OK I have searched. I am wondering if there is any value in screws from breakdowns? I have accumulated a lot of screws especially from desktops. Just wondering if you guys get any $$$ for em if so around how much? Or should they just land in the trash? Thanks Jim
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I turn them in with my shred. I know some people have said before they get better than shred for them but I think that depends on your yard.
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I toss them in a steel coffee can, along with other miscellaneous small steel items and small ferrite stuff. When the can is full I take them in with my loose lite iron. I save the plastic lids for transporting the can in case it tips over while driving. I always take the lid off before I get to the scale so the guy can see inside the can. When I get home the lid goes in my recycling bin.
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I'm big on screws atm.
why not keep 'em, they are already a finished product, just a little too good to sell as scrap steel.
but saving them and selling as scrap steel is much better then tossing them in the bin as many seem to do.
I only scrap the rusty & dirty ones.
I thought about what to do with 'em and so far my best idea is to sort them into 3 or 4 sizes,
bag them up into say 1/4 pounders, and sell them as bags of assorted screws one day at a market or something.
just as another product to sell, and cheap, like 50c - $1 a bag.
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I toss them in with shred as well.
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This was covered in a thread I started ages ago. One of the best pieces of advice to come out of that thread was the suggestion to keep all the screws in a bucket. When the bucket is full use a magnet to pull out all the steel screws and toss them in the shred (or save them or whatever). At the bottom of the bucket, you'll be left with about 10 percent copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless screws. And you know what to do with those!Originally Posted by MvPElectronicRecycling
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Exactly. Also, when going over these screws with a magnet, use the neodymium ones that you pull from the HD. If the screws are ferrous, a regular ferrite magnet won't necessarily pick them up....when a neodymium will.
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With the steel screws I just throw them in a 5 gal pail with other small steel pieces...then dump them in the shred pile. Never been yelled at for dumping a bucket. ORRR use them as filler in microwave carcasses, refridgerators, etc. Then the whole container gets tossed off.
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Use em as filler. They add up fast. I save a few for everyday use. The rest go into a coffee cans or grocery bags then filled in appliances. Usually fridge drawers, I tape the drawers closed. No one wants loose screws on the yard floor. I see a holes dumping drums of nails and such all the time. Be considerate of others. The next screw you get in your tire could be from yourself.
Thanks very much everyone! Much appreciated
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About 50 % of the screws from HD's are stainless.
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This does cross my mind when I'm dumping pails. I'll walk farther up the pile and dump them, i've also opened up stoves/fridges/etc that others dumped and dumped them in there.
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I use cookie tins with the lids. Fill them up with screws and small steel put the lid on tape it closed and throw it in the shred pile. I do this because (like russell said) I don't want screws in my tires. Screws, screws everywhere screws. One time I saved a 5 gal. bucket of screws and that thing wieghed about 100 lbs.
Last edited by happyscraper; 08-26-2012 at 05:39 PM.
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On a side note Jack the scrapper pointed out in one of his videos that screws weighed more per volume than appliances. I know this is true from growing up in a hardware store. When I started scrapping I remembered how those small new boxes weighed.
I'm going to fill a 1.5 cubic ft box of screws and weigh it. I'm.going to use that size of box for two reasons; that size of carton is readily available to me and I think it will hold a substantial amount of weight without being obnoxiously heavy.
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once you have the correct weight of a box you could stack just like silver, 10lb boxes or something.
so anytime you can just count your boxes and know what your screws are worth.
it be fun..
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Despite the scrap value, I can’t part with all the belts, bolts, gears, nuts, rollers, screws, springs, washers, et cetera that I remove from scrap items. I have a habit of tearing items down as far as possible to get every screw and nut before adding the metal to the scrap bin. After all, the machined parts are worth more than scrap value to someone who constantly works on things. If the parts are extremely rusted, I let them go to the scrap bin.
Most of them, however, I sort using my Stack-On drawer-style bins. Each bin has 39 drawers – some large, some small. It really helps to organize them all so I don’t have to hunt through jars and boxes, like I had to at my dad’s.
Plus, I’m not “That Guy” dumping a bunch of nails in the scrap heap where they’re going to pop a tire.
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