Aluminum rims for scrap can be a great way to pick up some extra cash. If you’re new to scrap metal recycling you may think the only things you can really recycle are aluminum cans or plastic or glass bottles. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to scrapping.

As we’ve written in previous scrap metal posts on this site there’s a big market for scrap metals. Aluminum, for example, is always in demand because it’s so much more efficient and cheaper to recycle this metal than to make it from scratch.  Can aren’t the only things made from aluminum and if you’re creative and clever you can end up with a pocketful of cash for someone else’s discarded scrap metals.

We’ve also written that as a Los Angeles metal recycling center we provide a valuable service by recycling. This keeps so many items out of landfills. Regardless, some people are still uninformed (or lazy) and end up dumping old appliances (or other metal items) on the roadside when they could have just as easily have dropped those items off at TM Scrap Metals and walked away with cash. They would have gotten rid of their scrap metal, kept the environment clean and gotten some money in the bargain. Why, why WHY not bring those scrap items to us?

Still, when someone else is too lazy to recycle metal for cash, enterprising scrappers can pick up those metal items and bring them to us. As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and discarded metal items mean cash for you if you pick them up. As the embedded YouTube video shows, one smart scrapper found a set of discarded aluminum rims at a car auction. They were thrown out as trash, but with a small amount of effort this scrapper turned a pile of trash into a $40 payday.  Check out our pricing page for aluminum scrap prices.

Aluminum Rims, Radiators and Other Scrap Car Parts

Aluminum rims can most often be found in places that deal with automobiles such as car auctions. Here near our Sun Valley, CA location we have a famous auto auction site in Copart. Could a trip to one of these auction locations provide you with some discarded aluminum rims?  Aluminum radiators? Who knows? It pays (literally) to keep your eyes open. And should you find some discarded aluminum, it’s only a few minutes to TM Scrap Metals where we pay cash for that found scrap.

Aluminum cans aren’t the only player on the block. Now that you know that many metal items other people have thrown away can be a source of cash when you do find a trove such as scrap aluminum wheels, you know where to bring them. Take advantage of someone else’s laziness. Sit back and smile as you count the cash someone else just threw away! Call us at 818-771-0510.

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“Stainless steel scrap prices” is a popular search on Google.  A few thousand people search for this term each month. It’s not hard to determine why. Although a common metal stainless steel is important invaluable because it’s made up other metals that in and of themselves are valuable. Think about nickel for molybdenum. Yesterday we wrote a brass scrap prices because the mental fetches a good price per pound but stainless steel is also a good metal to recycle.

Many scrappers that come through our doors are repeat customers and they have extensive experience in metal recycling. However, if you’re just getting into scrapping and you’re looking for a Burbank recycling center, probably one of the first things you’ll do is look up the price of stainless steel scrap. There are a number of websites available that list scrap metal prices (in indeed TM Scrap Metals has its own scrap metal pricing page)  you’ll probably run into a site like scrapmonster.com which List the various metal prices and compares things like prepared versus unprepared scrap.

Taking a look at their continuously updated list you can see that unprepared stainless steel scrap goes for about $.22 per pound where is prepared stainless steel scrap fetches about $.45 per pound. There’s a difference on the order of 50% between prepared and unprepared stainless steel and the question arises, are you as the seller of scrap metal, willing to do what it takes to prepare the metal you want to recycle?

It’s the same principle that we touched on when talking about wire recycling. TM Scrap Metals, as a scrap metal dealer, is equipped to strip insulated copper wire, whereas most people you don’t have the equipment, the time or both and would simply prefer to bring in the unprepared scrap metal–for example insulated copper wire–and leave the wire recycling to us. The same question remains when you’re talking about stainless steel scrap. Do you have the time or the desire to prep it?

At our scrap metal yard there are a number methods you can choose from when selling your scrap metal to us. They range from the easiest–absolutely hands off, we take care of everything–to the more labor intensive do-it-yourself options. The choice is up to you. No matter what, our recycling center will still pay top prices in the Los Angeles scrap metal market.

If you’ve got stainless steel scrap to sell, contact TM Scrap Metals the number one name in Los Angeles scrap metal recycling. 818-771-0510.

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