Found gold (sort of) in my basement.

[Bottomfeeder]

I was cleaning up the shop friday morning, came across a box way back under the bench.
I pulled it out, HEAVY, it had some pieces of scrap copper pipe in it.
That made me remember that I also had a stash of scrap copper from when we remodeled 3 years ago, still laying around in the garage.
I dug it all out, and called my brother who keeps his finger on the metals pulse. he told me who to take it to for the best price.
Well, cut to the chase, I got $2.20 per pound for the whole pile. Had to cut out parts with solder joints, but i walked out with $72.60 for a few minutes work.
Put the money in my trip stash can. nice little "find" you might say. HH.

 

[Anonymous]

Last year, I managed to salvage/scavenge several pounds of copper wire from a street/infrastructure project, as well as a nice length of wire that came down in front of my house during a t-storm (utility guy said "I threw this away" and winked at my other half after he repaired the downed line). I've probably got 10 lbs or more of 1/4" copper wire, cleaned up, and ready to sell. I know where I can get more, but it's a hike, and I need to take some bolt cutters to cut it into managable lengths.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

The place I took it was paying about 50 cents per pound more than the other two we checked with. They know what its worth. The woman who paid me said the chinese are buying up everything like crazy. Driving prices up on a lot of things.

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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