Buying cable in bulk!

[7029 dave]

There's a great deal of difference between cheap cable and good cable at a good price. I get doncaster cable probably cheaper than 90% of sparks in my town get cheaper makes for. Tis a joy to strip.

Agreed Mr S, Doncaster is a good quality cable.

 

[paul_h]

I was in my local scrappy getting rid of a few bags of rewire cable. The guy was brand new and I ended up speaking to him for a while. We got talking about price of new cable etc and he said c'mon see this. He took me into the shed and in two massive almost skip sized containers there was loads of brand new sealed cable. Most of it was prysmian ( good stuff IMO) He wanted £30 for a drum of 2.5 that's the only price I can remember but had all types as u can imagine.

I no everyone likes making abit of cash on the side but it was almost disgusting the amount of brand new cable that was there. But I'll deffo be buying some next rewire I've got on.

might be worth trying if use are looking to save abit of cash?

 

[D Skelton]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

There's a great deal of difference between cheap cable and good cable at a good price. I get doncaster cable probably cheaper than 90% of sparks in my town get cheaper makes for. Tis a joy to strip.

Yes it is a joy. Lovely stuff.

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I was in my local scrappy getting rid of a few bags of rewire cable. The guy was brand new and I ended up speaking to him for a while. We got talking about price of new cable etc and he said c'mon see this. He took me into the shed and in two massive almost skip sized containers there was loads of brand new sealed cable. Most of it was prysmian ( good stuff IMO) He wanted £30 for a drum of 2.5 that's the only price I can remember but had all types as u can imagine.

I no everyone likes making abit of cash on the side but it was almost disgusting the amount of brand new cable that was there. But I'll deffo be buying some next rewire I've got on.

might be worth trying if use are looking to save abit of cash?

Probably hot.....

 

[overskilled]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

who says its legit, could easily have fallen off the back of a lorry....

 

[paul_h]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

Who says the stuff you buy from your local in dependant wholesales legit? Could be fake or stolen.....


If it was unmarked drums fair enough might be abit dubious, but as I said it was prysmian, still in cardboard box etc etc

 

[D Skelton]

Who says the stuff you buy from your local in dependant wholesales legit? Could be fake or stolen.....

If it was unmarked drums fair enough might be abit dubious, but as I said it was prysmian, still in cardboard box etc etc

Absolutely nothing, in fact the majority of the fake stuff ends up in small time wholesalers, some even makes the bigger ones, then when it's found to be duff it's scrapped and ends up in places like the one described, in big container units being flogged for the second time, this time only it's unsuspecting tradesmen who are buying it who don't neccessarily know that it's fake even though it's got Prysmian and Basec stamped all over it.

The biggest stockists of duff cable are wholesalers, at least buying it from them however gives you an excuse if ever anyone ended up dead as a result of you using it. Your response to police questioning would be something along the lines of "But I bought it from a reputable wholesaler, I had no reason to believe that it was substandard." What would your response be if you bought it out of some container round the back of a warehouse from some dodgy scrap metal dealer? "Why sorry contstubble?! I had no idea that the smelly pikey looking guy was selling me duff cable?! He swored it to me?!"

 

[shanky887614]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

They do around here, the only thing is the scrappy sells it back to the wholesaler cheap as there mates

 

[D Skelton]

They do around here, the only thing is the scrappy sells it back to the wholesaler cheap as there mates

Who? Who is scrapping brand new rolls of cable?

It's a myth

 

[shanky887614]

Who? Who is scrapping brand new rolls of cable?

It's a myth

Nope, they book cable out on company account then scrap it. Not a myth

 

[Silly Sausage]

Nope, they book cable out on company account then scrap it. Not a myth

Ah....stop mincing about, just call it what it is...theft!!!

 

[i=p/u]

I scrap it cause I'm never doing work for family again.. I just scrapped about 20 rolls of singles this week , stillinplastic .. Il not use it

 

[shanky887614]

I scrap it cause I'm never doing work for family again.. I just scrapped about 20 rolls of singles this week , stillinplastic .. Il not use it

Boss did that the other week, about 20 drums of 7/029 red, black etc.

The only singles we ever use are tri-rated

 

[gnuuser]

Yes it is a joy. Lovely stuff.

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Probably hot.....

or had suffered water damage (one of our old suppliers stored some wire in a shed that got flooded and it had to be scrapped)

 

[D Skelton]

I think what I'm trying to get at is...

There is a very good reason as to why seemingly brand new cable has been scrapped. If it was perfectly good to use then it would have been!

My point - If it seems too good to be true then it probably is. Go to a decent wholesaler and get the proper stuff. A decent wholesaler and you'll be paying pretty much the same price too!

 

[i=p/u]

I even stripped 10ometers of 50mm earth this week, would you of bought it for 120 scrap value... No.

 

[D Skelton]

100m of 50mm Gr/Y? Brand new on the drum? I'd have snapped your arm off for it at £120!

 

[i=p/u]

£200 new.. £120 scrap. I'd say man if you calibre would if paid the shoo
and not take chance...

 

[D Skelton]

Where are you getting 100m of 50mm for £200?! Off the top of my head I paid about £300 last time for 50mm?!

 

[i=p/u]

Well I know was gd cable but I ain't storing it anymore..