Stainless steel

A long time ago my scrapper mentioned that if I,
"Found stainless steel, but it was magnetic or very lightly magnetic, keep it separate" & he "would give me a good price for it"

I expect it was, say 50% of the Stainless Steel price (which was higher then) & worth buying in largish lots (100Kg+)
Stainless normally turns up in larger amounts that any nonmagnetic metals & weighs more too.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

A long time ago my scrapper mentioned that if I,
"Found stainless steel, but it was magnetic or very lightly magnetic, keep it separate" & he "would give me a good price for it"

I expect it was, say 50% of the Stainless Steel price (which was higher then) & worth buying in largish lots (100Kg+)
Stainless normally turns up in larger amounts that any nonmagnetic metals & weighs more too.

My yard also told me if its magnetic it goes with regular steel. but one time, the same guy gave me a better price on a sink that was *lightly* magnetic and I had removed the brackets too so it wasn't catching those. So, lol, my yard confuses me sometimes but I wasn't complaining as I got better price. Now, this particular sink, when I ran the magnet over it only stuck towards the bottom. I thought it was odd but on the outside of the sink the bottom half had a white type material painted/sprayed on it so I figured maybe that stuff was attracting the magnet. Anyone know what that stuff is?