rich201283
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 10:46 AM |
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Scrap Prices, aluminium head?
I was speaking to a car breaker and he was saying he could get £100 in scrap for a zetec engine, he rekon its due to the ali head, Is this true? Would
u need to remove the head from the steel block and weigh in separate as i have a knackered one in the garage?
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Simon
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 10:59 AM |
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London Metal Exchange official price for new aluminium at 29/12 was $1,975/tonne. Guessing that scrap will be a small percentage of the new price, so
it might be worth a tenner
ATB
Simon
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chris mason
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 11:00 AM |
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Not unless Alloy is the new copper wire and is fetching £3000 a tonne 
£300/tonne is average for Ali round here.
So a zetec head should net you just under a tenner.
[Edited on 30/12/11 by chris mason]
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Myke 2463
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 11:05 AM |
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Clean cast alloy £900 ton. last June.
http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/non-ferrous-metals
Be Lucky Mike.
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trikerneil
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 11:16 AM |
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According to http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/ Al alloy is about £800/tonne or 80p a kg.
I'm not sure you'd even cover your fuel cost to take a head to the scrappy.
I've got a few old batteries and was quoted £380/tonne a couple of months ago, but it's not worth my while weighing them in. 
HTH
Neil
ACE Cafe - Just say No.
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redscamp
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 11:32 AM |
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a cylinder head is far from "clean" alloy removing valve guides and seats etc wont be easy.
ive failed to break a honda xl125 head with a sledge hammer.
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afj
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 01:03 PM |
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peterborough metal recycling are £900 per ton for clean cast ally
eerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Peteff
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 02:31 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by trikerneil
I've got a few old batteries and was quoted £380/tonne a couple of months ago, but it's not worth my while weighing them in.
HTH
Neil
Batteries were fetching £4 each for average car size here a couple of weeks ago.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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