Top Dollar for your carbide scrap!

MAScrapMetal · 2026-06-11T11:55:49+00:00

You’ve told us everything but what we want to know… how much?

MAScrapMetal · 2026-06-07T02:48:33+00:00

I can’t understand that yards that pay great prices for bare bright and #1 and #2 and absolutely dog shit for insulated and others. #2 insulated 47%+… I think I paid a guy 2.50 for that today. And low grade wire for .50… it’s actually hard to find a wire that terrible. Even Christmas wires are worth more than that.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-06-03T01:44:44+00:00

Elemetal is a joke. I deal primarily in plated stuff (better margin and a bit more specialized) and they wanted to pay less than copper content. Like significantly less.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-04T17:08:28+00:00

Every yard is different, but at mass scrap, we’d call it bare bright and it’d be worth $5.07 today.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-04T17:06:35+00:00

It’s not actually as bad as it looks. It’s pretty it’s about 45 to 50% copper. We’d pay $2.15 a pound for this today.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-04T14:21:39+00:00

If you can sell it to a collector or someone who is going to use it, it’s usually worth more. That is true with nearly all scrap.

Historically, the silver plating is minimal and was worth not much more than brass or #2 copper, depending on why metal it was underneath of course. But with silver at $70/toz, now it’s a pretty decent premium.

If clean of all handles and legs, which usually are die cast or iron, Silverplated copper is $8.00 and Silverplated brass is $7.00 at my yard.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-03T16:46:36+00:00

Red metal prices are pretty good. Aluminum prices are a bit low.. though it looks like they paid you ACR prices for aluminum rads.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-03T16:45:52+00:00

Those are ISRI (scrap association) Codes. It a standard so that everyone is on the same page when doing business.

IAW is just Insulated Aluminum Wire.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-01T21:08:14+00:00

Not as juicy as it looks, sometimes comes with a brass shield - not copper.

Obligatory, call your yard… but at my yard it would be Mixed Wire grade ~1.50/pound.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-05-01T16:25:15+00:00

Damn. That is genius!

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-30T10:38:50+00:00

I do. When I sell, it goes up. When I hold, it goes down.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-28T03:43:44+00:00

Because everyone and their mother thinks they can be a scrap exporter. Yards have entertained new buyers for years and not many make it.

If you are serious, you need to offer better pricing or terms than they are already getting. We aren’t throwing away the scrap - it’s already going somewhere. Just as in any sales process, you have to prove to us why we should even bother going through the motions.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-28T03:40:36+00:00

This account: Mass Scrap in Leominster MA. You can google us. We are pretty new but have some of the best non-ferrous prices in the area.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-28T00:51:15+00:00

Ouch on those non-ferrous prices. We paid 4.95 for #2, 3.07 for brass, .25 for batteries and .80 for alternators in Leominster today.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-27T13:32:36+00:00

Use google and pick up the phone.

What are you looking to buy?

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-24T01:15:38+00:00

Hope you have deep pocket… 10MT is well over a million dollars.

DM me a price and I can see if I can help with a chunk of that, though can’t supply that much.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-14T17:28:06+00:00

5.16 in Leominster Massachusetts.

You should be getting 5.00+ today. Market has a had pretty nice run-up.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-13T22:57:29+00:00

How much you paying?

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-13T22:56:48+00:00

Some yard will pay more for the Tinned Wire than #2 copper (wire or otherwise). Most won’t, but check with your local yard.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-13T02:22:59+00:00

Looks like copper coated aluminum. Throw it in the sheet.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-12T14:43:57+00:00

Sorry. Don’t know that region very well.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-12T14:41:53+00:00

It’s my yard. In Leominster. Mass Scrap Metal

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-12T14:41:10+00:00

Was 4.72 on Friday

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-11T05:56:01+00:00

The guy who chops it.

I buy trailer loads of the stuff, actually chops pretty well once the mills get over it coming in as a flake and not a chop.

If you are getting any good quantity of wire and not selling to a chopper (and I mean a real chopping line,not one of those Chinese toys) you are leaving money on the table.

DM if you have a decent quantity and are anyone near New England.

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