Why I strip almost all copper wire I get
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- A short video demonstrating why I strip almost all the copper wire I get including Christmas lights. I do not do scrapping full time as I have a full time job. So I scrap in my spare time or between jobs as filler work. The prices I used were from Sept. 2014. At that time low grade ins. wire was $0.20 / lb and bare bright was $2.60 / lb. Prices have fallen since then so they would need to be adjusted for today's price.
The wire stripper I use is the WS-001 Scrap Wire stripper from RBF Products. www.rbfproductsinc.com It's ease of use makes stripping wire a lot easier to justify stripping almost everything. - Навчання та стиль
short & sweet. THANK YOU SIR!
Jeff, just found your channel and very pleased with this video. You have a Jimmy Stewart way of making things clear, and easy to understand.l Looking forward to checking out your other videos!
Copper is the poormans gold
we're so broke now, silver no longer poor man's gold
Until you account for your time, LOL.
Great video, good explanation with calculations.
The title of this video : "Why i strip almost all the copper wire i get "
Me in response : Because it just pays well .
Thank you 4 your honesty
great video dude. very informative
Hey brother I do agree on the amount to save before taking in to the recycling yard, I am a scrapper as well. I don't only scrap copper aluminum and steel , I also scrap all electronic circuit boards as well. I you are interested I have a video on my channel on electronic recycling. Have a good one, Happy Scrapping!
Your approach to scrapping sounds similar to mine. I have two 55 gallon barrels for aluminum. Unprocessed scrap goes in one until I have time to remove any steel fasteners and other stuff. Then it goes into the clean aluminum barrel. Insulated and dirty copper goes in 5 gallon pails until I can process it. Then it goes into the clean copper pail or the soldered joints pail. When the containers of clean metal are full it;s time for a trip to the scrap yard.
My grate grand father used to do the same thing. He would have a 55 gallon barrel of each type of metal. He used to scrap old cars. My dad told me the story about him. Now i just started doing it like that today. I'm unsure why most places don't take burnt wire? our scrap yard takes anything.
Also I'd like to ask you for some advice. Do you think it's worth striping or burning? thanks
Most places won't take burnt wire due to EPA regulations. Burning the plastic is toxic and scrap yards can get fined for accepting the wire.
I strip most of my wire too. I like to do it and copper can be used as a store of value.
I am with you brother, I also strip all the wire I get, and use 5gal buckets to separate it. yes it takes some time, however I am disabled cause of back and leg problems, so this is something I can do to make a little bit of mad money..
nice vid mate!
but i assume you gonna get a lot of comments about 'dont waste your time' and 'get a real job' and stuff like that.
i get negative comments from non scrappers frequently..... so thanks for the detailed explanation. a great help.
next time i get an awkward comment, i will point them to this video. very educational and informative.
cheers from Australia
Smart thinking mister
Been stripping all winter long. Going in later this Month or in April. Looking for a good return on our efforts, with copper prices good, early here in 2018. I regret the many times I brought lots of unstripped wire. Never again. Will strip it all, if at all possible! I now obsess over every little piece, and we keep little containers for the littlest pieces of copper, which add up over time! Precious metals! Let's not waste anything my fellow humans! Keep recycling just as long as we can!
Every piece add#. Up,,keep on. Scrappin
Great video.
I do the same thing. I just do scrapping as something to do between other jobs, so the time I spend doing it is basically free time. It is worth it to me to spend the time stripping the smaller wire to get the higher price. I am actually working on stripping about a 55 gallon barrel of Christmas light wire and other smaller wire now
My opinion small wire is a waste of time to strip. 14 AWG is the smallest I'll go. I consider it a factor of time. Everyone's time is worth some level of money, consider what you do for a living and how much you'd make an hour. If you can make that in an hour stripping 16 gauge and smaller I would be impressed. Christmas lights I would assume are a lot more tedious and time consuming to deal with as well. My 2 cents-to each their own.
I make $16 an hour as an apprentice. I live at home. I think this is more of an apprentice job unless you’re just given the wire. But definetely agree it takes up a tremendous amount of time
Greetings from northern Sweden and a fellow Scrapper.
