Originally Posted by
wannabescrapper
I have been trying to get to town and sell my meager scrap pile for two weeks so I can use the funds to buy many tools that will make scrapping much easier. Mainly I need a vise, some small screwdrivers to open up a laptop and some security torx so I can open up these satellite receivers I have so many of. I was supposed to go in today but when I woke up there was a pretty good snowstorm happening and probably 5 inches of snow on the ground. It's a very windy, hilly 1.5 hour trip to the scrapyard and on April 15 the winter shift was over for the highways so they were down to one plow/sander. I decided that I could wait until it got warm except tomorrow night I start on night shift again and they are 12 hour shifts so I will need to sleep some during the day tomorrow and a trip to town wouldn't be prudent.
So I will fill the van up with stuff I have that I can scrap now, and that is safe to breathe. I have a bunch of radiators from
a/c units to process but I want to limit the dust from cutting, grinding while cooped up in a vehicle. I have a few tvs and a really old
microwave I could do, as well as some other e scrap I could break down. I have to work until Sunday for sure and can maybe get into town on Monday if no jobs come up but by then I will have more than the van is capable of carrying so I might have to leave some shred at home.
I have lots of room for storage but I hate having these piles of shred that aren't worth the space to haul them to town. The van can take about 1200 lbs payload and I'm sure I have that much shred now. I have the option to take it to the dump for free but that seems like an even bigger waste. Maybe take 200 lbs of copper and aluminum and 1000 lbs of shred so the trip makes more than $50?
What about you folks? Does everything go the way you expect? Do you try to keep stuff cleared out or just keep piling stuff up?
1200 lbs of shred or 200 lbs of copper + 1000 lbs of shred, I take the latter without hesitation (for the reasons JJinLV just mentioned and what I wrote in the other thread). Go with the non-magnetic metals first and complete your load with shred. If you have plenty of storage, it won't go away, it won't cost you a dime and you'll always have an opportunity to load it later. Also, make sure that your radiators are clean (no steel attachment at the ends) or you'll be heavily penalized on the price. Old TVs, they won't probably accept them as a whole item. It is another story if they parted them out and you bring them the steel screen inside the glass tube, the circuit board, the degaussing cable around the glass tube and the copper yoke. After that, you'll need to find a way to get properly rid of the glass and the ABS plastics. This is the main problem mostly everybody got with dismantling TVs or CRT monitors.
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