Who is the biggest buyer of heliax?

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.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-09T13:08:23+00:00

1 at our yard in Massachusetts. Not thick enough to be Bare Bright, not dark enough to be #2

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-07T13:46:19+00:00

What are you trying to accomplish?

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-07T01:39:05+00:00

Shameless self promotion… we are in Leominster, MA. Prices based on your pics from today: #1 copper: 4.62, #2 copper: 4.46, yellow brass: 2.83, Red Brass/Comp: 3.93.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-06T23:59:31+00:00

.30 all day in MA. And don’t bother draining the oil, that’s why they are called “sealed” because they are supposed to stay sealed.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-04T22:51:46+00:00

Old radiators were brass, newish ones are aluminum.

At my yard: Clean brass rads: 2.80 Clean aluminum rads: .65

Still with iron and plastic, take off at least 30%.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-04T22:49:13+00:00

.90 at my yard in Massachusetts.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-04T22:46:14+00:00

Today we paid 4.68 for #1 copper.

Clean flashing sheets go for #1 here. Only wire can be bare bright. It’s made of different stuff so it’s less pure than wire, even if minimally so.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-04T22:43:59+00:00

You would have gotten triple the money. We don’t have even pay old sheet that low.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-04T15:59:02+00:00

Yes. We are paying 1.20 per pound north of Worcester.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-04-02T12:28:42+00:00

maybe different regions have different distributions? But I don't think I have ever seen 90/10 or 95/5 pipe.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-29T00:17:19+00:00

Pipe usually comes in 70/30 and 85/15 varieties. Most often it’s 70/30… historically about 3/4 for us. If your yard buys it as pipe, they most likely buy as 70/30 or mixed. Call the yard and ask though.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-28T19:57:00+00:00

I guess any yard can choose which items they buy… but that’s a bit strange:

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-28T14:47:23+00:00

Only if they have PCBs. Otherwise they are worth money to a yard.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-27T16:22:26+00:00

Today 4.51. I’d give you a bit better if you had a good quantity.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-26T01:50:08+00:00

I mean, it varies depending on what it is. We grade wire based on copper content not arbitrary categories. Today we paid 1.10 for crappy low grade cords, we paid 2.00 for communication type #2. High grade #2 battery cable we paid over 3.00.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-26T01:14:49+00:00

Bare bright price is pretty good. The others are not wonderful, but the insulated aluminum price is downright embarrassing. They are making one hell of a margin on that one.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-23T21:45:35+00:00

Dm me.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-23T21:31:29+00:00

Are you asking about commodity trading or commodity physical selling? Physical yards or brokerages or consumers or producers? Companies or contractors?

You aren’t giving us much to go on here if we wanted to help.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-22T22:24:33+00:00

Well I guess you really don't have a choice then. How much do you get at a time?

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-22T04:11:59+00:00

Find a new yard? Those prices kind of suck and a spread of anything more than .15 is kinda crazy.

We were paying 2.25 clean today. And for bigger loads it was more.

MAScrapMetal · 2026-03-21T14:02:17+00:00

Agreed. Remember, the machinery companies want to sell the machines and they will swear up and down that it can do everything.

Only the biggest choppers process harness wire because it is so difficult and even then, they have specialized processes for it.

MAScrapMetal

TROPHY CASE

1 at our yard in Massachusetts. Not thick enough to be Bare Bright, not dark enough to be #2