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.
Ballpark scrap value of a catalytic converter by type and PGM market — with a serial-number-quote reality check.
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.
Circuit board grades and component lots (CPUs, RAM, gold fingers) priced per pound — conservative defaults.
Weight, karat, and today's spot price — melt value plus what a refiner, gold buyer, or pawn shop will realistically pay.
Sterling and European silver by weight and purity — or count pre-1965 US coins — with melt value and realistic payout.
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.
An aftermarket converter looks like the real thing and is worth a fraction of it. Here’s how to tell a replacement from a factory converter in under a minute, and what each typically brings as scrap.
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.
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.
Weight, composition, asking price — the Deal Analyzer tells you the margin and your break-even offer.