Scrap aluminum prices (windows, Air Conditioner, insulated, phone)

[howard555]

Having completed a job there is leftover aluminum. The frames from storm windows. Here is a list of types of aluminum. Which one matches what we have?

Aluminum extrusions (5% Fe) $ 0.37
Insulated alum/ACSR $ 0.38
Aluminum turnings 75% $ 0.16
no Aluminum cans (automatic 5% deduction of weight on all cans to offset loss due moisture.) $ 0.62
Old sheet aluminum (<7% Fe) $ 0.35
no Dirty wheels $ 0.44
Cast aluminum $ 0.41
no Aluminum auto wheels (clean) $ 0.59
no Clean aluminum radiators $ 0.34
no Alum radiators w/ plastic $ 0.21
no EC wire $ 0.76
no Al/Cu radiators $ 1.13
no Irony Al/Cu radiators $ 0.85
no >> assume window air conditioner - Al/Cu radiators –window unit$ 1.13
no >> assume window air conditioner - Irony Al/Cu – Window Unit $ 0.85
Painted siding aluminum $ 0.53
no MLC Aluminum clips $ 0.53
no Reefer ends (Cut-offs) $ 0.33
no Clean sheet aluminum $ 0.50
Aluminum breakage 25% $ 0.10
Aluminum breakage 50% $ 0.17

[K'ledgeBldr]

Most frames are extrusions.

[howard555]

Originally Posted by K'ledgeBldr

Most frames are extrusions.

Thanks.
We'll call the scrap yard for prices to make sure we do not get misquoted on the low side when we get there.

[howard555]

The scrap yard quoted 50 cents a pound over the phone on the straight clean metal from the storm windows but only paid 40 cents calling it sheet aluminum.

The parts that hold the windows in the frames and also the parts that you press in to open the windows was supposed to be zinc. Over the phone they said the clean aluminum window frames had to be clean of the rubber gaskets, screws, and "zinc."

But on the zinc they called it die cast at 15 cents a pound when zinc should have been well over $1 a pound.

So we recycled and got a little gas money.

[Balty]

Good info here. Thanks

[rabbit33]

Originally Posted by howard555

The scrap yard quoted 50 cents a pound over the phone on the straight clean metal from the storm windows but only paid 40 cents calling it sheet aluminum.

The parts that hold the windows in the frames and also the parts that you press in to open the windows was supposed to be zinc. Over the phone they said the clean aluminum window frames had to be clean of the rubber gaskets, screws, and "zinc."

But on the zinc they called it die cast at 15 cents a pound when zinc should have been well over $1 a pound.

So we recycled and got a little gas money.

That's because that "die cast zinc" is really what old guys like me call "pot metal". It's an alloy of primarily zinc, plus some other stuff. All you can do to recycle that stuff is to use for more pot metal castings. Real zinc of clearly identifiable alloy (or pure) can be used in high quality castings either as an alloying element or as a primary constituent in the casting. No one's going to do a detailed assay on small cheap cast scrap metal that's visually identifiable as pot metal.