Is this tinned copper and is it classed as copper with regards scrap metal?

[HappyHippyDad]

I am having a cable stripping day in the garden whilst the rain clouds have gone.

A few cables from older houses look like they are tinned copper. Here is a picture of the tinned copper and normal copper. Is it tinned copper? It was taken from imperial cable.



Also, will the scrap yard treat it as copper, the same as all the other stripped cable?

 

[westward10]

Rub on some bricks to see if copper shows through. If aluminium it will break very easy by bending it.

 

[telectrix]

if tinned, i think scrap will accept as copper, as the tin coating is only a few microns thick.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Rub on some bricks to see if copper shows through. If aluminium it will break very easy by bending it.

Just tried.... it's copper ?

if tinned, i think scrap will accept as copper, as the tin coating is only a few microns thick.

I thought best thing to do is just to ring them and ask. I just like posting threads!

The chap said to separate it, otherwise it all gets paid as tinned copper at £4 p/kg as opposed to £4.50 p/kg for bright copper.

I have 20kg of bright copper, so the phone call has saved me £10. woohoo?.

I know it doesn't make financial sense to strip cable as it takes so long, but I quite enjoy it. At least for a couple of hours, then it gets boring.

 

[bj the dj]

Now i thought that was a job for the Apprentice ,well it was one of the job i had to do many years ago