Segregating copper wire this week.

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Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby mtldealer » Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:24 pm

My brother decided that this weeke we are segregating copper wire to be stripped. It's going to be a long week. Befrore picture and what it needs to look like when wer'e done.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby messymessy » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:42 pm

What are you using to strip it?
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby Hades12 » Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:53 pm

maybe we need to group buy one of those wire strippers and pass it around.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby mtldealer » Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:06 pm

messymessy wrote:What are you using to strip it?

we have a old industrial wire stripper. After that we bale it.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby Hades12 » Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:17 pm

mtldealer wrote:
messymessy wrote:What are you using to strip it?

we have a old industrial wire stripper. After that we bale it.




how did you find that? and what did it cost?
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby mtldealer » Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:08 am

Hades12 wrote:
mtldealer wrote:
messymessy wrote:What are you using to strip it?

we have a old industrial wire stripper. After that we bale it.




how did you find that? and what did it cost?

It's been in the (scrap) business since before I was born... I know you can get a hand held wire stripper online for a couple hundred dollars. I'll see if I can find the name of the company and post it.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby Hades12 » Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:44 pm

my LSY will sale wire to me if I want it, would be nice to strip and resale.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby SubmarineSailor » Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:50 pm

Is it worth stripping the wire? The time and effort, etc? Would it be worth more to sell it as it is??
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby RGJohn » Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:38 pm

Wow that is one hellacious wire stripper.
Clean, bare copper wire ( no corrosion) is worth double here in Colorado. Or better. So if a guy has a quantitiy and this stripper is not too pricey, it certainly is worth considering. To do it manually is not profitable.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby messymessy » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:21 pm

Hades12 wrote:my LSY will sale wire to me if I want it, would be nice to strip and resale.


Last time I tried to buy insulated scrap wire, the price from the scrap yard was so high that I think I would have been losing money once I stripped the wire and threw away the insulation.
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Re: Segregating copper wire this week.

Postby Hades12 » Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:57 pm

messymessy wrote:
Hades12 wrote:my LSY will sale wire to me if I want it, would be nice to strip and resale.


Last time I tried to buy insulated scrap wire, the price from the scrap yard was so high that I think I would have been losing money once I stripped the wire and threw away the insulation.




it is a hard place to be in the middle, you have to get them to see that they don't have to truck it and you have to have a higher paying place to sale it. I do compressors from my yard when I have time and make my labor.
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