Bucket List

[MattInTheHat]

I figured I would start a list of buckets needed for scrapping in general.

feel free to add to it and i will try to update the list when i can.

Copper #1
Copper #2

Electric motors to turn in
Electric motors to break down

Short steel

Aluminum
Aluminum cast
Aluminum extruded
Aluminum dirty to turn in
Aluminum dirty to clean

Insulated wire to strip
Insulated wire #1
Insulated wire #2
Insulated wire #3

Brass

Stainless

Gold ends
Eproms

Ram gold
Ram Tin
Ram bus
Cpu's sorted in a nut/bolt organizer



Finger board
Motherboard
cd/dvd board
Floppy board
Hard drive board
Mid grade board
Low grade board
Low grade board to break down

[Bear]

money!
small change
large bills
gold bullion

[Gravitar]

What about a trash bucket? Need to keep your area clean!

[Bear]

wish I had (or needed) that many buckets. Whenever I get to what's next I just grab whatever's available and go with it.
Using the trailer for a bucket has its disadvantages, such as having to offload to make an unexpected run

[BurlyGuys]

Power supplies.
Cord ends.

[Roudeleiw]

Power supplies.
Cord ends.

Cord ends? Which one do you keep and could you tell me how much you get per Lb ?
I am thorwing them in the trash

[Mechanic688]

Cord ends? Which one do you keep and could you tell me how much you get per Lb ?
I am thorwing them in the trash

If their power cord ends then their brass and if their computer then either brass or gold flashed.

[hobo finds]

For some reason I am saving heating elements?!> I saw it mentioned on this site, so I remove them and throw in a beer box! Not sure what I will get for them when I do get rid of them! Dirty Stainless or something else?

[mrsamsonite]

For some reason I am saving heating elements?!> I saw it mentioned on this site, so I remove them and throw in a beer box! Not sure what I will get for them when I do get rid of them! Dirty Stainless or something else?

Yes you should get Stainless for the heating elements,

So, maybe a heating element bucket, Yellow brass bucket, Red brass bucket, Dirty brass bucket, and a reusable items bucket.

[pawpaw]

elements are called cad rods 20 cent lb here

[volvoscrapper]

I figured I would start a list of buckets needed for scrapping in general.

Wow. My garage isn't big enough to fit all those buckets, and my scrap yards aren't all that discriminating! Here's my bucket brigade:

1. Copper #1
2. Copper #2
3. Aluminum
4. Ali cans
5. Irony Ali
6. Brass
7. Stainless
8. Insulated Wire
9. Christmas Lights
10. Electric Motors
11. Low Grade Boards
12. Light Iron/shred

plus one box: Future to Smash/more work

and another box: Boards/RAM/CPU to ship away

sealed units, batteries, A/C units sit on the floor

[greytruck]

You forgot transformer bucket

[hobo finds]

I have a small container of wheel weights

[LarryB]

I have a small container of wheel weights

You too eh Hobo. So many types and sizes. I love them. I pour fishing jigs with them during new years week, every year. lb

[WMSTR]

Bare Bright??

[Russell]

sometimes you need big boy buckets too.

[joebob49]

I have a bucket for screws too. They sell fairly well at the flea market.

[Bear]

Where do yall get your steel, and short iron buckets from?

[freonjoe]

I use mostly 55 gallon plastic barrels.
#2 copper
field copper
dirty copper
55% insulated copper
clean cast aluminum
dirty cast aluminum
extruded aluminum (mostly heatsinks)
ni-chrome wire
stove elements
Going to start a #1 copper for all the copper from heatsinks. Mistakes I've made filling barrels, transformers (1180 pounds when full) dirty brass (900 pounds when full) and electric motors ( 800 pounds when full).

[hobo finds]

I have a stack of 5 gal buckets! So a bucket for buckets! I take any buckets I find, cat litter, pool chlorine, empty paint. Can't have enough buckets!