where to process cats

[scrappy2]

we have been scrapping cars for a year and we get about 80 converters a month...with the price of platnium and the other metals in them we would like to have them processed to remove the prious metals...do you know where we would have that done..

 

[bradyboy]

precious metals in car exhaust converters?
news to me, please explain
I'm not doubting you but never heard of such a thing
if any thing the materials are caustic

 

[nhbenz]

Its true that some valuable metals are used in the making of catalytic converters, which is why they're so expensive when they need replacement. Scroll down to the "Technical Details" part of this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter
Now, as to the value/market of used converters... I can't help on that part.

 

[markmopar]

check out this yahoo group:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/GoldandPlatinumRecycling/

 

[solarsmith]

cats are worth $5.00 to $500.00 I was buying them for a few years. if you have 80 a month of mixed cats they should average about $4.000.00 to $6.000.00 for the lot. They all have varying amounts of platinum palladium and rhodium good luck. Bryan in Denver Colorado

 

[RustyGold]

Wow is that why they smell so bad when they are going out?

 

[Goose-0]

You sure it might be the converter? It seems that in California it gets pretty hot with high humidity.....and with no air conditioning? Hmmm.

 

[boogeyman]

Yeah they're valuable! So much so the thieves were going around Phoenix Az with cordless saws alls cutting them off cars. My buddy there lost two amd almost a third! Made him a cover like a skid plate bolted through the floor, problem solved! He told me later that they had swiped 17 in the apartment complexes around his.

 

[Davers]

Yeah they're valuable! So much so the thieves were going around Phoenix Az with cordless saws alls cutting them off cars. My buddy there lost two amd almost a third! Made him a cover like a skid plate bolted through the floor, problem solved! He told me later that they had swiped 17 in the apartment complexes around his.

The big ? is...
Witch Crooked Scrap Yards are buying these stolen Converters ?

They been putting them Saws-all's to Good/bad use around here for many years , seems it would happen less since the price of PM's has fallen in the past few years.
As I said ; they must have a good buyer , in Mexico Possibly.

 

[billjustbill]

precious metals in car exhaust converters?
news to me, please explain
I'm not doubting you but never heard of such a thing
if any thing the materials are caustic

IF/WHEN the precious metals head upward again, you may learn the hard way that your Catalytic Converter is worth a whole lot to someone else when you start your car and hear a sudden deafening loud roaring exhaust.....

Back in the rising PM days, there were people coming out of the walk-in multi-screen cinemas and finding their Cat(alytic) Converters had been quickly cut away and removed with a simple battery powered recip saw.... New ones aren't cheap...neither are the replacement parts to today's exhaust system.

Bill

 

[Honest Samuel]

Are we talking about animals call cats? I am not a car man, just a cat man own by Tippy, my true love.

 

[billjustbill]

Are we talking about animals call cats? I am not a car man, just a cat man own by Tippy, my true love.

Could be.... OR .... It could be like a middle-aged waitress's habitual and a bit unnerving comment every Friday night when the local greasy-spoon had "Fish Night".....

"Okay Honey, which one of you had the "fried cat"?

Bill

(Apologies to the Original Poster...)

 

[pronghorn]

The big ? is...
Witch Crooked Scrap Yards are buying these stolen Converters ?

In my experience, scrap yards are all crooked, until they get caught,
then they play the ignorance card.

catalytic converter theft has been around since way before this thread
started (2008) maybe those low riders do have a purpose, can't crawl
under them and steal parts!