Copper Welding Wire Scrap

Electric motors can run between 14 and 17 cents per pound.

Copper welding wire scrap.

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. 2 copper wire the color of the wires from electric motors can range from a darker burnt orange color to reddish color. 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. All the local scrap yards have refused burnt off aluminum wire for years. Be careful when buying welders to scrap. Copperweld s permanently bonded copper covering can never be returned to virgin copper making our conductors unattractive to recyclers and unprofitable for copper thieves.

Sort scrap copper wire. 2 20 2 copper dirty copper. Romex copper wiremcm 500 750 wire bare bright inside. Bare bright wire the color of the wire will be a faint orange yellow and bright color.

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. 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. If they are copper fine but i understand that some of them use aluminum transformer windings nowadays. 2 35 1 copper clean copper.

The five grades of copper wire range from 85 percent to 10 percent. Different types of scrap copper wires. 2 35 1 copper clean copper. If you can strip copper wire you ll be sure to get a higher price for it at the scrap yard.

Other current scrap prices that you may want to know include. We cover a wide range of materials from copper aluminum lead zinc magnesium tin nickel steel iron and more. 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. 250mcm 750mcm wire has 90 copper recovery so let s use same 100 lbs.

1 bare bright wire. 2 20 2 copper dirty copper. The wire itself will have a shine to it without any oil or shellac on the outside. 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.

Discover the latest scrap metal prices in ohio today. Mcm 500 750 wire bare bright inside.