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  • beneteau
    Thieves are cashing in around here. Stealing air conditioner compressors----anything with copper.
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  • bamafan
    Down here in SE Louisiana, it's going for about $2.00 a pound, or so. Price goes either way from week to week. Also, if you have over a certain weight,(down here, over 300 lbs), you can get a higher price per pound.
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  • allen griggs
    Last week here in Asheville the cops busted two guys stealing copper in broad daylight. These guys had put a homemade sign, "Joe's Air Conditioning Repair" on their truck.
    The parked behind the old WalMart that was abandoned a year ago when they built the SuperWalmart.
    They climbed up on the roof and were taking apart the a/c for the copper.
    Somebody thought it looked suspicious and called 911.
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  • dan55362
    About a year ago I got $2.71 a pound. I Sold 832 pounds.
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  • mp5shooter
    here is the site that i use

    http://www.recycle.net/Metal-N/Copper/index.html
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  • bamafan
    quote:Originally posted by mp5shooter
    here is the site that i use

    http://www.recycle.net/Metal-N/Copper/index.html



    If I'm not mistaken, that's what the local scrap yards get, and the individual gets less. The scrap yard has to make money.
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  • mp5shooter
    if you go to a major scrap yard like i go to you get real close to it
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  • bamafan
    quote:Originally posted by mp5shooter
    if you go to a major scrap yard like i go to you get real close to it



    The closest one for me is two hours away. Not worth the extra gas money, unless you have some serious weight.
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  • dlrjj
    Funny you should ask since I just picked up a price list yesterday so that I had an idea when I loaded up some scrap I'm cutting up with the torch.

    #1 Copper was $2.65/lb.[:)]
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