Wires data

[kjavanb123]

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

[kjavanb123]

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

[Bear]

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

[webuyselltradestuff]

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

[scrap1025]

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.