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Is scrap copper worth anything nowadays?
Hi,
We are just in the middle (well, perhaps not yet in the middle) of redoing our kitchen in our much hacked about house. I have removed a whole load of redundant copper (and lead) piping and a hot water cylinder from the roof space which had undoubtedly allowed generations of plumbers to send their children to private schools and to skiing holidays in exclusive Swiss resorts. Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Cheers, William. |
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"William McNicol" wrote in message m... Hi, We are just in the middle (well, perhaps not yet in the middle) of redoing our kitchen in our much hacked about house. I have removed a whole load of redundant copper (and lead) piping and a hot water cylinder from the roof space which had undoubtedly allowed generations of plumbers to send their children to private schools and to skiing holidays in exclusive Swiss resorts. Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Cheers, William. Copper is at a very high price at present 1680 pounds a tonne, according to : http://www.scrap-metal.info/Prices/C...ME_Current.htm mrcheerful |
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McNicol writes Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Its many years since I weighed-in any lead, but the chap advised me at the time that if I cut out the sweated joints from the lead pipe he would pay twice as much for those as for the pipe with joints. J. -- John Rouse |
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Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Cheers, William. Copper is at a very high price at present 1680 pounds a tonne, according to : http://www.scrap-metal.info/Prices/C...ME_Current.htm mrcheerful I may soon be in the same position as William, how do I go about actually selling the copper to someone? Neal |
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"Neal Jones" wrote in message ... Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Cheers, William. Copper is at a very high price at present 1680 pounds a tonne, according to : http://www.scrap-metal.info/Prices/C...ME_Current.htm mrcheerful I may soon be in the same position as William, how do I go about actually selling the copper to someone? Neal Just look up scrap metal dealers (non ferrous) in the yellow pages. Ring and they will give you the latest price they will pay, take it down, they inspect and weigh it and pay out cash. This is a very satisfying experience !! mrcheerful |
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"mrcheerful" wrote in message ... Just look up scrap metal dealers (non ferrous) in the yellow pages. Ring and they will give you the latest price they will pay, take it down, they inspect and weigh it and pay out cash. This is a very satisfying experience !! It is indeed. But now we go to our local scrap merchant and buy copper cylinders from him. It's official and above board by the way, with all the necessary paperwork. We use the cylinder walls and return unused parts to him as scrap. We make things from the copper sheet, it's far cheaper than buying it new and comes with a patina. Recycling at its best! The scrap yard is also a very useful place becuase it has a weighbridge, great for assessing laden weights of vehicles, the caravan and the like. Mary mrcheerful |
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:13:53 GMT, mrcheerful wrote:
Copper is at a very high price at present 1680 pounds a tonne, or =A31.68/kg I guess a scrappy will pay 50% to 75% of that if you are lucky... -- Cheers Dave. pam is missing e-mail |
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Yes.. I have just taken out the copper pipe-work and copper HW tank
and sold them for £25. It was a very small flat only two rooms. It was very important to remaove any brass fittings,(quite easy with copper pipe cutters). |
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John Rouse wrote in message ...
In article , William McNicol writes Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Its many years since I weighed-in any lead, but the chap advised me at the time that if I cut out the sweated joints from the lead pipe he would pay twice as much for those as for the pipe with joints. J. Thanks for all the advice folks. I think I'll encourage my 15 year old son to sort it out for a share of the profits... He seems to like the idea! Cheers, William. |
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"William McNicol" wrote in message om... John Rouse wrote in message ... In article , William McNicol writes Is it likely to be worth the trouble of cutting up to fit in the car to sell for scrap? What sort of price /Kg would I get? (Should I remove fittings or just leave them on?) Its many years since I weighed-in any lead, but the chap advised me at the time that if I cut out the sweated joints from the lead pipe he would pay twice as much for those as for the pipe with joints. J. Thanks for all the advice folks. I think I'll encourage my 15 year old son to sort it out for a share of the profits... He seems to like the idea! Yes, it's the modern version of collecting jars and bottles to return to shops and pubs ... oh happy days ;-) Mary Cheers, William. |
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I sold a cylinder and some old copper pipe to a scrap yard just a week ago -
the rate (rang around, it was the same at all the scrappies) was £700 per tonne - I got £18 so it's worth the effort. |
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There was fair bit of older copper pipe. Thicker than the modern stuff wannit?
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"William McNicol" wrote in message m... (Paper2002AD) wrote in message ... There was fair bit of older copper pipe. Thicker than the modern stuff wannit? I phoned the local scrappy... he's offering £6.50 a stone for copper pipe. Should I report him to Brussels for using imperial weights? :-) NONONO! Tell us who he is! Mary Cheers, William. |
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"William McNicol" wrote in message m... (Paper2002AD) wrote in message ... There was fair bit of older copper pipe. Thicker than the modern stuff wannit? I phoned the local scrappy... he's offering £6.50 a stone for copper pipe. Should I report him to Brussels for using imperial weights? :-) Cheers, William. No, but if he refuses to to use metric then he's in trouble. Neil |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:06 +0100, "Neil Jones"
wrote: No, but if he refuses to to use metric then he's in trouble. [re selling copper by the stone] Why? - some metals are sold by the troy ounce - none of your Frenchified "having of the pound" ounces either. Real ounces! Seems to work for the Bank of England ... DN |
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"Dev Null" wrote in message ... On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:06 +0100, "Neil Jones" wrote: No, but if he refuses to to use metric then he's in trouble. [re selling copper by the stone] Why? - some metals are sold by the troy ounce - none of your Frenchified "having of the pound" ounces either. Real ounces! Seems to work for the Bank of England ... I assumed William was referring to the so-called 'metric martyrs' who, contratry to newspaper reports, were not prosecuted for selling in imperial weights, but for refusing to sell in metric. Neil |
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"Neil Jones" wrote in message ...
