Selling copper cable?

keystone

ian-d wrote: »

Excuse me?

You are excused.

Well firstly I did apologise in my post if I got it wrong but I have to say when viewed objectively the post just didn't ring true at all.

Cheers

spannerzone

We take all our cable off cuts to the scrappy and get a decent price.... they burn /strip the insulation off the cable so sure we don't get the best price.

zax47

phill99 wrote: »

I weighed 18 kilos of VIR (Which is what cable is cl;assed as by the scrap dealers and got £18. So its £1000 / tonne or £1/ kilo.

If you'd stripped it and took it as Bright Copper then you'd have got over 3 times as much!

phill99

zax47 wrote: »

If you'd stripped it and took it as Bright Copper then you'd have got over 3 times as much!

I'm well aware of that and if its thick cable, I often do so. But I'm not going to fanny about stripping coaxial or telephone cable just to get a bit of copper that would be so miniscule you would have to weigh it on a drug dealers scales for it to register.

27col

zax47 wrote: »

You should have sold it on Ebay - you would be surprised at the demand for "old" coloured twin & earth {allegedly}! At least £1/m to be had there from people wanting to "age" new work to avoid Part P. {or so I'm told....}

My thoughts exactly zax. I would have bought if I'd seen it on ebay.