We chatted about the chopped vs. unchopped here before. I was the only one who said I was getting more for chopped. Where were you then MitsTech?? I was all alone and all the New Englanders were ganging up and making me feel stupid. I actually called my scrap guy to make sure I wasn't wrong...
Anyhow, someone said something about too much surface area on the chopped wire and it was leading to much vaporization loss when remelting. I have a hard time visualizing that extra surface playing that big of a roll. Maybe if you tried to melt one tiny piece at a time, but I would think they'd dump it all in at once and would then be essentially remelting a huge solid chunk of brass... Ehhhh, what do I know???
