what's the scrap value of a 1.5m AC cord?

Andy_L

londonTiger wrote: »

So what's the story? is a piece of power cable worth more than the shredder is scrap?

I suspect some scrote just vandalised it to annoy you, not realising it was about to be scrapped

B_G_B

Couldn’t find a WANTED / SWAP / SALE section on the forum so thought I’d post here. Hope thats ok.

Anyhow, I have for sale a 2w mains flex approx 1.5 metres in length. It comes complete with a standard 3 pin plug fused at 3A. The other end is bare for connection to appliance. It would be ideal as a replacement for household shredder or similar. The item is untested, so is to be sold as seen, but appears to be in good condition. All offers considered.

enfield_freddy

what's the scrap value of a 1.5m AC cord?






19.689p , last time I stole one

Strider590

LMAO, this is getting silly.....

I guarantee some old bloke from down the road walked past and took it, probably for the plug.

Back in the day, when appliances didn't come with plugs fitted, people always removed plugs from old appliances before throwing them. My folks have a draw full of old mains plugs. Even some of the old round pin style.

macman

If someone wanted just the plug, wouldn't they cut it off at the plug end, not the shredder end?

enfield_freddy

maybe they wanted to make a 1.5m extension lead up?

kwikbreaks

Strider590 wrote: »

Back in the day, when appliances didn't come with plugs...

You always thought - I've got one at home so I won't buy another.

Then you found you hadn't and "borrowed" the plug off something else and decided to get a new plug next time you were shopping... which you promptly forgot.

Then you wanted to use the thing with no plug...

Repeat until something burned out and you salvaged the plug.

Yes in those days with all the practice we were all dab hands at fitting plugs.

Kernel_Sanders

I'll bet it hasn't even occurred to some young people that appliances once came plugless. Imagine the outcry if somebody dared to propose the repeal of that law!

Fightsback wrote: »

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Thought that figure was a bit on the low side, but this site puts it even lower. It attempts to replicate a real-time second-by-second display of the global population, currently over 7.3bn. It's quite frightening really, as it doesn't seem that long since the 7bn mark was reached.

imatt

Actually not that hard to believe. Got rid of several items a few years ago due to kitchen renovation. As per usual a couple of chaps came and offered to remove metal items for scrap. One of them even picked up bits of old electrical cord that were only a few centimetres long! As they say ''Every Lidl helps''. So a 1.5m cord would've been gold to them.

Where I live, if you leave anything out in your back yard that is even vaguely metallic, it will be taken by scrap metal dealers. Most do have the courtesy to knock on my door and ask. However, a few times I have left something out that I was discarding and it has vanished within the hour.

kwikbreaks

imatt wrote: »

Where I live, if you leave anything out in your back yard that is even vaguely metallic, it will be taken by scrap metal dealers.

Hmm.. well I guess "scrap metal dealers" is more politically correct than what friends called the collectors of several metal solar lights and a cast iron sided bench that were "collected" from their garden.

The culprits were fairly easy to guess at given there was a "scrap metal dealer" encampment on some council land nearby.