I don't strip all my wires, did the numbers on some different wire and it was better to turn in as is.
I think it was Moose Scrapper that said,, if it bends, strip it.
We're are so into you. We're so into copper. We're in. We're watching.
I call my self a scrapper.my wife calls me a hoarder.
likewise. can't live with em, can't shoot em
newauraxx your wife should look at your hoard like money
cant make a blind man see
Same my mom dont like when i talk scrap
Wives,knives,our loves,,they don5 see. The. Light,,is. Ok , life goes on,keep. On. Scrappin,.
Good job .I like your video
Good job
Thanks man!
I used to go to Goodwill and buy TVs on Saturday they were $0.50 each sometimes $0.25 autobuy $20 in TVs
So ur saying that there is about $20 in scrap in a TV ???
Shit
What method do you use to strip wire ? Good info.
I like. I want to learn how to do this. It's completely new to me, so I won't waste your time. But if you ever want to give me advice, I'm all ears!
Harry McRae look up wire stripping tool on eBay and they have really good easy to use machines for about $35 it will pay for itself pretty quickly and if u get into it more seriously they have machines that cost $100 plus that will make it easier to do larger amounts I just bought this guys wire stripper for $145 cuz I get a couple hundred pounds of wire per week
Owen Quinn where do you find your copper wire?
No construction dumpsters
How do you get hundreds of # every week?
@@filoIII take a guess steals it duh
Interesting!
$2.34 for bare bright yesterday. The times they are a changing
That's misleading to most folks......looks like you are showing the unstripped box equals, in weight, the stripped box.....never in a million years. More like 20:1 ratio....you'd have to have 100 lbs of Christmas lights to get 5 pounds of copper.....but I like that you are showing the price differences to everyone!!
Thanks for the video im sitting on a fortune
Great vidd jeff im part time scrapper in nj
Awesome
I get about .30 a pound for aluminum, and 2.00 a pound for copper around here
nice
I’ve got a 5 gallon bucket full of number one copper I wonder how much it’s worth now
Your x-mas light wire Stripped is not considered Bare Brite. At best, #2 Copper, but still worth 11-12 times more when Stripped. X-mas lights today still Sheathed are worth .44 cents. #2 Copper Stripped, $4.55 in 🇨🇦 today
We used to stick the copper wire that was going in the trash in our backpacks
I was given a bucket of stripped wire. Some small stuff and braided stuff. I assume its mixed 1 and 2. Will a yard take it?
Learned last nite mix water and ketchup together handfull of rocks maybe 2 handfulls that crap they put on brass to make it dull comes wright off turns it shinny fill bucket with brass wire throw rocks in and a healthy dose of ketchip make sure bucket has lid lay on the ground and roll that sucker push with your foot let it set and do it again after a couple of hours and after a day or 2 check it you doubled your money it comes out clean
anyone around me in illinois that scraps, i have lots of leftover circuit board etching solution that will shine your copper up with a quick dip. i make it with a 1:1 ratio of hydrochloric acid : hydrogen peroxide. have all you want of it!
How about lemon juice 50/50 h2o . Dollar general price would be 4 bucks a gallon . Might take a bit longer to shine - but it would have that lemon-ny fresh smell
I do the same thing man. I pretty much strip all of the wire I get. I dont always strip the tin coated #2 though. And this is just a little side gig for me as well. My time is as valuable as I make it. If I'm going to be just sitting on the couch watching TV, I may as well be stripping wire while I am and slowly earn some money. Nice quick and to the point video
Sir, you look like Jeff Garlin, the actor!
How do you strip Christmas lights?
good vid and ty for sharing , i know what your saying but some people can't see it is all ,If this Man has , example , 5 lb dirty copper (plastic ) coated wire total , then he strips the plastic off the wire then weighs the striped wire( say) 3.5 lbs then weighs the plastic 1.5 lbs to see the weight difference , so the 3.5 lbs is the total result of productivity say at $8 a lb (example only )
I like to save copper until i have enough to be worth my time like 5. 5gals at a time but right now is not worth taking to sell (not paying well) i wait till a war or when it goes up in price , i like your video sir till then from san Antonio texas.
