Also you need to know what "clean" means in the scraping business. It does not mean washed clean. It means you have removed all other types of material. If you have one steel screw in an aluminum door the yard could call it "dirty aluminum" and pay about $0.15lb rather than $0.50lb.
You are trying so do the homework here on the forum, read the sticky threads at the top of most sections. Then read as much as you can stand of the old threads. If you do this you will have at least a Masters degree in Scrapology. I am not kidding, help youself out. The amount of things you don't know enough to ask is huge reading here will help you make money. In the mean time save up the material if you can. If not just save the aluminum(Al) and copper(Cu).
I have watched many people join this forum and succeed in this tough business and wish you the best. Mike.
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