We have begun to break discos at work and currently have 15 200tdi and 30tdi's in various states or disrepair!
The local tatters have found out where we are and are offering £40 cash for a catalytic convertor!
Whats so special about them? and is that a good price?
We are doing a good trade on the disco bits and currently getting £100 back for a scrap shell and chassis too - win win! 
They contain prescious metals platinum and rhodium,they are reducing it all the time in the latest cats,so the early ones are worth more,£40 sounds a good price though.
Take them to the local scrappy yourself, our local one is paying £52 each for full cats at the moment
And now that they've found you, make sure your security system is up to standard!
Ideally, take all the cats off and lock them away indoors.
The scrap value of cats are so high that people have started taking hacksaws to vehicles with high ground clearance to nick them.
A pilot scheme (run in sheffield) has found that dust collected by road sweepers contains enough platinum for it to be commercially viable to collect
the dust and process it into metal.
well, slightly as an aside I thought it was about time I weighed in the copper I had kicking about from replacing my heating system. Copper hot water
tank (unlagged) and load of pipes, I was staggered when it weighed in at 68kg and I got £136 cash locally as brazery as it had paint and all the
fittings still attached!
Ned.
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Originally posted by smart51
The scrap value of cats are so high that people have started taking hacksaws to vehicles with high ground clearance to nick them.
A pilot scheme (run in sheffield) has found that dust collected by road sweepers contains enough platinum for it to be commercially viable to collect the dust and process it into metal.
Taken for free!
get the cat off and weigh the rest in for £100 then the car for £40!
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Originally posted by locoboy
Taken for free!
get the cat off and weigh the rest in for £100 then the car for £40!
You get £50 for the cat
£5 per alloy wheel
the battery is around £5 -8
and 100 for the rest.
dont even start with copper......the tinkers have started stealing from live substations
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
So are we due new heath scare then, over the dangers of breathing platinum dust partials? Probably find their more dangerous than lead…
mild steel scrap in northamptonshire is currently @ £180 a ton,dont breath in dust and fumes from cats as its one of the most carcenegenic compounds
out there
,scrap is 160-180 per ton at the moment , i weighed a movano , a vectra and an escort diesel van in yesterday. £45 for the vectra cat £15 for the
batteries £560 for the weight
i get pikeys in two or three times a day trying to buy the scrap. the skip full of discs engines clutches etc is
getting weighed in tomorrow before some gippo with a skip lorry robs it
Car dealer in Cambourne near Cambridge had a load of cats nicked a few weeks ago . Not the scrap ones either.
bugger, i took a load of steel in last week and only got £100 a tonne! So i ended up with £1.20.... ahem.
luckily, there was £120 of copper too!