scrap prices

the last i checked the bottom grade of copper was over $2 a pound.

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"All that is gold does not glitter..."

Last time I took copper in I got $2.70 for #1 copper and $2.40 for #2, but that was a month or 2 ago.

Call around to your local scrap yards, pricing does vary between them.
I have about 300 lbs of lead and when I called around the prices went from $.04 a lbs to $.07 a lbs. I still haven't sold it yet, debating if I want to keep it for bullets...YMMV

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You got that right! Pretty big yard in my small town, $3 per hundred. Travel 25 miles to the bigger city, $6-plus per hundred for steel scrap.

They just busted a guy here for yanking a/c units out of the backs of unrented houses for the copper. Idiot told the cops he only pulled older units, so the new renters would then get a new one. Claimed he was acting like Robin Hood. Heh! It was the "Robbin" part that the cops were interested in!

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wait until the middle of winter; scrap prices always peak then for some reason. The prices drop in the summer. Last winter the big yard was paying $180/ton for iron car drums/rotors, $165/ton for car bodies (no tires, engines, or gas tanks). For reference normally they pay $40-$60 for car bodies. Aluminum fluctuates daily, sometimes it's $.20/lb, sometimes $1.10. Copper was up to almost $3/lb. which is insanely high for copper.