Need help to understand the scrap business of copper wires

Hi All,

I am from Mauritius (Indian Ocean). I would like to invest in supplying copper from electrical wires. I don't have any idea of how the business except that I saw on youtube the machines needed to strip copper from the electrical wires. I would like to know the following:

1. How profitable is this business line?
2. What is minimum quantity (lbs or tons) needed to start the business?
3. What are the raw materials needed?
4. Any idea about the costs for freight on exporting the copper?
5. Where can I get loads of electrical wires?

Thanks for your quick response.

Firstly welcome from Central NY.. secondly, seems like you're after copper only which is cool but keep in mind that collecting copper only limits you to collecting other things such as Aluminum, Steel, Tin or Precious Metals like Gold/Silver/Cobalt/etc.. I don't recall anything specific on the forum reguarding these so let's see if I can help answer your questions.

1. Depends what you put into it - if you don't put any time or effort into it, you won't make any money.
2. There is none.
3. Your copper wire I'm guessing.
4. This would be something you would have to look into depending on where you plan to export to.
5. There's copper wiring in alot of places including CAT wire, Coax wire, Molex wire, etc..

Word of caution: don't be like the thieves we have here in the states and break into an abandoned structure because it's abandoned for copper. That's poor sportsmanship, is illegal, and is generally looked down apon on here. Most newer extension cords and PC wire have aluminum wire in them. Some older ones have copper wire in em. If there are any contractors near you you might give it a go asking them for their copper wire but don't be taken aback if they say no.

Think that covers everything,
Matt

Read the old forums, all the information you need is in them, and then some......

Originally Posted by Iqbal

Hi All,

I am from Mauritius (Indian Ocean). I would like to invest in supplying copper from electrical wires. I don't have any idea of how the business except that I saw on youtube the machines needed to strip copper from the electrical wires. I would like to know the following:

1. How profitable is this business line?
2. What is minimum quantity (lbs or tons) needed to start the business?
3. What are the raw materials needed?
4. Any idea about the costs for freight on exporting the copper?
5. Where can I get loads of electrical wires?

Thanks for your quick response.

First of all, gold wire is much more profitable. DO NOT invest in a copper wire processor. Spend the extra money and get the gold wire processor. Power supply wires in ALL computers contain 67.892% gold that can be easily harvested with the gold wire processor. I ordered one from Gold Wire Processing Co. and they sent two by mistake. I will sell one to you very reasonably.

Here we go again, which way did they go?

Originally Posted by olddude

What ? This is a joke ..........right ? If not please elaborate.

A guy blazes in with one post. Has no idea about anything related to scrapping anything. Has no idea where to get the goods he says he wants to scrap. He wants to know if exporting the wire he has no idea how to find or how to process or how much he can expect to make, will be profitable when he hasn't taken 10 pounds of copper fittings in to scrap?...

No, it was not a joke. It was the first post that is the joke.

I was expecting him to reply back - oh well, one more user to the anon pile.

Probably someone who's been watching you tube videos and came here for help without reading the forum rules, FAQ's and not introducing himself.