What is it made of?

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BostonBull

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I have a ton of scrap saws, and parts from over the years. Im looking to sell the crankcases, and spare parts, or scrap them.

What are saws made up of for metals? I know crankcases are made of Magnesium, what about cylinders, pistons, carbs, side covers, pull starts, etc etc?

Any help and/or insight is appreciated.

BTW we are talking about mostly Stihl saws, blowers, trimmers, cutoff saws, a little bit of Husky stuff too.
 
Crankcases magnesium, aluminum and plastic.

Cyl pistons aluminum

Carbs aluminum I would guess

Side covers and pull starts magnesium, aluminum, plastic

The scrape guys will know for sure when you sale. aluminum is way up.
 
Have you found a recycler that will buy the mag? If so, how much did you get for the waste?

I think that most of the plastic bits would have the recycling number code on them.
 
Plastic is the easy part, we recylce that with the regular load at the dump.

$0.40/lb on average for side covers and crankcases, as long as its completely stripped down and clean of all other metals. Must be a lot of aluminum in them.

havent heard on cylinders and pistons yet.
 
Noone wants to buy the mag, its too combustible they tell me. Some guys say bring it in, and they'll mix it with their aluminum and give me $0.10/lb for it.

Im going to make some more calls Monday.
 
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