Lead Acid Battery Scrap is the most commonly found Lead scrap.Lead Battery scrap is available in the form of Lead Battery Plates (Rails), Wet Whole Intact Batteries (Rink) and Drained/Dry Whole Intact Lead Batteries (Rains).
Lead shots are the small round pellets of lead used as projectiles in shotguns. Lead is the primary material for shots and bullets. Alloying with antimony makes them hard. For instance, premium lead shots normally contain up to 6% antimony, while others contain about 1-2%. In Bullets, lead is almost entirely sheathed in a copper alloy jacket.
Lead Wheel Weights are mainly used in automobiles as correction weight in order to ensure balancing of wheels. It may consist of lead tire balances with or without iron clips. In general, it must not include scrap lead, lugs or plates. Also, it must be free of any foreign material.
Mixed Hard/Soft Lead shall consist of clean lead solids and lead shots, that are free of other materials such as drosses, battery plates, lead covered cables, collapsible tubes, type metals, aluminum, zinc, iron and brass fittings, dirty chemical lead and radioactive materials. Examples of Mixed Hard/Soft Scrap Lead include weights, pipes, gutters and pellets.
Old Mixed Aluminum Scrap shall consist of assorted, clean aluminum scrap. It must be free of foil, hair wire, plastic, dirt and other non-metallic items.
Alternators are found in cars, trucks and other vehicles. It contains wound copper wire inside it.
Beryllium Copper Scrap consists of clean beryllium alloyed copper solids. It may also include punching, clipping, bar, pipe, tubing or elbows.
Braziery Copper consists of copper that are already tinned, soldered, brazed or painted. It should be at least 95% copper and can contain even up to 5% brass.
Copper/Aluminum Radiator Scrap consists of unalloyed copper tubing surrounded by aluminum cooling fins. They are generally derived from heat exchange radiators.
Copper/Aluminum Radiators/ Fe Scrap shall consist of iron attached to the unit of copper fins in air conditioning units.
Copper/Large Electric Motor Scrap consists of large electric motors that are more than 1 horsepower in size. It also includes copper coil windings from such motors.
Copper Transformer Scraps consists of copper windings surrounding a steel core. The copper windings may also be covered by an outer case.
Copper Turnings Scrap are the shavings of copper metal, often left after manufacturing of copper goods in machine shops or factories.
Copper/ Sealed Motors Scrap comprises of sealed electric compressor motors, mainly derived from refrigerators and freezers.
Copper/Aluminum BX Cable Scrap is made up of plastic insulated copper wire that is coated with aluminum casing.
Copper/Aluminum Radiator Ends Scrap shall consist of materials that are cut from the end of Copper/Aluminum Radiators. The ends usually consist of iron or steel.
Copper/Fractional Electric Motor Scrap consists of small electric motors less than 1 horsepower. It also includes small copper coil windings from such motors.
Copper/Steel BX Cable Scrap is made up of plastic insulated copper wire that is coated with Steel casing.
Cu Yokes Scrap are a series of weaved copper wire with a plastic cone around. These are found on the back of tube televisions.
This category of copper scrap consists of miscellaneous, unalloyed copper solids having a minimum of 88% copper content. It may also include sheet copper, gutters and similar scrap.
No.1 Copper Wire Nodules consist of No.1 bare, uncoated and unalloyed copper wire nodules that are by-products of a shredding or chopping operation.
No. 1 Insulated Copper Wire Scrap consists of wires that are plastic insulated. It must be uncoated and unalloyed. These scrap copper wires must be larger than 16 gauge.
No.2 Copper Wire Nodules Scrap consist of No.2 unalloyed copper wire nodules from a shredding operation. It provides 97% content re-melt recovery rate.
No. 2 Insulated Copper Wire Scrap consists of different plastic insulated unalloyed copper wire. The wires must be free of heavy or double insulation.
No. 3 Insulated Copper Wire Scrap consists of assorted plastic insulated unalloyed copper wire. It can contain heavy or double insulation wires and plastic insulated telephone cables.
No.1 Bare Bright Copper Wire Scrap shall consist of bare, uncoated, unalloyed copper wire that is larger than 16 gauge.
No.1 Copper Wire Scrap shall consist of clean, untinned, uncoated and unalloyed copper wire, not smaller than 16 gauge.
No.1 Heavy Scrap Copper shall consist of clean, unalloyed and uncoated copper solids. It may also include punchings, clippings, bus bars, clean pipe or tubing.
No.2 Copper Wire Scrap shall consist of miscellaneous, clean, unalloyed copper wire having a nominal 96% copper content.
No.2 Scrap Copper consists of clean, unalloyed copper solids. It may include clean, oxidized or coated (plated) copper clippings, punchings, bus bars, commutator segments.
Romex Wires Scrap are non-metallic wires that are commonly used for electrical wiring in homes. Romex consists of copper wires, a neutral conductor and a ground wire.
Soldered Copper Pipe Scrap is a category of scrap copper that consists of assorted copper pipe with soldered joints or ends.
Starters Scrap are found in cars, trucks and other vehicles. They are filled with copper wire inside. The copper wire content offers scrap metal value to them.
Wire Harness is an assembly of electrical wires that are commonly found in electrical parts of automobiles. Normally, it contains a lot of wires sheathed in a plastic outer covering.
Xmas Lights or Christmas Lights are those strands of electric lights that are used to decorate trees, houses or commercial buildings during Christmas season.
