CATV - Does your yard take it? What do they pay?

Shoot. Title tells it all.



Even a fool looks wise when he keeps his mouth shut...

Yeah we buy it. If it has a copper coated steel middle, we buy it for a copper bearing and pay .20/lb. If it has a Copper middle wire, we pay .95/lb. Most of the time we buy it all as the .20 as separating it takes way to long.

Yards by me wont buy it so I mix it in with my sheet iron / steel .095 a lb

Ok, what is CATV?

Ahh. Yeah, i figured after i posted, but wasnt too sure and didnt want to make an @$$ of myself.

Originally Posted by Mick

In this sense; coax cable.

In a couple of weeks I'll be bringing home a kitten. I had 4 cats for a long time, and the oldest died last year, the next oldest is probably on his last year. The next 2 cats are about 7 & 10 years old and still healthy and active, but I figure it's time to add a kitten to the mix.

This new kitten will be the 5th cat I've had, and I'm seriously considering CAT V for his name or nickname.

Originally Posted by Scraplogic

In a couple of weeks I'll be bringing home a kitten. I had 4 cats for a long time, and the oldest died last year, the next oldest is probably on his last year. The next 2 cats are about 7 & 10 years old and still healthy and active, but I figure it's time to add a kitten to the mix.

This new kitten will be the 5th cat I've had, and I'm seriously considering CAT V for his name or nickname.

Name it Copper

That's a great idea Scraplogic. I'm a cat person, too. Love dogs, too. Have 3 of each. I have a friend who named his cat Mandu...after Katmandu in India. (I think it's in India!!??)

We have one named Linnex and one named Mac(for Macintosh),

A good friend always told me this. "Before you name your pet, picture being outside in your yard yelling the pets name real loud when it has ran off. " Sound advice.

yep....40 years ago my grandmother named her black dog the "Nword". I'm ashamed to say that we were all racists and bigots back then (thank God for grace and redemption) and we thought it was funny. Not now. I've heard of several Dammit's and I'm sure you've all heard others you wouldn't want to go around the neighborhood yelling ! lol parrothead

Coax goes with #2 insulated here.

My place wont even buy it - they said its junk and to throw it away since there is so little copper in it. I had a huge bunch I had found and so had to toss it in the garbage.

I found some really heavy 1/2" diameter stuff where they were remodeling a Circuit City store. It had (what I'm assuming is) braided plated copper on the outside and a foam core wrapped in aluminum that had a solid 16 gauge wire in the middle.

It wasn't that hard to strip so I stripped it. The other that is smaller is still in the "crap wire" gaylord.

I found a 1,000ft spool of Coax Cable yesterday come to find out that the yards around here won't take it. I'm probably gonna just use it to stuff an appliance on my next load as mick suggested. Thanks for the tip!

I found a 1,000ft spool of Coax Cable yesterday

How do you just "find" a 1000' spool of coax ??? Probably belonged to someone,,,{can you imagine someone coming back from lunch and saying" where in the heck is that spool, I know I took it out of the truck"} LOL

I stripped some smaller stuff yesterday and it seems to me to be worth stripping. Esp. if you have one of those wire stripping machines that has a wheel cutter in it. I'd first cut the wire in 10'-20' lengths and set the depth to the outer insulation. Cut it and then take the braided copper off the outside by pushing it off (sounds weird but it gets loose like a sock when you push it).

This outer weave of fine copper wire is most of the weight but there's a foil aluminum wrapping (I put foil in a compactor to make cubes, which I sell as aluminum) around a foam coated wire in the middle. The single wire inside is either solid copper or copper plated steel. Check it with a magnet.

I found it strips real fast and if you just keep it around for a "dry spell" it gives you something to do when you aren't getting much scrap.