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What's the general price spread between insulated copper, and stripped copper? I mean if the price spread is wide enough, you could buy insulated from other scrappers at a price higher than the yards, run it and sell it as #1...and all you have to do is run the machine and count the money.
Scrap #1 Copper $3.31 lb, Scrap insulated Light Wire 50% Recovery $1.22 lb, Over $2.00 a lb more for just running a machine whether it's a wire stripper or granulator. You do the math, but there has been a few on here that have went that route, buying from other scrappers and putting their wire stripper to work.