Quote Originally Posted by fredp View Post
about some wire that came out of an old UPS unit. The wire and terminals are copper with a coating of what I believe to be nickel. Does this sound about right? I did the match test to see if it was silver and it is not. This coating is to prevent corosion. [I think] Anyone seen this before and what might it be worth to the scrap yard? I have a few hundred pounds of this. Edit to add this material [coating] has a slight sheen [almost shiney but not as shiney as say chrome.
Yes the nickel coating is "solder" (lead/tin/silver-low % age) the sheen coating is varnish, i get 98% copper price for this almost as good as bright price.It's not worth doing anything else with it.