Quote Originally Posted by freonjoe View Post
I had a little over 90 pounds of ribbon cable from the last batch of computers I did. My yard offered .45 a pound for it as dirty comm wire. Took my trusty free scissors (free from harbor freight) and cut the ends off. Took 4 hours and ended up with 61 pounds of clean comm wire at 1.10 a pound and 32 pounds of gold ends. I figure I made 90 bucks for 4 hours of work and got to listen to Micheal Savage for a couple of evenings to boot.
funny how that works, though. You take the most expensive part off of the wire and then they pay you more for the wire.