Copper wire - Page 2

When there is several hundred lbs of it worth taking in.

But more importantly when prices are at their highest.

The industrial demand for copper has gone down over the years, plus supply has increased. So it looks like copper wont till go up unless inflation hits. And that is what i am counting on driving the price up.

Originally Posted by sjones99

They werent copper anyways lol

Well, they were until 1997. But how many earlier pennies were already re-smelted into newer pennies how many times over? The Canadian Mint has been pulling earlier coins with higher value base metals from circulation for years. And how many of those tons (literally) of pennies were later steel/zinc ones? And consider that just as many pennies are going to be forgotten under seat cushions, or hoarded in change jars as before, if not more now. So yeah, Canada no longer making a penny, and it slowly being phased out of use, will have absolutely zero effect on the price of copper.

I save my copper for shipping until I have at least a few hundred lbs. to cover shipping. That's because the local price is so bad compared to shipping the same product out to Vancouver. For example, #2 is $2.60 locally, $3.15 on the coast. And it only costs about $110 to ship 2 gaylords double-stacked, so pretty much all my copper, brass, etc. ends up going that way.

Originally Posted by DevinThaScrapper

I do not get alot of copper usually I take my 5 gallon bucket full once a week (90-120 Dollars per bucket)

Devin, your doing better than I am right now, I'm waiting for warmer weather to start hitting it hard again.

anyone tried mixing coax in with number 2 insul? the guys at my local yard just put the box of wire on the scale and then move onto the next one, they dont even look thru it