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| Thread ID: 87630 | 2008-02-28 04:48:00 | Scrap Metal | Greven (91) | PC World Chat |
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| 644562 | 2008-02-28 04:48:00 | Since heatsinks are pretty much just big lumps of aluminium and/or copper, would you be able to get anything for a bunch of them at a scrap metal dealer? I'm thinking of proposing to my boss that we donate our pile of old heatsinks to lions so they can remove the plastic & sell the metal to a scrap dealer. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 644563 | 2008-02-28 05:11:00 | Since heatsinks are pretty much just big lumps of aluminium and/or copper, would you be able to get anything for a bunch of them at a scrap metal dealer? I'm thinking of proposing to my boss that we donate our pile of old heatsinks to lions so they can remove the plastic & sell the metal to a scrap dealer. yes |
plod (107) | ||
| 644564 | 2008-02-28 08:31:00 | We had some copper heat exchangers here from an instant hot water system, from back in the day when my wife was consulting on copper corrosion. Imagine my surprise when I took them down to the scrappie, expecting to maybe pick up $10 on a good day, to find that copper was around $5.30/kg & the ~8kg I had was worth over $40! So for copper, yes, it would definitely be worth donating a bunch. Aluminium, probably less so. |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 644565 | 2008-02-28 10:25:00 | We had some double glazing done last year. We were left with the aluminium joinery from the windows they had removed. Was well worth taking the joinery to scrap metal dealers. :D Cheers, Marnie |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 644566 | 2008-02-28 20:30:00 | It is.........but you'd need a lot to get anything worthwhile out of it. Copper is worth the most and at $5 or so per KG, well, how many Kgs in a heatsink? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 644567 | 2008-02-28 22:46:00 | It doesn't really matter whether you get much for them or not, it's better to have them recycled than just throw them in the bin. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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