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Pillar of the Community
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A lot of the data guys turn in the demoed cable for scrap and make some decent money doing it.
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09/05/2008 7:39 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I still buy 1 ounce a week, or sometimes 1 ounce every two weeks. I'm in it for the long term.
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Hmm, should I start hoarding my cat5? heh. The building I work in has been re-cabled at least four times since it was built. The old cabling was never removed. There is even some old-school token ring (shielded) cabling hiding in the drop ceiling. A lot of copper up there. Hmmm...  |
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Rest in Peace
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Right now I'm just hoarding 1964 Kennedys, but I have no current desire to build the set. Shouldn't be hard, there are only three. |
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Rest in Peace
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Some contractors are switching over to aluminum, which may be the way we will all go soon. Didn't they learn anything from aluminnum wiring in the 60s? |
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 I am no expert, but from what I have read, that would be a costly mistake. |
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Pillar of the Community
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...that would be a costly mistake. I remember that copper-plated junk. Screws would back out of contact points and cause shorts. Nearly as brilliant as PVC water pipes.  |
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Nearly as brilliant as PVC water pipes. Curious, what is wrong with PVC water pipes? Is that an earthquake thing?  My first house was copper, but the current one is all PVC (slab home, code wont permit copper to be used in the concrete here). |
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Pillar of the Community
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Curious, what is wrong with PVC water pipes? Is that an earthquake thing? Well, not to alarm anybody...perhaps it depends on the grade of PVC plumbing. I recall a huge fiasco when a whole development was plumbed with PVC which degraded in a few short years and subsequently burst under the load--water damage everywhere. I think that was Florida...where pipes seldom freeze too. |
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Ah, good to know!  I am sure this is quite possible, given the corner-cutting that some contractors try.  With copper being so expensive, I am now having visions of a similar fiasco because the copper pipes were made much thinner than they should be. That goes for wiring as well!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Man and they said on the history channel that pvc in the ground would be here when nothing else would... I agree direct sunlight destroys pvc but the other |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The building I work in has been re-cabled at least four times since it was built. The old cabling was never removed. There is even some old-school token ring (shielded) cabling hiding in the drop ceiling. A lot of copper up there. Hmmm... Most municipalities are requiring the old stuff be demoed when new is going in, the old stuff has asbestos in the coating which is breaking down and becoming air born, especially plenum cable. As for aluminum, it is becoming an accepted alternative to copper, if installed properly, there is nothing wrong with it. I am talking about service entrance feeders, not branch circuits. Most utility companies install aluminum for their feeders. There are many contracts being won using value engineering with aluminum wiring right now. |
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Got out of gold at $815. Made a profit. Still holding silver and a little platinum.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Not PVC(polyvinyl chloride), the problematic piping was polybutylene |
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Pillar of the Community
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the problematic piping was polybutylene Ah...thanks, I stand corrected! |
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