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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?

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.

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.

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

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

For 2 bags…..

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

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

DWD

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...

Price has gone up a bit then?

Decent enough ...

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

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 .... "