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Message:: [QUOTE="woodyhenderson, post: 1704661, member: 33122"]Ive scraped for 10 years or more not for money to buy coins but to help pay some behind bills.To make top dollar prices with cans not too bad.But when you talk about copper the only true way to get top dollar is  to clean it .Copper coils  from a/c units have a metal end cap that has to be cut off with a saws all using a metal cutting blade.Factor in the cost of gas to find these metals  and the trips you make to sell it adds up and takes away from the profit.Also the time you invest is not really free and like your job where  you work add it  to it and your profit just hit rock bottom. It takes about 3 hrs to clean a a/c unit. Unless you make below min wedge your profit is gone your labor has eaten it up.I am lucky as my work takes me to different places each day and i meet many people.Most of the time i am able to pick up the junk while i am there getting paid for the work i am doing.The real money  in scrapping comes from the buying and selling of a junked car or truck.If you can buy it for 150 00 you can remove the rubber tires and sell it for  500 or more depending on the cars weight.The older the car the more it weighs.Sad to say most of the easy money is long gone and now most have learned the cost of junk and sell it themselves..Good luck because it has been a very good way to get extra money in the years i have been doing it.[/QUOTE]