I'm sure some of the gurus have done this... Or is it a waste?

This seems like it could be beneficial if it doesn't lower the total weight, scorch it if done wrong, etc.

It's melting down copper wire into bars. I gathered this could make it all copper 1 and if you're someone that scraps often and has the torch and other supplies, and many pounds of copper wire, that this could be beneficial. I randomly found this on google and it's on ehow.com

I searched and didn't find anything on it so maybe it's been discussed in the private forums or I didn't search properly.

It peaked my interest so any opinions on this are welcome. I was googling how to remove the red look off some copper from a microwave so they don't count it as less because it looks kinda like the reddish glued copper under standard tv tubes. Anyway here's the link:

http://www.ehow.com/how_8505171_melt...home-bars.html

-Evan