Wire and cable types we buy in Tennessee
Every family below is reviewed on construction, footage and condition. The list is long because Tennessee's plants, utilities and contractors do not buy one kind of cable.
A warehouse aisle of reels awaiting a surplus review
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Six details are enough for a first review: what the cable is, the metal, the size, the footage or reel count, the condition and where it sits. Photographs can follow by text or email. There is no fee and no obligation, and nothing moves until written terms are agreed.
Cable is not one product. A reel of 4/0 THHN, a coil of MC and a length of 15 kV shielded feeder have almost nothing in common except copper, and they are bought by different people for different reasons. The pages below separate them for that reason.
Each family page covers what the cable is, the sizes and voltage classes it comes in, where it accumulates in Tennessee, what a seller should send, and how a lot like that is reviewed. The situation pages at the end cover the commercial shapes a lot can take: partial reels, cancelled projects, liquidations and clean-outs.
- Full reels, partial reels, coils, cut lengths and mixed pallets
- Copper conductor, aluminum conductor and mixed metal lots
- New surplus, unused stock, removed cable and recovery material
- Plant, utility, contractor and warehouse sellers, statewide
The index at a glance
- Families
- 21 cable types
- Situations
- 9 lot types
- Voltage
- 600 V to 35 kV here
- Coverage
- Tennessee statewide
Every wire and cable page
Grouped by where the cable sits and who usually holds it.
Building wire and branch circuits
6 pages- THHN and THWN wire600 V nylon-jacketed building wire, copper or aluminum
- XHHW and XHHW-2 wire600 V cross-linked polyethylene wire for feeders and wet locations
- MC and metal-clad cableInterlocked armor cable for branch circuits and feeders
- AC and BX cableOlder armored cable with a bonding strip, copper conductors
- NM-B and RomexSheathed copper cable for small commercial and outbuilding work
- SER and SEU cableService entrance cable in copper or aluminum, three and four conductor
Underground and service
3 pagesIndustrial power and controls
6 pages- Tray cableTray-rated multi-conductor cable, TC and TC-ER
- Control cableMulti-conductor cable for motor control and plant interlocks
- Instrumentation cable300 V twisted pair and triad cable for process signals
- VFD cableShielded drive cable in short runs, off-cuts and full reels, bought across Tennessee.
- Feeder cableLarge feeder reels, 1/0 through 1,000 kcmil, bought where they sit in Tennessee.
- Crane and festoon cableCrane, festoon and reeling cable from 600 V to 1 kV, coiled or cut
Welding, portable and specialty
6 pages- Welding cableFine-stranded flexible cable for welding leads
- SOOW portable cordRubber-jacketed portable cord for plant floor use
- Solar PV cablePV wire, collector cable and project leftovers from Tennessee solar sites, bought on the reel.
- Data centre cableTray cable, MV feeder and bus left from Nashville and Memphis fit-outs.
- Aluminum wireAA-8000 building wire, aluminum SER and XHHW-2 in the larger sizes, bought in Tennessee.
- Bare copper wireBare and tinned copper for grounding and bonding
Situations and lot types
9 pages- Partial reelsHow remaining footage is established, and why a tag changes the number we offer.
- Cancelled project cableStaged reels from jobs that stopped, with the paperwork that came with them.
- Plant liquidation cableStorehouse and maintenance crib cable from a full plant closure, documented room by room.
- Demolition cableCable pulled during teardown, priced on how it came out
- Warehouse overstockExcess storehouse stock, dead part numbers and annual cleanup lots
- Contractor leftoversTrailer shelves, laydown yards and end-of-job cleanouts, sorted by family
- Wire cutoffsShort lengths from 25 to 500 feet, bought as pallet and bin lots
- Mixed pallet wireMixed pallets and lots, valued as a group before anything is separated
- Scrap insulated wireWhere surplus ends and scrap begins, decided on yield rather than hope
Questions about the cable list
Is there a minimum quantity for a wire type?
No minimum is set by type. A single reel can be reviewed, and a single coil can be reviewed, but the smaller the lot the more the identification matters. A tagged partial reel is a straightforward review; an untagged coil is not.
Do you buy mixed pallets of different cable types?
Yes, and they are valued as a group. A mixed pallet is worth less per foot than the same material separated, because the sorting has to happen somewhere. If the material can be separated by family and condition before the review, the offer usually improves.
What about cable that is already cut into short lengths?
Short lengths are bought when they are long enough to be useful on a job and identified well enough to trust. Bins of unsorted cut-offs are treated as recovery material rather than inventory.
Where do high voltage and utility cable pages live?
In the high voltage and utility index, which covers transmission conductor, substation material, voltage classes from 69 kV to 500 kV, and legacy cable such as PILC and HPFF.
Send us your reel list
Six details are enough for a first review: what the cable is, the metal, the size, the footage or reel count, the condition and where it sits. Photographs can follow by text or email. There is no fee and no obligation, and nothing moves until written terms are agreed.
Not sure which family your cable is?
Describe the jacket print or send a photograph of the tag. Identifying the family is the first step of the review.
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