580 Ballarat Road Albion 3020
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Scrappy’s Buys Copper Pipes & Copper Scrap for Recycling
Scrappy’s buys a variety of copper items from households, trades, and estates. Items containing copper can include plumbing, wiring, tubing, and other surplus materials from renovations, property clean-outs, deceased estates, or trade and builder surplus.
Copper tubing is most often used for heating systems and as a refrigerant line in HVAC systems. It is slowly being replaced by PEX tubing in hot and cold water applications. Copper tubing is joined using flare connections, compression connections, pressed connections, or solder. Copper offers a high level of corrosion resistance but is becoming very costly.
Pure copper has the best electrical and thermal conductivity of any commercial metal. Over half of the copper produced is used in electrical and electronic applications.
Have copper scrap? Contact Scrappy’s today for a free quote!
1300 668 892
Copper also forms alloys more freely than most metals, with a wide range of alloying elements used to produce the following alloys:
- Brassis the generic term for a range of copper-zinc alloys with differing combinations of properties, including strength, machinability, ductility, wear resistance, hardness, electrical and thermal conductivity, and corrosion resistance.
- Bronze alloysare made from copper and tin and were the first to be developed about four thousand years ago. They were so important that they led to a period in time being named the Bronze Age.
- Gunmetalsare alloys of copper with tin, zinc, and lead and have been used for at least 2,000 years due to their ease of casting and good strength and corrosion resistance. Most typically used as ammunition, as the name suggests.
- Copper-nickel alloyshave excellent resistance to marine corrosion and biofouling. The addition of nickel to copper improves strength and corrosion resistance while retaining good ductility.
- Nickel silver alloys are made from copper, nickel, and zinc and can be regarded as special brasses. They have an attractive silvery appearance, slightly different from the typical brassy colour.
- Beryllium copper is the hardest and strongest of any copper alloy in the fully heat-treated and cold-worked condition. It is similar in mechanical properties to many high-strength alloy steels, but compared to steels, it has better corrosion resistance.
Along with copper, Scrappy’s buys a full range of scrap for recycling, including lead, stainless steel, scrap whitegoods, brass, nickel, steel, aluminium, PVC, and wire — plus scrap cars, machinery, radiators, batteries, pipes, off-cuts, extrusion, pressings, and more.
Our scrap metal recycling centre is conveniently located in Albion (near Sunshine), the heart of Melbourne’s western suburbs. We offer a wide range of scrap metal recycling services to industrial, business, commercial, residential, and domestic customers, including competitive prices for all metals and recycling programs tailored to suit our clients.
