This is what I was thinking scrap men everywhere. What would you say for a steel bath ?I took loads of lead and some copper bits to the crappy last month, got about £4.70 per kilo for the copper.
ISTR brass is about the same.
I knew there was a good reason to keep chucking the old water pipes I had been finding under the floorboards down the cellar steps - got £66 in all.
Given that the metal thieves are stealing everything not bolted down with realy big bolts - even steel/iron must fetch something.
Price for scrap metal
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Steel is fetching around 18p a kilo around by me or at least it was a couple of months ago which is when I last paid a visit.
What about old cast iron manhole covers? Are they worth anything?
Andy
Andy
Probably a couple of months if you're caught 
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18p a kilo. So these scrap men are running around like mad men for that. One scrap man I know picked up £800 the other week. If I gave him a bath,cooker steel water tank. The lot weighs roughly 40 - 60 kg at most so he gets £10.80. Surely he would just about break even with petrol and time at 18p a kilo.
That's why he's stealing lead off the church roof between your house and the scrappers
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