Robert,
Actually certain engine components are aluminum. Generally speaking
however, most of them are either cast iron or a composite usually referred
to as pot metal. The other thing you want to be aware of when separating
out your scrap is that even aluminum is what the scrappers consider dirty.
This means that it has steel inserts for threading fasteners into, Bronze
or copper inserts for valve guides, seals for compression and well you get
the idea.
A friend of mine who owns a small engine repair shop has a Trailer made of
the back half of an old pickup and he just throws all of the junk metal in
it and a guy comes around periodically and exchanges an empty trailer for
his full one. The only thing that poor scrapper makes any money on is the
aluminum beer cans that get tossed in their.
I always maintained that if anyone held a gun on me and forced me back in
to the service profession it would be as either a small engine guy or doing
personal water craft service and repair.
Good luck with your endeavor.
At 10:13 PM 8/14/2006 -0500, Robert J. Moore wrote:
>I am starting to gather old junk mowers and what ever small engine
>equipmenht I can get my hands on to make a little money on the side with the
>view twards building some thing substancial.
>To start with I am taking any thing regardless of condition. I figure what
>ever I find will at least have some parts I can inventory even if it is a
>throttle cable or an air filter cover. You never know what you may need.
>Once i take off what I can inventory I am left with a carcus that I will
>need to dispose of.
>After saying all that Does any one know for sure if all small engines are
>aluminum? I know that i can test them with a magnet but I am curious to know
>ahead of time.
>
>I figure if they are all, or at least the vast majority aare aluminum, I
>will strip the blocks when I get a stock pile and I can sell the aluminum
>for a (*& load more than if I did not seperate every thing.
>prepared metal of any type is worth more than the sum of all the metals when
>they are not seperated.
>So I am thinking I should not really loose by taking any thing and every
>thing.
>
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