"Dev Null" wrote in message ... On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:06 +0100, "Neil Jones" wrote: No, but if he refuses to to use metric then he's in trouble. [re selling copper by the stone] Why? - some metals are sold by the troy ounce - none of your Frenchified "having of the pound" ounces either. Real ounces! Seems to work for the Bank of England ... I assumed William was referring to the so-called 'metric martyrs' who, contratry to newspaper reports, were not prosecuted for selling in imperial weights, but for refusing to sell in metric. Neil Indeed I was. And I put a smiley... I'm quite happy to buy or sell in ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights and the like since I went to school before the days of calculators and can do the sums in my head.... Still, I hear Tony Bliar is going to let us have a referendum about all this. Smiley --- :-) --- Smiley. Back to the copper, I am now thinking of making a giant windchime out of it: modelled on the half cocoanut shell and bits of bamboo, I'd cut the top of the cylinder to use as the half cocoanut and dangle bits of pipe from it. Cheers, william. |
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"William McNicol" wrote in message Indeed I was. And I put a smiley... I'm quite happy to buy or sell in ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights and the like since I went to school before the days of calculators and can do the sums in my head.... .... in imperial or metric... Still, I hear Tony Bliar is going to let us have a referendum about all this. Smiley --- :-) --- Smiley. I didn't hear that. He didn't mention the word. And even if he had I wouldn't believe it. Back to the copper, I am now thinking of making a giant windchime out of it: modelled on the half cocoanut shell and bits of bamboo, I'd cut the top of the cylinder to use as the half cocoanut and dangle bits of pipe from it. I'll take the walls of your hands, guv. Mary Cheers, william. |
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William McNicol wrote:
"Neil Jones" wrote in message ... "Dev Null" wrote in message ... On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:06 +0100, "Neil Jones" wrote: No, but if he refuses to to use metric then he's in trouble. [re selling copper by the stone] Why? - some metals are sold by the troy ounce - none of your Frenchified "having of the pound" ounces either. Real ounces! Seems to work for the Bank of England ... I assumed William was referring to the so-called 'metric martyrs' who, contratry to newspaper reports, were not prosecuted for selling in imperial weights, but for refusing to sell in metric. Neil Indeed I was. And I put a smiley... I'm quite happy to buy or sell in ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights and the like since I went to school before the days of calculators and can do the sums in my head.... Still, I hear Tony Bliar is going to let us have a referendum about all this. Smiley --- :-) --- Smiley. Back to the copper, I am now thinking of making a giant windchime out of it: modelled on the half cocoanut shell and bits of bamboo, I'd cut the top of the cylinder to use as the half cocoanut and dangle bits of pipe from it. Those bits of pipe you're using, would they be 15mm or 22mm? -- James... www.jameshart.co.uk |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net...
"William McNicol" wrote in message Indeed I was. And I put a smiley... I'm quite happy to buy or sell in ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights and the like since I went to school before the days of calculators and can do the sums in my head.... ... in imperial or metric... Still, I hear Tony Bliar is going to let us have a referendum about all this. Smiley --- :-) --- Smiley. I didn't hear that. He didn't mention the word. And even if he had I wouldn't believe it. Back to the copper, I am now thinking of making a giant windchime out of it: modelled on the half cocoanut shell and bits of bamboo, I'd cut the top of the cylinder to use as the half cocoanut and dangle bits of pipe from it. I'll take the walls of your hands, guv. Whereabouts are you? You can email me at this address or despamify it and email me at my real one... Cheers, William. Mary Cheers, william. |
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"James Hart" wrote in message ...
William McNicol wrote: "Neil Jones" wrote in message ... "Dev Null" wrote in message ... On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:06 +0100, "Neil Jones" wrote: No, but if he refuses to to use metric then he's in trouble. [re selling copper by the stone] Why? - some metals are sold by the troy ounce - none of your Frenchified "having of the pound" ounces either. Real ounces! Seems to work for the Bank of England ... I assumed William was referring to the so-called 'metric martyrs' who, contratry to newspaper reports, were not prosecuted for selling in imperial weights, but for refusing to sell in metric. Neil Indeed I was. And I put a smiley... I'm quite happy to buy or sell in ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights and the like since I went to school before the days of calculators and can do the sums in my head.... Still, I hear Tony Bliar is going to let us have a referendum about all this. Smiley --- :-) --- Smiley. Back to the copper, I am now thinking of making a giant windchime out of it: modelled on the half cocoanut shell and bits of bamboo, I'd cut the top of the cylinder to use as the half cocoanut and dangle bits of pipe from it. Those bits of pipe you're using, would they be 15mm or 22mm? 8, 15, 22 (and probably imperial equivalents) + lead. Only the 15/22 stuff give a decent dong... The lead is particularly bad :-) Cheers, William. |
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"William McNicol" wrote in message om... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net... "William McNicol" wrote in message Whereabouts are you? Leeds Mary You can email me at this address or despamify it and email me at my real one... Cheers, William. Mary Cheers, william. |
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