This is some good info. Thanks.
To those of you that are operating granulators... Are you buying the insulated wire "as is" from other dealers and estimating the recovery? Or are you chopping and then charging a chop fee, cents per lb. or something like that, and then buying the recovered copper from the customer/dealer? I'm sure some are doing both as the guys we sell our insulated to are doing this with us. What is the best way to handle this?
We are considering getting into this because we are tired of baling the insulated and sending it off to a chopper- we are fairly certain that the chopper is getting the better end of the deal $. We probably purchase about 100,000 lbs of No 1 insulated a year so would need to step that up to justify a granulator--buy from other local dealers, etc. Thinking about one of the smaller/medium sized hand feed MG systems (500 lbs/hr)... Anyone have any info on those systmens or other manufacturers? How much electricity does a small/medium sized sytsem use? Any info is appreciated. Good, Bad, Ugly...
Thanks in advance.
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tnscrapper - When I purchase insulated wire from dealers it has to be presorted prior to payment, I dig down a little to see if its consistently sorted, and weigh/pay. If not I give them couple options, and go from there. I have a hand feed machine now, and have out grown it. In my opinion I would not purchase a hand feed machine again, simply for labor purposes. You can get an animated line that has a preshredder incorporated into the line, magnetic conveyor feeds the line. the shredder is programmed to machines specs and keeps the chop line running efficiently. Operator can preload hopper start the line, and go run a baler or shear for hour or two. Depending on the series of chop line, some also enable you to cut back time on machine setup. You still have to sort the plated from the unplated but the time spent setting up the machine for chopping different recovery rates is cut back. Preventative matinence is superior on all machines, only takes a minute for someone with no common sense to damage equipment. the upside of a hand feed is the operator will most likely see out of place material prior to feeding. Either direction you go use a preshredder, makes life easier. hope this helps,
I make cents on the pound, the name of the game is VOLUME
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