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Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 04:51:57 PM

and back from the scrapper $683 for this load of wire.

I have so many questions Tongue

What do you do with the plastic peeled off those wires? That must add up to quite a lot! Why was the wire sold far under the scrap metal price? Did you get old wires or were they new when you bought them?

i do not strip the wires.

At the height of 2021 mining black box auctioned 3,000,000 brand new cables.

cat 5
cat 5e
cat 6

i won 2 lots about 33,000 wires weight of 9300-9400 pounds.

i take them out of the retail bags

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167522755092?

and sell them as in the photo below.

oh yes! That was a good investment. Even more investment, was you having kept them for all this time!!

Pretty insane that you could profit from an investment like that really. Good on phil for finding this. I would have probably just given them away to the first person I could find who would take them. Here I was thinking my pile of cat 5 cables was outrageous... I only have a few dozen of them. This is crazy...

I am sad to have my bubble bursted. I had hoped that phil was peeling the plastic from these cables and then tossing them in his attic for added home insulation or something great like that. The look on someone's face when they buy a house and then discover miles of cable insulation in their attic would be priceless.