Discussion of Copper Wire- Auto Wiring Harness!

Personally I'd be cleaning them as some of that harness would go as #1 up here at 1.20 lb, the ends would go in a bucket to go after filling up. Dirty brass I think.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Personally I'd be cleaning them as some of that harness would go as #1 up here at 1.20 lb, the ends would go in a bucket to go after filling up. Dirty brass I think.

See this is my thought- more work, taking all the "garbage" off of it and you have a fist-full of insulated stranded copper wire- It is the very definition of #2 copper wire! Now they are telling me it is Communication wire? At .40? I'm better leaving all the crap on and getting .75.. but I smell a huge pile of BULLWATER!

Originally Posted by sledge

See this is my thought- more work, taking all the "garbage" off of it and you have a fist-full of insulated stranded copper wire- It is the very definition of #2 copper wire! Now they are telling me it is Communication wire? At .40? I'm better leaving all the crap on and getting .75.. but I smell a huge pile of BULLWATER!

I'm agreeing with you that it should be at least #2 with some #1 mixed in. Comm wire is ribbon wire out of computers, anything small, etc.
I take my larger stuff to my main yard, but they only pay .60 for comm wire so it goes to my #2 yard at .80 lb.
That 14-18 ga wire is #2 here and 12 ga is considered #1. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I'm agreeing with you that it should be at least #2 with some #1 mixed in. Comm wire is ribbon wire out of computers, anything small, etc.
I take my larger stuff to my main yard, but they only pay .60 for comm wire so it goes to my #2 yard at .80 lb.
That 14-18 ga wire is #2 here and 12 ga is considered #1. Good luck.

Thanks Mech: I just wanted to be sure I wasn't crazy! I think my Core buyer is getting SCREWED by their upstream buyer (who is a rat corporation) They are continuously finding ways to squeeze their feeders and their walk in scale clients. In return.. my core buyer HAS to buy at what Rat Corp will pay them for- even if they are DEAD WRONG.

Mind you this is the same company that will now buy at #1 copper ONLY if it is as shiny as a new penny- the days of cutting off your solder joints on copper pipe and it being #1 are gone as far as they are concerned. So if I pull say 50 feet of copper pipe off a job, cut all solder joints they will grade it as #2 because it will have green patina on it.

I'm getting worn out. CONSTANTLY Working hard to clean and bring my stuff in "RIGHT" (i.e. the way I've been told they need it cleaned) and they are still finding ways to put the screws to their clients- either directly or indirectly. Someone's getting rich.. and it sure as hell ain't us!