What do you do with your old parts?

[Begster]

Alright, so its getting to the point where I have old parts piling up everywhere, but I have no clue where to get rid of them. We have a pass to the dump, but they don't take anything that looks like a car part.

My house is starting to look pretty trashy, and my parents are always complaining about it. Around my yard is:

2 radiators, a couple sets of drums and rotors, as well as shoes and pads to go with them, old exhaust system, bumpers, leaf springs, etc.


So my question is, where do you take your old parts? (and no, I don't have any fences I can throw them behind)

[Backroads]

no scrap yards around? Radiators are good for that. Drums and rotors arent worth much, but theyre give ya something for em...most of that stuff can be scrapped. I do that all the time..

[ktm racer 419]

garbage pickup where i live takes everything but tires and whole vehicles.

radiators, header panels, brake drums.

you could probably drop off the drums and rotors at a garage. where i work we get a quarter for every rotor or drum and we let them have old exhausts broken leaves and radiators. we keep the cats for the cat guy though.

[Begster]

no scrap yards around? Radiators are good for that. Drums and rotors arent worth much, but theyre give ya something for em...most of that stuff can be scrapped. I do that all the time..
I'll try to look around for some scrap yards, but I know there aren't really any junkyards around here or anything.

garbage pickup where i live takes everything but tires and whole vehicles.
We no longer have garbage pick up because they kept jacking their prices, and it was cheaper to just get a dump sticker.

But its funny, tires are the only things they do take.

[Backroads]

Maybe its different up there, but here, the dump takes metals, oils, pretty much anything but tires. The scrap/recycle places around here, pay market price and just weigh it all out, and you walk out with cash. I see some people scrapping so much collected crap, its like a job and means of income. But really back when everything was highly priced before the economy 'crash' I was getting close to 50 bucks for a couple car radiators. Not too bad for junk laying in the yard!

[kastein]

Bring it to a scrapmetal dealer if you can find one - they'll pay you 3-7 cents per pound for "clean steel and iron" meaning nothing but metal and rust, and as a bonus it's off your hands. Other than that, maybe a junkyard will take em. My backup method is to call up one of my friends from a local college and have them pitch it into one of the dumpsters on campus, as the dumpsters allow pretty much anything except toxic waste. Take a sawzall to the exhaust system and break it down into two foot long pieces and you should have no problem getting a little change for it at the scrapper's.

You can also try posting a "free scrap metal - pick up at x address" on craigslist, but that's hit or miss. I got rid of some old steel bookshelves and a bunch of scrap/small bits of metal stock when I moved out of my last place that way, the guy showed up in less than 45 minutes and took everything metal I could find.

EDIT: you're in Boston? if it really comes to it, you can throw it all in the back of the heep and drive it to the place on Hale street in haverhill (about 45 miles away... I know) and they'll definitely pay you for it. They paid me like 14 bucks for an entire cast iron radiator, broken into pieces no bigger than my fist when I helped my parents remodeled their second floor.

[Begster]

No I'm just up in Boston for school. All the stuff is down on the Cape.

I'm going to double check the rules for the dump, and I'll try to look for some scrap dealers around here.

[MoparManiac]

Stuff I really don't care about I bring to the JY about 10 miles away. I don't even want money for it, I just want it gone.

[billyjp2]

most garages have scrap piles and metal guys stop by a few times a week to pick it up.

[Deadwood]

Around here you could just put it by the road with a "free" sign on it and it'd be gone in a day.

I just took some stuff to the recycler/scrap yard down the road - a damaged XJ hood and my stock leaf springs that were cracked - got me $5 and I was very happy.

[Medic22]

We have a guy that drives up the road every week and takes anything metal that sits next to the trashcans. Works out quite well for the both of us.

[Veeb0rg]

I just got rid of a cutup subframe, suspension bits, fender and trans. Instead of drivin an hour to the dump the local recycle place said they'd take it.

While they didn't give us any cash for it, it certainly beat the heck out of drivin an hour to the dump.

[Begster]

Well I know that no one drives up and down my street looking for parts, so I really can't leave them outside.

I don't care about getting money from it, I was actually expecting to have to pay a place to take it. I just want it gone.

Colin, you know I'm not around any junkyards. Worst comes to worst, I'll have to bring it up next time I head your way.
I'll look and see what garages are around. I've been to busy cleaning my garage. Day 4 of cleaning ahead.

[foxwar71]

I just throw parts as far as I can and I usually never see/worry about them again.

[ROBZ95Xj]

I just throw parts as far as I can and I usually never see/worry about them again.

is that what really happened to Brady last year, he was leaving the stadium and got hit by some random Jeep part

[Begster]

I just throw parts as far as I can and I usually never see/worry about them again.


(and no, I don't have any fences I can throw them behind)
Haha, I had originally put your name in a smaller font in that parenthesis, but deleted it before I hit submit.

is that what really happened to Brady last year, he was leaving the stadium and got hit by some random Jeep part

It was also the underlying cause for Tedy Bruschi's stroke.

[asp]

mark i'm a lazy bastard so i didn't read the whole thread, but my neighbor works at a scrap yard. i should be able to take pretty much anything off your hands. i have a pile of my own to give him too. he recently took an old v8 engine block. i got like 30 bucks for it.