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  • joem
    Senior Member, Deceased
    • Aug 2009
    • 11835

    #1

    Scrap brass

    I just took my 5 gallon bucket of scrap brass shell cases to the scrap yard. It surprised me that it weighed 50#. As I reload in the basement I've decided I will not let it get full again and have to lug it up the steps. Only got 45.00 but that's OK by me.
  • Allen
    Moderator
    • Sep 2009
    • 10583

    #2
    I hate to see brass or copper get thrown away. Dealers will usally discount your brass when buying due to other metals included. In your case the spent primers. Back when aluminum was bringing a decent price dealers would pay very little per pound sometimes on aluminum window frames because of traces of paint or caulk that added to the weight. I'm just rambling on and on, I guess what I'm trying to say is perhaps the primers and tarnish is why you didn't get the price you were expecting.

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    • joem
      Senior Member, Deceased
      • Aug 2009
      • 11835

      #3
      Most of them were berdan primed anyway. I wasn't concerned about how much I got for the brass as all of it was beyond reloading, splits, cracked and somewhat deformed. If I didn't sell it, it would go in the trash.

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      • Tuna
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2009
        • 2686

        #4
        Joe you only got .90 a pound for it? A $1.35 here right now in my area.

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        • musketshooter
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2009
          • 521

          #5
          I get $1.35 for yellow grass if I sell in 100 lb lots.

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          • joem
            Senior Member, Deceased
            • Aug 2009
            • 11835

            #6
            Price wasn't a issue and some had live primers from pull down I'm sure.

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            • madsenshooter
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2009
              • 1476

              #7
              Bet that'll make the smelter happy. I swept some lead drops from my drippy pot off the floor and decided to put the drops back in the pot. One of the drops was a live primer! Then I had lots of little drops to sweep of the floor, and some to peel off the basement ceiling too! Luckily, they all missed me.
              "I have sworn upon the Altar of God, eternity hostility upon all forms of tyranny over the minds of man." - Thomas Jefferson

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              • psteinmayer
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2011
                • 1527

                #8
                I have a metric butt-ton of Berdan primed M2 brass that I would like to get rid of... plus all of the excess brass from the Krag Charger production. I wonder how much I would get around here (Ann Arbor area)? Where do I take it?
                "I was home... What happened? What the Hell Happened?" - MM1 Jacob Holman, USS San Pablo

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                • Tuna
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 2686

                  #9
                  Look under scrap metal dealers or even just metal dealers in the phone book. Most of these places that sell also buy.

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                  • Tuna
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 2686

                    #10
                    Look in the phone book for metal dealers or for scrap metal.

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                    • jimb
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2010
                      • 375

                      #11
                      I get $1.35/lb for lots as small as 10 pounds. I took 12 pounds last week.

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