Scrapping armoured

[vxwestie]

I realise the answer to this is probably hidden in the search results, but damned if i can find it!

whats everyone doing with scrap SWA? I've got lots of scrap pieces from 2-10m I'm fed up with keeping. Obviously the larger stuff is worth stripping, but is anything 16mm and under really worth the effort? I hate the job, but if I can strip enough in a house to make the difference in SWA to bright worth it, I will
what's everyone doing?

 

[Andy78]

I realise the answer to this is probably hidden in the search results, but damned if i can find it!

whats everyone doing with scrap SWA? I've got lots of scrap pieces from 2-10m I'm fed up with keeping. Obviously the larger stuff is worth stripping, but is anything 16mm and under really worth the effort? I hate the job, but if I can strip enough in a house to make the difference in SWA to bright worth it, I will
what's everyone doing?

Honestly, I don't even bother with T&E scrap anymore. I give it to a mate who loves the scrimping and messing about.
I'm the same as you, as in so much as I found the cut off point to be 16mm SWA too. Anything smaller and you are working for a pittance stripping and scrapping it.
Bright is usually worth a fourfold more at least than unstripped armoured. Unless I found a warehouse full though, I'd rather be working my normal job than peeling anacondas.

 

[Octopus]

Is it worth bothering with scrap at all these days?

No idea what prices are like!

 

[ETO]

Put some music on and just do an hour or so a day. Pop it in your shed and have a nice lil xmas bonus

 

[vxwestie]

I've got three bags of stripped 90&120mm so, I'm hoping so...

 

[Andy78]

Is it worth bothering with scrap at all these days?

No idea what prices are like!

Me neither. I haven't bothered with any scrap for a few years now. I do know that all prices are generally down from what we were used to about 5 years ago though.

 

[Andy78]

I've got three bags of stripped 90&120mm so, I'm hoping so...

If you have a few yards in the area ring round for prices first.

 

[RWJ]

If you have a few yards in the area ring round for prices first.

Definitely! You'd be surprised how much of a difference there is. We save ours up and take it to a yard 10 miles away. We've got a scrap yard just over the road but what ever you take in there " the price is down on that at the moment".
28 storage heaters (minus the bricks) "not worth nothing mate, but as a favour we'll dispose of them for free"
The scrap yard we go to now we took 8 and they gave us £12!!!!

 

[KWCFC]

Give to the apprentice if you don't want it.

I remember in my first year I was on a job where there was a ridiculous amount of scrap and when it got weighed in I was given the same share as everyone else...It was double my weeks wages!

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[Brightspark2]

Just scrap it as SWA. I do.

We don't strip anything under 10/16mm and just scrap the rest as it is. Still get a bit of money for it, better than a kick in ballacks.

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[7029 dave]

Non stripped 25mm,16mm, 10mm, adds up to a tidy sum plus all the smaller stuff. I have never stripped at all, could not be assed with all that.

 

[vxwestie]

Any idea how none stripped SWA compares in price to normal pvc covered and bright?

 

[ruston]

Is it worth bothering with scrap at all these days?

No idea what prices are like!

If it is any kind of guide , cars that were fetching £250 -£300 are lucky to get £60 now.
Runners with test can be had for peanuts.

 

[amlu]

last time as far as i remember 20 pence a kilo for unstripped swa, 80pence for swa with armour off, sold as pvc, and £3 a kilo for bright.

 

[vxwestie]

Um, the 2x10m lengths of 4core 50mm and the 14m length of 35mm 5c I just found , will be worth stripping then lol

 

[danzor]

I get about 95p for singles, t+e the steel stripped of SWA. The big stuff is usually dealt with by the young lad who gets locked in a cabin

 

[Brightspark2]

Any idea how none stripped SWA compares in price to normal pvc covered and bright?

Was getting about 50p a kilo and £1 odd for low grade the back end of last year. So there can be quite a difference but not worth the bother stripping it on smaller cables IMO

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[bigspark17]

Swa at my local scrap yard is £600/ton, household is £100/ton.

 

[bigspark17]

Sorry household is £1000/ton. Missed a 0