Scrap copper wire

37chief · Oct 8, 2012

I read scrap yards will not take burned copper wire. Anyone had any experience selling burned wire. I have a few pounds of burned wire, and do not want to get in a mess with the EPA. Maybe I should just burry it, and forget about a few bucks? Stan

Pale Rider · Oct 8, 2012

Leave it exposed to the elements over the winter. It will take away that burned look.

S.Crum · Oct 8, 2012

Cut it up in short pieces and tell them you stripped it out of a motor that burnt up.

DeltaRed · Oct 8, 2012

Why do you need to mess with theEPA?Why cant you just haul it the landfill?Cram it into some old feedsacks and throw it?

Lou from Wi. · Oct 8, 2012

Wash it in CLR, they will never know it.
LOU

Mark - IN. · Oct 8, 2012

Stan,

Wait until November 1, the day after halloween to take it to the scrapper and tell him that the night before you heard a knock at the door and someone yelling "Trick or Treat", and when you opened the door, there it was piled up in a sheet like Casper the ghost. That should work, but if he balks, offer him a couple pieces of leftover candy from the night before to sweeten the deal.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Oct 8, 2012

It may be because all of the copper welding cable and other copper wire being stolen. The price for scrap copper is almost as much as buying new cable.

ohiojim · Oct 9, 2012

they'll take it here but at a reduced price for being burned....

MFPoor · Oct 9, 2012

Most scrap yards don't care if they KNOW it's stolen, the issue is burning plastics and what that does to the air quality.

Local scrap yard I take stuff to buys burnt wire. They have you sign a waiver stating you didn't burn it in open air. (I guess they think everyone has a filtered incinerator) Price is reduced from clean wire by roughly 25%.

Sparktrician · Oct 9, 2012

I have dealt with my share of burnt wire.....all the scrappers around here have no problem buying it.....you should be fine......hell, tell them it was stored in a little shed that burnt down.....wasnt your fault it burnt too....

Ralph Bauer · Oct 9, 2012

most dont here in SW OK. Just put an ounce or two in with the better stuff or keep ,looking till you find a place that takes it. Or sell it to your local "middlemen" scrapper at a discount, he might take it.....

Jeff NWOH · Oct 9, 2012

Our scrapyard used to take it no problem. I heard the same thing over the weekend and stopped in the yard yesterday. They had a sign up saying they will no longer accept it.

evilboweviel · Oct 9, 2012

leave it out side until it looks ok
the weather will make it look good

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