Recycling stampers and DMM

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Recycling stampers and DMM

Post: # 32054Unread post dietrich10
Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:13 pm

anyone have advice best way/places to recycle or sell as scrap?
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Thu Oct 30, 2014 1:35 am

At my last job, we would just call around to different local metal recycling places to get prices for nickle. I think there was usually some "this guy will give me this, can you beat that" type of negotiating up, but basically, it was just a bunch of legwork on the phone.
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Post: # 32059Unread post Aussie0zborn
Thu Oct 30, 2014 5:06 am

Scrap metal dealers. The nickel stampers should be 99.9% pure nickel and the DMM mothers are made of stainless steel with a copper coating on one side. As already suggested, ring around.

If you have a good quantity and you're not in a hurry, it night pay to monitor the cost of nickel and sell when its high.
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Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:04 pm

I have scrapped everything from mother, stamper and lacquers.

Your local metal scrap dealer is the place to go. Expect them to cut open the lacquers to see what is under the coating. They always take them though.
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Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:16 pm

concretecowboy71 wrote:I have scrapped everything from mother, stamper and lacquers.

Your local metal scrap dealer is the place to go. Expect them to cut open the lacquers to see what is under the coating. They always take them though.

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