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How much for scrap copper

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  • 16-12-2013 7:46pm
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    thomas83
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭


    Hi just wondering could anybody tell me how much I would get for 35 meters of 240mm2 swa stripped??


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    thomas83 wrote: »
    Hi just wondering could anybody tell me how much I would get for 35 meters of 240mm2 swa stripped??
    What weight is it?


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    thomas83
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭thomas83


    WikiHow wrote: »
    What weight is it?

    That's the thing im not sure what the weight of it is


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    gifted
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    Got €4 a kilo a couple of weeks ago in Oranmore in Galway, miserable git seperated it into dirty copper and clean copper...at least Dick Turpin used wear a mask when he robbed people :rolleyes:...went there a few months ago and there was a local on the copper scales, no bother with him, all in :D


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    thomas83 wrote: »
    That's the thing im not sure what the weight of it is
    Clean copper is just under 4 euro a kg a couple of weeks ago, this was copper pipe but cable should be the same i imagine.


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    thomas83
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    thomas83 wrote: »
    That's the thing im not sure what the weight of it is

    I no there paying between 4 and 6 grand per tonne of copper so il just bring it into a scrap yard and find out


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    thomas83 wrote: »
    I no there paying between 4 and 6 grand per tonne of copper so il just bring it into a scrap yard and find out
    I would weight it myself first at least you know what weight you are carrying to the scrap yard.


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    thomas83
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    WikiHow wrote: »
    Clean copper is just under 4 euro a kg a couple of weeks ago, this was copper pipe but cable should be the same i imagine.

    Ye il find out tomorrow anyway I hopefully have nearly a tonne of it think I will get approx 4 grand


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    The_Conductor
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    thomas83 wrote: »
    Ye il find out tomorrow anyway I hopefully have nearly a tonne of it think I will get approx 4 grand

    I think you're being very optimistic- but do let us know how it works out.


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    thomas83
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    The_Conductor wrote: »
    I think you're being very optimistic- but do let us know how it works out.

    Maybe I am but sure il find out tomorrow how much there paying


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    Mrs OBumble
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    Moved from Work and Jobs.


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    SpaceTime
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    Where did it come from, if you don't mind me asking?
    Just curious.


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    thomas83
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭thomas83


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    Where did it come from, if you don't mind me asking?
    Just curious.

    It came from a job I'm doing im moving the switch room from one place to another..

    Don't worry I didn't go in with a saw and start chopping it just because it was good cooper lol

    Plenty of that going on tho


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    thomas83 wrote: »
    It came from a job I'm doing im moving the switch room from one place to another..

    Don't worry I didn't go in with a saw and start chopping it just because it was good cooper lol

    Plenty of that going on tho
    Did you go to scrap yard with it today?


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