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Current scrap metal prices

  • 11-03-2014 5:56pm
    #1
    Colash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭


    Any ideas of prices of lead , copper and stainless steel ? Can't seem to find a definite answer online . Around 20-30kg of each


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  • #2
    valerossi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭valerossi


    Colash wrote: »
    Any ideas of prices of lead , copper and stainless steel ? Can't seem to find a definite answer online . Around 20-30kg of each

    I'll give ya 3 fine digs a pony and my daughters hand for the lot boss.


  • #3
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,573 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    There's a scrap metal place in Ashbourne, Meath, that I've sold to. If you're looking for what prices you can get I'd just ring around the merchants places to get a general idea.
    A price online is no use to you if you can't get the stuff there.


  • #4
    Colash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭Colash


    Is there a want for stainless does anybody know


  • #5
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Will you let me know when you find out OP? I've about 126 drain shore covers here in my back yard that absolutely didn't come from County Clare no sirreee.


  • #6
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    The copper be worth a bit but not loads.

    If its not legit, get rid of it in a few scrap merchants.


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  • #7
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Nudey copper is making around €3.50 per kg, if it is electrical cable with insulation it is only worth around €1,
    Lead is around the €1 mark per kg, not sure on stainless.


  • #8
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Nudey copper is making around €3.50 per kg, if it is electrical cable with insulation it is only worth around €1,
    Lead is around the €4 mark per kg, not sure on stainless.

    Surprisingly valuable.


  • #9
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    kneemos wrote: »
    Surprisingly valuable.

    Copper peaked to nearly €5 a kg once, no wonder everyone was stealing it :)


  • #10
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Copper peaked to nearly €5 a kg once, no wonder everyone was stealing it :)

    During the boom, builders were even throwing the stuff out. Lads would walk into the pub on a friday with a hold all full of cooper fittings that they collected that week. They'd make a fortune.


  • #11
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Will you let me know when you find out OP? I've about 126 drain shore covers here in my back yard that absolutely didn't come from County Clare no sirreee.

    Sounds like he has a few himself! ;)


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  • #12
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Colash wrote: »
    Is there a want for stainless does anybody know

    Where the **** is my cutlery gone


  • #13
    Freddie Dodge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Freddie Dodge


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Nudey copper is making around €3.50 per kg, if it is electrical cable with insulation it is only worth around €1,
    Lead is around the €4 mark per kg, not sure on stainless.

    Concur on copper and "short strip" as its known, but are you off with the lead price?

    Last time I recycled lead, it was 6.50 a stone which is 14 pounds which is about 6 and a half kilos, which equals about €1 / kilo, not €4. This was about a year ago...


  • #14
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,573 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Copper peaked to nearly €5 a kg once, no wonder everyone was stealing it :)

    I remember losing my phone and net for a while when someone robbed the copper from somewhere along the line (I'm assuming they didn't dig it up, so it must be a junction box or something). A war monument near where I was living also got all the bronze smashed off it for the same reason.


  • #15
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Freddie Dodge wrote: »
    but are you off with the lead price?

    I am :o


  • #16
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    In the UK you can't get cash from scrappies any more. Payments have to go to a bank account,

    a V shaped notch in metal is handy if you want to strip pvc off wire.



    OR work out how much transport to the scrap merchant would cost and then put the scrap up for sale on adverts at that discount and watch the feeding frenzy


  • #17
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Stainless Steel was over €1,000 for a metric ton 2 years ago.


  • #18
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Hootanany wrote: »
    Stainless Steel was over €1,000 for a metric ton 2 years ago.
    so about €1 per Kg then


  • #19
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Stainless, copper, lead, aluminium.. you get cash monies for them all depending.

    Regarding the copper wire with plastic coating- The neigh-bours in my industrial estate who have no doubt acquired their cable stores legitimately burn it off in huge smokey bonfires in broad daylight in accordance with their ancient culture.


  • #20
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, that explains why some Eircom exchanges keep dropping off the network ... ;)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #21
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    Where would you normally go sell copper/lead for cash? Scrap yard?


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  • #22
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    That or CopperForGold then go to GoldForCash obviously


  • #23
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Would you get much for a clamp?


  • #24
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Nudey copper is making around €3.50 per kg, if it is electrical cable with insulation it is only worth around €1,
    Lead is around the €1 mark per kg, not sure on stainless.

    Hmmmmm. The perfect AH figure. :P


  • #25
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Interslice wrote: »
    Would you get much for a clamp?

    Yeah, possibly, depending on whether you meet your quotas or not.


  • #26
    macscoob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭macscoob


    STainless was up to €1 kg.....but its dropped lately, think about 65-80 cent a kg


  • #27
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    macscoob wrote: »
    STainless was up to €1 kg.....but its dropped lately, think about 65-80 cent a kg

    Not trolling or acting up but what would the spire be worth as scrap?


  • #28
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    steveone wrote: »
    Not trolling or acting up but what would the spire be worth as scrap?
    €126,000


  • #29
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    WikiHow wrote: »
    €126,000


    Really? Thanks for that WH.


  • #30
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Sky King wrote: »
    Stainless, copper, lead, aluminium.. you get cash monies for them all depending.

    Regarding the copper wire with plastic coating- The neigh-bours in my industrial estate who have no doubt acquired their cable stores legitimately burn it off in huge smokey bonfires in broad daylight in accordance with their ancient culture.

    I always wondered if i light a fire in my backyard gobstoppers come around and i have to put it out , if i site ancient custom will this stop them?


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  • #31
    6781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭6781


    Sky King wrote: »
    Stainless, copper, lead, aluminium.. you get cash monies for them all depending.

    Regarding the copper wire with plastic coating- The neigh-bours in my industrial estate who have no doubt acquired their cable stores legitimately burn it off in huge smokey bonfires in broad daylight in accordance with their ancient culture.
    Copper isn't worth as much if you burn of the insulation of the cable. Better to strip it.
    bnt wrote: »
    Well, that explains why some Eircom exchanges keep dropping off the network ... ;)
    The copper in phone lines isn't worth the hassle as its to light. :)

    I remember once we were doing a job. It was all multicore .75 x 50core or something. Had a load of scrap but was worthless. A young traveller came on site and asked could be take it, thinking it was heavier cable. Told him if he gave us €100 he could have it. We had a good night that night. I use to collect left over cable from jobs and sell it once a year. I'd get between 1-3 grand. Nice little bonus as an apprentice.


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