I want to cut up some old steel panel central heating radiators to help with disposal and thought this would be an ideal time to get myself an angle grinder, possibly used from ebay etc. Is this a job for a larger 9" disc machine or would a smaller one still do the job? Thanks.
What size angle grinder?
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Too much aggravation if you ask me.
Contact any scrap metal collector and they'll take them away for free.
The mess that you'd make when cutting them would be massive.
Contact any scrap metal collector and they'll take them away for free.
The mess that you'd make when cutting them would be massive.
Trouble is that my local scrappie said the value of scrap is so low that its not worth the mile drive to pick them up? They said the same about a bath I took out. Still, based on what you have said about the aggro cutting them up, I might try another scrappie as I would rather not have to chop them up.
Place an ad on local FB group, theres mostly people on there who will pick up for free if you leave it by the gate.
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A 125mm is probably the most useful size, in a small angle grinder to have, but there should be no need to cut them up - around here, you just put stuff out by the gate and the roving scrap collectors will take them in a day or so.
If you have difficulty getting them collected, stack them close to the road, with a sign saying "For sale, £10 each, please knock" and they will be gone by morning
Here in London, if you left them outside, they would be gone in hours.
Years ago, I use an angle grinder to cut up a customer's cast iron bath to get it out of the bathroom (I was unable to use a sledge hammer). That evening, I went home and bathed. In the morning, my own bath was full of rust specks.
Years ago, I use an angle grinder to cut up a customer's cast iron bath to get it out of the bathroom (I was unable to use a sledge hammer). That evening, I went home and bathed. In the morning, my own bath was full of rust specks.
As above end of drive they will dissappear!
Certainly in South York's you have hardly time to get tools out before 2 lively lads in a transit pick up are asking 'any old scrap mate?'
Certainly in South York's you have hardly time to get tools out before 2 lively lads in a transit pick up are asking 'any old scrap mate?'
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our scapper said if you leave on front garden, they would collect when passing / in area , otherwise not worth a special trip, just for 1 rad - took over 2 weeks before they did pickup , thats was earlier this year
but i have got rid of a load of stuff on freecycle , stuff that i had planned for the dump, most picked up within about 24 hours
use freecycle now all the time rather than making the trip to the dump (20+mile round trip)
but i have got rid of a load of stuff on freecycle , stuff that i had planned for the dump, most picked up within about 24 hours
use freecycle now all the time rather than making the trip to the dump (20+mile round trip)
I have a bloke collecting a load of scrap metal tomorrow, he's even gonna hoof it all down from the garden to retrieve it all, he gets paid for the scrap but saves me the hassle. I've looked at freecycle a few times but it literally seems dead around here now, it's all marketplace now.
I recently worked for a guy that was having his wiring and plumbing sorted. The scrap guy was bending down to pick up 20mm off cuts of T&E as he walked around the property.
All collected this morning, saved me a day's work cutting bits down to manageable sizes and filling up the car to take to the dump etc.
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