vroomtshh

I,ve just replaced all my old radiators, and was wondering if its worth taking the old ones to the scrappy? Are they likely to be worth much. I have 18 in varying sizes?

Cragrat

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yup mate take em and get em scrapped,value of scrap has just dropped slightly but is way maore than it has been for years,ask ya plumber where to take em,let me know what sort of money you get as i got a load of clean copper to take ( about 4-5yrs worth! )

vinnyvangough

Last year me and my dad scrapped a ton and a half of mxed copper including some clean some brass and 72 copper cylinders and got £1700 for it.

vroomtshh

I know the price of scrap is pretty good just now. Especially copper and aluminium. But no idea what rads are actually made from?

Cragrat

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metal

KnoxyGtt

In glasgow you are getting 1k per ton of aluminium and copper is going at a good price, not as good as it was a few years ago when you where getting junkies and idiots stealing copper pipes and frying themself when they try cutting through live main cables lol

Lee Ivatt

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probably about £4 per rad. scrap irons gone down to about £100 per ton.

aluminums £1k in glasgow? were only getting £550 down here last week.
coppers about £1k

KnoxyGtt

well this was about a month ago or so, you where getting £55 for a set of any old shit alloy wheels

fraser9764

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i got £20 i think for a big rad a while back, although the bloke in the scrappy is thick as fuck and just randomly thinks of a number! sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't

rssteve

clean copper was 3k a ton end of last month, and if i remember copper pipe etc was £2. something a kilo

Lee Ivatt

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yeh coppers the best return.

i had about a ton of scrap iron/steel in my truck and got a measly £60
in the front i had a large bucket of copper waste (from my plumming jobs) and that made me £55!!!!
and a landrover bonnet which is ally made me £20.

so the end of the day steel/iron isnt really worth much for the ammount off effort, but still nice. i usually find my scrap steel will retun enough for a good drink, and copper and alloy will give you enough for a nice meal out!

fuzzy

clean copper is between £3 and £4 per kilo just now up here . i only got £90 for a load of thin aluminium sheet that was cladding my old 6x6 garden shed . i was disappointed with that. i was pleased to get £165 for an old escort that i scrapped, that was more than i expected. also the price of marine (316) grade stainless steel was under £2 per kilo.
what are general car radiators made from? are they ali or copper?

Lee Ivatt

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classed as "dirty" ally - ally cores and fins with metal/plastic frames.

TIFF

You will get about £40 for 18 rads i would say

SS1

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72 copper cylinders did you turn up @ the yard in a train