what kind of wire is the one that's wrapped in black tape from TV's?

I've recently been tearing down down some tv's and monitors. I'm also still fairly new to the scrap scene and still have lots to learn. Anyway, I was wondering if any of you knew what the thick black cable that has a black tape wrapped around it is? I already stripped quite a bit of it and I'm thinking it's copper coated aluminum wire. I watched a really detailed video on youtube on scrapping a tv but the guy says it's solid copper but I think he may be wrong. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Thanks Mick! I really wish I hadn't of spent alot of time stripping all that wire. Now, I have a huge mess to clean up. LOL The yards should still take it as "aluminum wire", right?

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/showt...ling-a-Monitor
This should answer the rest of your questions. That's why I posted it,,,
What good does it do to take the time to photograph and post stuff like this when people will not look it up but ask questions instead, very depressing.

Mechanic, my apologies. I should have searched alittle harder for the answer I was looking for. Thanks for posting the pics and descriptions!

Your welcome, sorry I came off a little short, I just got home from dialysis and that posting hit me wrong. I shouldn't take stuff so personal,,,I apologize.

No mechanic, yer right. It's not hard to type a few words into the search feature. Im getting tired of seeing people explain everything 14 times. When a member makes a great topic with pictures and explanations, why not just take a few seconds to find that topic and learn from it.

Seems like every single topic i see is full of questions that could be answered by taking a 10 second trip with the search feature.

*steps off soapbox*

Oh, there's my beer. Continue...

My yard takes clean degaussing cables as #2 copper 3.20 a lb.

My yard takes clean degaussing cables as #2 copper

Here it depends on if it's clear varnish it'll go as #1 but if a colored varnish then it's #2

I was going to throw this in the same sack as the wire from inside my TV coils. Maybe I need to research copper types before I throw money away!

he who hasn't stabbed his hand or fingers with a screwdriver please speak up now or forever hold your peace !

I just take my razor knife and slice all the way around the degaussing circle and peel the outer cover off in one big batch, then just fold up the copper/alum.

Kinda like this

Originally Posted by TheHoss

No mechanic, yer right. It's not hard to type a few words into the search feature. Im getting tired of seeing people explain everything 14 times. When a member makes a great topic with pictures and explanations, why not just take a few seconds to find that topic and learn from it.

Seems like every single topic i see is full of questions that could be answered by taking a 10 second trip with the search feature.

*steps off soapbox*

Oh, there's my beer. Continue...

Maybe informational threads such as the one you are speaking of should be stickied or sorted into a separate forum. I have personally used the search feature several times and sometimes us noobs just don't know the proper terminology

One thing that can help this is carefully worded titles to threads. Yes I agree. I think that a member should be able to tell the content of a thread just by reading the title. That does help a bunch. But, please do a search before asking questions.

Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

That Would Be the Forum and every Thread in it.

*snickers*

Every other forum I have ever read takes the time to sticky informational posts and it's foolish to say that every thread is "informational" because every thread is not informational, but I guess you can't argue with stupid so when all the excellent threads people have contributed sink to page 300 you heard it here first.