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by messymessy » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:42 pm
What are you using to strip it?
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by 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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