My prices 11-14-11 Rochester, NY

[bjybjy]

Took a load in to the yard today in my car. It was mostly stuff left behind from e-scraping after I had pulled the boards, hardrives etc, and dismanted the power supplies and pulled the goodies from inside them. The computer cases, wires, heatsinks, etc.

I found out that my yard classifies almost all aluminum as sheet aluminum: Extrusion, cast, sheet, painted all went into the same bin. If it isn't irony or wheel rims it goes as sheet $.50/lb. I also found it amusing they pay $.09 for irony aluminum at the scales but if you throw it on the shred pile you get $.12/lb.

180 lbs tin at $.12/lb ($270/gross ton)
32 lbs aluminum at $.50/lb
19 lbs copper 1 at $2.50 From stripping wires, transformers and the donuts inside power supplies
1 lb copper 2 at $2.35 The silver colored tinned wire and tinned copper from heat sinks
58 lbs motors at $.22
23 lbs mid grade insulated wire at $.93/lb IDE cables, rainbow power supply wires, a few power cords, etc



$121 all told

[parrothead]

Nice payout for a car load.

[wildbillhappy]

If I could get that kind of price for tin here in Idaho I would be in hog heaven . Were lucky to be getting 155.00 to 160.00 a ton . Any way thanks for the info on prices.

[Mechanic688]

At my yard we take all our old computer fans and cut off the plastic guard from around it and the rest goes in with our small transformers and motors from cd/dvd drives

[bjybjy]

At my yard we take all our old computer fans and cut off the plastic guard from around it and the rest goes in with our small transformers and motors from cd/dvd drives

Thanks for the good idea. Unfortunately the price I'm getting for motors seems to be a bit below average compared to what I've seen others claming to get. If I ever start to get $.30+ a pound I might go out of my way to do this but at only 10 cents over tin I just toss the entire fan in with the random metal bits and with the added weight of the plastic frame that would otherwise have been removed with your method I think I'm currently pretty close to break even and don't have to deal with the hassel of cutting them apart. I tried manually getting the copper out of a couple of them and it is pretty annoying and darn near impossible.

The same goes for the motors out of drives, it is a time sink for such a little motor I'd basically be making a fraction of a cent by tearing them out so I just leave them in the drive and send the entire thing to the shred pile. The big transformers on the low grade boards from computer power supplies I try to get them off for the motor pile but if they are being resistant or in a difficult spot I'll give up rather than spending much time on them.

Definately something to keep in mind though if prices for the motors go up in my area.

[bjybjy]

Quick update, my apartment was getting cluttered so I loaded up the car and took in a few hundred pounds of computer cases, heat sinks and wire.

Steel shread/tin: $287/gross ton =$.12815/lb
55% recovery wire: $1.03/lb
Mixed aluminum: $.50/lb

[High Voltage Processing]

Wow they are killing you on wire. I am currently at $1.26 for 55% recovery.

[bjybjy]

Wow they are killing you on wire. I am currently at $1.26 for 55% recovery.

This is for the rainbow wire from computers that I believe you said in a different post that you don't take? Either way I don't get very large amounts of it, just what I pull from PCs. If you were closer I'd be looking to send my wire your way.

[rewire]

definately sticking it to you, if you can sit on it till you find an aggressive buyer in the area. I find that alot of yards that focus on ferrous aren't as competitive with red metals. I consider myself to be more aggressive buying red metals vs. white metals.

[drozenski]

Quick update, my apartment was getting cluttered so I loaded up the car and took in a few hundred pounds of computer cases, heat sinks and wire.

Steel shread/tin: $287/gross ton =$.12815/lb
55% recovery wire: $1.03/lb
Mixed aluminum: $.50/lb

Are you going to the yard on steel street?

[easyrecycle]

I need to start buying copper....paying only 2.50?? thats low.

[sjones99]

Wow they are killing you on wire. I am currently at $1.26 for 55% recovery.

Thats low also!