wires - Page 2

Originally Posted by mike1

i was wandering if there was any other places to find solid copper wire besides romex house wire? a list of items would be nice that counts as bare bright thanks for the help=) where do you find copper cable? where do you get stuff like this and is it common? https://www.google.com/search?q=neop...j1mSPAwN8J2hM: what qualifies something to be ec wire why is a degausing cable from a tv not considered ec is it because its too small?

Alot of real heavy commercial duty wire is bare bright or number 2 plated solid strand wire. I don't come across it too much for free but one day i went to go get a fridge i saw on craigslist. Well the guy was an electrician and got a bunch of wire from work. He used to strip it all and take it to the yard himself. Well he got a job as an electical manager/forman at a big plant and doesnt have alot of time anymore. So im there picking up the fridge with my small little tacoma. He fills that with steel. Like litterally we stacked a 10' high pile in my little truck. He tells me if i take all the cardboard and pallets he has he'll give me the wire. So needless to say i ran home jumped in the new tacoma, hooked up a trailer, loaded the trash and cardboard first then went and wheelbarrowed out $200 worth of insulated wire from his backyard. It was still saturday and if i had left the truck like that till monday it woulda been emptied out real quick. So i went and buried the wire in about 1000lbs of steel and aluminum before i went back home. I think i've told you before. Take the trash long enough and eventually you'll get the gold.

Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries

Alot of real heavy commercial duty wire is bare bright or number 2 plated solid strand wire. I don't come across it too much for free but one day i went to go get a fridge i saw on craigslist. Well the guy was an electrician and got a bunch of wire from work. He used to strip it all and take it to the yard himself. Well he got a job as an electical manager/forman at a big plant and doesnt have alot of time anymore. So im there picking up the fridge with my small little tacoma. He fills that with steel. Like litterally we stacked a 10' high pile in my little truck. He tells me if i take all the cardboard and pallets he has he'll give me the wire. So needless to say i ran home jumped in the new tacoma, hooked up a trailer, loaded the trash and cardboard first then went and wheelbarrowed out $200 worth of insulated wire from his backyard. It was still saturday and if i had left the truck like that till monday it woulda been emptied out real quick. So i went and buried the wire in about 1000lbs of steel and aluminum before i went back home. I think i've told you before. Take the trash long enough and eventually you'll get the gold.

nice so they have to go through the steel to get to the wire lol

https://ibb.co/cxV5Z5
The ball in my hand is the stranded, everything else is solid bare bright. This is my usual once or twice a week haul of just this. O and I still have about 20% more to add that's not in the picture before doing my yard run tomorrow.
They know my list for copper tubing because I make moonshine stills so they sell me anycopper tubing or fittings for $3 a pound. So **** cheap compared to any store ever.

Originally Posted by Earther

https://ibb.co/cxV5Z5
The ball in my hand is the stranded, everything else is solid bare bright. This is my usual once or twice a week haul of just this. O and I still have about 20% more to add that's not in the picture before doing my yard run tomorrow.
They know my list for copper tubing because I make moonshine stills so they sell me anycopper tubing or fittings for $3 a pound. So **** cheap compared to any store ever.

wow nice thats great wish i could find that stuff lol.