Copper primer scrap valueMost Recent Posts First
|
| Posted By | Posted Date/Time |
| BIGBIRD49 | 03-Jul-12 - 03:37 PM ET |
| TOOLMAKER 251 | 03-Jul-12 - 03:39 PM ET |
| trapshooteraa27aa | 03-Jul-12 - 03:40 PM ET |
| grntitan | 03-Jul-12 - 03:55 PM ET |
| Jon Reitz | 03-Jul-12 - 04:13 PM ET |
| RLC323 | 03-Jul-12 - 08:57 PM ET |
| TOOLMAKER 251 | 03-Jul-12 - 09:12 PM ET |
| RLC323 | 03-Jul-12 - 11:27 PM ET |
| skeet_man | 03-Jul-12 - 11:50 PM ET |
| John Galt | 03-Jul-12 - 11:56 PM ET |
| Macdaddy | 04-Jul-12 - 12:12 AM ET |
| BIGBIRD49 | 04-Jul-12 - 11:00 AM ET |
| Jason Hassler | 04-Jul-12 - 11:07 AM ET |
| willing | 04-Jul-12 - 02:43 PM ET |
| TOOLMAKER 251 | 04-Jul-12 - 03:07 PM ET |
I have a lot of spent copper primers and was wondering if they had any scrap value? Has anyone taken used primers to a scrap dealer?
Dick
Put a magnet next to your copper primer and watch what happens.
I took 5 12lb 700x drums full to a junkyard once and they laughed. I dumped them in my driveway for fill. That was many years ago. Things may have changed since then, Chris
The local scrap metal buyer here bought all my spent primers. They paid scrap steel price(which is what it is). Your not gonna get rich off of them but it is still a scrap metal. I didn't make a special trip but waited until I had a whole truck load of various metals. There is no reason a scrap metal buyer should not buy them.
As instructed above, put a magnet on them and be ready to frown.
They are not copper, but I sell them locally for the scrap price of tin. It recoups a few bucks.
Jon Reitz
Last I heard was 6 cents a pound here in Il, but scrap tin is down some since then. Probably around 5 cents a pound now.
Plus you get the good feeling of recycling them, better than the nothing you get from throwing them in the trash.
Sounds like a few of you guy are somewhat confused on what tin is. Tin is selling for more then $14 a pound.
Local scrap prices explained a bit. Note the price for sheet tin. If you haul in an old car, combine, old roof steel, or just thin metal junk in there you get the "tin" price per ton. Brake drums and rotors, steel wheels, and steel pieces under 36 inches long get the big "prepared steel" price.
Doing the math the "tin" price comes out to about 10 3/4 cents a pound. But hold on, this is not the most "customer friendly" place so you are you bothering them by bringing in less than a load like your bucket of primers. They have to fool with weighing them and they know that the primers are dirty and not completely made of steel so they pay you about 6 cents a pound.
So in other words, unless you are making a trip to the scrap yard anyways, there's NO way you could even cover gas with the amt of primers the average person would produce in a year.
You might not cover your expenses by recycling your primers but you will feel so good by being green and saving the planet from global warming. On second thought it might make more sense to dump them in the garbage then by some carbon credits from Al Bore. It's a dilemma for sure.
My six year old son uses my spent primers as ammo in his WristRocket.
He just carries a small drawstring bag with him when we are camping etc.
They looked like copper, but the magnet said otherwise.
Dick
Hmm a 100 straight with a wrist rocket and spent primers.....is it possible?
Changing the subject slightly, can anyone tell me why pistol primers are non-magnetic? (win at least)???
Bill
Rifle and pistol primers are made of a brass cup and anvil. The owners, administrators and moderators of the Trapshooters.com have no obligation to keep objectionable messages off this forum. It is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners, administrators or moderators of Trapshooters.com Discussion Forum will be held responsible for the content of any message. The owners, administrators and moderators of the Trapshooters.com Discussion Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason at our sole discretion. However, the owners, administrators and moderators are not monitoring or editing the site and are under no obligation to police it for items that some persons may find objectionable. [ Back ] To Register for full access to reply and create threads Click Here!
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: BIGBIRD49
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 03:37 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: TOOLMAKER 251
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 03:39 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: trapshooteraa27aa
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 03:40 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: grntitan
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 03:55 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: Jon Reitz
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 04:13 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: RLC323
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 08:57 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: TOOLMAKER 251
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 09:12 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: RLC323
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 11:27 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: skeet_man
Email:
kolarskeet@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 11:50 PM ET
Website Address:
http://sminglershotgunsports.webs.com/
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: John Galt
Email:
Date: Tue, Jul 03, 2012 - 11:56 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: Macdaddy
Email:
Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2012 - 12:12 AM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: BIGBIRD49
Email:
Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2012 - 11:00 AM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: Jason Hassler
Email:
Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2012 - 11:07 AM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: willing
Email:
Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2012 - 02:43 PM ET
Website Address:
Subject:
Copper primer scrap value
From: TOOLMAKER 251
Email:
Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2012 - 03:07 PM ET
Website Address:
To Login to the discussion web Click Here!
To report problems with this site email email us