How much do you get for your Aluminium shavings?

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Just wondering what all you guys get for recycling your 6061 per pound?

[NC Cams]

The neighbor couldn't get enough for his aluminum shavings/cuttings to justify the hassle of carting them off to the recycler.

So then he took them to the local recycling center. There, they whined too much about residual coolant contamination - the flies and smell from the dirty pop and beer and food cans were fine but coolant "contamination" was intolearble. Another one refused to take "commercial waste" - they only accepted home recyclable materials.

Consequently and sadly, not being that keen on recycling for the intrinsic merits it provides for the environment and being fed up with the gestapo tree huggers who were managing the recycling centers, he now merely deposits them in the dumpster anymore.

[Geof]

We get somewher in the region of 15 to 20 cents per pound when we take it to the scrap dealer in about 1000lb lots.

[dertsap]

Originally Posted by NC Cams The neighbor couldn't get enough for his aluminum shavings/cuttings to justify the hassle of carting them off to the recycler. Consequently and sadly, not being that keen on recycling for the intrinsic merits it provides for the environment and being fed up with the gestapo tree huggers who were managing the recycling centers, he now merely deposits them in the dumpster anymore.

that is surprising because a lot of local shops have to keep aluminum waist locked up like fort knox because the crack heads will steal every bit of material they can get a hold of ,

[NC Cams]

Either:

1. we have high class crack heads in our town who won't dumpster dive

2. they haven't found the dumpster yet

3. they dive thru it and they clean up after themselves (environmentally concerned crack heads) and we can't tell they've sorted thru the shavings.

4. They may not salvage it because the chips could be a mizture of alloys, IE 6061, 7075 and/or 2024 (forgot to mention that previously, sorry)

[ataxy]

how much would you get from titanium shaving
sorry for bumping in its just at my job they trow it away

[NC Cams]

All scrap prices are market sensitive and vary from day to day and region to region.

Some folks specialize in exotic metals and you'd best contact them to see what they offer and what their intermix requirements are.

Due to the heavy use of Ti in aircraft applications, they often are more sensitive to any tramp elements that may get into the scrap (IE: iron, steel, aluminum, coolant,etc). ALso, they put a premium on virgin metal over salvage for the same reason.

Moreover, I don't know if a scrap comparison of say someone in Texas would be relevant to someone in LosAngeles verus Toronto - totally different markets.

Now that the caveats have been posted, is there a SWAG for Ti scrap???

[Geof]

Originally Posted by NC Cams Now that the caveats have been posted, is there a SWAG for Ti scrap???

Today's metal prices from Reuters:

Aluminum $US2438 per metric ton

Titanium $US 25.5 per kilogram

If you do not get at least six times the price for Titanium scrap over aluminum assuming it is clean then the scrap dealer is making a good mark up.