Index · Thirty-five pages
Thirty-five wire types, one buying desk.
Every family is reviewed on its own facts. Start with the construction, the voltage class or the situation that put the cable on the market.
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If you are not sure which family a lot belongs to, choose the mixed lot option and describe it.
- Reviewed by a buyer, not a scale
- Reels, pallets, partials or a full truckload
- Anywhere in Ohio, one desk
- 01Send the wire type, quantity and pickup city.
- 02A buyer reviews the lot and replies with a basis.
- 03Freight and release are agreed, then the load is booked.
Lot details
Everything helps, but the wire type, the quantity and the pickup city are enough to start.
Start with the construction
The index is grouped the way a buyer thinks: building and service wire first, then power cable by voltage class, then the control and specialty cable that makes a plant run, then conductor metal and grounding, and finally the seller situations that change how a lot is handled.
If the construction is uncertain, the jacket print settles it. Every cable carries a legend: manufacturer, temperature rating, voltage, UL or CSA marking, and often the gauge. A photograph of that print is usually the fastest way to identify an unknown reel.
If the situation matters more than the material
A plant liquidation is not a wire type, but it changes everything about the review: the manifest, the release authority, the access window and the freight plan. The same is true of demolition cable, utility surplus and contractor leftovers.
Those pages are written for the person who has to move a whole storehouse rather than a single reel. Start there if the question is how to clear a building rather than what a particular cable is worth.
What a lot needs before it can be priced
Construction, metal, size, voltage, footage, condition and location. Seven facts, and any one of them missing sends the review back for a question. The most common gap is footage on a partial reel, followed by condition on cable that has already been pulled.
Where a fact genuinely cannot be established, say so. An honest unknown is easier to work with than an optimistic estimate, because the buyer can decide what evidence would settle it.
When the lot is already sorted
A sorted lot is the easiest thing to review and the hardest thing to assemble. Once the families are separated, each reel needs three facts attached to it: what it is, how much is left, and where it has been. That is enough for a buyer to price the group instead of asking for a site visit first.
If the sorting has already been done by a storehouse or a contractor, send the list as it exists rather than rewriting it into a cleaner format. An untidy list with real part numbers is more useful than a tidy one with rounded guesses, because the part number can be checked against the jacket print.
Building and service wire
600 V building wire and the cable that carries service into a building.
- THHN and THWN wire600 V nylon-jacketed building wire
- XHHW and XHHW-2 wireCross-linked polyethylene building wire
- NM-B and Romex cableNon-metallic sheathed residential cable
- SER and SEU cableService entrance cable, round and concentric
- MC and metal-clad cableInterlocked armour, MC-AP and HCF
- AC and BX armored cableArmoured cable with a bonding strip
- USE-2 cableUnderground service entrance cable
- URD cableUnderground residential distribution cable
Power cable by voltage class
From 600 V tray and feeder cable through 35 kV shielded power cable.
- Low voltage cable600 V and below power, control and building cable
- Medium voltage cable2 kV to 35 kV shielded power cable
- High voltage cableAbove 35 kV transmission class
- Power cable600 V to 35 kV multiconductor power
- Feeder cable600 V to 1 kV power to panels and gear
- Tray cableTC and TC-ER for exposed runs
- VFD cableShielded symmetric drive cable
- Crane and festoon cableReeling and festoon duty cable
- Mining cableSHD-GC and heavy-duty trailing cable
- Solar and PV cablePV wire and dual-rated solar conductor
Control, data and specialty cable
The cable that makes a plant run rather than power it.
- Control cable600 V multiconductor control cable
- Instrumentation cableMulti-pair instrument and thermocouple cable
- Cat6 and data cableTwisted-pair and plenum data cable
- Welding cableFlexible single-conductor lead cable
- SOOW and portable cordPortable rubber cord, 600 V
- Submersible pump cableWell pump cable, 600 V
Conductor metal and grounding
Copper, aluminium, bare conductor and the grounding that ties it together.
Seller situations
The circumstances that put cable on the market, and what each one changes.
- Partial reelsReels with length left on them
- Cancelled-project cableCable bought for work that stopped
- Plant liquidation cableStorehouse inventory from a closing plant
- Demolition cableCable removed during teardown
- Utility surplus cableCo-op and utility line stock
- Warehouse overstockDistribution and supply overstock
- Contractor leftoversJob-trailer cut-offs and coils
Related pages
Adjacent cities, wire families and regional briefs.
Questions sellers ask
A reel has no tag at all. Is it still reviewable?
Sometimes. The jacket print can re-establish the construction, and a measured length can establish the footage. Without either, the reel is reviewed as recovery material rather than as reusable cable.
Do you buy mixed pallets?
Yes, but they are valued as a group and priced lower than separated material. Sorting by family, voltage and condition before the review is the cheapest improvement a seller can make.
Which pages cover the liquidation case?
Plant liquidation cable, cancelled-project cable, warehouse overstock, demolition cable, utility surplus and contractor leftovers. Each covers a different release and access problem, not just a different material.
Not sure which family it is?
Send a photograph of the jacket print and the reel tag. Identification is part of the review, not a precondition for it.
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Send the lot details
A photograph of the jacket print will usually identify an unknown construction faster than a description.
- Reviewed by a buyer, not a scale
- Reels, pallets, partials or a full truckload
- Anywhere in Ohio, one desk
- 01Send the wire type, quantity and pickup city.
- 02A buyer reviews the lot and replies with a basis.
- 03Freight and release are agreed, then the load is booked.
Second look at the lot
Everything helps, but the wire type, the quantity and the pickup city are enough to start.