Couple questions on bronze and phone jacks

[abelleba]

1.) Should I continue to store bronze? Not to dissolve for anything but to sell to the scrapyard like I do copper? Can't find an actual answer on Google as to the worth of bronze materials. I find tons of this metal detecting.

2.) I have cart loads of phone jacks from about 2004-2005 when I worked for a phone company. They were throwing them out in the dumper and I snagged them. Are the gold connector tips that go under the 4 screws plated with gold? What about the 4 golden wires that make the connection to the male plug? They sure do look plated but I've read one thread where it's another alloy with no gold at all.

THanks!

 

[Harold_V]

Can't help you with the plugs, not being familiar with them, but for sure save brass and bronze. Being copper alloys, there's a strong market for the stuff. It doesn't bring as much money as copper, but it's well worth saving.

Harold

 

[qst42know]

The yard I go to buys bronze as "red brass". They don't sort it from "yellow brass" but others might. If you have enough of it it may pay to keep it separate from brass if your yard requires it or pays better for bronze. Call your local yards for their buying policies.

 

[Platdigger]

The thing about bronze is that it is copper/tin.

Brass being copper/zinc.

Tin is at about 5 dollars spot.
Randy

 

[abelleba]

Thanks for the comments. Started saving all my heat sinks, copper, etc in bins now. Hopefully they'll be worth the store

 

[Never_Evil2]

Here's the question, is it costing you money to store your metal waiting for a higher price, or do you have a place that you can store it free?