Practical guides for selling surplus cable
How to read a reel tag, estimate footage from weight, store conductor before pickup and prepare a manifest a buyer can value. Written from the buying side of the table.
Skip the reading, send the lot
Six details are enough to start: what the cable is, how much there is, where it is and what condition it is in. Photos can follow by text or email.
Prefer to talk 954-740-1983Eight guides
Each one answers a question that comes up on almost every lot review.
Reading a reel tag
Which fields on the tag a buyer actually reads, and what to do when it is gone.
Review this lot type02Footage by weight
The arithmetic for estimating remaining length when the printed tag is missing.
Review this lot type03Copper versus aluminum
Why two reels of the same size are not the same lot, and how each metal is reviewed.
Review this lot type04Paralleling large feeders
What keeps a paralleled feeder set usable and what breaks it up.
Review this lot type05Medium voltage safety
De-energising, discharging and handling cable above 1 kV before it moves.
Review this lot type06Storing conductor
Cheap habits that keep a reel in the condition a buyer will pay for.
Review this lot type07Project surplus manifest
The columns that turn a trailer of reels into a lot a buyer can value.
Review this lot type08How surplus cable is valued
Reuse, respool or recovery: how the three routes are decided.
Review this lot typeSend the reel list
Six details are enough to start: what the cable is, how much there is, where it is and what condition it is in. Photos can follow by text or email.
Prefer to talk 954-740-1983