beginning to wonder if my time would be better spent just scrapping the copper im gleaning instead of pouring hundreds of hours into a wireframe elephant or something just as esoteric...