Free calculators and field-tested guides for metal scrappers. Copper yield from any cable, strip-or-sell math, and lot deal analysis — with your local yard prices, right in your browser.
Calculators
Enter your local prices once — the tools remember them. Works in pounds and kilograms.
Pick a cable type (or enter a custom recovery %), add weight and your local prices — get the copper value stripped vs sold insulated.
Pick an aluminum cable type (or a custom recovery %), add weight — or gauge/mm² and length — and your local prices; see the aluminum value stripped vs sold insulated.
Compares stripped vs insulated payout including your time and labor — tells you when stripping actually pays.
Weigh a lot, estimate its composition, enter the asking price — get estimated value, margin, and your break-even price.
Estimate copper content and scrap value of electric motors by weight and size class.
Water heater, washer, AC, microwave and more — what each appliance pays broken down or whole.
Start here
Three guide tracks that cover most of what beginners ask.
What pays, where to find scrap legally, and what your first yard trip looks like.
The gold, silver, and palladium hiding in e-waste everyone else shreds.
Fresh guides, recovery-rate tables, and worth-it breakdowns.
Finding one dead washer is luck. A route is a system that produces scrap every week. Here's how to map it, time it around bulk-trash days, do the fuel-per-pound math, and prune it into real income.
That fin-and-tube coil in an AC unit is worth roughly double plain aluminum — because of the copper hiding in the tubes. Here's how to recognize an Al/Cu radiator, keep it out of the wrong pile, and prep it to pay.
A hard drive's loose metal is modest — aluminum and a neodymium magnet — but its controller board is a sought-after, premium board grade. Here is the real breakdown, how to take one apart, and why you destroy the data first.
Six ways to check whether silver is real — from the hallmark and the magnet test to the ice test and a silver acid test — ranked by how much you can trust each one.
Weight, composition, asking price — the Deal Analyzer tells you the margin and your break-even offer.