San Antonio & South-Central Texas
We buy surplus electrical wire in San Antonio.
We buy surplus electrical wire and cable from the people who end up holding it: contractors with leftover reels, facilities engineers clearing a renovation, utilities with retired conductor, demolition crews and warehouses full of stock nobody ordered.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
Buying, not selling
The material you already own has a second buyer.
This is a buying desk, not a supply house. Nothing on this site is for sale. You send what you have, a buyer reads it against footage, construction and condition, and comes back with what the lot is worth and how it would be collected.
The material is ordinary: THHN on a half-used reel, SER left over from a service change, 15 kV feeder pulled out of a switchgear replacement, ACSR off a retired line. What makes it worth a call is that it is already bought, already on your floor, and taking up space you could use.
CoverageBexar + 7 counties
Voltage range600 V to 345 kV
Lot sizeOne reel to a truckload
Cost to submitNothing
Get a buy quote
Send the reel list. A buyer reads it.
Six details are enough to start. Tags and photos can follow by text or email once a buyer has looked at the basics.
- A buyer reviews the lot: construction, footage and condition, not only metal weight
- Copper and aluminium, 600 V building wire through 345 kV cable
- Full reels, partial reels, cut lengths, pallets and truckloads
- No fee, no obligation, and no automatic pickup
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Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
What we buy
By family, because each one is priced on different facts.
A reel of 4/0 feeder and a coil of 12 AWG branch wire are not the same asset. The index below routes you to the page that explains how your material is reviewed.
Building wire
Service and underground
Industrial and control
Safety and grounding
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Why a buying desk instead of a scrap yard
A scrap yard prices metal. That works for bare copper and burned cable, and it is the wrong price for a tagged reel of 4/0 XHHW that has never been unrolled. The difference between the two is not sentiment, it is documentation: what the tag says, what the jacket is rated for, and whether the footage is known.
We price both. A clean, tagged surplus reel is bought as material. A weathered coil at the bottom of a dumpster is bought as scrap, honestly, and we will say so rather than inflate a number to win a phone call.
- Tagged surplus and overstock: priced on construction and footage
- Removed cable: priced on condition, documentation and metal
- Partial reels: priced on what is actually left, not what the tag says
- Clean scrap and mixed loads: still bought, priced as scrap
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What a buyer actually looks at
Five things decide a lot, and four of them are on the reel tag. Conductor size and material. Insulation and voltage class. Footage remaining against footage at manufacture. The condition of the jacket and the reel. Then the practical question: can it be loaded, and by what.
Photographs answer most of it faster than a description. One of the tag, one of the reel face, one of the print on the jacket, one of the cut end, one of the whole stack.
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Where the cable in this market comes from
San Antonio is not a petrochemical town. The surplus here comes from military construction and facility work at Joint Base San Antonio, hospital and clinic refits in the Medical Center, aerospace hangars and rail at Port San Antonio, the Toyota assembly plant and the tier-one suppliers strung between the south side, Schertz, Cibolo and Seguin, and a residential building boom that keeps moving north and east along the I-35 corridor.
Each of those produces a different kind of lot. Base work produces documented, tagged material. Hospital work produces generator and fire-rated cable. Supplier plants produce tray, welding and VFD cable when a model changes. Residential and light commercial work produces partial reels, SER and Romex.
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What happens after you send the list
A buyer reads it. If the lot is clear, you get a number and a pickup plan. If it is not clear, you get questions: what does the tag say, how many reels, is there a forklift, can a trailer get in. Photographs usually end the questions.
Nothing moves until written lot terms are agreed. There is no fee to submit, no obligation to accept, and no visit that turns into a surprise.
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Do you buy from individuals, or only companies?
Both. A contractor with six leftover reels and a homeowner with a coil from a service upgrade are the same conversation. Larger lots from facilities, utilities and warehouses get a site visit; small lots can usually be handled by photographs and a drop-off.
Is there a minimum quantity?
No hard minimum, but the economics change with size. A single partial reel is worth a conversation if it is heavy conductor; a single coil of 12 AWG is usually not worth the fuel. Send it anyway and a buyer will tell you honestly.
How is the price worked out if the footage is unknown?
We weigh the reel, subtract the reel and subtract the conductor weight per thousand feet for that size and construction. That gives an estimate with a margin on it. If the tag survives, the tag wins, because it is exact.
Do you buy cable that has been in a fire or under water?
Usually as scrap, and sometimes not at all. Fire-damaged insulation and cable that has sat in flood water are graded down hard because the jacket can no longer be trusted. Photographs and an honest description get you a real answer instead of a wasted trip.
Will you come out to look before quoting?
For larger lots, yes. A site visit settles footage, access and loading in one go. For smaller lots we usually quote from photographs, and adjust after weighing if the difference is material.
Do you handle the freight?
We arrange and pay for collection on agreed lots, using our own truck or a carrier depending on size. If you would rather deliver, that is fine and it usually improves the number.
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No fee · no obligation
You have the cable. We have a scale and a check.
Send the reel list, the tags or a photograph of the pallet. A buyer comes back with what the lot is worth and how pickup would work, before anything is moved.
954-740-1983 Call or text
- Reel tags, or the print on the jacket
- Reel count and footage, even roughly
- Where it sits and what can reach it
- Whether the cable is still energised