Wire Types ยท THHN / THWN-2
We buy THHN and THWN wire.
A part reel of 12 AWG solid and three hand coils of 4/0 with no tag is what most THHN calls sound like. We buy both, and each one is priced on what the jacket can prove.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
Voltage class600 V, THHN / THWN-2
Sizes we buy14 AWG to 1000 kcmil
Typical lotPart reels and hand coils
Footage checkTag, then a weighed sample
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
Reel list · THHN / THWN
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
THHN is the wire that lives inside conduit, and this city runs a great deal of conduit. Office refits in Stone Oak, tenant work downtown and plant jobs along the tier-one belt all pull it by the reel. Being stocked in every gauge is also why it is over-ordered by a hundred feet.
What stays behind is one of four things: a full reel bought for a pull that was re-engineered, a part reel with a footage note on the flange, coils pulled out during a demolition, and dead stock in colours nobody specifies. Send the tag and a photograph of the reel face.
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Where nylon-jacketed wire turns up here
THHN shows up in every kind of building San Antonio puts up. It runs branch circuits through EMT in an office fit-out, feeds a subpanel from a main switchboard on the Southside, and drops to machinery in the plants along the supplier belt. Hospital work uses it in wireways where the conduit is already in the wall.
- Branch circuit pulls in office, retail and clinic fit-outs
- Subpanel and equipment feeders run inside conduit
- Machine drops and motor leads in plant gutters
- Rewires where the existing conduit is reused
- Colour-coded circuits for a panel schedule change
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What is left on the rack at closeout
Closeout is where most building wire lots come from: a contractor orders for a pull, the engineer changes the pull, and the reel goes back on the shelf with two hundred feet missing. Nine months later the shelf is being cleared and nobody remembers what the reel was for. That is a normal lot, provided the tag survived.
The other shape is the demolition shape: conductor pulled out of conduit and coiled by hand. It is worth close to new only if it came out straight.
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Gauge, strand and print decide the number
Size comes first, and strand comes with it. Solid 12 and 10 are branch-circuit wire and travel as coils; stranded 8 and larger is feeder wire and travels as reels. The print matters more than sellers expect, because THHN, THWN-2, 600 V, the AWG and the footage all have to be legible before it reads as surplus.
Colour is a small factor. Black, white and green move; a pallet of orange and purple is slower but still bought. Cuts under fifty feet are the weak end.
- Gauge, and whether it is solid or stranded
- Print legible for type, voltage and size
- Jacket intact, with no chalk or hard kinks
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How footage gets checked on a part reel
The tag is the first answer, and usually right. Where it is gone, we look for a counter mark, a note on the flange, or the mill print near the exposed end. After that we weigh a sample length against the published conductor weight per thousand feet and reconcile the three readings.
None of it requires the reel to move. Photographs of the tag, the flange and the conductor end are enough to quote from, and the dock scale confirms it.
| Conductor | Size range | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Solid copper, 12 and 10 | Branch circuit | Coil, part coil, loose |
| Stranded copper | 8 AWG to 500 kcmil | Full reel, part reel |
| Large feeder conductor | 600 to 1000 kcmil | Tagged reel, long cut |
| Pulled conductor | Any size above 50 ft | Straight, dry, clean ends |
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 opened coils of 12 AWG?
Yes. An opened coil is the normal case, not the exception. We need the gauge, an honest footage estimate and a look at the jacket print. Coils rewound neatly read better than a tangle in a bucket, but both get looked at.
The print on the jacket has faded. Does that still work?
Depends how much is gone. If the type, voltage and size are readable somewhere on the run, the reel can be verified. Where the print has chalked off completely, the lot has to be identified another way and is valued lower.
How do I work out what is left on a part reel?
Read the tag for footage at manufacture, then measure the coil diameter against the flange. With no tag, weigh the reel, subtract the empty reel, and compare the remainder with conductor weight per thousand feet for that size.
Will you take a pallet of mixed sizes and colours?
We will, and we would rather see it than have you sort it first. Mixed pallets are valued as one lot, which means a modest allowance for sorting.
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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