Maryland Scrappers - Page 2

No far from ya
I'm in Southern Maryland down in calvert
Steel goes to Super Salvage, we have two down here about 15 -20 minutes from home
Most brass and copper heads over to the small yard on Rt. 488
Still learning the ewaste part of the business

Just an FYI or warning, I was totally ripped off at Maryland Recycle in Rosedale this past weekend. Several things were wrong and I may not be going back there. This yard is fairly lenient on how you prepare your scrap. They take double and single insulated wire together with ends on them for the same price which I'm OK with and they sometime mix other things like SS and Al. That is where it started this time. I had my SS and Al separate and they mixed them together giving me SS price which is the lower of the two. Then they mixed my dirty brass and clean brass and gave me the dirty brass price for everything. They often dump things in the same bin after they tare the scale. That is what I thought until I saw my ticket and everything was dirty brass.

Next it was .35 for #2 insulated wire. I don't go to the yard a lot, but 2 months ago it was .85 for #2 and I can't think that it went down that much in such a short time? Can anyone confirm this price? The last thing was I brought in 3 car batteries and a smaller battery from a backup system and they weighed me out at 16 lbs. I can promise you that 3 batteries weigh more than 16 lbs. Most of these things I didn't notice until I got home. I did fight with the guy to get extruded Al for my heatsinks instead of cast. But I ended up losing $2 in that operation. I didn't get a good look at the original ticket before he ripped it up and gave me the extruded price, but maybe he penalized me for saying something. It has been my experience that extruded is worth more than cast. So if I decide to go there again I will let them know more firmly that I know what I have and I want to know the category and weight for everything that is going on the ticket. I'm a part timer doing mostly E-waste, so I only get to the yard every few months. Maybe they didn't think that I know what I'm doing. And I guess they were right because I wasn't paying attention to their grading and weights until it was too late. Lesson learned. Is anyone else having a similar problem? If not, watch out if you go there, so it doesn't happen to you.

I put one item/container at a time on the scale and tell them what it is. for example- this is extruded aluminum. also take a notepad and write down items, weights, and tares. this may help keep them on their toes. I have been very fortunate to find a yard I trust and work together with. there are many times I will be bringing up my several carts and barrels of stuff and they will be weighing and emptying the first ones as I bring more up. you can also pre weigh items as well. they also use a touch screen computer system with all items and weights clearly visible.

Hey follow Marylanders. Happy New Year. I wanted to write about my experience at MRP, that was discussed earlier in this thread. I went there this morning with a bunch of low grade boards and power supply units.
The building is pretty nondescript. All you can see from the road is a small sign in front of a commercial building. You drive around back and they have a door and a loading dock with another small sign.
I got there when they opened at 8am. They are only open weekdays from 8am to 5pm. They let me back up to the loading dock and unload my stuff onto a pallet. They weighed it on a floor scale. They showed me the weight and the price and asked if I was ok with it. That was a big surprise to me, they were very up front about what they were doing.
They took my bins to the warehouse to unload, they even gave me a few others to take home that they didn't need. A check was cut up front and brought back to me.
It took maybe 20 minutes. They told me that there is a 100 lbs minimum for people off the street, they deal with big contacts here. I had over 300, so I was good.
It was a great experience and i'm glad to find somewhere to take those low grade boards.
Oh, almost forgot. $0.17 for low grade and $0.25 for power supply with wires.

Thanks PTMD. .17 on low grade might work for me. I usually break them down but with my arm in a cast I'm limited to what I can do. Boards are piling up , about 2000#'s right now. Iam at northern part of state, Delaware line, so it's a lil drive but may be worth it . Gotta do the math.

I depopulated most of the boards of copper, aluminum, and ic chips before I sold them. Just needed somewhere to get rid of the rest for more than shred. It's close to my house too, so that works.

Originally Posted by parttimescrapperMD

I depopulated most of the boards of copper, aluminum, and ic chips before I sold them. Just needed somewhere to get rid of the rest for more than shred. It's close to my house too, so that works.

Wow! Even better!