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No82s
Penny Pincher Member
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 Posted - 06/15/2009 : 21:12:43
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I've run into a mess of aluminum window screens, doors, etc. How clean do they need to be to scrap? I'm guess that any steel screws, screen spline, and weather stripping needs to be gone, but what about the metal in the corners that hold them together? That looks to be a lot of work and hardly worth the time or not? Also, what kind of scrap aluminum is this considered. Thanks in advance.
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MatLock
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 03:31:39
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| The window screens I come across have no steel. If they are like this(if you are talking about the ones with the mini-black laced screen) just take the short ends and twist and it breaks apart easy. Then there are little plastic connectors in the corners that just pop right out, rip the screen out and then you have painted extruded aluminum. |
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bruce hylton
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 11:53:10
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| Almost all screen frames are sheet. Some corners have steel or plastic, some aluminum. Check them all. Anything that can be made by folding is sheet, if it has to be pulled through something to get the shape, it usually is extruded. Generally speaking extruded pays more than sheet because they are different alloys and if you mix them, you will get the lower price. Cast usually pays close to the same as sheet. Truck wheels and car wheels are in different sorts. And normally pay at different rates. If you can't clean a thousand pounds in 8 hours of window frames etc., you are in the wrong hobby. Invest in a good steel handled, straight claw hammer such as an Estwing and swing it like a mad man. You can drive screws out faster than using a screw driver and you can cut or break with the face against a sharp edged piece of steel faster than a saw. Good Luck. |
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hobo finds
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 11:54:16
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| At the yards by me the light weight screens and frames are mlc. The heavy aluminum is extruded. I feel it's worth the time. $0.34 a pound for the mlc and $0.50 for the extruded around here. |
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 12:12:09
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Corners can be zinc, too. Get them out. Break that chunk of the aluminum off and toss it if it's quicker.
Get all the screws out, otherwise they give you a lower price. If they're corroded, I'll even use a saw to cut them out. |
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simplicitycounts
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2009 : 00:51:01
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| I've found a lot of aluminum window screens lately for free. On the side where the screen is held in there is a piece of rubber that goes around holding the screen in place. Take a pliers where the rubber rope starts, and just pull it right out. With it out the screen falls out - throw it away. Then just step on the bottom of the screen and twist. It will very easilly fall apart at the corners with the screen out. If the corners are alluminum leave them in. If a magnet sticks to them or they are plastic, pull them out with your pliers. A screen can easilly be taken apart in 1-2 minutes. Never done a door, but if it is free how valuable is your free / spare time? |
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Posted - 07/03/2009 : 15:05:07
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| if the corners give me any trouble at all i use a sawzall and it goes prety quick. just throw the corner pieces into dirty aluminum pile. |
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