Can't throw me off the scent

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Where the hell are you hanging out, that you regularly run into spools of fiber optic cable? I've never seen one in my life!

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In turkey there are a lot of people who gather cardboard for recycling for a wage of about 30-40 dollars a day

Is the USA version of this just pulling copper?

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there's a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they're putting in housing developments.

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those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.

what can I say, I probably have issues

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Are you trying to melt the copper by induction? Not much else can be done with a magnet, since copper isn't ferromagnetic...

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Stealing copper, getting under older cars and cutting out catalytic converters, yes. Copper is not a big money maker but it's better than collecting aluminum cans.

The problem with 90% of crime is poverty. They do hundreds of dollars of damage to make a few bucks. If we had universal basic income or better safety nets these crimes would nearly vanish overnight.

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I do cable a lot for my work. I have probably a mile of cat 6 at this point. I do fiber too, and yes I want a big chunk of undersea cable to make art with.

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Honestly we just throw chunks of fiber away. For our purposes, if it's over 320 feet it's going to be copper anyway. I made the mistake one time of underestimating the amount of fiber I'd need and cost my company a lot of money. Now I always over order and the extra goes in the trash because it's worthless. Next time you see guys doing fiber they might just have some scrap fiber to give you.

A few weeks ago I had a guy come up to me and jokingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line. I was feeling generous and gave him an unopened 1000ft box of cat6. Don't tell my boss!

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I'm not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.

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Old joke:

Don't hang out with methheads.

A crackhead will steal your wallet.

A methhead will steal your wallet then help you look for it.

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>Monster Magnet

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TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them

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If you live in the UK I'll send you some. 864f OK?

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Crackhead gonna crackhead.

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864f

Aww, that's awesome—you're awesome! And that's a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I'm in the US.

It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.

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kingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line.

Haa! that's great. Imagine trying to harvest those 22g strande from the TP

I hit an auction for an electrician that went out of business, I got a bunch of remnant boxes for different coax for around $10. They all had between 100 and 500ft left. Most of it's just RG8 but there's some strange dual cable sat line in there that's almost decent. I do a little home networking so I have a few hundred feet of cat 6. on hand and prob a half spool of cat5 that I'll never use. And I have.

Mostly I want the big stuff because I see it but never actually get to touch it. It's like I'd probably want a mainframe if I hadn't spent plenty of time screwing with one.

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Ask the f'n Russians and Chinese, they might have a huge ass bundle hanging off an anchor.

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ROFL, I'm certain of it!

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Might as well scrap that 5 if you've got enough 6. They melt it away to conserve the copper. You might get some decent money. I'm typing with gloves because I'm about to go do ice breaker and snow for the hood. Good luck!

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Yeah I hear those dirty Sanchez's stick around