Posted on 01/26/2024 8:04:12 AM PST by Bon of Babble
And when they’ve stolen all they can they’ll move to the suburbs. Civil War II will be cities against suburbs, With the primary effort being To keep them from escaping the cities
I gotta wonder how many of these idiot thieves are thinking the price of copper is $3.85-ish per OUNCE... but that’s the price per POUND. You gotta steal a LOT of copper to get anywhere with that.
This thread has a lot of brazen comments.
I may have to steel myself before reading further.
Sounds like they are really missing “home.”
By the time Joe Pedo is thrown out of office, “American” tourists won’t need to go to Mexico anymore for their vacations. Mexico is coming here.
“Utility companies often have their copper coated with a specific ...”
How about using more aluminum for conducting electricity.
+1. We really don’t need that kind of talk here.
They do use aluminum mostly. 556 or 477 AL primary with 4/0 neutral.
Every reconductor job I have done uses AL.
People don’t realize how many thousands and thousands of miles of existing CU there are.
Then there’s the amperage a certain size of conductor can handle.
There was a time when you could lock up your house and be gone for months. Now if you do for just a few days you might come home to see vandals and copper thieves have torn it to pieces.
I bought a vandalized house cheap back in 1989. I figured I would have it livable in six months. it took FIVE YEARS! as I and my wife did all the work ourselves.
But when it was done we had a paid off house and 15 acres!
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Goes good with refried beans.
“Note...I never said electricity doesn’t scare me...LOL. It does.”
You just need to move alittle quicker!
I’m sure they do. The amount of copper sold is an indication of theft.
Not provable, but security personnel are good at catching thief to scrapper interactions. It’s the bottleneck.
I worked 31 years in a power plant. One of the items we checked on our rounds was the copper grounding cables. We caught one man cutting up some of it and chased him off. That copper ground field was later covered by a cooling lake.
When building the plant, it was said the workers could double their salary by stealing copper. Often we would see, on lunch break, a roll of copper slowly disappearing down a manhole where someone was taking their lunch break and cutting copper to fit their lunch pail at the same time.
Nothing “third world” about this. Theft of copper wiring from construction sites and abandoned buildings has been going on my entire life and probably even before that. This is as much news as murder being a thing.
Yeah. Oregon went to a system that outlawed cash transfers for some metals, most notably copper. The paper trail is a deterrent to some.
Y cervezas tambien.
“Every reconductor job I have done uses AL”
What’s a reconductor job? Can aluminum be used in the windings of motors and transformers?
Thanks for the info!
You have to change everything over to the non copper wire but it’s your problem deal with it because you won’t deal with crime
“ It’s Mexicans, blacks fear electricity.”
Like swimming
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