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We buy surplus cable in the San Antonio Medical Center.
Hospital refits in the Medical Center leave the most paperwork-heavy cable in the city: generator feeder, fire-rated branch circuits and critical-branch conductor that has to be documented before anyone will touch it.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
What we see mostGenerator and fire-rated
Typical lotPallet to one truck
AccessDock or freight lift
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 · Medical Center
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The South Texas Medical Center is a dense grid of hospital towers, clinics, research buildings and parking structures between Babcock Road, Floyd Curl and Wurzbach. Buildings here are rarely empty. Work happens floor by floor and wing by wing with the rest of the campus running, which is why so much of the cable that comes out is removed intact rather than cut up: crews pull it to a service corridor, tag it, and leave it for someone to deal with.
That leftover is the lot we buy. Generator feeder from a central plant upgrade, fire-rated cable from a corridor re-rating, tray cable from an imaging suite refit, and the pallet of half-used reels the electrical contractor never reconciled at closeout. Send the tags and a photograph of the reel faces, and a buyer will tell you what the lot is worth exactly as it sits.
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What actually comes out of a Medical Center refit
Healthcare construction runs on enabling work. A new imaging suite needs temporary power before the old room is touched, so a temporary feeder goes in and comes back out three months later. A central plant upgrade replaces the feeder between the generator yard and the switchgear, and the old runs are pulled to the dock because nobody wants them in the way of the next phase.
The result is a lot that looks like several lots: new reels bought for a scope that changed, removed cable with a service history, and short cut lengths that were never worth returning to the supplier.
- Generator, transfer-switch and critical-branch feeder
- Fire-rated and circuit-integrity cable from corridor and riser work
- Tray cable and MC from imaging, lab and procedure suite fit-outs
- Service entrance cable from building re-feeds and switchgear swaps
- Isolated-power and equipment grounding conductor
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Documentation is worth money here
Hospital work is submittal-heavy, and that helps a seller. Reels bought against a reviewed submittal usually still carry the mill tag, the footage at manufacture and the UL listing printed on the jacket. A tagged reel of two-hour rated cable reads as surplus and gets valued as surplus. The same cable with the tag lost in a dumpster reads as salvage.
Photograph the tag before the reel leaves the floor. Keep the de-energisation and removal record with it. Do not photograph patient areas, whiteboards or screens: we only need the cable, the tag and the reel face.
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Docks, lifts and the logistics of a working hospital
Space is the binding constraint. Loading docks are shared with sterile supply and food service, freight lifts have weight limits, and a 53-foot trailer will not fit a parking structure. We plan around that: a box truck instead of a trailer, a curb-side pick at an agreed hour, or a staged pull to a laydown area on the perimeter of the campus.
Tell us the reel diameters, the total weight if you know it, and the height of the dock or the door. That is enough to send the right truck the first time instead of the second.
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How a Medical Center lot gets valued
We price what the cable is, not only what the copper in it weighs. Footage remaining against footage at manufacture, conductor size and strand, insulation type and voltage class, whether the jacket is intact, and whether the reel is sound enough to travel. A tagged, dry, undamaged reel of feeder is a different asset from the same footage coiled on a broken reel in the rain.
Nothing is bought, moved or scheduled until written lot terms are agreed. Sending a reel list costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
| Family | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Generator and emergency feeder | 1/0 to 750 kcmil | New surplus, removed, partial |
| Fire-rated and CI cable | 12 AWG to 10 AWG, 2-4 conductor | Tagged surplus, removed |
| Tray cable (TC / TC-ER) | 14 AWG to 500 kcmil | Reel, cut length, pulled |
| MC and HCF armour | 12/2 to 4/0 multi-conductor | Full reel, partial reel |
| Grounding and bonding | 6 AWG to 500 kcmil bare | Surplus, removed, clean |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Can you collect from a hospital loading dock?
Yes, with a booked window. Medical Center docks are shared with clinical deliveries, so we schedule around them, often early morning or after the last delivery. Tell us the dock height, the lift capacity and whether a trailer can reach it.
The reels were bought for a cancelled scope. Do you still want them?
That is the best case. Unopened, tagged reels from a cancelled scope are bought on the tag rather than the scale, because the footage is known and the jacket has never been pulled. Send the tag photos and the count.
Do you need the cable de-energised before you look at it?
Before we handle it, yes. Removed cable should be de-energised, discharged and tagged by your crew. We will look at photographs and tags at any stage, but nothing is moved until your electrician signs off that it is dead.
What if the cable is mixed with other demolition debris?
We will still review it, but the value drops because the lot has to be sorted. If the cable can be separated onto one pallet or one laydown area before pickup, the quote usually improves noticeably.
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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