[TowerTalk] copper

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

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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