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18 ga copper wire
- Thread starter wosh
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rkevins
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copper is copper but if the laws are as bad there as they are here you have to give everything but a pint of blood to scrap copper
OccupantRJ
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Cord sets. (lamp cords) 63 cents a pound here. I sell a barrell full a year.
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A lot of information at the Scrap Metal Forum :
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com
7th Kahuna
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Right now China will take just about anything copper for recycling. I have guys recycling jacketed 22 ga phone and data wire. Historically that was just trash.
metalmagpie
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In Washington State you used to have to either have a business license or wait two weeks to get a check in the mail for scrapped nonferrous metals. Not any more, now you get paid the same day. There are many grades of copper. If you strip like-new welding lead and bring in gleaming 100% copper coils, they call that no. 1 copper and it carries the most money. If you turn in scrapped out copper pipe with lots of solder joints and the occasional valve which has a cast zinc handle, that will be like no. 3 copper and it doesn't bring as much. Insulated wire brings less money, but it all is recyclable. By the way, the method used to remove insulation from a lot of fine insulated wire is interesting. A machine chops up the wire into particles like fine sand, and they are dropped through a cross-blast of air. The insulation being lighter than the metal, it goes sideways while the metal drops more or less straight down.
metalmagpie
metalmagpie