Talkin Scrap- Scrap University #1 Cu- Berry & Candy

In this episode we cover the #1 grades of copper. Make sure to keep an eye out for more information

Transcription

now i want to get into your number one grades this is called berry it’s got to be a number one copper it’s got to be wire this as you can see doesn’t get to get kicked into the number one bright and shiny category because it’s been weathered it’s not literally bright and shiny you can see the the green oxidation there and sometimes if you’ll see mcm get really hot it’ll get like a black kind of like burnt in coating that kind of also turns it into a number one now number one copper also can be called candy this is candy it’s tubing it’s number one it’s got no solder joint no paint it’s just number one copper this is a material we’ll go over how to upgrade number two into number one soon so this is an mcm but i want to show from earlier we talked about how when it gets mcm gets hot the bright and shiny part of it kind of goes away it just gets hot the rubber from it gets burnt on and it kicks it down to that number one grade so we call this number one copper

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