captain Jack
Sr. Member
I know this may be a little off the normal treasure topics here, but it's something I've been curious about. My friend and I work together installing hardwood floors and enter many a construction site. We, this year, decided to snath up all of the scrap copper we saw laying around to see how much we could gather as we have heard it is pretty valuable as far as recycling goes. (I think you can get somewhere between $1-$2 a pound)
We have probably 20 pounds of stripper copper wire and flashing pieces in a 5gal bucket on our work truck that we add to almost daily. We got to talkiing about how sweet it would be to have some copper bars like the silver bars we have invested in. But in researching the melting point of copper I found that not only do I have access to, or want to pay for a system to melt down the copper, but found that copper has to be melted in the absence of oxygen. If it oxidizes it is not worth anything.
I was wondering if anyone on here had the equipment to melt down the copper into ingots of some sort. I would be willing to pay a reasonable price or maybe let you keep a portion of the copper for yourself in return for the work. The price would have to be reasonable because I would have to pay to ship X amount of copper both ways.
Not sure if anyone has or would be willing to do this but I thought I'd put it out there. If anyone is interested or has any comments post 'em or PM me! Man I think those sparkling copper bars would look pretty! Thanks for any advice.
Jeff
We have probably 20 pounds of stripper copper wire and flashing pieces in a 5gal bucket on our work truck that we add to almost daily. We got to talkiing about how sweet it would be to have some copper bars like the silver bars we have invested in. But in researching the melting point of copper I found that not only do I have access to, or want to pay for a system to melt down the copper, but found that copper has to be melted in the absence of oxygen. If it oxidizes it is not worth anything.
I was wondering if anyone on here had the equipment to melt down the copper into ingots of some sort. I would be willing to pay a reasonable price or maybe let you keep a portion of the copper for yourself in return for the work. The price would have to be reasonable because I would have to pay to ship X amount of copper both ways.
Not sure if anyone has or would be willing to do this but I thought I'd put it out there. If anyone is interested or has any comments post 'em or PM me! Man I think those sparkling copper bars would look pretty! Thanks for any advice.
Jeff