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wavecrazed
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 Posted - 12/27/2007 : 22:21:02
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I always get some aluminum scrap from lawn chairs and pool furniture. The lawn chairs are a tricky item. I found one recycler that will take them with most of the rivets and some screws in them.
A aluminum chair with all the webbing usually only weighs about 4 lbs. About 2 dollars worth of scrap or less. I found a big commercial kitchen knife and sharpened it and can cut the webbing out on the work bench. I sometimes take out the little phillip screws out too. I then take the chair in hand and put in on the vice and or anvil side of it and whack the armrest with a big hammer at the rivets. It takes a lot of hammering but eventually comes off. A lot of recyclers with give you dirty aluminum pricing 20 vs 50cents a pound, so shop around.
The other furniture is the welded hollow powder coated frame stuff. Use your magnet and can be identified buy the thick welds between the joints. It has thick rubber webbing and can be cut with a sawzall (reciprocating saw). There are single seat chairs all the way to big chaise lounges and the round tables. The big chaise lounges have a lot of steel hinges with long metal bolts. I cut them with the sawzall. They take up a lot of room in the garage but I save them for a rainy day. Good luck.
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 12/28/2007 : 07:16:09
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| I see a lot of lawn chairs out in the trash during the warm weather months up here in Ohio. Have you come across any cast aluminum lawn furniture yet? Anyone have the scrap prices for cast aluminum? |
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 12/28/2007 : 10:03:45
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I use this. Click the category, and it opens a page showing different grades for each category.
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It's a good guide, but prices vary according to geographic location and operator. For instance, the yards in my town pay .55/lb for old cast Al, and .70/lb for Al cans, extruded Al, Al wheels.
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/20/2008 : 08:45:06
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Usually most people miss the really cost advantages of such Aluminum Lawn furniture discarded. Around me many purchase large spools of that webbing material at a really cheap price. You collect those discarded lawn chairs that use that type of webbing. The rewebbing process is way to easy and the finished product can be sold at garage/yard/estate sales or flea markets for a substantial amount of profit.
You just take a nice day, sit down on a lawn chair, and with a scissors, ice pick, screw driver you begin. With the screw driver you remove the screws holding the old webbing. Discard the old webbing. Measure a piece off the new roll and about 4 to 6 inches longer on each end. Cut, fold the ends over to make them double or even triple at the ends. Use the ice pick to put a whole in the new webbing, insert the same screw you removed previously from the chair your rewebbing into the new webbing and replace into the chair.
Takes a little time but when done, completely rewebbed chair you can sell for $5 or more. |
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