Price of Scrap Copper

under the bar · April 20, 2011, 11:31:02 PM

Price of scrap copper is now about £4.50 a kilo! Old copper pennies and two pences are now worth more for scrap than their face value! Crazy!

lawnseed · April 20, 2011, 11:34:06 PM

Quote from: under the bar on April 20, 2011, 11:31:02 PM
Price of scrap copper is now about £4.50 a kilo! Old copper pennies and two pences are now worth more for scrap than their face value! Crazy!

alot of empty houses around the country getting cleaned out, cylinder etc even ripping pipes out of the walls

ludermor · April 20, 2011, 11:34:33 PM

Scrap is going crazy now, steel in london is going for 200/ton. A few years ago you wouldnt have got 40/ton for it

lawnseed · April 20, 2011, 11:38:52 PM

Quote from: ludermor on April 20, 2011, 11:34:33 PM
Scrap is going crazy now, steel in london is going for 200/ton. A few years ago you wouldnt have got 40/ton for it

the oul fella says its a sign theres going to be a war.. we always pay attention to him since he predicted the death of lady di to within 12hrs.. not as good at the lotto numbers though

macdanger2 · April 20, 2011, 11:42:21 PM

Not sure about the "copper" coins - most new ones are only about 5% copper.

I'd well believe it about the copper in all the ghost housing estates though.

Increase in price of scrap is seemingly due to the Chinese buying it up

Bud Wiser · April 21, 2011, 07:08:18 AM

I had a few public phone kiosks along Grafton Street and O'Connell St, the small type that you just stand under and I fecked them all into a car trailer one Sunday morning with a friend of mine. A few weeks ago I brought two that were left up to a scrapyard in Tallaght and was amazed when yer man handed me a receipt from the weigh bridge for €530 euro. They were stainless steel and I had just fecked out about eleven of them.

amallon · April 21, 2011, 08:50:58 AM

When I got the electric connection into the house I had to get a new transformer put up on NIE's pole. The old transformer is sitting were they left it 15 months ago depsite me calling them and them promising to take it away. Its probably full of copper. If someone was to sell it for scrap would it need dismantling first and the copper removed?

thejuice · April 21, 2011, 09:10:00 AM

all the metals are in high demand. Everyone wants gadgets in their pockets, solar panels being built in massive scale.

I hear Tara mines (zinc) is busier than ever.

brokencrossbar1 · April 21, 2011, 09:38:35 AM

Amallon ring Tinnellys up at Killeavey, they'll probably look after it for you I would imagine.

under the bar · April 21, 2011, 09:59:32 AM

anyone know who are paying the best prices at min? T-met are the ones that spring to mind when u think of scrap but was told they dont give a great price

macdanger2 · April 22, 2011, 12:29:59 PM

Quote from: Bud Wiser on April 21, 2011, 07:08:18 AM
I had a few public phone kiosks along Grafton Street and O'Connell St, the small type that you just stand under and I fecked them all into a car trailer one Sunday morning with a friend of mine. A few weeks ago I brought two that were left up to a scrapyard in Tallaght and was amazed when yer man handed me a receipt from the weigh bridge for €530 euro. They were stainless steel and I had just fecked out about eleven of them.

Bud, does that scrap yard pay for any kind of scrap or just stainless? Have an old astra I need to get rid of.