Quote Originally Posted by Destro_Yersul View Post
Alternatively, if you do mind stealing, go to Markarth, talk the the wizard guy, and then drag everything out of the ruin there. I did that. Ended up carrying over a ton of dwarven scrap, which turned into an obscene number of legendary dwarven bows, which took me forever to sell off but supplied the smithing XP to make orc stuff instead.
Yeah, that's what I did. I managed to smelt over 120 dwarven metal ingots.

The trick is to remember which dwarven scrap can be melted into ingots and which cannot. The ones that can be melted down are:

Bent Dwemer Scrap Metal (it must be bent!)
Large Dwemer Plate Metal
Small Dwemer Plate Metal
Solid Dwemer Metal
Large Dwemer Strut
Large Decorative Dwemer Strut

Good luck!