scrap metal question

had a junk guy stop by the shop yesterday to pick up junk radiators and ac condensers. he asked about brake rotors, said they pay a dollar a piece for them. our scrap steel we just put out for whoever wants it because the prices are so low. what the deal on the rotors, some special alloy or something???

Dont know why ,but rotors and drums have been going for $100 a ton more than cut steel.
It must be what they are made off.

The older brake rotors had nickel steel in them, but the guvment said it was polluting the hiways and the air we breathe, so the nickel was removed. Thats why brake rotors rust so quickly now. The rotors on my 1978 motor home are the originals, and still pass the safety inspection here in PA.
I heard a parts store guy say they get .50 cents for each one from their scrap man. (A local fellow who then takes them to the scrap yard and sells them there! He must be getting more than .50 cents, i'd say.
Clean steel here near Pittsburgh, Pa, is now bringing $8 paid to anybody who hauls in a pickup or dump truck load. Dirty steel brings $7.50.
Yesterday, a guy stopped and gave me enough clean aluminum to fill my Ranger truck bed (6 ft.) and then some. took it right in and got $75 for it!

I save all my clean cast, copper and aluminum,,, last summer I sold 2 tons of rotors,, brought $200 and that was before the price went thru the roof,, I also sold my aluminum and copper,,, $1200,,, I spec I had been saving it up for 5 years. I figger I had 2 days in clean'n the rads get'n them ready to sale at top dollar. I disassemble all my bad AC compressors and aluminum water pumps when I get the time usually on a Sunday while I am watching a race. The rest of the scrap I throw in a 5 gal. bucket and throw it in the metal ben at the convenience center when I take the trash off (gives me a reason to look for hidden treasures in the ben wink wink),,, All the clean gears, bearings and such I put into 55 gal steal drums out back,,, stuff that makes weight fast,,, brake pads shocks are are stuff that is classified as dirty or a combination of plastic and metal I don't keep. I have a few guys that come around look'n to buy my scrap,,, I don't sale to'em unless its something like a converter,,, I will trade out tho for scrap they have on the truck so if they do pick up some good usable steel like angle iron, square tubing they stop by here for they haul it off to the scrap yard. I save copper wire,,, don't mater if its just 1/4" long,,, just cut it off and throw it in a 5 gal bucket,,, I spec I average saving a pound a week,,, gotta admit I save beer cans 2,, I have nuttin again free money

Okay $8 for what weight. Also $75. for how much weight of the aluminum

Car bodys are bringing $110.00 a ton and the price is to go up a little this month.( then drop till spring)