Coax Components

**Racer997** · 03-19-2013, 12:42 PM

My scrap yard quoted me a price for coax at something like 0.12 per pound a while back (I haven't priced it lately). I get a lot of it, so it's not really a bad thing to cut it up and toss it into a bin.

But what of the coax components? I have a lot of these parts, but are they anything special, or are they shred? Here's some pix to help folks see and verify what I think I know, but am not sure about. Sorry for the image quality as they are phone pix at my desk at work.

These things, which I suppose are couplers and mounts with grounding points all in one, what are they made of? They don't really look like stainless steel, but I suppose they could be some form of CRES. They are non-magnetic.

The "ends" of coax cable appear to be a couple of different materials. These here appear to be some kind of stainless steel, and they are non-magnetic.

More "ends" of coax. These appear to be anodized aluminum. They are not magnetic. Do these simply go into the aluminum breakage bin?

This is a coupler. It is some kind of plain steel, I think, and is quite magnetic.

These are the grounding screws that come from the coupler/mounts shown in the first picture above. They come in at least two flavors, I think: plain steel and stainless steel. The ones on the left are nasty and rusted and very magnetic. Steel. The ones on the right are nice and bright, shiny and non-magnetic. I assume these to be stainless steel.

**Wolfwerx** · 03-19-2013, 03:44 PM

12 cents a lb would be awesome, my yard considers all of that shred, except for aluminum ends or stainless screws, of course.
I end up with a lot of coax, too, and I just cut it into easy to handle pieces and stuff my appliances with it.

**Mechanic688** · 03-19-2013, 04:21 PM

You got most of it, the connector ends will be possibly plated brass. The bigger round ones just hit it with a file and you'll see the brass.
The coupler I call "potmetal" usually non magnetic.

**Trot** · 03-19-2013, 07:48 PM

I have installed cable for the past 6 years. All fittings should be brass. I just took in a bucket that weighed 57 pounds of nothing but cable fittings and was paid brass price for it. In the first picture is a ground block. 80 percent of the time those are aluminium. The round barrels connected to it with the blue in the middle is brass. But not worth the electric to cut them off. I just throw them into my dirty aluminium bin. If it is magnetic its just crap metal so to say throw it in with shred. I get twenty cents a pound for coax at the local escrap yard