500 feet of #14 weighs 6.2 lbs. At $4/lb, the copper content
is worth about $25.00. The other $28 is various other stuff.
There is a general shortage of building matls, like wood.
I suspect that a lot of the price increase is from that,
rather than the raw copper price. I just paid $50 for OSB
that used to cost $7. The price of timber doesn't explain that.
Rather, there are a finite number of plants that can make OSB,
and it is capital intensive to convert plants over to OSB.
The price of Beldsol magnet wire is now $80/lb, The copper
content is only 5% of the price.
Rick N6RK
On 4/1/2021 3:46 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
If you haven't been to the big box store lately to get copper wire get
ready for sticker shock. 500 feet of #14 THHN solid at Lowes here is
$53. Never seen it that high for plain old electric service wire.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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