I've played around with it, forming a jig to help spin the copper off. If you have a young son it is worthwhile, as the clean copper is fetching around $2/lb. It'll give him some pocket money. The larger ones are obviously more profitable. The fine wrapping on the smaller ones gets pretty difficult to remove and you don't get much copper for your efforts. Oh, the jig was just a loop maker stuck in a vise to hold the loop end of the wire. I then chuck the other end up in the cordless drill, pull the core wire tight and spin it while peeling off the wrapping. Kind of a reverse of the mfg process. Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of piannaman at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:20 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Recycling/re-using bass string copper? Hello list, Does anyone know of someone who recycles the metal from dead piano strings? I have a couple of sets of bass strings that I've been trying to figure out what to do with. I hate to see them go in the trash. Thanks in advance, Dave Stahl, RPT Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ _____ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000437> AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070606/98b3b186/attachment.html
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