Bought any copper wire lately ???

[hunt2elk]

You bought 1000MCM copper last week? What did that cost per foot. I only saw it used on one job, and that was 45 years ago.

I think Roger meant he bought 1000 meters of wire? Remember they use that metric system over there.

 

[GTXDAN]

The local Walmart stores here are cracking down more on shoplifting. Most have installed those one way automatic gates that only let you in, but won't open from the inside making you go through checkout. The local one here has a security office between the inner and outer doors too. Door was open when I went by the other day and saw it was full of monitor screens for the cameras. Read an article that they have some kind of new process to make sure everything in and under you cart gets scanned at checkout, and they are checking more receipts when you leave now too. Seems like the only thing locked up in the Walmart here are the guns and ammo.

 

[Mackman]

I think Roger meant he bought 1000 meters of wire? Remember they use that metric system over there.

Got it.

 

[Fran Blacker]

They want to open a copper mine in AZ. An Indian tribe is claiming sacred lands.

 

[Hey-O]

They want to open a copper mine in AZ. An Indian tribe is claiming sacred lands.

Copper is sacred, now!

 

[1967coronet]

And hearing aid batteries lol.

The local Walmart stores here are cracking down more on shoplifting. Most have installed those one way automatic gates that only let you in, but won't open from the inside making you go through checkout. The local one here has a security office between the inner and outer doors too. Door was open when I went by the other day and saw it was full of monitor screens for the cameras. Read an article that they have some kind of new process to make sure everything in and under you cart gets scanned at checkout, and they are checking more receipts when you leave now too. Seems like the only thing locked up in the Walmart here are the guns and ammo.

 

[demonram]

I’m at Home Depot and Lowes a lot. They have have it locked up. What I was told, they get them on camera and when they are caught, all of the footage is used against them. I think that’s pretty good, it takes it from a misdemeanor to a felony. Unfortunately not all are caught, the ones who do it once or twice get away. The ones who do it for a living are eventually caught and it’s much easier to convict. I’ve heard that from both stores employees, they’ve all seen people walk out with everything. The stores main concern is everyones safety.

 

[RemCharger]

I think Roger meant he bought 1000 meters of wire? Remember they use that metric system over there.

A kilometer?? That's .6 miles.
A jumbo roll

 

[hunt2elk]

A kilometer?? That's .6 miles.
A jumbo roll

Idk, he is an electrician.

 

[BB BELLA]

in canadian tire about 20 yrs. ago buying a cheap GM ignition module they put it in a little black bag at the parts counter and escorted me to the cashier! I knew at that point the world was changing!
I a little surprised they don't have a cop standing in front of the circuit breaker cage at HD!

 

[Cranky]

The On another note they locked up the deodorant at our Local Walmart...

Lots of stinky people can't afford deodorant or does it have an ingrediant that can be used to make some kind of an illicit drug?

 

[QuickBpBp]

Lots of stinky people can't afford deodorant or does it have an ingrediant that can be used to make some kind of an illicit drug?

From what I understand they simply steal it to sell at flea markets for cash since lots of people use it... Crazy times...

 

[Cranky]

From what I understand they simply steal it to sell at flea markets for cash since lots of people use it... Crazy times...

There's a huge flea market (flea) about 20 miles from me every weekend and several large box trucks are always there. I know some of it is surplus or slightly damaged but have no idea how much of it is stolen.

 

[Triplegreen500]

A kilometer?? That's .6 miles.
A jumbo roll

Entirely possible.

I used to run a live theatre - we were a 1,600 seat vaudeville house that was built in 1926, and was a "crossover" house - we had a projection booth, Wurlitzer organ, and movie screen...AND a full, live-theatre stage with orchestra pit and complete fly gallery (the area above the stage where scenery is "flown" out of sight for scene changes). A fly gallery is full of battens - pipes that run from left to right, held by (depending on size) either 3 or 5 ropes each; the ropes have to be long enough to go from the stage floor, all the way up to the loft, across the loft to one side of the stage, and back down to the fly rail (pin rail), halfway between the stage and loft, where people would physically pull the ropes up or down to move scenery (or lights) up or down.

All that rope should be replaced every 5-10 years. It runs over pullies; it carries a lot of dead weight; it gets knotted; and it gets sandbag hang points clamped onto it.

Ours (this was in 1998-ish) had been in the air since 1976.

I went to the City (who "managed" the theatre) and told them we needed to buy eight MILES of rope, to re-hang the entire stage. I forget how many we had, but I want to say we had five electrics (battens for the lights) with seven ropes each, and something like 46 scenery battens each with 3 or 5 ropes each depending what load they were designed to carry.

They absolutely lost. their. ****.

So, I took a section of 1/2" hemp rope (the old stuff we used to use), and started scratching at it with my thumbnail. In about five minutes, I'd worn a decent size dent through the dryrotted rope. "We have Martina McBride here this season, along with John Astin, John Amos, George Carlin, Steven Wright...all on the schedule. You're telling me you want all these nationally-known performers walking around under thousands of pounds of equipment, held up by THIS??"

I got my rope. 1/2" Multiline II synthetic. VERY nice stuff, virtually indestructible. Pulling all that hemp out, and stringing all the ML-II, was a long week....

 

[MiradaMegaCab]

Over $1k in mongo for this 500MCM

 

[Davefinan]

You bought 1000MCM copper last week? What did that cost per foot. I only saw it used on one job, and that was 45 years ago.

As an apprentice electrician we were working with 750mcm cable on the job , and a journeyman said to me “kid , this will probably be the largest cable you will work with in your career”. He was right.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Yeah, we used to run some pretty heavy gauge stuff when we did tour electrics. Fun stuff like portable 1600A 3-phase panels, that fed dimmer racks / distro boxes for everything on stage - lights, audio, chain motors, automotive-sized turntables, stage lifts...

We called it "elephant dick".

 

[Dave6T4]

Our weekly Canadian Tire flyer came today. 75M. of 14/2 is now $151.00. So, that is about $2.00 per meter (3 feet). I bought wiring when i finished my basement about 15 years ago. It was about $50.00 for same roll back then.

 

[gdrill]

You should try having a drilling rig shut down for spring break up! It easily becomes a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of copper overnight!

 

[f569]