stripping copper wire

[petecnc]

is it worth trying to strip the strand type wire. ive got some thats copper color and some thats sliver color,the silver color wire doesnt stick to a magnet.

 

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[haz]

Does your scrap yard take insulated wire? That would be the easy way to sell it, problem is they don't pay much for it. Silver colored wire is still probably copper wire, it's coated in aluminum I think, but if you cut it or rub it on cement it will look like copper on the end. Burning it is a quick way to strip it, but it's toxic smoke and could get you in trouble, but stripping it by hand is slow going.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

I agree, see if they buy insulated wire. The recycle yard I sell to does, so I save all my insulated wire that is not worth stripping and sell it separate. You do not get near the price you do for stripped copper, but it pays much better than the tin price you would get for leaving them on the appliances.

 

[petecnc]

I've decided that I'm not going to strip the wire unless its solid core. with the wire from inside of a computer do you need to cut the connectors off? is the flat wide wire that connects the drives, is that worth collecting.

 

[petecnc]

i talked to the place where i plan on taking my wire and other stuff. they told me stranded core wire dint bother stripping, and if i cut the connectors off they pay a higher price for it. as for the boards i cut the fingers off and the mother boards they will take but dint pay for them.