Component Video & RGB OSSC VS FRAMEMEISTER Comparison

[SamIAm]

One time, my dad was doing a deep clean of his house and very briefly set a PC monitor on his front porch. Someone hacked the VGA cable off of it, which was built in at the monitor-end. A good VGA cable has shielding and all that jazz, so it must be at least a little valuable...but on the other hand, I can't imagine someone investing the time to make something out of the cable as part of a business model.

With power cords, there is probably ten or twenty cents worth of copper in the lines.

[turboswimbz]

With power cords, there is probably ten or twenty cents worth of copper in the lines.

About 5 - 8 years ago if you lived in the northeast USA that price was almost tripled that.  The guys here would steal bits from everything, break into houses for the lines, and strip every bit from demolitions.  If they could get a 30 gallon garbage can filled they were selling it  for multiple hundreds of dollars at a time.

[GoldenWheels]

Yeah I'm in CT and in some of our, er, more urban zones it is still fairly common for abandoned warehouses to get broken into and the copper pipes/wiring stolen.

[Arkhan]

With power cords, there is probably ten or twenty cents worth of copper in the lines.

About 5 - 8 years ago if you lived in the northeast USA that price was almost tripled that.  The guys here would still bits from everything, break into houses for the lines, and strip every bit from demolitions.  If they could get a 30 gallon garbage can filled they were selling it  for multiple hundreds of dollars at a time.

Yeah, lol houses around here in the jankier areas had the aluminum siding ripped off, and inside, people ripped the copper pipes out of the walls.

Like someone who was on vacation came home to a house with no pipes.

[xelement5x]

Yeah thankfully commodities prices have come down a bit so there is less blatant theft.  City had an issue with people opening the bottoms of light posts and pulling out the wiring here for a bit.  I've got a ton of old cords and it looks like a lot of places will give you a flat rate (by pound) for unstripped cords even.