wires

i was wandering if there was any other places to find solid copper wire besides romex house wire? a list of items would be nice that counts as bare bright thanks for the help=) where do you find copper cable? where do you get stuff like this and is it common? https://www.google.com/search?q=neop...j1mSPAwN8J2hM: what qualifies something to be ec wire why is a degausing cable from a tv not considered ec is it because its too small?

I get all kinds of copper wire all the time for free. I'm taking about 500 pounds to the scrap yard in the morning.

Originally Posted by auminer

But you're supposed to say where, give names & addresses.

In fact, if you could just go pick it up, take it to the yard, & paypal the funds.... that'd be great.

Sorry Auminer....ain't gonna happen.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

I get all kinds of copper wire all the time for free. I'm taking about 500 pounds to the scrap yard in the morning.

how? i have yet to come across romex or any other heavy stuff free or even on the curb=( where does one come across copper cable?

Originally Posted by btkr

Transformer(12-24 volt) wire, fluorescent tube ballast wire, and some bx wire is solid. Maybe some commercially used wire is solid.


scrapmetalforum or other social media I scrap ap may help you.

Answering first question only as rest of post is a little hard to follow.

thanks for that where does one get bx wire?

Originally Posted by mike1

thanks for that where does one get bx wire?

Old houses or commercial applications.

Originally Posted by mike1

how? i have yet to come across romex or any other heavy stuff free or even on the curb=( where does one come across copper cable?

https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/gene...-included.html

you have to breakdown stuff to find wires. Its not like you are going down the street and find a box of romex unless it fell off a truck!

You can find heavier wire in big electric motors if you tear them down.

Originally Posted by mike1

i was wandering if there was any other places to find solid copper wire besides romex house wire? a list of items would be nice that counts as bare bright thanks for the help=) where do you find copper cable? where do you get stuff like this and is it common? https://www.google.com/search?q=neop...j1mSPAwN8J2hM: what qualifies something to be ec wire why is a degausing cable from a tv not considered ec is it because its too small?

Alot of real heavy commercial duty wire is bare bright or number 2 plated solid strand wire. I don't come across it too much for free but one day i went to go get a fridge i saw on craigslist. Well the guy was an electrician and got a bunch of wire from work. He used to strip it all and take it to the yard himself. Well he got a job as an electical manager/forman at a big plant and doesnt have alot of time anymore. So im there picking up the fridge with my small little tacoma. He fills that with steel. Like litterally we stacked a 10' high pile in my little truck. He tells me if i take all the cardboard and pallets he has he'll give me the wire. So needless to say i ran home jumped in the new tacoma, hooked up a trailer, loaded the trash and cardboard first then went and wheelbarrowed out $200 worth of insulated wire from his backyard. It was still saturday and if i had left the truck like that till monday it woulda been emptied out real quick. So i went and buried the wire in about 1000lbs of steel and aluminum before i went back home. I think i've told you before. Take the trash long enough and eventually you'll get the gold.

Originally Posted by hobo finds

you have to breakdown stuff to find wires. Its not like you are going down the street and find a box of romex unless it fell off a truck!

I found a 10 gallon tote of romex and bx wire in the trash one time when I was trying to get into recycling pallets. It felt like someone was gonna run out of the bushes and steal my truck though. So i just kept my hatchet on me and proceded to show force by destroying the motor out of the appliance they had out immediatly upon exiting the truck.

Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries

Alot of real heavy commercial duty wire is bare bright or number 2 plated solid strand wire. I don't come across it too much for free but one day i went to go get a fridge i saw on craigslist. Well the guy was an electrician and got a bunch of wire from work. He used to strip it all and take it to the yard himself. Well he got a job as an electical manager/forman at a big plant and doesnt have alot of time anymore. So im there picking up the fridge with my small little tacoma. He fills that with steel. Like litterally we stacked a 10' high pile in my little truck. He tells me if i take all the cardboard and pallets he has he'll give me the wire. So needless to say i ran home jumped in the new tacoma, hooked up a trailer, loaded the trash and cardboard first then went and wheelbarrowed out $200 worth of insulated wire from his backyard. It was still saturday and if i had left the truck like that till monday it woulda been emptied out real quick. So i went and buried the wire in about 1000lbs of steel and aluminum before i went back home. I think i've told you before. Take the trash long enough and eventually you'll get the gold.

nice so they have to go through the steel to get to the wire lol

Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries

I found a 10 gallon tote of romex and bx wire in the trash one time when I was trying to get into recycling pallets. It felt like someone was gonna run out of the bushes and steal my truck though. So i just kept my hatchet on me and proceded to show force by destroying the motor out of the appliance they had out immediatly upon exiting the truck.

wow nice i wish i could be so lucky hey maybe i will if someone remodels there house lol never know=)

Originally Posted by mike1

wow nice i wish i could be so lucky hey maybe i will if someone remodels there house lol never know=)

Yeah man eventually you might. Just gotta keep searching. I just missed another box of wires some old guy had out. Hes moving and has two weeks to get everything out. But someone else grabbed his wires just before I got there