On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:

> You need a fair amount of wire to get any amount of copper.
> According to this site 24 gauge copper wire of 817.7 feet weighs one
> pound.  Divided by 8 (strands in cat 5) yields a little more than 102 feet
> needed to get a pound of copper.
>
> Then discount that price based on all the insullation that needs to be
> used.
>
>
>  On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Anyone had any luck getting a scrapyard to pay for this stuff?  It is
>> copper after all…
>>
>> I just pulled all the wire out of a bunch of offices, and we just re-wired
>> our space.  Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them!
>>
>> I have mountains of excess wire I want to get rid of.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sam
>>
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