[urq] [s-cars] NAC, thoughts on copper prices

[David Kase]

Yeah, but zinc is way up as well...as is brass and everything else we 
use to make commercial door locks.

Dave Kase
Engineering Manager
PDQ Locks

elijahallen92 at aol.com wrote:

>That would work great if penny's were made of pure copper but they are mostly zinc unless you can find the real old ones.
>
>Elijah 
> 
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>Subject: [s-cars] NAC, thoughts on copper prices
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>
>I guess I'm a little behind... but I'm doing some remodeling on my home.  Off I 
>go to Home Depot to buy a 250ft reel of 12-2 wire.  $102!?  So, I'm told that 
>copper prices have gone through the roof (probably following the oil company 
>business model).  The current price for scrap copper is now at $3.72 per pound.
> 
>This gets me thinking... what does 372 pennies weigh?  So, off to the super 
>accurate and recently purchased refrigerant scale.  Turns out that 372 pennies 
>weighs in at 2.1204 pounds.  In other words... 372 pennies turns out to be worth 
>$7.89 on the scrap copper market.  This is a large return on investment.  
>Anybody want to go into the penny melting business?
> 
>Dave
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