I save all the copper, brass, and alum I encounter in my work. The other day, I was at the transfer station and spied a sink with a huge faucet still attached. I was able to get it off w/o being hassled, took it home and it weighs almost 10 pounds. That's about $20 right there. I threw old faucets and supply valves away for years. It could be that someday it will be determined that landfills have more recoverable copper than many mines, per ton of material extracted.

About twice a year I take in my haul and get about $100. I have to wait a few days for the money now, an anti meth-head measure that may or may not do any good. Two trips to the place now instead of one but it's on my way.

I was unable to sell the last two cats I took out of my Bimmer, so I just threw them in the scrap metal bin at the Palo Alto recycling center, a really good one next to the former dump, closed a few months ago. They'll get the approx $10 apiece for them I can only imagine.

A couple years back, some nimrods stole a brass shutoff valve at some toxic liquid holding tank and beau coup toxins flowed into the bay - cleanup estimated in the $10s of thousands and I don't imagine it would be complete at any rate. Where's my aluminum baseball bat.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

$10 bucks! my junkyard pays up to $50 bucks for some cats,others nothing,i'll have to check and see which are the good ones.

My SIL sold the cat off of my old 190E and he got $175 for it.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

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they don't get any MB's in the yard but i know they said some of em are worth big bucks.

I took one of mine in to a yard and the guy said no one around here (Bay area) is buying them. He said it was pretty puny (aftermarket for a 2.5 liter) and only worth about $10.

I phoned a couple of other yards and I suspect he's right. Unless you're a muffler shop (or other large entity like a community recycling center) you can't sell them.

A client of mine started his Escalade up one day (about 8 years ago) and was treated to the sound of a gnarly hot rod, dude. I gather the big V-8s have big cats and an SUV is easy to crawl under.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K