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    Copper Head is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    I have found some King Size ballast that had 2 pounds of copper ,
    Basically a disassembled ballast
    Copper or Aluminum fine wire .
    Short steel
    ALL ELSE gets swept up put in a pail as Mix .

    But at .21 is debatable as a good payer as is .

    There are some modern types that have small transformers really embedded in tar with some boards wire or AL
    but those i leave as is .
    Over all you know the good ones as there heavy in your hand .
    Bottom Line a ballast from many many years aqo or King size ones , have great copper weight .


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    Quote Originally Posted by Copper Head View Post
    I have found some King Size ballast that had 2 pounds of copper ,
    Basically a disassembled ballast
    Copper or Aluminum fine wire .
    Short steel
    ALL ELSE gets swept up put in a pail as Mix .

    But at .21 is debatable as a good payer as is .

    There are some modern types that have small transformers really embedded in tar with some boards wire or AL
    but those i leave as is .
    Over all you know the good ones as there heavy in your hand .
    Bottom Line a ballast from many many years aqo or King size ones , have great copper weight .
    yep the big ones are nice to find
    lots of copper in those

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