A great day off from work.

**beedubz** · 04-10-2013, 02:53 PM

Yesterday my boss at my day job was cleaning out the garage and gave me all the scrap metal. There was an stove/oven, a metal tank, some motorcycle parts, a few copper pipes, etc. Today I swung by the pawn shop and snagged a 4 1/2 in Makita angle grinder for $35 and got to work cutting all the copper off of the tank. Turns out inside the tank was a huge coil of finned copper that weighed around 15-20 lbs what a great surprise! The oven had a nice fat power cord on it so I stripped that and added it to my bucket of #2. I brought all the copper i've been saving up over the last two weeks and added it to my load. I stopped at Dunkin on the way to the yard and picked up a dozen donuts for the yard employees (A move i learned from you guys!) and when all was said and done today I made $140. Not bad for a freebie from my boss. I'd like to thank everyone on this forum for all the valuable info. If it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't have made nearly as much money. Good luck to everyone on your ventures today!
-Beedubz.

**Mechanic688** · 04-10-2013, 03:22 PM

The oven had a nice fat power cord on it so I stripped that and added it to my bucket of #2.

If that was an electric stove then the wire you stripped should have been #1, it's usually #6 guage

**beedubz** · 04-10-2013, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

If that was an electric stove then the wire you stripped should have been #1, it's usually #6 guage

The power cord wire was thick braids of very thin wires.

**Mechanic688** · 04-10-2013, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by beedubz

The power cord wire was thick braids of very thin wires.

Doesn't matter at my yard, 500 of those hair wires make a 6-4 gauge strand, doesn't have to be solid.
Esp. if it was nice and shiny I could have gotten B.B. price.