Derfel
join:2004-06-06
Winnipeg, MB | Incroyable!
Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? |
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CigaR
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join:2004-08-24 | While the price of copper is on the rise, the price of fibre optics continues to drop in Europe...
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
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said by Derfel  :Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? Probably nothing... how the heck is anyone going to sell that stuff?
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backness
join:2005-07-08
K2P OW2
| said by pnh102 :said by Derfel :Uh... that's quite a bit of copper. Any idea what the market value of that would be? Probably nothing... how the heck is anyone going to sell that stuff? salvage yard... they pay by the pound or kilo in europe |
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Michieru2
zzz zzz zzz
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join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | reply to pnh102
He probably does not even need to sell it and sells it at some flee market and slap an RCA logo on it. All you need is the end connectors and you got yourself a new cable. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Derfel
notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage.
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. HAHAHAHA I would pay good money to see someone try to steal copper from the power company 
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
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said by Michieru2 :He probably does not even need to sell it and sells it at some flee market and slap an RCA logo on it. All you need is the end connectors and you got yourself a new cable. True, true... but stealing connectors also increases the risk of getting caught.
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Michieru2
zzz zzz zzz
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join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL
| How much a bag of 100 connectors would cost you if you bought them from some large supplier? Probably a mere 4euros and you sell each cable at 8euros.
So if you where able to make 50 cables that would be 200euros and subtract 4 euros for the next bag you need to pay and you got yourself 196euros. |
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Kibbles
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join:1999-07-31
Mission Viejo, CA
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I think about $3.70 a pound...here in So CA people are recycling Copper Heat Exchangers from old Pool Heaters..there is usually about 20-40 pounds of Copper from each Heater.
I used to drop the old heaters off at our Wholesaler and someone would pick them up to be Recycled....now it is the Wholesaler that Recycles them  |
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Hall
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join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
 ·EarthLink
·AT&T Midwest
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
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said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company... This is about criminals, right ? And most criminals are stupid, right ? I'm looking for the article, but it did happen here in Dayton. Needless to say, after a couple of weeks or a month of certainly extreme pain in the hospital, this guy won't be stealing *anything* anymore...
Here's a very brief, and old, story about this incident: Man Shocked By Wire In Dayton In Intensive Care
The man shocked while allegedly trying to steal copper Thursday afternoon is in Intensive Care after getting burned.
Police said 48-year-old Grover Scott took an ax and chopped through a powerline carrying more than 13,000 volts of power.
The electricity burned Scott over 40 percent of his body on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard.
The incident knocked out power to part of the city including Sinclair Community College. »www.whiotv.com/news/9314409/detail.html |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | It happened in Dallas a few weeks ago. A man was fatally
electrocuted after he tried to steal copper from a live
power line.
Someone said he'd looked like he had been through a
bug zapper. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Derfel
guess i was wrong, people are dumb enough to challenge 13kv.
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA
·Mediacom
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said by Kearnstd :notice that nobody steals from the power company, too bad the telco cant bump up the voltage. Wrong  |
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dave
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join:2000-05-04
not in ohio | reply to Hall
'Carrying X volts of power'. Sigh. Science education isn't what it used to be. |
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| I saw a science professor at a community college attempt to debunk perpetual motion. It didn't go so well. Even after showing the students the trick, about 1/3 of them were still positive that perpetual motion was really possible.
(I suspect the other 2/3 already knew the truth).
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Chuckles
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join:2006-03-04
Saint Paul, MN | reply to Michieru2
They're stealing coax? |
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Michieru2
zzz zzz zzz
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join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | I assume that by copper cable they mean coax. Unless you got a photo illustrating the difference between the two. |
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by Michieru2 :I assume that by copper cable they mean coax. Unless you got a photo illustrating the difference between the two. There are two cables running the utility poles behind my house (aside from the electric); cable, and telephone. I am pretty sure that there is more copper in the 25-pair telephone bundle than in the cable TV run, even if the TV was copper coax, though it appears to be fiber on the pole.
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sapo
The Internet is Down
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join:2002-09-16
Sacramento, CA
| reply to Michieru2
What are you talking about... why would you put an RCA plug on that anyway, this is not some cheap Video connection cable that most people have. They are most likely going to sell it by the kilo to whoever.
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