scrap

fin · Post by **fin** » Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:13 pm

ive ended up with a couple of rubble sacks wotth of scrap cable all bunched up standard sort of stuff.

normally i just weigh it in alongside my other scrap. normally seperate out brass and copper.

is it worth while stripping the cable or not\? what do you lot do?

is it something which makes basically pennies difference unless you have a decent amount of it weight wise? and then labour alone makes it pointless?

arco_iris · Post by **arco_iris** » Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:41 am

I don't recall the difference in rates, I took in a bucket each of copper, lead, brass and a box of cable, £100.

You could sit and strip one sack, not the other, see how long it takes & difference in value.

Put it on a bonfire (outside, it stinks!), fish it out next day; there are vids on utube of homemade bulk cable stippers.involving knife blades.

Edit, found the ticket.
Copper plumbing bits 7kg £38 so that's £5.40 per kilo;
Cable 3kg £5 so £1.66/kg.

also got £3/kg for brass & £1.10/kg for lead.

oz0707 · Post by **oz0707** » Thu Apr 06, 2023 5:14 am

I spoke to a sparky the other month who strips his but im not sure of the difference in prices between the two. Ring up the merchants and ask. Id prob just weigh in as it is.

Razor · Post by **Razor** » Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:05 am

There's a massive difference between stripped and insulated wire. Several thousand per ton!

https://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/meta ... ices-2023/

Neelix · Post by **Neelix** » Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:31 am

For 2 bags…..

Don’t bother stripping it. Takes too long and life is too short

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Thu Apr 06, 2023 7:11 am

I think that the price is weight adjusted to allow for the insulation at the yards.

DWD

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:03 pm

I took some scrap in today . The bright copper ie the stripped stuff was around three times the price of household with the insulation left on. £6400 a tonne verses £2100 . No 2 was a little lower than bright. That's stuff that's been burnt off or is tinned. Mind despite the price I didn't see a penny of the grand and a bit as it all ends up in mrsG's bank account...

bourbon · Post by **bourbon** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:58 pm

Price has gone up a bit then?

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:12 pm

Decent enough ...

oz0707 · Post by **oz0707** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 5:25 am

One thing I've always been told never weigh in before xmas. It worked this year prices were higher in feb than December

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:37 am

I've been taking scrap in for decades now following in my father's footsteps and sometimes I thought I was being spied on and the price dropped just before I took a van load in when I was told at the scrapyard " pity you weren't here last week .... "