Wires data

All,

I have taking over a factory, which has over a metric ton of mixed wires, I have workers, sort diffent sizes together, and I took a sample from each, and weigh the piece of wire, then removed the copper from it and weighed the copper, here are the result,

Sample wire 1
Weight: 50.5 grams
Copper: 18.6 grams

Sample wire 2
Weight: 14.8
Copper: 8.3

Sample wire 3 ( coax cable)
Weight: 18.2 grams
Copper: 3.6 grams

Hope this gives you all some ideas about the percentage of copper to the total wire weights.




Thanks
Kevin

After some testing with different wires, I realized that wire stripper is not good for a mixture of wires, yet effective for a few of cable types, it is not going to work with other types, after some research on google, you need to look for a copper wire shredder, here is a link for one,

http://www.recyclerssource.com/PDFs/Cable-Shredder.pdf

This would shred the wires, to small sizes, then use air to separate the light plastics from the heavier copper granules,

Regards,
Kevin

cool deal man. Are you sure the coax is copper?

Granulators are great but for whatever reason, yards ect pay LESS for already granulated stuff....weird huh?

If you are going to invest in a wire shredder, you are going to invest time in finding a processor for granulated copper too. I certainly wouldn't sell to the yard.