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What is your main source of copper? Wire? Pipe? Electronics? How much do you get and where?

He said coax is steel and handed me back a 2 foot strip of it.

UPDATE:
I took a small load in today (mainly consisting of this wire but also had some copper #2 and cans ) I have the following to report.
-9 pounds of ins. @ .70 = $6.30
-wouldn't take x-mas...

I'm really pretty sure it's not copper. However, I took a load in today and the scrap guy just threw it on the scale with my copper so i got copper price for it!

We own student housing and when I was mowing the other day I saw 3 recycling bins filled to the brim with beer cans. When I inquired about it, they said that they have that many laying out every...

Its silver colored the whole way through. And I got it running through the back and underneath the burners. Whats Ni-chrome and the price for it? No, no magnet.

In your oppinion is it worth it to take them apart? I have lots of time so thats not an issue. But say you get motor price for them as-is. So thats like .15 here. taking them apart would yeild some...

Here's an update. I removed all the ends and stuff and came up with a couple "wall warts". Anything of particular interest/value in my bucket?
http://i.imgur.com/In0EUd7.jpg

Does your yard give you motor price for them?

Nope. Just checked. It's not one solid wire and its silver colored all around. Any other ideas?

I tore apart my first oven last week and the wire inside wasn't copper. It's shiny and silver colored. I thought it was aluminum but I read somewhere that it's something else.

You guys ever find...

Where is the brass in the cord? And what does a transformer look like on a plug? What's coax cable? (I'm trying to learn here, don't judge me)

Thanks! but That's a lot of bulbs. But the yard will take basically any cords as long as no ends or hard plastic?

I knew some of it had copper (Christmas lights, charger chords).
It was a dollar and I thought I could make a profit. But what to do with Ethernet and computer power cords?!

I went to a yardsale at a neighbors house last week and picked up a box full of assorted cables. I just don't know what to do with it all! Some is copper and others are computer power chords and...

Hi. This my first post on the Forum. I'm excited to learn with all you guys that are doing this more than me on here. I'm a young scrapper, I'm only 15, so I get what I can and make do with it.
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