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Hi all,
I have been an observer for awhile mainly using the search function to find all the info I need.
I am fairly new to the world of scrapping, I work in the I.T field and found it irritating how much ewaste and metal was being thrown out by my old workplaces, so I found Bens youtube channel and also this forum, hoping it gets busier!
But anyway, a newbie question I have is how to grade the steel that's accumulated via scrapping? I hear terms like light gauge, pressing steel, dirty pressing steel, mixed pressing steel, HMS and I'm guessing all scrap yards also have differing definitions of what actually constitutes these grades of scrap steel?
Lets say I scrap an old receiver with only a low grade board, I remove the extruded aluminium, transformers/coils and any IC chips, throw any visible plastic in the bin including the front, throw the screws back in the receiver, now what sort of scrap does what remains of the receiver end up becoming considering there is still a fiberglass board inside and possibly some small plastic I missed, by weight probably 95% steel?
Same with other appliance carcasses, what if it was too difficult to remove all the plastic connected to the steel, at what percentage does pressing steel become dirty pressing steel?
Also, if it helps with scrap yard definitions, I'm based in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Cheers,
I have been an observer for awhile mainly using the search function to find all the info I need.
I am fairly new to the world of scrapping, I work in the I.T field and found it irritating how much ewaste and metal was being thrown out by my old workplaces, so I found Bens youtube channel and also this forum, hoping it gets busier!
But anyway, a newbie question I have is how to grade the steel that's accumulated via scrapping? I hear terms like light gauge, pressing steel, dirty pressing steel, mixed pressing steel, HMS and I'm guessing all scrap yards also have differing definitions of what actually constitutes these grades of scrap steel?
Lets say I scrap an old receiver with only a low grade board, I remove the extruded aluminium, transformers/coils and any IC chips, throw any visible plastic in the bin including the front, throw the screws back in the receiver, now what sort of scrap does what remains of the receiver end up becoming considering there is still a fiberglass board inside and possibly some small plastic I missed, by weight probably 95% steel?
Same with other appliance carcasses, what if it was too difficult to remove all the plastic connected to the steel, at what percentage does pressing steel become dirty pressing steel?
Also, if it helps with scrap yard definitions, I'm based in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Cheers,
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