OT - What do you do with your old rotors?

[DerbyDad03]

If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?

Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?

[Oren]

Pads in the trash. Rotors in recycle or Craigslist for the scrappers.

[Tony Hwang]

DerbyDad03 wrote:
> If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?
>
> Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?
>

Hi,
Take it to scrap yard. They even pay by the weight.

[The Daring Dufas]

On 5/4/2014 5:49 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
> If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?
>
> Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?
>

Use the rotors to make dumbbell weights for exercising your muscles. The
old pads can be used to make heat resistant inserts for your bench vice
to hold items that will be subjected to the open flame of a torch.
That's what I just came up with. I'm sure with a little thought I could
come up with something else. I am thinking about how old brake pads
could be used as guides for metal parts that slide to protect the rest
of some structure or assembly. Old rotors are good for holding down
tarps too or anything that needs some weight to prevent wind from
blowing it away or to weight something down that you are gluing. ^_^

TDD

[cl...@snyder.on.ca]

On Sun, 04 May 2014 18:23:19 -0600, Tony Hwang <drag...@shaw.ca>
wrote:

Around here, the scrappers only pay for over 300 lb of ferrous.

[nestork]

I'll normally trash the pads and take the rotors down to any muffler
shop to be added to their scrap steel pile. Garages will normally
collect stuff like old engine oil and scrap steel and sell it to oil
recyclers and scrap metal dealers.

With scrap steel at $140 per ton, even a 20 pound rotor will only fetch
$1.40 as scrap metal, or less than $3 for both of them. A scrap metal
collector is gonna burn more in gasoline coming to get those rotors than
they're worth to him. So, the thing that makes the most sense to me is
to throw them in someone else's scrap steel pile, and every muffler shop
has one of those. I'd rather see that steel recycled than toss it in
the trash so that it rusts away in the land fill site.




--
nestork

[Doug Miller]

Tony Hwang <drag...@shaw.ca> wrote in news:XRA9v.1015940$kp1.5...@fx14.iad:

That's really stupid for such a small amount as a few brake rotors. Scrap steel goes for about
US $220 per short ton, or eleven cents a pound.

I'd need to recycle at least 20 pounds of steel just to pay for the fuel to drive to the nearest
recycler and back. It makes more sense to throw it away.

[micky]

On Sun, 04 May 2014 21:22:17 -0400, gfre...@aol.com wrote:

>On Mon, 5 May 2014 03:09:37 +0200, nestork
><nestork...@diybanter.com> wrote:
>
>> A scrap metal
>>collector is gonna burn more in gasoline coming to get those rotors than
>>they're worth to him.
>

>That is why you just put them on the curb and the guy picks them up on
>his route.

They don't do this everywhere. Certainly not on my street which is not
a through-street, but I don't think they do it anywhere around here.
Maybe near downtown.

[cl...@snyder.on.ca]

On Sun, 04 May 2014 22:31:20 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
wrote:

Around here it is not the scrap-yards, It's the "urban miners" that
pick up just about anything with ANY metal in it. Usually a tough
looking pickup truck or shaggy car with a scrappy looking trailer and
one or 2 unsavoury looking characters. The beggars have even taken my
metal garbage bins - I chased the one guy down and threatened to call
the cops.

And I live in a pretty good part of town.

[Robert Green]

"micky" <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message

<stuff snipped>

> >That is why you just put them on the curb and the guy picks them up on
> >his route.
>
> They don't do this everywhere. Certainly not on my street which is not
> a through-street, but I don't think they do it anywhere around here.
> Maybe near downtown.

I suspect that even in nice residential neighborhoods there are people that
cruise the streets in the early AM before the trashmen run their route to
look for goodies. They certainly do it around here. I am up late often
and I see people slowing down and picking through my neighbor's trash (she
throws out nearly new stuff quite often - it's where I rescued a perfectly
good cross-cut shredder that just needed some WD-40 and motor oil to revive
it). They always seem to make the rounds a few hours before normal trash
pickup.

One thing that *doesn't* disappear anymore is old CRT TV's so they do have
*some* standards. Someone came by late in the summer walking his dog and
began to root through her trash pile and when he found something he liked (a
faux antique washstand made out of pressboard) he asked me to "hold it" for
him until he got his pickup truck! I politely told him I was going inside
right away to so something "important" and I wouldn't be watching it but
that I didn't expect it to go anywhere.

I might have been more helpful had I not recognized him as someone that
often let his dog poop on my lawn!!!!!! Yeah, I'll be "holding that" for
you.

--
Bobby G.

[Tony Hwang]

Hi,
Stupid? Last time when I took patio frames, broken this and that,
I was just happy to get rid of it. But they paid couple bucks.
Big scrap yard and electronics recycle depot is not far from me.
With that money I dropped by next door recycle depot, bought 2 Fujitsu
SCSI 500GB SCA drives for 10.00 each. I had to add 15.00 to make
20.00. You drive tank talking about fuel cost?, LOL.
Old Japanese saying, You can laugh at penny, you can also cry for penny.

