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I had some scrap pieces of cat3,5e and 25pr took them across the river to portland,or.and made a couple of hundred on a lazy saturday.The scrap dealer paid 77 cents a lb. for this wire, also had some electrical wire(12/2 etc.) that paid 1.31 cents a lb.So I was thinking what are they paying in different parts of the country??

should I have held on to it,prices going higher ?

Dusty

was it all bare copper?

just curious...

All bare certainly fetches the highest rate, but electrical wire, even unstripped, rates pretty high up there since it's mostly copper. Telephone wire is at the low end, since it's basically 50% plastic. Most recyclers around here won't take any kind of coax anymore.

77 cents is actually not bad for telephone wire, unstripped. Since it's nearly imossible to strip that much wire, I would take the lower rate and be glad that I didn't kill my hands. I will be surprised if these prices stay so high for much longer, in fact I have already seen some coming down, just like gas prices.

All wire with full pvc jacket-unstripped(30 ft. left over in a box, 8ft. 25pr. pc.s etc.) You are right Ed there was a guy in front of me with a couple of hundred lb.s of coax and they ran magnet over it as soon as it hit the shield they didnt want it,the guy left it in the parking lot and took off. Oh well.

Dusty

I got a dollar a pound a few months back. 60 pounds of wire, 60 bucks in my pocket! Unstripped phone/data/audio stuff.