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Posted by Austin Shackles on May 18, 2008, 2:42 pm
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enlightened us thusly:
>It's a good idea to keep an eye on this chaps.
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>http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metalsPrices.jsp
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>A few months ago ferrous scrap was about 4p a kilo and hardly worth selling.
>It's gone up 50% in the last month alone and is now about 23p a kilo. More
>than 1/4 of the price of aluminium. That scrap car you have lying on the
>drive is now worth £230 a tonne. An old car engine is worth £25 and even an
>old steel car wheel is about £2.
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>I'm keeping an eye on it for a bit before I cash in the several hundred kg
>of engine blocks and heads I have lying around in the workshop but at least
>they're worth six times what they were last year. I expect them to be worth
>even more next month.
yeah. 's no wonder there are an increasing supply of tat-dealers coming
looking for scrap.
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>http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metalsPrices.jsp
>
>A few months ago ferrous scrap was about 4p a kilo and hardly worth selling.
>It's gone up 50% in the last month alone and is now about 23p a kilo. More
>than 1/4 of the price of aluminium. That scrap car you have lying on the
>drive is now worth £230 a tonne. An old car engine is worth £25 and even an
>old steel car wheel is about £2.
>
>I'm keeping an eye on it for a bit before I cash in the several hundred kg
>of engine blocks and heads I have lying around in the workshop but at least
>they're worth six times what they were last year. I expect them to be worth
>even more next month.