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Is brass more expensive than it used to be?
by christhecaribou 1y ago
Is brass more expensive than it used to be?
- sparrish 1y agoYes. Copper (major component of brass) is seeing all-time highs at around $4.60 lb.
- DougN7 1y agoI had assumed it was much higher. How many pounds of copper could be in the wiring of a street lamp? 5 pounds?
- chasd00 1y agoEnough to get high, in Dallas the drug houses take copper and other metal as payment. No need to make the trip to the junk yard.
- magicalist 1y agoSource? I can't find any. It would seem like sitting on a large inventory of scrap metal would be a dumb way to run a "drug house".
- dylan604 1y agoSome local plugs are closer to fences as they will take pretty much anything of value. Recently heard of someone taking a high end bottle of cologne or expensive bottles of wine. Whether the plug enjoys the product themselves or is able to turn them around somewhere else is more information than I want to know.
- quickthrowman 1y agoIf you get lucky you can pull out hundreds of feet of wire, the wire is in conduit that goes from pole to pole and it’s usually decent sized wire to account for voltage drop. The city where I live is using aluminum wire for streetlights now after having miles and miles of copper stolen.
- toasterlovin 1y ago$4.60 is not an all time high for copper. Copper has been around this price for a while. It’s traded within about a 10% band for the last year. It had some fluctuations prior to that, but there hasn’t been any kind of long extended run up in price.