Just got back from an auction of an electrical contractor who retired. I'd decided not to take the trailer. Had the 3/4 ton loaded when I came home. Funniest part was that a scrap yard owner (actually owns three yards and is a multi-millionaire) was there. From the first item - a HUGE pile of wire - he bid every strand of copper and aluminum wire there. He would jump the bid by 2-300 dollars just to get it. Another scrap dealer told me he'd said nobody else would be getting any wire. I bid against him a couple times but he'd just double the bid. Toward the end of the wire, there was a lot of four pallets of mixed copper and aluminum that I'd set $250 as the absolute limit. His first bid was $500. Then he kept it up with other lots of equipment. But I figured him out. He'd only bid on stuff he could "flip". So I started bidding on stuff like transformers, ballasts and junction boxes with steel screws. Everything (mostly) I bought needs something to max its value. I still did real good. What you can't see in the pictures are all the transformers I got. Picked up a nice battery charger, too.
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Originally Posted by KzScrapper
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