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packy (MA)
yikes is the price sky high!!!!!
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m & m (MD)
What's #1 copper going for?
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packy (MA)
sorry, i misread the slip. #1 went for 2.75 lb...
it's been higher..
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Fixitangel (NC)
I hate when that happens. Driving to the scrapyard, dreaming of a steak dinner, and driving out thinking about a cheeseburger instead. Oh well. Better than cheese crackers. Bon Appetite! 
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BigReg1500 (CT)
I recently took a load of copper (wire, tubing from some projects) and some brass and made out pretty well. I just wish I had more time on my hands to do it right. I just left all the romex as is and didn't bother pulling the bare grounds out, which would have gone for a better price.
The cable company once left almost 300' of co-ax after an install, but scrap yards won't touch the stuff. Too much work to pull out that little copper wire. I ended up dropping it in the metal bin at my xfer station.
You gotta love scrapping. $ for trash, plus you help recycle. My wife on the other hand, isn't too fond of my various 'piles' of things I've got laying around. Says my shop/yard looks like Sanford & Son..
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packy (MA)
big red, thats funny.. my wife yells at me saying 'why can't our back yard look as neat as sanford and son's yard".
if i bring home anything else, they will put my back yard on the A&ETV program 'Hoarders'.....
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greekguy7 (IL)
Very funny, packy... any pics??
It's all funny till that one day that it's late and you just happen to need that part you so happen to have in that pile of crap
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BigReg1500 (CT)
Exactly - there's always another use for something you have laying around. But you'll never find that use unless you have the materials laying around.
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sum (FL)
I have two five gallon buckets pretty full of copper pipes, fittings, and about two dozens of old worn brass valves I replaced, and about 75' total of coiled or kinked up soft copper tubing some 3/8 some 1/2.
Is that worth taking it over or not worth the gas?
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vic (CA)
Sum,
IF you own a Hummer getting 6 mpg and the scrap yard is 20 miles away and you place value on your time it might not be worth it. On the other hand it does sound like you do have some cash just sitting there in those two buckets.
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