If you’re in the market to recycle metals here in Los Angeles –or pretty much anywhere else—the metal springs in biggest cash pay out  is copper. As we’ve written at nausea before, copper comes in so many forms it’s not funny. Bringing a truck load of copper pipes to scrap metal dealer is going to result in a hefty payout. But let’s not forget plumbing’s cousin, the area of electricity and specifically copper wire.

We recently wrote about dismantling old airplanes for scrap, including miles and miles of Copper wire inside the fuselage.  Where ever you find it I’m With her in an airplane, construction site for your own home  99 times out of the hundred you’re going to be dealing with coated wire. The Plastic sheathing surrounding copper wire that passes electricity through it and runs everything from your dishwasher television set keep those wires safe. It also makes it a little more difficult to recycle these copper wires because that plastic coating has to be removed so the metal can be melted down and turned into something new.

If you bring a lot of coated copper wire scrap buyer  like TM scrap metals here in Sun Valley we will give you a great price but it will be less then a uncoated copper wire simply because more effort goes into removing coating. Of course we’re well prepared to do that. It just takes extra time and effort. However, if you want to increase the payout you receive when you bring your scrap metal to us, if you just invest a little time and elbow grease, you can strip those wires yourself.

Doing a quick search on Google for wire stripping brings up all sorts of gadgets and tools for completing this process. If you’ve ever done any electrical work—and who hasn’t of one point in their life–you probably used a wire stripper to remove Half inch or more the coating to wrap the bare wire around the white fixture or socket. But using one of those tools to remove the coating on miles and miles of copper wire is going to drive you insane. That’s why there are hundreds of different tools, and many automated, that will help you quickly and efficiently remove the plastic coating from copper wire.

This is a popular pastime especially seasoned scrap veterans so there are many articles that you can read accommodations for which tool works best. You can Check out this article on Bob Vila’s website as an example. Depending on how much work you wanted yourself can strip wire manually are investor hundred to 500 for a wire stripping machine. Spending that amount of money only makes sense if you have ton– Literally–of Coated wire. It was just a little bit there are cheaper tools on the market to help you extract that precious copper wire from its plastic jacket.

As we said you can bring it to us coated or spend a little Time and effort movie coating for a larger cash payout from Scrap metal recycling center.

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Metal recycling is often times a dirty business. Why? Well, the items we receive are not always in pristine condition, nor are they separated by types of metal. Sometimes the things that come into our recycling facility have to be further processed to Separate for extract one metal from another. If you skimmed over the content on our website you know that one of the things we ask for is electric motors. You may not have given much thought to this and if you thought of metal recycling at all this probably just taking your excess soft drink cans to the recycler for a few extra dollars.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. A metal recycling Company such as TM scrap metals Will be able to process those aluminum cans, sure. But we also have the resources to handle more complex jobs like separating one metal from another. In essence, we do the heavy lifting see you don’t have to worry about it. After all, do you have to resources to take apart an electric motor and Separate each component by the type of metal it is?  We do. That’s our business.

We ask for electric motors to be recycled because they contain a Wealth of various metals including a significant amount of copper wire. Copper wire recycling is one of the biggest parts of our business and you can imagine why. Copper is used in hundreds of thousands of applications: in construction,  electronics  and plumbing, just to name a few.

So where do you find these electric motors?  Just about anything that runs on the electricity it’s going to have an electric motor. Think about all the gadgets work tools in your kitchen that you plug in. Think of other items around the house like your vacuum what about that blender? If it’s electric and it moves thoughts are going to have an electric motor inside. How many ancient vacuums or other broken down electronics have you seen just tossed into the trash? In our disposable society, once something stops working the tendency is to just get rid of it. We’ve seen tons of electronics outside of houses waiting for the City of Los Angeles department of sanitation pick up these bulky items. Yes tossing them into the trash gets them out of sight and out of mind. However, if all these homeowners we’re throwing away these electronic items which contain electric motors new that they can actually get some money by recycling these items we’re sure that we see a lot less waiting to be picked up by the garbage people.

Seasoned scrap metal recyclers notice and some make the rounds of their neighborhoods looking for obsolete items that They can take apart, extract the electric motor, and bring it to the metal recycling facility. As with everything we recycle, bringing things like electric motors to us means that they don’t go into a landfill. We end up benefiting because we can break down those motors, extract individual metals, and sell them  at a profit. The person who brings it to us receives some money for the scrap metal items instead of just throwing something in the trash and having to go out and buy a new version. And of course the environment benefits because that old vacuum cleaner or food processor and it’s heavy electric motor it’s not going into the trash dump.

Do you have an obsolete electronic item that contains a motor? Would you rather get cash for that scrap metal as opposed to throwing it in the trash? We know the answer is yes so please bring any and all Electric motors twice a TM scrap metals here in Sun Valley. We pay top prices for metals and We are the Best scrap metal recycling center the San Fernando Valley. Drop by with your electric motors and see why.

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In metal recycling, we like to say “copper is king!” That doesn’t mean other scrap metals don’t pay well, it’s just that copper has a high price so compared to other scrap metals, you get more “bang for your buck.”

That said, it also depends on the amount of metals you bring in to a recycling center like TM Scrap Metals. A handful of copper wire will pay a good price per pound but if it’s only a few ounces, your payout won’t be that substantial. Compare that to a set of aluminum rims from an automobile. Aluminum may pay a lower price per pound than copper but a set of wheels is fairly heavy. That means you’ll likely walk out of our scrap metal yard with a substantial chunk of change in your pocket.

If you’re looking to maximize the cash for scrap metal you receive, wait until you’ve collected a significant amount of metals before bringing them in to us. If you’re a contractor or construction company, those odds and ends of copper wire or plumbing can add up.

Brass is another good metal for recycling. If you’re looking for something bigger than a faucet or hose bib think about recycling your junk car’s radiator. That’s a larger amount of metal in one place and your payout will be higher. Seasoned scrappers in Los Angeles come to know what metal is “hot” and what sources are to find such metals. It pays (literally) to be creative when looking for metals to recycle.

In sum, yes, copper is still king, but depending on the amount of metals you have on hand, any great amount of nonferrous metals is going to mean a larger payment to you. And, if we’re talking huge amounts of scrap metals, we can assist in bringing them to us. Use our mobile recycling offer where we come with our truck and pick up your metals. It makes it all the easier.

For any questions, call us today!

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