I got my answer, it was posted in the other thread, Its all wire with the exception of the the plastic wire in printers (flat plastic, I know what he is talking about). I am hoping this is great news. So if I can keep the weight of each box down I would stand to make some money on the transfer over selling locally. But this would just be on the thin stuff. I think with all the bigger power cords I am just going to strip everything. In a couple of tests that I did on some I think they were lamp cords or something. The gain was almost 2-3 times as much over not stripping. I made a little wire stipper out of some angle iron, a washer, a utility blade and a c-clamp. drilled some various size holes to run the wire through. Just gotta get the depth right on the stranded wire, cause it catches a little and and then you get little bits of wire everywhere.