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I have some coper wire that is like 2. Inches long there's thousands of them and I was wandering if I should put them with the other copper wire. Also I have a bunch of insualated wire that's 2 inches long should I put that with the other insulated wire
Is the copper wire bare bright? Or is it smaller?
What do you mean or is it smaller
Depending on where you sell Bare Bright must be clean and shinny and of a certain gauge/size. Like number one copper is based on size so can bare bright. Many compare it to the size of number two pencil lead.
Do more reading of the old threads and you will learn more. Mike
First time going to a yard? Do what I did, learn yourself.
Oversort everything. Have every thing sorted out as much as you can. When you get there ask questions and pay attention. They will probably pour all your buckets Into a few different categories.
My first time I had about 8 different buckets of different size (insulated) wire. They combined it all into 3 catagories.
Insulated #1, Insulated #2, and Communication.
But, every yard is different, ask them.
Are you concerned that all the little pieces will get lost in a box or such or will be hard to handle? Because I deal with all small gauge insulated wire, it all goes into grocery plastic sacks (I never have huge amounts of it). If there's a couple of these bags, they go into a box. At the "yard", I just hand the guys the box and they do the rest (usually give me my box back).
If you have small stuff that's "bare bright" copper, I place it in ziploc-type sandwich bags and place those in my #2 Cu box. Usually the vast majority of my copper goes as #2. Keeps the little stuff from being a pain to handle for the guys at the recycle shop. But as been mentioned, every yard does things a bit differently so you're first time in will be a learning lesson...