What's It Worth As Scrap?

[sandyRoe]

I left an old washing machine out in the front garden and a man with a van knocked and asked if h could take it. How much would he have got for it?

[1ozzy]

Sweet F,A.

But if collects enough of them, maybe a few pints of the best.

[1ozzy]

Now where did my "he" go?

Maybe I should start a new thread asking that question.

[david small]

Maybe he needed a spare part from it.

[fourteen85]

When my mum died and we had to clear the house we left her bicycle outside overnight thinking someone would take it, but sure enough there was a knock on the door, 'Did you know you had left you bicycle etc etc' I am convinced any other time it would have been stolen

[Copacetic]

not much, he would need a whole van full of scrap metal to make a few quid, copper is the most sought after metal, washing machines do contain low quality copper coating. They wont make much money unless they have loads of it.

[douglas9401]

They're worth next to nothing in cash terms but handy if you have dodgy money to launder.

[sandyRoe]

I thought there was copper in the electric motor that spins the drum. That might be worth a few quid.
I remember people once had to pay to get an old scrap car removed. Now the scrapmen pay for it.

[mikey4444]

Well, they may not be worth much but if you leave anything like that in front of your house around here, its gone in 24 hours, so t must be worth something !

They never take fridges I notice though.

[aelmpvw]

my local scrap man won't take freezers, probably because of this ...

'' The freon inside of your fridge should be removed by a licensed HVAC contractor. Scrap yards will not be able to accept a fridge that has not been drained of the fluids. You can call local HVAC contractor and they will be able to remove the chemicals legally.''

[EDDIE51]

Scrap steel was worth £200 per to tonne (1,000 Kg) so 20p a Kg.
I think the price has dropped since I last looked.

[Old_Geezer]

Things go in cycles. Time was a scrapper would pay you for your scrap car. Then it changed so you paid them, now we're back to they pay you : but for how much longer ?

[sandyRoe]

It's a bit like Chaos Theory in operation. A butterfly flaps its wings on the banks of the Orinoce River and a chain of events is set in motion which causes flooding in central Europe.
There's a downturn in an economy half way across the world, in China, and the scrap man who once paid you for a pile of junk wants paying again to take it away.

[Sipowicz]

Junk, China......was that meant?! ;-)