wires

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.