Resumo de How To Make Money Recycling Scrap Metal - 3

Aluminum - This is a lightweight metal with a dull silver color.Sometimes magnesium is mistaken for aluminum as it looks the same andis also light weight. The big difference is that magnesium isflammable. Just touch a piece of it with a torch and magnesium willignite and glow with a blinding glare. That's why it's used in flares.It breaks easily as you will find if you flex a piece of it back andforth a few times it will snap off. It is used in lawn furniture, cartrim, hand rails, gutters and leaders, storm doors, beverage cans,transmission housings, heavy electrical cable, power tool housings,screening, hub caps, and on rare occasions someone will use it as a lowpressure plumbing fixture or pipe. Aluminum is often classified bydealers as heavy or light grade. Light being things like soda cans andlawn furniture while heavy is all the rest. Some dealers bunch it alltogether. In the case of lawn furniture it's advisable to remove allplastic as this degrades its value. Price: 15 to 45 cents a pound.Iron - This is magnetic so just a touch with a magnet will give itaway. Also it's very heavy and rusts. Iron is used in everything fromcars to girder beams to pipes. Being that it's heavy and common itdoesn't take long to accumulate a lot of it. Accordingly, its value islow too, but remember that with iron you're dealing with a lot ofweight so it can add up. Price: 1 to 4 cents a pound.Stainless Steel - Although this has iron it's non magnetic or onlyslightly magnetic. If it's strongly magnetic then it's classified as"magnetic stainless" and must be sold as iron. Stainless is heavy andhas a dull shine. It is used in car trim, hub caps, hand rails, andbeer kegs. Price: 15 to 35 cents a pound.Lead - This is heavy, soft, dull gray, and has a low melting point.It is used in piping, as weights in scuba diving, it comes in ingots tobe melted for joining together iron pipes in sewer lines, and asfishing sinkers. Price: 8 to 15 cents a pound.Copper - This is the familiar red metal used in household tubing. Intime copper will turn green from exposure to moisture. It's used inwire, tubing, and plumbing fittings most commonly. Copper is classifiedin several categories.There are light, medium, and heavy which is wire, tubing, and tanks.Then there is clean and dirty which is often an arbitrary call by thedealer as it means that if it's dirty it has some contaminants on itsuch as solder or brass fittings. If it has a lot of brass fittings onit then the dealer may only offer you the Price of brass so it's toyour benefit if you take the time and cut off the fittings. Copper wirehas different classifications too. There is burned or stripped (burnedis usually considered dirty copper, especially the heavier gauges ofwire). Burning off the insulation is the fastest method of removing theinsulation but, it is an ecological disaster and if you're caught youcan get a hefty fine from the authorities. Stripping it takes longerbut, it has the advantage of being classified as clean copper which isworth a little bit more. The other classification for copper wire isunburned or unstripped which is worth only half of what it's worthstripped. Price: 35 cents to $1.50 a pound.

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