Copper Welding Wire Scrap

Sort scrap copper wire.

Copper welding wire scrap.

We cover a wide range of materials from copper aluminum lead zinc magnesium tin nickel steel iron and more. Discover the latest scrap metal prices in ohio today. High grade wire has a single layer of insulation and low grade has a double layer. Mcm 500 750 wire bare bright inside.

The five grades of copper wire range from 85 percent to 10 percent. Other current scrap prices that you may want to know include. 2 35 1 copper clean copper. We dynamically populate our scrap metal prices directly from local scrap yards throughout ohio and update them every thirty minutes to one hour.

If you can strip copper wire you ll be sure to get a higher price for it at the scrap yard. If they are copper fine but i understand that some of them use aluminum transformer windings nowadays. Electric motors can run between 14 and 17 cents per pound. 250mcm 750mcm wire has 90 copper recovery so let s use same 100 lbs.

While copper wire can technically be segregated into five grades most scrap yards classify all wire as either high grade or low grade copper wire. If you were to sell it the way it is in today s market you would get average 1 50 per pound so it would get you 150 00 without doing a thing to it just bring it to a recycling yard and sell it. 1 bare bright wire. If you chose to strip it you will end up with 90 pounds of copper don t forget 10 pounds in plastic waste and in today s market you will get 1 90 per pound for stripped copper wire so your 90 pounds will net you 171.

Different types of scrap copper wires. Be careful when buying welders to scrap. Romex copper wiremcm 500 750 wire bare bright inside. I have a miller synrcrowave 200 and a lincoln sp 175 plus mig and i couldn t tell you whether they have copper or aluminum windings.

It only took them getting burnt on that one time to never accept that again. 1 bare bright wire. 2 35 1 copper clean copper. 2 copper wire the color of the wires from electric motors can range from a darker burnt orange color to reddish color.

Some scrap yards will no longer take wire that has had the insulation burnt off and it is coming in the future that they will have to turn you in if you bring in burnt off wire. Bare bright wire the color of the wire will be a faint orange yellow and bright color. Copper transformers can run between 5 and 50 cents per pound. All the local scrap yards have refused burnt off aluminum wire for years.

2 20 2 copper dirty copper. Copper recyclers pay top dollar for solid copper scrap because it can be easily melted and sold at almost the market price of copper.