Last year, I started buying wire from a few local electricians. I am hooked up with someone to get dealer pricing and can even do brokerage with 5K pounds of bare bright. I thought I had an awesome understanding of things until this week.
One of the electricians put a painter in contact with me. This guy collects throughout the year and strips everything, even extension cords and power cords. The 1st night, I went over to get a feel for what he had and had to explain that stranded wire (hair wire) would go as #2 and not Bare Bright. So I go back tonight and he has it separated. He did keep the larger stranded (probably 8 or 10 gauge and larger) separate from the other stranded. I bought the stranded hair wire, and the smaller gauge stranded as #2. I feel as thou the 12 and 14 gauge stranded should go as Bare Bright. Had it not been stripped, it would have been brought at the same price and 12 and 14 gauge solid. What do the rest of you do?
In regards to the stripped hair wire, most places would buy that as #2. What if it was run thru a chopping line and a turbo mill, would it still be #2 or something different?
These are just my first 2 questions to come up concerning stripped wire. I'm sure 1 or 2 more will come up.
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