Selling copper pipe.

murphydog999

Thanks for the advice and chart, is copper pipe 'heavy copper?' We think we've got a copper cylinder aswell, so our night out is looking good!!!!

Canucklehead

murphydog999 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice and chart, is copper pipe 'heavy copper?' We think we've got a copper cylinder aswell, so our night out is looking good!!!!

Hi..copper pipe is heavy copper. Have a one for us.:beer:

Canucklehead

keystone

Canucklehead wrote: »

Good morning

And a very good morning to you too.

please note my use of the word 'could' as we have no idea of the weight of the scrap

Oh I know that - thats why I used the smiley.

' ... at any rate I would not dissuade the OP from gaining pecuniary advantage from his/her own scrap metal.

Wouldn't dream of it but I wouldn't want to artificially raise his expectations either.

Cheers

keystone

murphydog999 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice and chart, is copper pipe 'heavy copper?' We think we've got a copper cylinder aswell, so our night out is looking good!!!!

To maximise your return you should strip off all brass fittings and bag them separately, cut off any soldered joints and bag them separately. That way you leave your copper pipe as clrean as possible. If you have a cylinder and its lagged then you'll not get as much for it if it were clean. Chop the lagging off with a spade.

Prices are infinitely variable from day to day and also depend on the scrappy. 20kg of pipe and a good cylinder can get you £100 one day and only £40 (or less) the next.

Phone round a few scrapyards first and ask them how much.

I'm rather surprised that your installer didn't dispose of the waste as part of his contract. That sort of implies that prices are currently pants in your area and it just wasn't worth his effort - but I could be wrong.

Good luck.

Cheers

scooby088

You need a waste carriers licence to transport it to the scrap merchant and reputable scrap merchants ask to see it, as for copper it's best to take brass fittings off and keep it clean as poss. I am a scrap man and the bane of all you lives early in the morning waking you up. Any copper brass alu i get i keep to the end of the month.

what i normally do it flatten the copper pipe it does weigh slightly heavier, and sometime i add screws to the flattened pipe to get a bit more weight, not honest but tricks of the trade.

Avoriaz

keystone wrote: »

.... There are picky little jobsworths out on the street stopping vans for spot checks for precisely this....

What rights do they have to stop vans in the street?

Are they accompanied by police?

keystone

The local environment stasi have rights under some legislation or other introduced by dafty Prescott during the last government to "inspect" your vehicle if its stationary.

I think they do need a copper on hand to stop you in the street though.

Cheers

Avoriaz

keystone wrote: »

The local environment stasi have rights under some legislation or other introduced by dafty Prescott during the last government to "inspect" your vehicle if its stationary.

I think they do need a copper on hand to stop you in the street though.

Cheers

So, if you run over them and keep moving, they can do nothing?

27col

Just because you are carrying small lengths of copper pipe it your car, I fail to see how it could be called waste carrying and thus require a licence. It is just an object that you are transporting in your car. For all they know, it could be a piece of modern art in the making.

oz0707

Waste carriers license to take a bit of copper to the scrapyard. Are you two having a giraffe? Like saying a pregnant woman can still !!!! in a police helmet