I have a pile of copper pipes I cut out of my house. (Yes, really my house) Does it make a big difference if I just take it in as is with the soldered joints and old old valves in place?
Should I cut the joints and brass valves off?
I have a pile of copper pipes I cut out of my house. (Yes, really my house) Does it make a big difference if I just take it in as is with the soldered joints and old old valves in place?
Should I cut the joints and brass valves off?
In reply to Hocrest:
Around here the brass gets separated from the copper. Brass was going for more. I can't remember if the pipe solder put them in another category or not. Give the scrap metal place a call in the morning.
brass is less. way less. like half.
cut the valves off and turn them in as brass. then turn the pipes in for copper. i have seen advertised copper prices at $2.75/lb lately. the place up the street only gave me 2.30 a couple weeks ago. brass was about half.
I remember a few weeks years ago when my uncle was getting close to $ a pound for NO.1 copper. He fixes AC units for people that couldn't afford them, and his scrapping keep things well in the black. If he were into cars, he'd fit right in here.
Anyway, yes, cut up the copper. Anything other than copper and it's "dirty" copper. That's worth about half most of the time.
Leave em whole and sell it for meth!
So by seperating the copper pipes into #1 & #2 I got another $50.40 
Pocket is happy, back is sore, house is mostly void of old plumbing...
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