Copper Welding Wire Scrap

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Copper welding wire scrap.

2 35 1 copper clean copper. While copper wire can technically be segregated into five grades most scrap yards classify all wire as either high grade or low grade copper wire. If you can strip copper wire you ll be sure to get a higher price for it at the scrap yard. Electric motors can run between 14 and 17 cents per pound.

Some scrap yards will no longer take wire that has had the insulation burnt off and it is coming in the future that they will have to turn you in if you bring in burnt off wire. 250mcm 750mcm wire has 90 copper recovery so let s use same 100 lbs. If they are copper fine but i understand that some of them use aluminum transformer windings nowadays. Romex copper wiremcm 500 750 wire bare bright inside.

2 20 2 copper dirty copper. 2 copper wire the color of the wires from electric motors can range from a darker burnt orange color to reddish color. If you chose to strip it you will end up with 90 pounds of copper don t forget 10 pounds in plastic waste and in today s market you will get 1 90 per pound for stripped copper wire so your 90 pounds will net you 171. Copperweld s permanently bonded copper covering can never be returned to virgin copper making our conductors unattractive to recyclers and unprofitable for copper thieves.

2 35 1 copper clean copper. High grade wire has a single layer of insulation and low grade has a double layer. 1 bare bright wire. The wire itself will have a shine to it without any oil or shellac on the outside.

The five grades of copper wire range from 85 percent to 10 percent. Bare bright wire the color of the wire will be a faint orange yellow and bright color. 2 20 2 copper dirty copper. Be careful when buying welders to scrap.

We dynamically populate our scrap metal prices directly from local scrap yards throughout ohio and update them every thirty minutes to one hour. It only took them getting burnt on that one time to never accept that again. Copper transformers can run between 5 and 50 cents per pound. 1 bare bright wire.

I have a miller synrcrowave 200 and a lincoln sp 175 plus mig and i couldn t tell you whether they have copper or aluminum windings. Copper recyclers pay top dollar for solid copper scrap because it can be easily melted and sold at almost the market price of copper. Different types of scrap copper wires. If you were to sell it the way it is in today s market you would get average 1 50 per pound so it would get you 150 00 without doing a thing to it just bring it to a recycling yard and sell it.

Mcm 500 750 wire bare bright inside. Sort scrap copper wire.