Guides
The yard visit is where all your sorting work turns into cash — or does not. What to expect on your first trip, how yards set and grade prices, the common ways scrappers lose money at the scale, and how to compare yards properly.
A converter's value is hiding in the number stamped on its shell. Here's where to find it, how to read a rusty or faded stamp, what the codes look like by brand, and how buyers turn that number into a price.
The scale, the bins, the ID check, the payout — a walkthrough of exactly what happens on your first yard visit, so you show up prepared instead of intimidated.
Run the numbers before you pay — weight, composition, asking price.