What to do with old parts?

[Trav]

I keep a scrap pile filled with anything metal only, a guy comes by every few months and takes it away and leaves it nice and clean.
Sometimes he gets a bone with a couple of OE cats thrown in deliberately. Another guy takes my yearly stash of waste oil every November.

 

[Donald]

I try and find a place where they will end in a scrapyard and not in a landfill.

 

[Donald]

I keep a scrap pile filled with anything metal only, a guy comes by every few months and takes it away and leaves it nice and clean.
Sometimes he gets a bone with a couple of OE cats thrown in deliberately. Another guy takes my yearly stash of waste oil every November.

No waste oil heater to heat your shop?

 

[Kira]

Good idea. I would bring in homemade bbq ribs and sides to a locally owned liquor store. I'd get discounts on bourbon and he'd special order stuff i wanted.

A bloke fired the parts cannon at his daughter's Neon and generated a axle which hadn't failed.
I brought it to a small dismantler.
Later, a set of 4 Jeep wheels went to my pal for just $100. Good goin'

 

[KrisZ]

I would try to rebuild them if a rebuild kit is available and reasonably priced. Clean them up and sell on FB marketplace.

Otherwise just throw it all out.

 

[lbhsbz]

Speaking to the calipers, since I'm in the rebuilding business....

Low value/common cores are not really worth much now. There used to be TONS of cores that we'd buy all day long for under $10 each...the real common run of the mill stuff. This was when the rebuilding facilities were here in the states, and a lot of these cores were sourced locally (or came back on core return pallets, but that's a different situation). Now, all of the big rebuilders are in Mexico. When we take that $8 core from Chicago, transport it from the shop to the parts store, the parts store the distribution center, the DC to the main supplier warehouse, and then from that warehouse across the boarder, the core has now cost money....since we've got $20 in transportation in it....then since it came from the rust belt, it might just go straight into the scrap bin. Cheaper to scrap it where it sits and just get a new unit from China....then we also have no labor cost to rebuild it, no 20-30% scrap rate to deal with (cores from the rust belt go to the scrap bin quite often), and it's just easier.

 

[Marcozi]

I use military bases’ auto skills shops. They have an area for old/used parts and for scrap metal.

 

[D60]

So I always save a few calipers, a brake booster, steering box, p/s pump and alternator for cores. I just throw whatever in the box and return to the corporate stores. Be sure to have a bracketed caliper, too.

Sorry, not sorry. They can work it out. Tell me I'm a horrible human being -- I. just. don't. care.

Everything else gets sorted and scrapped at my local scrap yard
-bailing tin
-radiators
-alternators & starters
-"pop" cans
-cat food/sardine cans (aluminum breakage)
‐cast, primarily rotors and drums
-copper

I actually use my arbor press to crush empty aerosol cans because they take up way too much space otherwise. I don't bother with paint rattle cans, too messy.

 

[researcher]

I'm talking the ones that normally considered Core return parts.

I used to be a go to mechanic for a few local groups around me. Simple mods specific to certain car platforms. And well I've stacked up some decent spare parts bin that i'm looking to shink down. A lot of the bulky items that i don't have space for nor a purpose.

I have about 6 honda front axles, 5 alternators, 3 full size car batteries, about 4 sets of calipers.

I've called a few scrap yards and part stores, most will say they will take them but no money. Maybe $5 a battery. I went as far as posted everything up in local car groups for free and no takers. Any options other than just trash them.

if they are OEM Honda axles, Marty at raxles.com might want them, he re-uses the main shafts since they're forged.. might want to contact him..

 

[D60]

I actually use my arbor press to crush empty aerosol cans because they take up way too much space otherwise. I don't bother with paint rattle cans, too messy.

I kill two birds and put aerosol cans in a canned food can (which I otherwise crush by foot)

 

[53' Stude]

advance auto parts will give you a $15 credit per used car battery.

Autozone does it too except the give you $15 merchandise card.

 

[53' Stude]

Most steel like rotors drums and pads etc control arms at work we wait til we have truck load and go to metals yard. Old oil filters are crushed and Safety Kleen takes them. Warranty stuff goes to dealers it came from. Batteries go back to autozone.