On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:41:22 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:

In Maine, I'm paying 35-cents-per-pound for scrap steel and a buck-a-pound
for scrap aluminum.....

What are others paying around the USA and in other countries???????

Holy Crap, I'm selling my scrap for only $28 a ton. Mostly 19 ga cold
rolled dead-soft for stampings. I did scrap about 25 tons of old machines
that were mostly cast iron. It seems the scrap yards are profiting ok. I
wish I could find a market for scrap steel wire that is 1", it clogs the
machines at the scrap yard and they wont take it, I have to pay for
landfill. I wonder if it was mixed with concrete???

I'd separate out those wire trimmings from the rest of the scrap
stream and put them in 55-gallon barrels, and arrange for them to go
straight to the Mini-Mill - the scrap yard may be able to and bypass
the sorting machines, put it straight into the proper roll-off
container.

You may not get paid as much, but you shouldn't have to pay to throw
good metal scrap away. The Mini-Mills love high-quality clean scrap,
and the fine chopped consistency is a plus - they pour it in a carbon
arc furnace, heat it through and analyze the melt, mix in a few trace
metals, and it'll be Rebar by tomorrow.

-- Bruce --

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