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I can smell the fires that are burning away the last of the good manual turret lathes, metal shapers and radial drills
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There’s a guy on practical machinist that has a huge wharehouse of all that big old stuff and trying to sell the small stuff but all the big stuff the scrappers are getting. Sad
 
Brought home 3 spools of 14-10 wire work was throwing away. About 3k ft worth. Unless I think of a use real quick I might be building a wire stripping machine
 
kf4zht said:
Brought home 3 spools of 14-10 wire work was throwing away. About 3k ft worth. Unless I think of a use real quick I might be building a wire stripping machine
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ThePanzerFuhrer said:
The scrap yards have a special price for burnt wire and it’s not good. I think it’s right up there with Christmas tree light :lmao:
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you shake the ash off, then brighten it with a bit of freshly-dumped-out battery juice right before bringing it in

still looks way easier to strip it with one of them roller dinguses which should be pretty easy to hackfuck out of a sheet metal roll or bead roller or...
 
aczlan said:
We bought one of these at work last summer when we stripped 3000# of copper wire, it did really well: https://www.amazon.com/Happybuy-Stripping-1-5mm-25mm-Channels-Industrial/dp/B071XSQTY4

On #14, #12 and #10 that kf4zht has it might not work as well though, we didn't strip anything smaller than #8.

Aaron Z
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I'll probably end up building my own for 2x the money and 1/4 the effectiveness

and its 14-10, like 14ga, 10 conductor. Also have a bunch of 18ga to 26ga lv stuff laying around
 
kf4zht said:
I'll probably end up building my own for 2x the money and 1/4 the effectiveness

and its 14-10, like 14ga, 10 conductor. Also have a bunch of 18ga to 26ga lv stuff laying around
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Ah, that would work well to split the outer jacket but I suspect it wouldn't do well with the individual wires once you get them out.
Something like this might do the trick:
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I've always just smoked my wire in bulk around 250 for a good 15-20 minutes and then smacked it on the gravel. Most all of the insulation comes right off. I have a home made barrel smoker set up at the shop just for this that's fired by scrap wood. Trick is to not get it to the point it catches fire. Insulation gets very brittle with heat. Ever replaced an overloaded burnt wire? A couple of smacks and then clean the rest off manually goes really fast. Screw hand feeding / pulling each wire through a machine.

Bringing it in burnt will yield less per pound than just taking it in with insulation around here.

ANGELO my local recycle'r would laugh at that mess. If it isn't sorted when you go in, they tell you to leave and come back with it sorted. But that's mainly because there is always a line there and they have the local monopoly. And metal goes across a totally different scale than brass, copper, aluminum etc. People tend to get pissed when someone comes in front of them laying out an unsorted mess out on the ground and shit. That's killing everybody's time and profits. They also take AM gate open right at 8, lunch time right at 12 when all machines shut down and quitting time shutting the gates at 4:30 as gospel. I've been shut out for the day before. And I've sat for an hour for lunch before. All part of the game unless you want to drive 30 miles to the next recycle'r.
 
I have 8 barrels packed full of 6061, By the time i truck it to the recyclers and drive home i'll be at a net loss. Last time i got $22 for 80 lbs
 
For insulated wire like SOOW - it just one price for insulated and one for bare? As in - is there any benefit to stripping the outer jacket if you're not stripping the inner conductors?

I have a couple pallets of 10/4 and I'll never use it all and it sounds like a great time to scrap it.
 
bgaidan said:
For insulated wire like SOOW - it just one price for insulated and one for bare? As in - is there any benefit to stripping the outer jacket if you're not stripping the inner conductors?

I have a couple pallets of 10/4 and I'll never use it all and it sounds like a great time to scrap it.
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Put that on Craig’s list someone like me will scoop that up for more that scrap as long it’s longer lengths. We are forever accidentally nicking coords.
 
Here4memes said:
ANGELO my local recycle'r would laugh at that mess. If it isn't sorted when you go in, they tell you to leave and come back with it sorted. But that's mainly because there is always a line there and they have the local monopoly. And metal goes across a totally different scale than brass, copper, aluminum etc. People tend to get pissed when someone comes in front of them laying out an unsorted mess out on the ground and shit. That's killing everybody's time and profits. They also take AM gate open right at 8, lunch time right at 12 when all machines shut down and quitting time shutting the gates at 4:30 as gospel. I've been shut out for the day before. And I've sat for an hour for lunch before. All part of the game unless you want to drive 30 miles to the next recycle'r.
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There's like 4-5 scrap yards within 5 minutes here. It's not that bad. The copper and batteries are in the tool box. Thats mostly steel. Cross the heavy scale, two of us throw all the steel out, all the aluminum and stainless will be what's left. Scale again, then go to the smaller scale where the rest of it will get thrown in separate bins.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Put that on Craig’s list someone like me will scoop that up for more that scrap as long it’s longer lengths. We are forever accidentally nicking coords.
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After I posted that I looked at the current prices.....$3/foot from Lowes. Last time I checked (several years ago) it was under $1 and not worth the effort. Definitely going to roll it out and sell the 50-100' pieces. Pretty sure I have one brand new spool plus another weird spool of 7 conductor SOOW or SJOW.
 
7 conductor is great for trailer shit
usable wire is always worth at the very least double scrap

that other guy's 10 conductor 14ga stuff is a little too oddball and is therefore scrap, unless stripped out of the sheath into individual conductors but even then it's kinda hokey
 
What do engine thermostats get scrapped as? Or do I just throw them out with the steel. I probably have atleast 200 of them
 
you might be able to get better than iron, something like a lower grade transformer rate
but 200 of them is what like 10lbs? Not really worth fucking with but just show them the bucket of them and point out the copper and brass bits on them and ask
 
ANGELO said:
What do engine thermostats get scrapped as? Or do I just throw them out with the steel. I probably have atleast 200 of them
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You know they are more wax than anything if you have ever tore one apart. Steel
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
holy fuck.. two cats for $1000?
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So the late 90’s v8 Vic has 2 precast and 2 cats.
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The Jeep commander had 2 cats, over a grand for all 6, but just 2 vehicles. Need to scrap the Vic soon if nobody wants the engine and the commander after my Jk v8 swap is done
 
$.20 for electric motor, have a 200 lb unit in the corner need to move
 
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