Identifying Metals in Scrap: Profitability and Recognition Techniques

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I clean up a fairly cluttered plot, try to put aside all kinds of scrap and have a few questions.
Is it profitable to segregate into different types of metals or sell everything as a whole?
How to recognize what metal the different objects are made of (it seems to me that I recognize copper coils and brass-handles correctly), e.g. what are irons from 10-15 years ago (I have about 30-40 of them), old milk cans?
Do scrap buyers accept cables?
greetings

Do scrap buyers accept cables?

You just have to peel them or tan them. Sometimes (rarely) they take with isolation.

The easiest way to recognize a magnet is - what the magnet does not catch is a "colored" metal - pack everything together, take it to the purchase of non-ferrous metals, and they will sort it there.

Only this is a lot, a friend offers a container and PLN 0.65 per kilo. Maybe I will give what attracts the magnet for PLN 0.65 and I will take the rest myself.
Do you know what the irons are made of (the older 80s)?
Thanks for the quick replies

If you have any more interesting things, you can sell them on the Internet.
You will get more then than for scrap metal.

A stainless steel magnet does not attract, I don't know whether they buy such steel on scrap at the price of normal scrap or more expensive.

You can give steel in a container, it's a pity non-ferrous metals because they are too expensive, if you have a lot of it (brass, copper), you will earn some money

And here is the scrap in question!
And I am tired of what the irons are made of, does no one know? :D

Stainless steel is more expensive than regular - about PLN 7 per kg, I think.

I have not checked, but a sample price list is here:
http://www.kolormetal.pl/upload/Cennik/2010-04-23.htm

Steel scrap at 65gr is, I think, a good price.

It is more profitable to sell individual types of metals separately in my Bydgoszcz, the prices per kilogram are more or less as follows:
copper - PLN 17.9
aluminum-4.8 PLN
steel-60gr
acid-resistant steel PLN 7.20
brass-8.6

So you can see for yourself that it is more profitable to segregate

Added after 3 [minutes]:

wowka wrote:

The stainless steel magnet does not attract,

Unfortunately, the colleague is wrong. Some stainless steels are attracted by a magnet, so they always check it at the point of sale

Old irons are, as the name says, made of iron when it comes to soul irons.

Everything is nice, but I think I will leave the copper and brass, or even irons and taps, the rest will be loaded into the container because this is how I will drive my astra. Besides, I would rather not recognize acid-resistant steel than ordinary steel and I do not know if they have time to segregate someone's scrap metal at collection points.

Thanks a lot for the answers

And what about these machine parts, because some of them are also terribly heavy?

Hydraulic faucets are most often made of brass.
When it comes to machine parts, you won't get a higher price if you have a small quantity.]
Looking at the pictures you generally have "sheets" when you get 65gr, sell it.
The most expensive steel scrap is the so-called "charge", heavy scrap with dimensions of max. 1m x 1m (beams, shafts, rails, etc., thick sheets with a thickness of more than 6mm, if I am not mistaken), but you do not see it.

I will write luigi like this: looking at your treasures, I am sure that if you do it to your ears, you may earn an additional PLN 5, if someone gives you PLN 0.65 / kg for this crap and (I think) you want to take it from the plot, put an additional bottle . Fuel, labor, some kind of trailer (do you have a hook in the car?) .... the ideas of my countrymen to earn (bad) money are overwhelming.

Will it be earned? It will take PLN 650 per ton. If he sells the whole thing, and still nothing is lost, the people in the junkyard will separate the non-ferrous metals from the steel 100%.

Somehow I can't see the copper in these treasures but good luck ...

cirrostrato wrote:

Somehow I can't see the copper in these treasures but good luck ...

There is a little copper in the form of purified poison and coils (I think it is called), brass is in the handles so there was no work here because I put them back.

cirrostrato wrote:

I will write luigi like this: looking at your treasures, I am sure that if you do it to your ears, you may earn an additional PLN 5, if someone gives you PLN 0.65 / kg for this crap and (I think) you want to take it from the plot, put an additional bottle . Fuel, labor, some kind of trailer (do you have a hook in the car?) .... the ideas of my countrymen to earn (bad) money are overwhelming.

As for making "micro" money, it's not like that, the story is quite interesting. I bought a plot of land where the previous owner had been accumulating everything for the last 30 years. For 4 months I was looking for a team to take it all away. Unfortunately, no one wanted to take part, the only decisive team wanted 15,000. I decided to order a container and I load it myself with my brother-in-law, I only pay for the tonnage of garbage + cash register for fuel. Therefore, I decided to put wood, waste paper and scrap into separate piles. And since a friend suggested that he would sell scrap metal (I only pay for fuel), I ask how to do it in order to sell it with sense. I would like to add that I give away wood and paper for free, so I'm not such a profit :D

I close the topic with this charming story.
Thanks to everyone and best regards

Aluminum is also worth putting aside.

luigi wrote:

Only this is a lot, a friend offers a container and PLN 0.65 per kilo.

What is this whole scrap in the picture? If so, you are probably kidding yourself with a lot of it

wowka wrote:

luigi wrote:

Only this is a lot, a friend offers a container and PLN 0.65 per kilo.

What is this whole scrap in the picture? If so, you are probably kidding yourself with a lot of it

Not all of that, it's still a bit at home and on the road (so far I've seen from 5 bikes). In addition, for one, 1 brewery is a lot and another, after 6, heats up . It depends on whether you are a wholesaler or a retailer, and so is scrap

From scrap, it is always estimated what can still be dusted in detail - only things that are absolutely unused practically go in the price of scrap metal - on the basis of getting rid of rubbish, i.e. sometimes even for an additional fee ...