Hello -


This is my first official post, sans my intro. (I JUST WENT BACK AND READ THROUGH IT - SORRY. MARK TWAIN ONCE SAID, [B][B][B]"I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE YOU A SHORT LETTER, SO I WROTE YOU A LONG ONE.")


I have had relative success in purchasing wire lately (I've been in the business for some time, but I just see more monetary opportunity this way)


Currently, i have a stripping machine. The SDT WRA 40.

I do like it, but some of the problems I'm having is that it's just taking too much time to operate. It's great on the feeding end, but unless you have a person standing by and picking up the ends, separating the good(copper) from the bad (sleeves/plastic/rubber), then it's not the most useful in terms of LBS/Hour.

I've been looking at a granulator for the past year or so. There are quite a few on the market and I've noticed that quite a few members have experience with them.


I typically like the stripped wire better because loss is minimal since you can sweep up the shards that fall, not to mention a drum full of stripped wire is a pretty nice sight.

Anyway - just as I'm ready to pull the trigger and upgrade the company, buy the granulator and blah blah - I start really looking closely and I have a couple of questions:

1 - What size (small to big) wire can be fed into the granulator? It seems these costly systems are saying the machines can handle stuff like communication, vehicle and motorcycle wire. Which, is a pretty small diameter. I do a lot of household wire up to zero gauge wire. Will the machines handle most of this or just the small stuff?



2 - Yesterday, I asked my scrap yard (they're an exporter and the highest prices are paid by them) what granulated copper would be considered? Because I'm wondering if it's worth doing my "bright and shiny", "#1 copper", etc, etc separately or just throwing them all in the granulator at once. He told me he would have to see it, but he said it would be like copper borings. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? It's just chopped down to size. He said I would get less than #2 pricing. That seems kind of odd.

3 - In anyone's experience, which granulator would be a good choice? I'm not talking about spending 100k - I'm more in the 20-50k range. I will upgrade as I grow. Right now though, I'm drowning in wire and cannot strip quickly enough.


If there is a stripper out there that can handle big loads or something that say a scrap yard or industrial site would use, please, let me know. All my searches have led me to the type that I have now. Or, if anyone has tips in quicker separation methods AFTER the wire has been stripped, please again, let me know. I wondered if you could do it like the granulator separator, but that probably wouldn't work as the lengths are long compared to the pellet sized copper the granulator spits out.

I'm open to any and all suggestions, comments, hate, hazing and whatever else you want to do to the new guy who wrote a really long first post. Also, I sincerely apologize if I'm posting in the wrong section.

Lastly, to cover myself, I did do a lot of searching before writing this post. I am not one who appreciates laziness when on a forum. I always search first to see if I can find the answers I'm looking for.

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