[Bob F]

gfre...@aol.com wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2014 03:09:37 +0200, nestork
> <nestork...@diybanter.com> wrote:
>

>> A scrap metal
>> collector is gonna burn more in gasoline coming to get those rotors
>> than they're worth to him.
>

> That is why you just put them on the curb and the guy picks them up on
> his route.

Put a "free" sign on them. Then even the honest scrappers can help themselves.

[DerbyDad03]

DerbyDad03 <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:
> If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?
>
> Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?

Well, I got all of the answers I thought I would. The deal is this:

I put the rotors out with the trash last week. I leaned the rotors up
against the recycling bin, so whoever wanted them could take them: the
trash pickers, the recycling guys, the trash guys.

When I came home from work the rotors were lying on the ground next to the
empty trash can and recycling bins.

This week I'll put them _in_ the recycling bin and see what happens.

[Doug Miller]

Tony Hwang <drag...@shaw.ca> wrote in

news:5NF9v.157354$RL1.1...@fx22.iad:

> Doug Miller wrote:
>> Tony Hwang <drag...@shaw.ca> wrote in
>> news:XRA9v.1015940$kp1.5...@fx14.iad:
>>
>>> DerbyDad03 wrote:
>>>> If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads
>>>> and rotors?
>>>>
>>>> Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Take it to scrap yard. They even pay by the weight.
>>
>> That's really stupid for such a small amount as a few brake
>> rotors. Scrap steel goes for about US $220 per short ton, or
>> eleven cents a pound.
>>
>> I'd need to recycle at least 20 pounds of steel just to pay for
>> the fuel to drive to the nearest recycler and back. It makes
>> more sense to throw it away.
>>
> Hi,
> Stupid? Last time when I took patio frames, broken this and
> that, I was just happy to get rid of it. But they paid couple
> bucks.

Stupid? Yes, stupid, to recycle a couple of brake rotors. What part of eleven cents a pound
are you having trouble understanding?

[trader_4]

On Sunday, May 4, 2014 8:17:06 PM UTC-4, gfre...@aol.com wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2014 22:49:11 +0000 (UTC), DerbyDad03
>
> <teama...@eznet.net> wrote:
>
>
>

> >If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?
>
> >
>
> >Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?
>
>
>

> Around here any metal you set on the curb will be gone in a day. You
>
> never have to worry about old washing machines, car parts or anything
>
> else that is metal.

Yes, same here. I was surprised when I put out some
old sheet metal that was part of my old furnace. I
put it out ahead of the bulk pickup by the township,
when they would take it. Before they got there, some
guy was loading it into his truck.

[Pico Rico]

"Bob F" <bobn...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:lk7aji$qt3$1...@dont-email.me...

you would be better off putting a sign $15.00. Then they would steal it for
sure, even if it was junk.

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Our local Rescue Mission accepts scrap metals and sells them off to the
commercial recyclers.

Perce

[Jon Danniken]

On 05/04/2014 03:49 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
> If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?
>
> Garbage? Recycling bin? Something else?

They go in the steel recycling tip when I go on a recycling run at the
local dump.

Jon

[The Daring Dufas]

Around this area, if you put an old CRT TV/monitor on the curb, it will
be smashed by bipedal metal termites in order to get the copper
deflection coil. The insects leave a big mess scattered all over the
front yard of the home. To bad the only effective insecticide for them
will get you arrested if you make effective use of it. ^_^

TDD

[Don Phillipson]

"DerbyDad03" <teama...@eznet.net> wrote in message
news:2047563475420935971.858...@nntp.aioe.org...

> If you do your own brakes, what do you do with the old pads and rotors?

Small rotors are convenient for blocking groundhog holes.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[bob haller]

a nearby garage kept its scrap steel behind the building, rotors, a engine block, old exhaust pipes stuff like that.

one nite someone stole it all. shop owner now has cameras all around building with warning signs........

i have seen homes stripped of all the metal, not just the copper. gutters, downspouts and even siding, indoors the furnace, hot water tank, ductwork AC unit.

in my old neighborhood people are stealing the railings from city steps, which makes for real safety hazards.

one home even had all the wiring and breaker box stolen....

[Bob F]

That's if you only want the dishonest ones to help you out. But then, are those
the ones you want to attract to your neighborhood?

[Pico Rico]

"Bob F" <bobn...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:lk8jpb$ns4$1...@dont-email.me...

what, they are psychic that you put up a sign?

[Ed Pawlowski]

Put hooks on them and give your wife/girlfriend a nice pair of earrings.

