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I've been doing this about year and a half now and this is the second summer I've seen copper prices drop considerably. Is that just a normal thing to have happen during summer? I figure more people...

You might be a scrapper if ...

You pass by the new vacuum cleaners at Sears and start salivating over the idea of scrapping the motors inside of them for copper.

The round fan blade on the front of the motor is also aluminum. Also, the stator laminations are all steel. Toss those right into your shred barrel once you have removed the copper windings.

A lot of people scrap televisions around here (Chicago), myself included. I actually found an old one recently, a brand I never heard of before. CBS? Not the CBS television network, a CBS television,...

I've ran into both. Some degausing wires are copper, some aluminum. Got to cut them and look to see. I've been stripping the copper degausing wires and taking them in as bare copper.

Hytest steel toe work boots. wear them when I go to the scrap yard as well. Too many hazards at yard not to wear them.

yah, those are transformers and there are copper windings inside. not a lot of copper but any drop in the old bucket helps as far as I'm concerned. I've been stripping them.