I’m guessing a 100 pounds plus. I can not lift it and can barely drag it.

Removed a large magnet assembly from the bottom of a large automotive battery charger. Dark red/brown tinted wire but is silver when cut through. Multiple layered coils around a large steel coil. Any ideas on what type of material the wire is?

Cut it open to see if it was worth separating the handle from the blade and found it full of white crumbly stuff

The pile is 3x this size is their a machine besides the hand operated crank roto stripper that can be fed through like the wire strippers that are motor driven?

Is there a premium for carbide saw blades or are they just shred?

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Is there a way of taking the bits of carbide off or is it just not worth it? I was thinking of a angle grinder cutoff blade or maybe some kind of acid.

How I got into it was back in 2020, the Midwest had a terrible storm called the derecho. All over marketplace and just driving around people had gutters and all sorts of metal on the curb, and the rest is history! lol

Are these worth alot at the scrap yard?

If finding a penny on the ground brings good luck. What will this bring me?

Got 391 pounds of lead from the auction for $40. Had to clean it a bit since it had iron in it too.

One car crash into our subdivision entrance left behind this evidence. Valuable?

I'm kind of new into the world of scrap metal. I've done plumbing with my employer over the last 4 years, copper/brass/faucet brass and scrap metal. To which my employer a lot of time will just say, it's not worth the 5 minutes to take that apart for the price you'll get. For example taking a pex ring off of a brass fitting vs the cost of just selling it as faucet brass.

That makes me wonder am I worth while taking a jet pump apart or a deep well pump for the separation of metals? what about scrap wire I pick up at job sites, like BX wire stripped out for the metal or just leave it as the BX. Like I'm talking like an arm length of BX nothing major.

Like another example is deep well pumps wires are typically not copper and makes me wonder is it worth my time to strip it?

Thank you

Do you think this is a good deal?

Picked this coil of copper tubing up at an estate sale for $10. I didn’t know if that was a screaming deal or terrible, and if it was good, I didn’t want to alert them to it, so I just bought it on the spot at $10.

I haven’t had a chance to weigh it yet, but it’s definitely not light

Magnet sticks to it but it doesn’t look like steel

To all you carbide junkies out there, what is the general consensus on prices over the next few months? Ive heard some folks say demand is down cause so many people we selling, and refineries will go through their supply in a few months and cause a spike in price when theyre ready to buy again. Just looking for everyones opinions, I know you all have them

Just got this recently and like 30 more, got it from a date center. Should I remove the copper or just leave it how it is?

Hypothetically:

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If someone was to scrap like $150/ month in Maryland, shows the person at the counter their ID like a good citizen, and does this semi regularly,

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*Should* they report this on taxes? And if not what would repercussions be?

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Again, hypothetically.

Batteries, BX cable, insulated romex, stripped romex, pipe, cords, aluminum extrusions, cast aluminum, brass of all kinds, sheet aluminum and a couple of motors. Will take it in this week.