300 kg of copper cables, what to do best with it in Bangkok?

[zappalot]

In our building we have about 300 kg of copper cable.

In Germany I would get good money for it, about one euro or 37 baht per kilo.

Does anyone know where to go and what one would get in Bangkok?

[gerry123]

ask a TOT worker where he gets rid of his

[berybert]

_{Sukhumvit 105 Bearing when the road turns to the left there is a scrap dealer on the right had side 100 or so meters along the road.}

_{No idea how much its worth.}

[goltec]

There are plenty of recycle businesses. (plastic, glass, paper, metal)

They will pay you for it.

no problem.

[recycler]

Any Wongpanit franchise will pay for it, they are all over Thailand

http://www.wongpanit.com/wpnnew/

[Ming Mueng]

You will get here about the same for copper as in Germany.

[nithisa78]

ask a TOT worker where he gets rid of his

They turn it back to TOT.

[KhnomKhnom]

About 500meters from my gated mooban home, a group in a TOT truck stole an electric box from the poles and then some length of copper electric cable. So you may be suspect of stealing when you try to sell. Should go walking around in Bon Mohr district and ask wire shops.

Reports are also of stealing overhead fiber optic cables and getting home after all that dangerous work to find no copper inside the fiber......... optic cables.

Official trucks, think about it.

[zappalot]

The 300 kg of copper cables are of course not mine. As I mentioned they belong to the building. After 23 years they renovated the elevators and there are about 1000 kg of scrap metals as well as about 300 kg of cables.

Our manager has no idea what to do with it, the company doing the elevator renovations has no interest in this stuff.

And as I know from Germany that these things have some value I told them to find out how much we would get for all these things.

Of course I know many places where I could ask but I thought someone probably knows about the prices and the best place to go. At least in Germany they vary widely.

Actually I do not want to have anything to do with it, but when I hear that they simply want to throw it away I get simply crazy. They throw away money. And don't care about it. I think I never get used to this mai pen rai attitude.

[csabo]

In New York it's not uncommon to have copper gutters stolen right off the house. I would take a pic down to the scrap metal place mentioned and get an estimate including pickup for 300kg. If the business doesn't want the money, donate it to a local charity but get a receipt from all involved.

[gawaterman]

Commonly stolen in Australia too. Thats why many new houses being built have temp. fencing around then, stop crims stealing the copper pipe.

Edited February 22, 2015 by gawaterman

[F4UCorsair]

Commonly stolen in Australia too. Thats why many new houses being built have temp. fencing around then, stop crims stealing the copper pipe.

Almost overcome with high pressure plastic pipe (Auspex I think is the brand name), with push on fittings (not reusable) so the low life thievws have been thwarted. Ther are other benefits, no water hammer even if not fixed, and no insulation of hot water pipes is required. The fittings are not cheap, about twice that of compression fittings, and several more times that of soldered fittings, but huge labor savings......just push on and get on with the job.

[berybert]

So there you have it. Ask for info on getting rid of wire in Bangkok and you now know what to do if you want to get rid of wire in Auss or New York.

The joy of the internet.