Quote Originally Posted by jghilino View Post
if its coax the strand you are calling copper is actually copper clad, your cable company dosent know anything, coax is shred, cut the ends off and sell as dirty brass if it has ends
I threw away thousands of brass connectors before I knew I could scrap them. The connectors on the distribution cable are usually extruded aluminum, I also threw away more of them than I want to think of.