I have been at this scrap stuff for a while. Most of it I get and I have figured out that removing small bits of steel and other materials from say brass radiators and sweat fittings from copper will make them clean and worth more but when it comes to stainless steel it gets a bit fuzzy. The yard I sell my scrap to says currently stainless is not worth much more than regular steel so I have not been removing it from appliances I junk out. Most of the stainless I get is the magnetic type. I know there is non magnetic stainless and have had a few items like an old coffee pot recently. I have had many 500 plus pound Viking appliances that were nothing but magnetic stainless inside and out. The front's on them unscrew easily. I scrapped a few of the outer skins separately from the rest of my steel to see and found it paid about the same. So can anyone explain the differences between non magnetic and magnetic stainless steel and which is worth more for scrap.
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