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	Finding the junk « on: July 23, 2010, 08:29:10 am »

I have a question for anyone who can help answer this one.. Some places that I go out metal detecting, I come across a lot of the brass casings from bullets (rifles or pistols). Is it even worth it to hang on to them? Do people actually buy these old dirty casings? I wasn't sure. I figured that they're brass and might possibly be worth something, but wasn't sure.

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #1 on: July 23, 2010, 09:39:27 am »

Cha Ching!!!!!!!!!!! Great

Our scrap people here are paying 90Cents a lb for brass.

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #2 on: July 23, 2010, 01:16:30 pm »

everything is valuable to somebody.........but like homefire says, brass and most other metals are some of the easier things to find a buyer for. And the scrap people who are paying 90 cents a pound are still making a pretty decent profit themselves (as they should) even after they pay their processing and transportation costs.

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #3 on: July 23, 2010, 01:27:12 pm »

Yep and if you find an old shooting range pick-up all the lead not only dose it come handy but you can sell it to

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #4 on: July 23, 2010, 02:46:08 pm »

Back when I was a Kid, we received good money for lead . A auto battery could get you a couple of $ back in the 70's !

Hell I have two 5 gal. white buckets of tire weights that must be 250lbs each.

Best offer todate is 3 cents a lb!

Yep, Not like it was.

On the other hand Copper, Brass are high a hell.

I do hit the gun range down the road.

By the time I get there all to good brass in gone .

I get out the rake and clean up all the .22 brass no one wants to mess with.

Gets me gas money!

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #5 on: July 23, 2010, 02:50:22 pm »

Keep it- and sort it out- chances are you'll sell it, mebbe a collector, mebbe a scrap buyer, be patient Wise

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #6 on: July 23, 2010, 05:05:07 pm »

Cast iron used to be a good seller as well I kept my self alive selling old bath tubs if I knew what they would be worth today I would not have used the sledge hammer on them. Ho well a man must eat

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #7 on: July 23, 2010, 05:39:51 pm »

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Cast iron used to be a good seller as well I kept my self alive selling old bath tubs if I knew what they would be worth today I would not have used the sledge hammer on them. Ho well a man must eat

Yep! Scrap Iron here is $110 a tone. Gotta haul it 100 miles to El- Paso! I have at least 4 ton stuck away but no way to haul it as of yet.

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #8 on: July 23, 2010, 07:03:45 pm »

Heck.... around here you wake up and your copper downspouts are gonners!!! They cut the lines and take the whole compressor unit on residential HVACs just to get about $80 worth of scrap. Over at the electric co they have "cameras in use" signs, video cameras, chainlink fences topped with barbed wire and they still keep on comming and still get one or so B&Es a month, although.... 100% conviction rate! They take the aluminum siding right off of mobile homes!!

Save your brass for cash $$

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	Re: Finding the junk « Reply #9 on: July 24, 2010, 05:44:14 am »

over here they steel the telephone cable they have a chain that they throw over the line then with a 4x4 pull a few kilometres of it down burn of the insulation then sell the copper it got so bad that the telephone company stopped replacing it now you just have to use a cell phone well I don't but my sister dose.

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