Originally Posted by
Joethemillguy
What kind of money do you average per cat?How many cats do you do at once?I see them talking about them on the Gold Refining Forum but no $$$$ amount.I was planning on shipping mine out to the refiner but I need 1000 lbs. to run a batch....Joe
Cant answer your question without having an assay done on both cats.
For example you have two identical cats from the same year cars and approximate miles the same, highway / city car had regular maintenance while the city car did not and the engine was running lean, city driver always doing rabbit starts.
Ok the mixed mileage city highway car was not maintained the engine running lean, rabbit starts the catalytic converter would deteriorate much quicker than the well maintained highway / city car, it is obvious that both cats are not of the same value due to precious metals loss. The city car's cat is near junk with no value.
This part really bothers me that some dumb schmuck will pay the same for both converters not knowing how much of the precious metals remain inside just because he stuck a stick in the can checking to see if the biscuit was intact. You know though the buyer is going to make up for this loss and the seller is going to pay through his ignorance.
I have a deal from the scrap yard where I open them up then pay by the pound, it's a deal that works for both of us, he rips the cats out using the excavator damaging the biscuits inside the canister but it saves him valuable time, and I'm satisfied paying by the pound for damaged cats, because I'm going to mill them into powder anyhow.
Also another yard sells me comb and bead that they get from muffler shops, I hear you asking how does this come to be. Well the farmers are allowed to burn marked fuel the dye in the fuel renders the catalytic inoperable. I've heard rumors that the cats are being cut open while still on the vehicle the comb is removed with the canister being re-sealed.
Then I get a fair amount of cats from the scrap cars i pick up.
Regards
Gustavus
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