work 40 hour job or strip #1 wire for the same time? - Page 2

Originally Posted by copperhead

If you can get #1 insulated wire at $1.50 per pound, clean it then turn it back in for bare bright would it be better than working 40 hours per week at $9 an hour cash? I would be using a hand stripper for the first couple of months. I can also clean #2 copper as well. My girlfriend would also help a few hours each day but can't work for the job at $9. My overall goal is to make $450 per week. If I netted $.50 per pound I'd have to produce about 1000 of bare bright in a week.

You can't put a number on it like that. You need to diversify.

heard about a guy that was stripping welding lead at work, he was getting about 50 pounds a day of bare bright copper off of the job site, they didnt find out till then end of the job when they came across the pile of insulation left behind, this was done at on utility company property by a contract employee