What to do with scrap brass???

[Axman]

I misunderstood your posts, I thought it was all yours to deal with and you didn't have a means to haul that much scrap, I was just throwing out an option.

 

[Mitty38]

I misunderstood your posts, I thought it was all yours to deal with and you didn't have a means to haul that much scrap, I was just throwing out an option.

It's all good!
Going to do some more research.

After I find out a few local options. Get some numbers together. I am going to ask for 5 min at the meeting.
Offer to collect it sort it, and put it in the basement. Then it will be in their hands. I am sure they will find a member with a Toyota, that is willing to take 6 hrs off his work time to drive to Cleveland. Or where ever.
Then get the rest of his time in, going to meetings to handle the political side of it.

 

[4060MAY]

Emmett
Try here city scrap
330 753 5051
they are in Akron, I just scrapped a freezer, with freon, give me 9cents a pound, least i didn't have to pay for the freon
Chuck

 

[Mitty38]

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Emmett
Try here city scrap
330 753 5051
they are in Akron, I just scrapped a freezer, with freon, give me 9cents a pound, least i didn't have to pay for the freon
Chuck

Thanks for the lead. A lot closer then Cleveland.

 

[JonB]

Another option is to take a photo of the brass and list it on craigslist or FB marketplace for a guesstimated price of around $1 a pound...they come to you so you don't have to haul. There are a lot of shade tree scrappers in my area, maybe there is in your area also?
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Myself, I save my scrap. sometimes it's gets upcycled into a art-n-craft type of project. Years back, someone at the other forum was looking for 38 or 357 culled cases to be used at blunt arrow tips. I had a stash of alum 38 spl cases in my scrap bucket, that fella was happy to pay me to ship them to him. You just never know when some culled brass will come in handy. BUT if I had accumulated more than a 5 gal bucket, I'd sell/swap it with my one friend who is a part time scrapper. He always has some unknown Lead to swap for scrap metal.

 

[Mitty38]

Looks like 4060MAY came thru!!
City scrap takes clean (as in no dirt) empty fired cartridges. At the going rate for yellow dirty with primers. Yellow clean without.
They also take aluminum spent shells.
No minimum limits on weight. And close enough I can drive there in 45 minutes!!!!!!
Thanks @4060MAY . Not the first time you got my back. You are greatly appreciated!

 

[JWFilips]

I just collect them and give them to my son who sells them to the scrap monger ( Also used primers)!
He Get "Smokes " money for free Tobacco and probably "weed"
I also have him recycle all my Hamm's Cans for the aluminum

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Well it would be money for the club.

It would cost me personally about $200 that I could not get back.
Not just the $40 in gas. But because it would be a day trip. The wife would want to go. Stop to shop, or see a show, and eat, or stop at a festival or the aquarium in Cleveland.

You have some serious obstacles, for sure my friend!!!

 

[Fiddler]

The last 2 or 3 trips to the scrap yard they paid $1.80 a pound. A 5 gal. bucket weighs ~60 pounds.
I am on the 3rd scrap yard, 1 stopped taking it, another went out of business. Funny part is, this guy likes to tell me how honest he is(???)

 

[JonB]

The last 2 or 3 trips to the scrap yard they paid $1.80 a pound. A 5 gal. bucket weighs ~60 pounds.
I am on the 3rd scrap yard, 1 stopped taking it, another went out of business. Funny part is, this guy likes to tell me how honest he is(???)

Always beware of the person who needs to tell you how honest he is.

 

[dale2242]

I toss the spent primers in with the brass and the local scrapper gives me #2 brass price.