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 Post subject: Scrap metal
PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:46 pm 
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Does anyone have any idea how much the frame of an aluminium (I think anyway) king size bed would be worth (if anything)...?
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It's about £600/ton at the moment so not much :sad:

http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals
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I have no idea how much the bed would weigh or how much a ton is (besides a lot)! Could you liken a ton to something? A tree? A house? Australia?
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30-50 bed frames?

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Great, thanks root :-)
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i was just guessing sorry :lol: depends how much the bedframe weighs....

lemme think.... 1 tonne = 28-29 Ikea SVELVIK bed frames.... (taking into account the fixings)

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A ton is a small car, a big bag of sand, a pack of bricks or a instant ban if your caught.
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Probably weighs somewhere about 15kg...if you took that in there all by itself, you might get £5....
Providing any steel bolts etc are removed.

Unless you are passing the door, its barely worth the effort.

If you just want rid, just leave it outside, a passing member of a certain community group will certainly collect it for you.

Cant say i have seen an aluminium bed before, sure its not just steel? Is it magnetic?

If its steel, its worth even less.

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