[frgeek-michiana] Re: Skid full of cables
- From: john jones <rainman121065@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:57:01 -0800 (PST)
its gonna take a month just to seperate it theres alot of phone wire power
cords mixxed in with it pretty much low priority,we should just put it ina
corner until we get established then if we dont have any demans it will give
voulenters something to do.....
--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Skid full of cables
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 5:02 PM
Might not be very carbon neutral. There is a quick method of stripping copper
from wire but I'm not sure how well it would work for ribbon cable. I'll look
into it. Maybe we could get better returns on our copper if it doesn't take too
long.
southriverdesign@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Burn the cables all left will be copper
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 3:14 pm
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Skid full of cables
>
> I tried to recycle the skid of cables at Gertrude today. They will not
> accept the ribbon cables because the recoverable copper is less than 30% of
> the weight which appears to be a new policy. Someone there estimated the
> ribbon cable has about 20% recoverable copper by weight.
> So we need to separate (and trash) the ribbon cables from the rest of the
> wire and try again. I'll move the skid to our warehouse tonight using an
> RBHS forklift.
> Tom
>
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