I was speaking to a car breaker and he was saying he could get £100 in scrap for a zetec engine, he rekon its due to the ali head, Is this true? Would u need to remove the head from the steel block and weigh in separate as i have a knackered one in the garage?

London Metal Exchange official price for new aluminium at 29/12 was $1,975/tonne. Guessing that scrap will be a small percentage of the new price, so it might be worth a tenner

ATB

Simon

Not unless Alloy is the new copper wire and is fetching £3000 a tonne

£300/tonne is average for Ali round here.
So a zetec head should net you just under a tenner.

[Edited on 30/12/11 by chris mason]

Clean cast alloy £900 ton. last June.

http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/non-ferrous-metals

According to http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/ Al alloy is about £800/tonne or 80p a kg.
I'm not sure you'd even cover your fuel cost to take a head to the scrappy.

I've got a few old batteries and was quoted £380/tonne a couple of months ago, but it's not worth my while weighing them in.

HTH

Neil

a cylinder head is far from "clean" alloy removing valve guides and seats etc wont be easy.
ive failed to break a honda xl125 head with a sledge hammer.

peterborough metal recycling are £900 per ton for clean cast ally

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Originally posted by trikerneil
I've got a few old batteries and was quoted £380/tonne a couple of months ago, but it's not worth my while weighing them in.

HTH

Neil

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