[The Daring Dufas]

On 5/5/2014 1:52 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> Put hooks on them and give your wife/girlfriend a nice pair of
> earrings.

I just thought of another use for them. Make a floor lamp and use one or
both rotors as weight for the base. You could always use them to give
the lamp that "Jetsons" look. Perhaps as wheels for a cart? ^_^

TDD

[nestork]

I suppose that if you saved up enough old brake rotors you could paint
half of them black and the other half red and make a back yard checkers
set.

Another option that no one has mentioned yet is to just wait until it
gets dark and no one's around, and just go throw them in the neighbor's
yard.




--
nestork

[The Daring Dufas]

Some years ago, I lived in a small town next to Birmingham and I had a
neighbor who's dogs would crawl under my fence to crap in my yard
instead of fertilizing their own yard. ^_^

TDD

[Pico Rico]

"The Daring Dufas" <the-dari...@stinky-finger.net> wrote in message
news:lk9b4b$rq0$3...@dont-email.me...

so THAT's why the grass is greener on the other side of the fence!

[The Daring Dufas]

I did consider sneaking over to his yard late at night and dropping one
of my loads of Ready-mix, especially after eating something which
produced extremely odoriferous turds. ^_^

TDD

[Robert Green]

"trader_4" <tra...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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<stuff snipped>

> Yes, same here. I was surprised when I put out some
> old sheet metal that was part of my old furnace. I
> put it out ahead of the bulk pickup by the township,
> when they would take it. Before they got there, some
> guy was loading it into his truck.

As I type this (5:36AM) someone in a pickup just pulled up to inspect the
load of trash at my neighbor's curb. I see this often a few hours before
scheduled trash pickup - both on normal days and on the large item pickup
day. The large pile of baby furnishings and toys has been whittled to 1/3
of its original size.

I think it's a fascinating example of how informal niche systems arise. The
trash surfers know there's most likely going to be trash out on trash days,
so that's when they make their circuits.

Some people postulate that's how the enduring bond between man and dog
formed: They knew there was always a meal or two at the human's garbage
dumps and eventually became unafraid of humans. We got hunting assistance,
warning against intruders and an emergency meal if food became very scarce
(so that's where the name hot dog came from). They got free bones and
gristle to gnaw on, pack companionship and I am not sure what else. Hard to
say who got the better deal.

--
Bobby G.

[Tekkie®]

nestork posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP

A heavier duty set of quoits or Frisbee for your neighbor. Use them as
markers for the neighbors dog shit. Maybe drop them randomly and create a
mini putt course on his lawn. Get a couple of pirate flags.

--
Tekkie

[Tekkie®]

The Daring Dufas posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP

>

Did you fill the trench with rotors? When I think of rotors I think of the
things under distributer caps or inside electric motors.

--
Tekkie

[John]

Couldn't fit under the fence huh?

LMAO,
John

[The Daring Dufas]

Yea, it was before I lost 100lbs. ^_^

TDD

[Robert Green]

<gfre...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 May 2014 05:44:22 -0400, "Robert Green"
> <robert_g...@yah00.com> wrote:
>
> >I think it's a fascinating example of how informal niche systems arise.
The
> >trash surfers know there's most likely going to be trash out on trash
days,
> >so that's when they make their circuits.
>

> There seems to be 2 "scrapper days" here. They come around on Sunday
> night to pick up what gets tossed out on the curb over the weekend and
> again Wednesday night before the Thursday trash pickup.
> There are still people who will stop and pick up stuff whenever they
> see it so sometimes things disappear even sooner.
> It is such common knowledge that the scrappers will come that people
> just sit anything metal out on the curb.
> I think it is American enterprise at it's best. We are recycling
> materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill and someone is
> making a buck doing it, all free for the homeowner.

I agree. It's too bad at least a few trash hounds have begun stripping old
houses for their pipe and wiring, melting down bronze veteran grave markers,
etc. Fortunately fate rewards at least a few copper pirates with
electrocution each year. It "shocks" me (groan) to keep reading about
numbnuts who kill themselves stealing LIVE FRIKKIN' WIRES!!!!! Make that
"trying to steal." (-:

--
Bobby G.

[DerbyDad03]

Well, this week was different. I did the same thing as last week - put the
rotors outside of the recycling bins. Only difference was that I out them
out a little earlier.

A pickup came by less than an hour later and the driver took them. I guess
I was a little late for his scrap run last week.

[Tekkie®]

DerbyDad03 posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP

>

Is this the definition of being "proactive"? You know the recyclers got
their schedule too.

--
Tekkie

[shizn...@gmail.com]

I used two of mine as anchors for a canoe.

[Hawk]

On 7/7/2019 7:22 PM, shizn...@gmail.com wrote:
> I used two of mine as anchors for a canoe.
>

Clock for the garage.