Most scrap yards will buy christmas lights in a separate #2 Ins. category or low grade #2 Ins. Our yard for example pays (#2 Ins. Low Grade) $0.73 a pound for christmas lights .
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Most scrap yards will buy christmas lights in a separate #2 Ins. category or low grade #2 Ins. Our yard for example pays (#2 Ins. Low Grade) $0.73 a pound for christmas lights .
How about 80 cents pound for the mini bulbs, then you can sell your copper wire at a higher grade. I could use about 50 pounds of mini bulbs mixed or preferably sorted by color.
That time of year again. The first set I found was elaborately wrapped around and through an artificial tree. The untangling process left a mess of green plastic confetti on my floor.
I always clip the bulbs off on mine, usually do it while watching tv
The buyer I was referring to has gone AWOL. I haven't noticed anyone taking his place, but I haven't been looking for one either. Probably a good item for obne of our ebayers to add to thier buy lists, there have been a few people asking about it in the last couple months.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattInTheHat
That was some tremendously wasted effort. Most of the string is synthetic fiber or something like that instead of wire.
Were I work we buy X-mas lights as grease wire .15 a pound. The recovery of X-mas lights with bulbs is about 21 percent, without bulbs maybe 30 percent, you need a least a 45 to 55 percent recovery for #2 insulted. So we just bale them with our com. wire and export.