copper/ hard drive

first off i have white wire that looks like its coated copper should i seperate it from the regular copper wire or will the yard say its copper to? also what is a hard drive platter made of? and what are alluminum tubes from a aluminum radiator considered? extrusion?

Most of the hard drive platters are aluminum with a very thin coating of shiny stuff on the surface. Some hard drive platters are made of glass and will shatter into a million tiny pieces when you hit em' with a hammer.

Experience will teach you which ones to be careful of. All of the glass ones i've seen so far came out of laptop hard drives but .... ?

hard drives---alu mostly or glass/ceramic with a mix of cobalt platinum and other metals depending on years makes and so forth on the layers.
as for a general white wire with no pic that i don't think is 80miles long i would just toss it in with the rest of your dirty wire until you have many white wires to classify by itself fyi pics are awesome
as for you rad question it depends on your yard you go to mine for example would pay for whole rads dirty clean ect. as for the tubes it would goes a old sheet but i would just not break it down minus taking steel off and prices vary i would call your yard and ask them because that's were i would guess you would be going

Originally Posted by travistemple202020

hard drives---alu mostly or glass/ceramic with a mix of cobalt platinum and other metals depending on years makes and so forth on the layers.
as for a general white wire with no pic that i don't think is 80miles long i would just toss it in with the rest of your dirty wire until you have many white wires to classify by itself fyi pics are awesome
as for you rad question it depends on your yard you go to mine for example would pay for whole rads dirty clean ect. as for the tubes it would goes a old sheet but i would just not break it down minus taking steel off and prices vary i would call your yard and ask them because that's were i would guess you would be going

why would they call the tubes old sheet? i thought all tubes be it coils or heat sinks were extrusion or am i wrong on this? also what is the hard drive platter considered i know its ali but what type? would it be extrusion?

Originally Posted by mike1

first off i have white wire that looks like its coated copper should i seperate it from the regular copper wire or will the yard say its copper to? also what is a hard drive platter made of? and what are alluminum tubes from a aluminum radiator considered? extrusion?

We need a few more details.

The white wire.? Do you mean the thin flat ribbon wire,? inside the plastic the Coppers Tin coated.
Plastic coated wire, low grade. It weighs almost nothing anyway.

Hard drive platers are Aluminium with hard metals coating it. Its got no grade, its just a 'Contaminated Ali' if anything.
Weighs almost nothing, values almost nothing. I have about 4-5Kg of it, dunno what to do either.

Tubes from a Aluminium radiator. What's the tubes look like? Messed up and dirty, but 100% Ali? Then 'Domestic Aluminium'.
If its the chiller unit from a frost free fridge, its got thin fins on it, that'd make it 'Domestic Ali' anyway.

Unless you have several hundred pounds, or even a hundred pounds, I wouldn't worry about the few pennies difference in price. A five cent difference (different grade) for 100 lbs = $5. A five cent difference in 10 lbs = $0.50. Would you argue with someone over $0.50?

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

We need a few more details.

The white wire.? Do you mean the thin flat ribbon wire,? inside the plastic the Coppers Tin coated.
Plastic coated wire, low grade. It weighs almost nothing anyway.

Hard drive platers are Aluminium with hard metals coating it. Its got no grade, its just a 'Contaminated Ali' if anything.
Weighs almost nothing, values almost nothing. I have about 4-5Kg of it, dunno what to do either.

Tubes from a Aluminium radiator. What's the tubes look like? Messed up and dirty, but 100% Ali? Then 'Domestic Aluminium'.
If its the chiller unit from a frost free fridge, its got thin fins on it, that'd make it 'Domestic Ali' anyway.

the tubes are clean i seperated the loops they were heavyer then the tubes in the center they are from a hac it means home air conditioner. the tubes look like the tubes you get from a stove clean aluminum tubes. the white wire its wire that is copper coated i think so i should keep it away from my uncoated wire or they will down grade it right?