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Recycle your broken spars
November 10, 2009
In the past week I was speaking with two different sailboat racers who explained they each took their broken masts to the public amenity recycle centre in Ballyogan.
And they each paid €20 for the privilege of dumping their spars!
Aluminium is a commodity and scrap metal merchants will purchase bent and broken masts and stainless steel. Here is what I have done in the past:
- Remove all stainless steel fittings from the spar and put them in a box
- Cut the spar into 1 meter lengths with an angle grinder or hacksaw
- Ring round the various scrap merchants explaining I want to sell anodised marine grade aluminium tubing and ask for a price per kilo and ask for a price per kilo for the stainless stuff
- Stick it all in the back of the car and deliver to the highest bidder, then take cheque to the bank
Prices vary during the year depending upon international demand, but a tenner is a tenner!
- Hammond Lane Metal Co
Pigeon House rd Ringsend 4 Co. Dublin Tel: 667 5335 - Davis Recycling
Charlotte Quay, Ringsend Tel: 667 5840 - Mullen Scrap
Clanbrassil Street Upper, Dublin 8, Tel 453 4758 - McGoverns Recycling,
Lower Ranelagh Road Tel 497 7466 - More in the Golden Pages
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