Stripping individual conductors for recycling

[George Stolz]

I worked with a guy who devised a machine to strip it for him. He used the teeth on a gear to pull it through a hole that he had a blade installed that he could adjust to the size of the wire. Worked pretty slick.

Sounds like a pretty slick machine!

 

[jsharvey]

why strip it?

why strip it?

Last time I recycled any wire it was $1.00/lb "dirty", $1.10 "clean", seems hardly worth the extra effort to me, but thats just me ,,lol

J.S.Harvey

 

[peteo]

The best machine I've used for SO was a Schleuniger. This was a small TV sized box on a bench, with an E-STOP button on top and a short length of pipe sticking out the front. What it does, is to sense that your cable is at the stop (i.e., the switch at the end of the pipe.) At that point, it sends a sharp single lip cutter around 360 and waits. Your task is to pull the cable out, slitting the slug. If you don't do it in time the blade retracts anyway and waits for the next piece. I can't imagine it would be so hard to fix up a piece of pipe with a razor knife blade, if all you're doing is ripping insulation off. Some plastic SO cords are so hard to work with... I suppose some of you have come across those.

 

[allenwayne]

Anyone have updated price on bare and unstripped ?

It`s been about a month or so since I cashed in CU.It was $3.05/lb #1 and $2.95/lb #2 ,$1.75/lb unstripped #3.
Back around 1975 I worked with a guy that made a jig to strip wire,It was a vee block of 2 X 6 with a utility knife in the bottom of the jig and a roller above it centered in the jig he used 2 sash weights to apply pressure.All you did was slide the wire in the jig release the weighted roller and pull it through,pull off the insulation and it was done.He did #2 and up with this jig worked like a charm.But that was in 1975 and CU was #1.00/lb but the min. wage was like $1.75/hr so do the math in todays prices and wages.

 

[ramdiesel3500]

Many years ago, as a green horn, I acquired an approx. 100' roll of used 3/0 Aluminum drop cable. Got the bright idea to strip it out and sell the aluminum. Took me about 4 hours with a dull knife to strip it, chop it and remove the messenger wire from the bare neutral. Had blisters on my hands and nearly destroyed my knife cutting that hard insulation. But boy was I excited when I headed to the scrap yard for the first time with a beautiful looking evenly cut wad of aluminum conductor strands. Walked into the scrap yard garage with my prized product. Left with something like about $12.00! That was a lesson I'll never forget!!!!

 

[Jim W in Tampa]

It`s been about a month or so since I cashed in CU.It was $3.05/lb #1 and $2.95/lb #2 ,$1.75/lb unstripped #3.
Back around 1975 I worked with a guy that made a jig to strip wire,It was a vee block of 2 X 6 with a utility knife in the bottom of the jig and a roller above it centered in the jig he used 2 sash weights to apply pressure.All you did was slide the wire in the jig release the weighted roller and pull it through,pull off the insulation and it was done.He did #2 and up with this jig worked like a charm.But that was in 1975 and CU was #1.00/lb but the min. wage was like $1.75/hr so do the math in todays prices and wages.

Thinking of running mine up to the LOL place on 41, guess best call first.If low it can sit another year.