Pokemonprime's Scrapping Finds

**Pokemonprime** · 05-23-2017, 06:11 PM

To Patriot76: Me & my dad have been looking for a good source of 5 gallon buckets, I'll see if I can track down any local painting contractors or similar outfits. Thanks for the tip.

To Greytruck: They were the wires running around the back of the monitor, so I guess they're tinned copper then. What do they go for then? I assume a pretty low grade wire.
To hobo finds: I'll make sure to pull anything aluminum. One of the scrap candidates even has an aluminum frame

**Pnutfarmer** · 05-23-2017, 07:35 PM

Tinned copper will actually go in your #2 copper wire so it's pretty good.

**greytruck** · 05-23-2017, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Pokemonprime

To Greytruck: They were the wires running around the back of the monitor, so I guess they're tinned copper then. What do they go for then? I assume a pretty low grade wire.

Here, currently one yard pays $1.80 for #2 copper and $1.93 for tinned copper.

**auminer** · 05-24-2017, 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by Pokemonprime

To Patriot76: Me & my dad have been looking for a good source of 5 gallon buckets, I'll see if I can track down any local painting contractors or similar outfits. Thanks for the tip.

To Greytruck: They were the wires running around the back of the monitor, so I guess they're tinned copper then. What do they go for then? I assume a pretty low grade wire.
To hobo finds: I'll make sure to pull anything aluminum. One of the scrap candidates even has an aluminum frame

Pool service companies. The big chlorine tablets they use come in 5 (or maybe larger) gallon buckets. I used a boatload of them when I started out. THen I came across a stash of about 50 matching 30 gallon sterilite tubs and bought 8 of those AV carts from a school surplus auction.