Tell us a little bit about painted pipes, dirty copper pipe,how to clean to make number one
How are you stripping the conductors?
Yup that's how I roll, strip more get more 💲💲
Oh yeah it’s best to strip it all for maximum price at scrap. I’m working on filling trash cans up with copper I’ve been finding.
Some small wire just isn't worth the time it takes. Its always worth way more money though if you've got the patience. Burning, then knocking off the burnt plastic then shaking it off in water can sometimes get you bare bright #1 copper. Its almost always worth stripping though. Unless you got some speaker wire or something
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What do you use to strip the thin wire ?
I ran across some wire and when I peeled it it looked goldish. Would you know why?
Any place that buys copper around me the price between stripped and dirty is only 10 cents a pound so I just burn everything
do you seperate your copper?
Some of our female strippers just called in sick so we need someone to fill in. Have i come to the right place?
asdf hahahaha
asdf well he is a male, but he might do for the night, he’s probably going to bring in less than what 1 pound of Christmas lights get though
So, Jeff... Where are the bodies buried? LOL
record yourself with camera at eye level next time :)
i miss scrap'n
Question for you sir, your first box is Christmas lights, that second box you say is bare bright. Is that the Christmas lights stripped? And your saying it's worth more stripped?
yes as some places charge less for unstripped due to the fact it takes time to remove the cover and doing so allows a scrapper to make more money doing it yourself
how much time Does it take to turn 20cents material to 70cents ?stripping for an hour to get 1/2$ is a desperation
I don't know. Last week I cashed in over $400. I didn't think it was to bad for just sitting around watching the Olympics.
considering the cover is just that and take up space and is light as it is, I can see myself having to strip it from every wire myself just to pack more copper into the same barrel/bucket making it heavier and the price is according to whether it is stripped or not as still covered still pays less either way
That kind the insulated wires u can sale for dollar per pound, not 20 cents. That s Why u go strip it
Xmas lights here pay .20/lb. Cut the lights off and it goes to 1.00/lb. Strip it and it goes to 2.70/lb. Like I said I strip everything. I'm not doing this for a full time job. I have a full time job.
o you can use vinager ketchup is cheeper
Should/weighed have shown the box before and after stripping to illustrate how much weight/volume is insulation. And include how much time it took you to strip. That is the factor for me TIME. If stripping only gains me $0.05 per hour I'm not going to do it. Versus stripping big cable that gains me $5/hr.
I wouldn't get out of bed for .70 cents a pound. As of 2/24/18 it's $2.80 a pound where I'm at.
I strip anything that will fit through my stripper without getting chewed up by the blade
on point
im the same
I'm getting 8pounds uk stripped wire best price ever
hold on copper untill the prices go up stop getting ripped off hold it
all well and good,but how long did it take to strip the christmas light cable?Just asking,ok?
I honestly don't know. I did not sit down in one sitting and time it. When I strip wire it is just filler work for me. I do know I won't drive to the scrap yard and spend 1/2 hr getting there, getting weighed, and getting paid for what a 5 gallon pail of unstripped wire pays.
Well ,,, you really gave Mark a good answer . You also mislead ppl into thinking you can viably strip Christmas light wire. You should get smacked upside your head -
Dude? Of course you'll get more from stripped wire. You were able to include more wire. Do it this way. Record your beginning time. Take a box of un-stripped wire. Calculate the value. Strip just that box of wire, nothing else. Now calculate the vale of that stripped wire. Record your end time. Determine the difference between the 2 values. Divide the result by your time. This would be your hourly rate. Is it worth it? That depends on your wire stripping skills and tools used, among other factors that remain the same for both samples.
defunct Lumberjack had about 1000 pieces of 1" x 10ft heavy wall copper tubing that had turned dark from being in the weather. They had it priced for $1 a stick.. I kick myself for not buying it 20 years ago.
