Non-Chemical dropping copper

[glorycloud]

Hmmm, interesting idea!

Thanks! 8)

 

[gold4mike]

Ditto!

 

[trashmaster]

Thanks Josh; I did not think about doing that with the wire... but I will in the future, I sell around 4-500 lbs evrry 6 mo....The scrap yard here pays 0.55 cents per lb.. for power cables with the plug ends still on them,,, 95 cents if you cut them off.. I do as you said and boil the cable ends and pull the Brass conecters out,,, clip off the extra copper wire $ 2.90 per lb.. and the brass $1.75 per lb.... And they think we are stupid,,,,

paul

 

[fiat128]

The cleanest way to remove plastic coating from copper wires is boiling, I have a vintage stove and set 4 stainless pots cooking away. This will swell the plastic and the copper slides right out. I recycle the plastic at my local recycling plant, they accept it for free I just drive it up there when I am heading that way.

That's interesting. What sort of wire is this, the small braided cable you find in electronics or heavier electrial type wiring. I've never done it that way, always mechanically strip or burn.

 

[dub8]

cool idea with the wire

 

[rasanders22]

The cleanest way to remove plastic coating from copper wires is boiling, I have a vintage stove and set 4 stainless pots cooking away. This will swell the plastic and the copper slides right out. I recycle the plastic at my local recycling plant, they accept it for free I just drive it up there when I am heading that way.

That's interesting. What sort of wire is this, the small braided cable you find in electronics or heavier electrial type wiring. I've never done it that way, always mechanically strip or burn.

Some states do not allow the wire to be stripped. In AZ any stripped wire cannot be bought from an individual. I found out the hard way. :evil: Although about a year later I found a place that thought it was Cu trimmings and I was finally able to sell off a few pounds of stripped wire that I painstakingly cut into very small pieces.