The Great Scrap Metal Depression

the great scrap metal depression

In 1929, October 24th to be exact, Wall St. saw one of the largest selloffs known to man. The stock market lost over 5 billion in value on that day in 1929 and to put that into perspective a loaf of bread was 10 cents and a cup of coffee was a nickle (but don’t…

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Scrap Your Car

scrap Your car

  Scrap Your Car It doesn’t take long to look around and get a good idea of where to get a large amount of metal to scrap. It is everywhere, your neighborhood, your streets, your job and your schools. Yes, everywhere..they are our cars. A commonly overpriced quickly depreciating asset that Americans love to own…

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Why Gold Prices Change

why gold prices change

Ever wonder why gold prices change? Gold, the second you here the word yellow to brassy nuggets dance through our head. If your a scrapper, it can be the Holy Grail of scrap metal adventures (of course in our area copper is king).  One of the big issues is pricing.  When we do take the…

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Finding Your Scrap Metal Dealer

finding your scrap metal dealer

Finding your scrap metal dealer may be a tougher decision han where to actually find your scrap metal. So even thou we may be biased due to us being a premiere Tucson Scrap buyer, the reasons to work with a company rarely change. Things like customer service, attention to detail and of course overall pricing…

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Charity Scrapping

charity scrapping

Tired of going door to door asking friends, neighbors and even family if they’re interested in some cookie dough, or Holiday wrapping paper. Of course you are, not only are you tired of asking for it, you might be tired of getting very little reward out of it, I mean realy, the little pencils in…

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Will Tariffs Increase Scrap Metal Pricing

Will Tariffs Increase Scrap Metal Pricing

To most of us, asking questions like “will tariffs increase scrap metal pricing” rarely come to mind nor little do we care. The reality is though, you get into a trade war with Japan, Canada and Mexico, over steel..changes..they will be a coming and you heard it here first. Will Tariffs Increase Scrap Metal Pricing…

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Cleaning Your Scrap

cleaning your scrap

Nothing new to report here, we have preached the value of having prepped and cleaning your scrap metal prior to bringing it in. Sometimes this means that it has been cut to a certain length, as determined by the particular dealer  or possibly a better price and the type of metal that it is. We really…

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Recycling Scrap Helps the Economy

Recycling Scrap Helps the Economy

If you think recycling scrap doesn’t effect what’s going on in America today, you might be misinformed, or actually just wrong. With the economy seeming to fully mend from the financial collapse of 2008 many cities and communities are building again, and building big. Currently, the 5 largest growth cities by building standards are New…

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Storing Scrap Metals

storing scrap metals

We want you to sell us all the scrap metal you can. We also don’t want our customers to drive down to our yard and sell one pound of metal, if it is not worth their time to do so. So  we thought we would help come up with some ideas on how storing scrap metals…

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