I use a 5 gallon bucket of stripped and cut wire
we need a scrap union lol
lol
I strip it all bro....
looks like spaghetti in the thumbnail :D
Wot wire don't you strip, you show us great video
+Graham Bate There are some 26awg and smaller wires I won't mess with again. Also my neighbor threw out a 50' 3 prong 12awg extension cord the other day because the female plug was smashed. I'm going to be turning that one into a quadplex extension cord.
Don’t even care about the value of copper, I just wanna melt it down into ingots as a hobby
larry kaushnyan same dude and maybe eventually sell it if prices are what they should be. I’m a electrician and I have probably 15 bags of wire I’m going to melt down after I build a mini forge
dawson harris have fun stripping all that, my hands are sore after 5 gallons of wire
BFries55 BFries55 already went through 4 bags in one sitting hanging around the man cave with a buddy watching football. Soreness is a good feeling, if you’re not sore you’re not working hard enough!
I admire that idea - because no one in you comment file does . I want to melt yellow brass and make like bars of gold and stuff -
Try research on your own. Prices vary from yard to yard and state to state. Good luck
my scrap yrd wont take stripped wire.
How is it worth the time stripping Christmas lights cabling etc? Must take ages.
He skipped that bit of info, how many hours to turn Christmas lights into #2 insulated by clipping all the bulbs and how many hours to strip it into #2 copper to fill the box or bucket
So is scrap copper good for ingots
It’s ya boi Meme boi definitely it’s what I’ve seen be used
This is a bad way to calculate how much you make, how many 5 gallon buckets of insulation does it take to make a 5 gallon bucket of wire?
hold all your copper the prices. will go up if hold all are copper
I'm going to start tearing electric motors apart for the copper.
Awww u r a rich man...
Scrapper + hoarder = scroarder?
I just did 128 dllrs in scrap 2 days ago
how do you make it worth your time stripping Christmas lights? that's got to take forever
+norrock1 This year it was easy because I had to have back surgery so I was limited to no lifting and sit down work only. Put some good tunes on and stripped away. Doesn't mean I wouldn't have preferred to have been stripping 1000 yards of 10 gage wire thou.
+Jeff Reisetter what did you use to strip the wire?
+norrock1 I use the WS-001 Scrap wire stripper from RBF Products
Yep, you're right, there is no difference between #1, and #2 copper, that's why they both pay the same per pound! (sarcasm)
Johnny Draco if you're a bigoted idiot you get paid for #2. If you're chill you get #1. wake the fuck up Richard Cranium
If you are going to strip it all down, you might as well take all of it and melt it down in a kiln, scrape the slag off and sell the solid lump that remains.
Doom2pro idk why nobody does this. Lol..
SilVestor until your stripping 30 different sized wires.
Your suppose to just toss them into the fire and then throw it against the cement floor, it still comes out bright and saves time.
What's bearbreight
Bare bright.. meaning no insulation and bright shiny color.
You need to check the laws in your state before trying to sell copper that has been stripped. In Arizona, for instance, they won't accept it from you unless you have a business license. I'm guessing this is because of all the copper theft that has occurred for a decade or so now.
I had not heard that about AZ. I know the yards here need a photo ID and any copper loads over $100 have to be paid by check.
We must leave a thumb print in Florida, when cashing in cat food cans.
That, and extra revenue.
I pays more for bright copper daa
hold all your copper stop getting ripped off the yards are laughing at you if we all hold are copper the prices will go up hold it what could it hurt. More money
Remington597man scrappers are the only source for their huge income. They wont make near as much money if they aren’t screwing people over for prices
Your right! 4 years later Bare Brite is worth $5.03/Lb in Canada today. LOL. Did you hold yours. 😆
How much for the hair in your nose?
Make me an offer
sorry but you are not getting bare bright from x mas tree lights that striped wire wire didnt look anything like x mass tree tree light wire
Smaller wire are waste of time, 14 AWG smallest I can strip.
In our state, they don't care if u burn it. Now if u care about the environment, i wouldn't do that tho