Bexar County ยท JBSA-Randolph
We buy surplus wire at Randolph.
Randolph's technical buildings are brick and permanent, and they are full of control wiring, which makes the surplus there a controls lot rather than a demolition lot.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
Building typeBrick technical
Common lotControl and fire-rated
AccessGate pass, escort
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 · Randolph
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
JBSA-Randolph sits inside Universal City, and the buildings around the flightline are the kind the service built to last: brick technical structures with mechanical rooms, control rooms and cable vaults. Refits there are surgical. A control room gets new consoles, a mechanical room gets new starters, and the cable that comes out is multi-conductor, shielded and short.
Because the work is control-heavy, value sits in the details rather than the tonnage. A coil of 16 AWG shielded control cable weighs almost nothing and can still be worth buying if the jacket print is legible and the length is known, while feeder and fire-rated cable from the same job carry the weight. Mixed together, the whole pallet reads as scrap.
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Control and instrumentation from technical buildings
A technical building is full of small cable doing specific jobs. Temperature sensors, damper controls, status points, interlocks and alarm circuits all run on multi-conductor or multi-pair cable with shields and numbered conductors, and when a control room is reworked that cable is cut at both ends and coiled. What decides the price is the jacket print, the conductor count, the shield, and whether the coils are full lengths.
- Shielded control cable
- Instrument and thermocouple
- Fire alarm, FPLR and FPLP
- Two-hour rated CI cable
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Fire-rated work is constant on an occupied base
Life-safety systems get re-rated and extended far more often than they get replaced. A corridor reconfiguration, a new exit or an added sprinkler control panel each pulls fire-rated cable out of a ceiling and puts new cable back, and the removed cable is often still good and often still tagged with its rating. Two-hour cable with its mill tag reads as surplus; without the tag it reads as salvage.
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Feeder and flightline power
The flightline side of the base draws the heavier conductor: service and feeder for lighting, airfield support buildings and mechanical plant. Replacements there are infrequent but substantial, arriving as planned projects with engineered drawings rather than as tenant improvements, so expect a handful of reels or pulls rather than a pallet of partials. Send the pull lengths and the conductor sizes and the conversation moves quickly.
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Gate passes and Universal City logistics
Randolph is reached through Universal City streets and a controlled gate, so the last mile needs planning. Drivers are cleared ahead of the window, the vehicle is declared, and material is staged where a truck can stand without blocking a fire lane or a flightline access road, so tell us the door width and whether there are stairs if the cable sits in a vault. A reel that has to come up a stairwell is a different job.
- Door width
- Stair or ramp
- Staging point
| Family | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Control cable | 16 AWG to 10 AWG | Coiled, surplus |
| Instrument cable | 18 AWG to 16 AWG pairs | Coiled, surplus |
| Fire-rated and CI cable | 12 AWG to 10 AWG | Tagged, removed |
| Feeder and service cable | 1/0 to 500 kcmil | Reel, pulled |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Is a small coil of control cable worth a pickup?
On its own, rarely. Alongside feeder or fire-rated cable from the same job, yes, because it adds value to a truck already coming. Keep it labelled and coiled rather than loose, and it is priced as cable instead of scrap.
How do we identify control cable once the tag is gone?
Read the jacket print. Conductor count, gauge, shield type and voltage rating are usually printed along the length, and those four details are enough to price it. Photograph a clear stretch of jacket next to a tape measure.
Does fire-rated cable lose value if the tag is missing?
It does, because the rating becomes an assertion rather than a documented fact. Jacket print can still support it in some cases. Keep tags on the reels and store them out of the sun, and the tags survive.
Can you collect outside normal working hours?
The window is set by the base rather than by us, so we work to whatever access is approved. Tell us the earliest and latest the gate will accept a truck and the plan gets built around that.
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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