Telephone wire

The folks here who maintain the telephone panels have mainly been discarding the thin wire they use. I asked them to save it for me and they said not a problem. It is very thin wire and a pain to strip. It is a thin solid core with an even thinner insulation coating. Does anyone know what most recycle centers consider this type of wire. Basically the copper wire is around half or more of the total weight, but again it is very thin. I was wondering if it was still considered #2 insulated. I am going to take a sample to my yard next time I go, but was wondering if many other folks here have had any experience with it.

My yard doesn't go any lower than #2 in grading, as long as it's still copper and not copper coated steel.

pet peve of mine: stripped my yard calls it #2 but I took in a bunch of computer wire from connection cords the kind with a bunch of wires inside, when you cut off the end it appears to me to be 75 to 90% copper when you strip the cord coating you are left with a bundle of wire with very thin insulation, they call it communication wire insulated 45 cents a lb, they are making a bundle on this I would like to find a way to disolve that coating and turn it into #2.

Right now telephone wire is worth about $1.50lb

By me it goes as #2 wire. $1.10 a lb

Originally Posted by hobo finds

By me it goes as #2 wire. $1.10 a lb

Hopefully that will be the same here.

Its #2 with the outer casing...