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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:07 am 
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Looks like my landlord has done me a favour writing to me to tell me to remove the small outdoor store outside my factory. For years, this has been a store for me to dump my old scrap and every so often someone would come round looking for scrap and give me £20 to get rid of it.

Anyway, loaded up the contents into my trailer and took it to the local scrap metal place this morning - and walked away with £210 !!!!

Handful of old brake drums / disks / bottom arms etc. £10 (£180/ton)

15 lead acid batteries £175 (10 of these were large 110AH ones)(£400/ton)

Standard 185 rads £10 each (£2000/ton)

Sadly, my old golpher ali rad only fetched £3-75 (£750/ton)


So when's the next curry night, I need to celebrate !!!! :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:36 am 
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Just taken another batch of batteries in and the price is now £480/ton.

20% in 6 weeks. Better than bank interest :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:38 am 
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More curry? :)

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:49 pm 
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Now you're talking :)

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:32 pm 
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I have a 20% off voucher as well for curry :-)

Scrap goes up 20% - curry comes down 20%. result = everyone eats 40% more curry!

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Bi-winning! :D

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The only thing to suffer is the environment thanks to all the extra methane....


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check out this site for up to date scrap prices :)

http://a4metal.com/recyclables.php

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:17 pm 
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That's only showing £395 / ton for batteries.

I think I heard lead is going for £2K / ton so they're still doing pretty well by the time they've safely disposed of the acid.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:50 pm 
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20% off curry couldn't be resisted any longer! Itahari chicken and chicken tikka dhansak for my dinner yum!

I will sort out a proper dinner ASAP guys. Nibbles - when are you next in the general area?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:52 pm 
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When I get a call out :lol:

I may be in for a 2 day visit up to Letchworth 2nd half of next week for track repairs, weather permitting. I'll know more when I order materials on Monday.

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