dont have a machine shop, block has a huge hole in the side of it its trash. the recyling yard is going to charge me 50 to take the block as is or give me 10 bucks if i recyle it (no iron sleeves)

 

lol. Find a better junkyard. Charging you for something they are going to sell to someone else?

 

brake em out with a big hammer , thats what i did

 

I guess thats a good idea for $40, but the place I dropped my d16 block off at gave me $17 for the 'irony aluminum" as they called it. $10 is sort of a rip-off for scrap aluminum.

 

bfh + chisel + full face shield

Cast doesn't bring a whole lot these days, but if you're bored...

 

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yeah really, my yard will give me 3.00 for every hundred for what they call "irony aluminum" thats what that is. slide hammer?

 

I got paid like $45 for 2 bare heads and a block w/ stock sleeves and mains (about 130lbs as I recall). Keep in mind that the mains (the ones cast into the block) are also steel if Im not mistaken. Basically when they melt the aluminum the steel wont melt, so its not like they dont split it out....they just dont want to pay for it.


Modified by 95 integra at 6:08 PM 9/16/2007

 

I have NEVER heard of a yard CHARGING to take a cast aluminum block just because of the sleeves......R I P O F F!!! Go somewhere else.

 

Yeah bro... go somewhere else. thats rediculous.

 

do what i do. fill a plastic bin with all your crap you dont want then stop by the junkyard when there closed and leave it in front of the gate lol i dont make **** off scraping it but they cant charge me either

 

LOL up here thats called "Dirty Aluminum" last time was .50/lb, they payed me

 

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haha,that's what we do at work all the time.i've gone a couple times when they were actually open-went to the back gate,tipped the rollback bed up and dumped a ton of steel scrap.the whole time there's a guy yelling at me to weigh in first...i just blew the horn and drove off.at least they don't have to pay for it.
chris

 

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lol, I've done that too. I also left old oil in front of a grease monkey because no one around me would take the oil without making me buy something. I'd rather have them take it, than throw it in the dumpster.

 

20lb sledge hammer. I disassembled a cylinder head with one, and a mower, and 4spd trans with a bad input shaft bearing.

 

They should be paying you if your giving them metal. Here in FL I get like $40 bucks for taking in a broken vehicle sub frame, but this is a auto recyclers metal scrap yard I take it to.

 

I get 40 cents a lb for cast alluminum here. You gotta pull out all the iron and steel though. Just took a bunch of POS manis and a junk block down the other day and got $57

 

60-80 cents here in MN. i use to do the same thing but it takes too much efforts... easy money for jobless folks though

 

so how do shops get sleves out?

 

machine shops get sleeves out with a CNC machine when they need to install aftermarket sleeves

 

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Cast doesn't bring a whole lot these days, but if you're bored...

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its still good