scrap copper

[pennywise]

Was in the scrappys about 2 months ago. Scruffy trampy bloke was in there with a stanley knife and a BRAND new 100m roll of 10mm Earth!!!! He was really struggling to strip it. He'd only done about 5 mtrs. To help him out I asked the scrappy what it was worth. £ 15 later it was on the back of my van.

that defies belief

 

[saveloy]

that defies belief

Telling me. Couldn't get the money out quick enough. He was as pleased as me. He was going to strip the whole roll!!!!!!!!! Thick as poo though. It was in Acton, First person walking up the road would have given him a tenner for it!

 

[pennywise]

damn I was in Acton last weekend, I should stop in there one day he might have another one

 

[johnboy6083]

yeah and saveloy will have had his nicked out of his van!

 

[pennywise]

yeah and saveloy will have had his nicked out of his van!

when in Rome, It is Acton

 

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[MarkieSparkie]

London Exchange price today $9.44/Kg

 

[Copper Wire Stripper]

that is a mad price on copper

 

[Ian74]

Yeah tell me about the price of scrap copper, Just spent the last 2 days installing 160M of 3 core 70mm SWA & 200M of 4 core 50mm SWA thanks to thieving pikeys nicking the lot. They seem to think the railway is an endless supply of copper for them to pilfer !!

Although the scrap left at the end of the job does pay for the Christmas p!ss up ..

 

[Copper Wire Stripper]

They have no respect for others property

 

[rmc86uk]

Just today I had some old polish spark come and take a couple meter of armoured from our off cuts I asked him what he was doing and he just said, "rubbish" I said that's ours mate and he said, "from other site next door" his English was terrible! I only had a go cos his younger foreign mate told me off cos I took his conduit which he originally took from our own gear! There really nasty people!

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[SPARTYKUS]

Interesting reading this thread as it started a fair while ago, asking about 250 kilos of copper pipe, which would now fetch nearly a fiver a kilo!

Incidentally I read one poster that mentioned he burnt the insulation off, no joke thats a bad idea. My brother in law is a paramedic and went to a farm (last year) near Bristol, as there was a fatality. It was the son of the family in the house, and in the fireplace was a bunch of cable that he'd burnt. Died from the fumes.

Not a good plan.

 

[rmc86uk]

Isn't it illegal to burn PVC cable?

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[SPARTYKUS]

dunno should be !

 

[rocker]

If I was a much more cynical person, I would say burning the cable in your house would be Darwinism at work. But I'm not, so poor guy.