Wire Types ยท Welding Cable
We buy welding cable.
Welding lead is judged by its jacket before anybody looks at the gauge. A cracked lead is a copper lot; a clean one is still cable somebody can put back to work.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
Voltage class600 V
Sizes1/0 to 4/0, 6 to 2
StrandingRope lay, fine strand
Weakest lotCracked or oil-soaked
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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 · Welding Cable
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Welding cable is a single, very flexible conductor, usually 1/0 to 4/0 in shop sizes, rated 600 V, with a rope-lay stranding that lets it bend around a jig without work-hardening. Neoprene or EPDM jackets take the oil, the sparks and the dragging across a concrete floor.
Fabrication shops, trailer repair yards, ironworkers and the tier-one plants in Seguin and Schertz all go through it. What reaches us is usually a coiled lead from a machine that was replaced, plus the offcuts from a lead shortened after a repair.
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Where welding cable gets used up
Anywhere there is a stinger, there is lead. Structural shops on the Southside, rail and trailer work near the yards, maintenance bays in the plants, and the small outfits that fabricate on site. It also serves as a flexible power lead on portable equipment, which is where the runs get long and the jackets get punished.
- Machine and ground leads in fab shops
- Portable stinger cable on site work
- Maintenance bay leads in plants
- Flexible power leads on portable equipment
- Trailer and rail repair yards
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Stranding is the point of the product
Welding cable is fine-stranded rope lay, and that is what makes it worth more by weight than a building wire of the same gauge. Strand count also tells you what you are looking at. A cable with coarse stranding and a stiff jacket is not welding lead, it is somebody's flexible cord, and it is priced differently.
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The lengths worth selling
A twelve-foot stinger lead is a real item to a small shop, so short welding cable is not automatically scrap. Thirty feet and up is where it reads as cable to most buyers. Below ten feet, with lugs on both ends, it is copper.
- Coiled leads from a replaced machine
- Offcuts from a shortened lead
- Ground leads with the clamp still fitted
- Full coils from a closed shop
- Lugged stubs under ten feet
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Oil, cracks and forklift damage
Oil softens a jacket and then the jacket swells, and a swollen jacket will not pass through a strain relief. Cracks at the bend behind the lug are the other common failure, usually where water has been sitting. Either one turns the piece into copper rather than cable, which is a smaller number and an honest one.
A lead run over by a forklift usually fails inside, where the strands are broken and the jacket has closed over them. Flexing the cable shows a soft spot, and a soft spot is what a buyer checks first.
| Product | Range | Condition we take |
|---|---|---|
| Welding lead, 4/0 | 600 V, fine strand | Coil, lugged ends |
| Welding lead, 2/0 and 1/0 | 600 V, fine strand | Coil, long cut |
| Small welding cable | 6 to 2 AWG | Coil, bundle |
| Ground lead with clamp | 1/0 to 4/0 | Complete assembly |
| Oil-soaked or cracked | Any size | Priced on copper |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Is used welding cable worth buying?
Yes, and it is one of the few families where used material has a genuine second life. A clean lead with a sound jacket can go back to work, so it is priced above scrap. Condition of the jacket decides almost all of that.
Do lugs and clamps add value?
They add weight, and sometimes they add use. A lead with a moulded lug and a sound jacket is more useful than a bare end. A corroded clamp is just brass in the box, so keep loose fittings separate.
How do you verify footage on a coil of lead?
By weight against the published copper figure for that gauge, plus a tape on the coil diameter. Welding cable carries no footage print, so the scale is the primary check and the tape is the confirmation.
Will you take a lead that has been in the weather for a year?
We will look at it. Sun and rain chalk the jacket and can crack it at the bends, but the copper underneath is unaffected. A weathered lead is priced as cable when the jacket is sound and as copper when it is not.
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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.
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- 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