On the back of the gas valve is a nice piece of brass with a copper tube, unscrew that and the aluminum valve body goes in my aluminum breakage bucket. You could break the valve body down further if you want to spend the time..
Cut the plastic sleeve of the copper pipe/nipple, then separate it from the brass part. They are usually threaded.
Come down about 1/2 inch and nip the end off, the steel rod will then slide out and toss the nipple in the #2 bucket.
On the relief valve cut the end to remove the handle then cut a slot on the aluminum cap that's pressed in there, then pry out the cap and the spring and parts should fall out. You should have some #2 copper, clean brass, aluminum sheet and some steel.
Burner assemble will have a little brass, aluminum tube, copper and steel. At the end of the copper is the thermo coupler, that according to Hypo's write up a while back, can be quit valuable. I clip and save the end for now and throw the copper in #1 bucket.
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