Yea, spending over $3.00 a gallon for gas to clean $2.00 a lb copper that's still going to be $2.00 when your done. Then what do you do with the nasty gas ?? Sure can't use it in your truck.Originally Posted by KzScrapper
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Yea, spending over $3.00 a gallon for gas to clean $2.00 a lb copper that's still going to be $2.00 when your done. Then what do you do with the nasty gas ?? Sure can't use it in your truck.
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If there is a huge amount of the red hard glue stuff I can't get off I toss them in my copper contaminated bucket.
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Yes Happyscrapper, I understand your point of view, and you are right, although not popular opinion shared by ALL the yards. Some may require you to clean most of it off.
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Better $2/lb than $.60/lb for dirty copper. And I just use the old gas to start the fire in the backyard fireplace. And I 'borrowed' the gas from my lawnmower which the homeowner bought in the first place so all good here.
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I guess the point you are missing is that it is NOT dirty copper, it's #2 with that glue residue on there. Do they grade your copper pipe with solder joints as #2?? Cuz that solder weighs much more then the glue residue and goes as #2 all day long.
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Yokes: Copper + Epoxy = HAMMER TIME. (#2 Copper = $$$). With #2 copper clean it as best you can, put it in the bucket, let it accumulate, take it to the yard and get paid (KIS = KEEP IT SIMPLE).
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I guess each place is different. My non-ferrous place has 3 levels of Cu, each coming down a dime each time. I've never sold #3 Cu so I'll ask next time what that is at $2.10 a pound. They only give #1 Cu to clean bright pipe (no discolored pipe even if you cut the soldered joints off) and thick gauge bright wire. So most goes in as #2. The reason I asked the question in the first place was this epoxy was excessive and some had embedded glass (glass from yokes that had no set screws to loosen up so the very tip of the tube gets busted off to get the yoke off). I did hammer the offending yokes after a night in the freezer and got a lot more crap off of them. They should go as #2 now (but I will show them a more messed up one and see that they would do with it...
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That should be Bare Bright and pay the most. You may want to ask why they don't follow the industry standard.
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I can't speak for the others, but the yokes I'm talking about have an excessive amount of glue/crap stuck to them, I'm talking the chunk of yoke is probably 60% copper and 40% crap. They might take it like that, but I try to keep all my copper clean. I won't spend a lot of time cleaning it, but if I can get it to 80/20% or less then I have no problem throwing that in my #2 bucket.
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