How to Scrap an Electric Motor for Copper and aluminum
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Clean copper and Cast Aluminum to make Money from Breaking down an Electric Motor, this motor is one i picked up and had been laying in a guys back yard for years, but still came apart fairly easy,
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I do like these how-to videos. Always pick up new ideas. Been scrapping motors for years. Always used a Sawzall or grinder to cut off the copper ends. Not anymore...the air chisel is brilliant!! Thanks and keep them coming!!
These motors are a lot harder than what it looks like. It can be done and you get a lot better each time you do one. If you have never done one it is easy to judge from the armchair. I highly recommend that you do one or two and then you will have a lot of respect for Okie. He is doing us a great service.
Thank you. some good copper in them, some good money makers
You probably have the most experience longest time scrapping of any scrapper that I’ve watched
It’s clear you know your way around a motor, what’s tin and what’s non ferrous, like the back of your hand!
Thank you, Josh, and thanks for watching
I’m just getting started with this now that copper is going way up.
Thanks for giving me the bug.
Glad to help and thanks for stopping by,
Does anybody know if copper will increase in price ? I’ve 2 ton of clean wire and don’t know to hold out and see if it’s goes up again 🤷♂️
Love your tips !! I'm scrapper also. Thanks 😊
Thank you Patricia Glad you found my channel i try to give tips and share what i know so others can make the best money possible on their scrap, and make it easy and safe, Thanks for the comment and for watching, Stay safe
That curved tip utility knife is used by roofers to trim the overhang on shingles.
Love the channel and have learned a lot from you. Thank You
I did a lot of roofing in the 70's and some in the 80's good money in it. they work good to cut in a valley too, Thanks for stopping by
Hey Okie, loved the video.
Nothing more satisfying than seeing all that lovely copper extract from a motor.
I had around 30 washing machine motors this month and took them in a motor weight wished I taken the time to process them now though.
Thanks, I find that most washing machine motors are aluminum wire, if you see some yellow stripes on the label on the motor then I Have found them to be copper about 3 lbs. Happy New Year
@@Okiescrapper thanks Brother will keep that in mind. Happy new year looking forward to watching more of you videos.
Easy way to clean up some copper. Like the way you did it.
Thanks 👍Yeah they go fast most of the time, get a hard one once in a while Thanks for watching
I'm not a scrapper, but I've done a fair bit of it. I enjoy your videos. I was born in OKC and live near Wichita, KS. Serviced wells down in Northern Oklahoma....take care, be safe!
Serviced wells in Blackwell. Wells from hell, lol.
I was born in Tacoma Washington, I moved to Oklahoma in 1980, cost of living is not to bad here,
@@Okiescrapper I was born in '86 👍
I like the whole screwdriver on the magnet deal great idea
Thank you, get the magnets at harbor freight. Thanks for stopping by
I picked up two good tips thanks. I'm going to watch a few more videos before I sub. So far I like what I see and hear
thanks 👍
glad I could help you; I show how I do it and others leave comments on how they do it and sometimes I will end up doing it their way, Thanks for stopping by
Mornin Okie I have a few things that I would like to see get tore apart
Electric can opener
Electric blender
Electric hand mixer
And a blow dryer
I've never had the opportunity to take any of these apart so am hoping you can show everyone how to do them
Thanks for all the great information and videos
I don't get much of that small stuff. but you never know I may pick some up at an auction. most of them would have 2 to 4 screws on them and a small motor in them. I will see if I can get some. thanks for stopping by
@@Okiescrapper thanks for your reply hope you can find some i think it would be a very interesting tear down thanks again
it is interesting to scrap stuff, I never did it on a big scale but from time to time I accumulated a little copper and aluminum,, steel price is 100.00 per ton here now.
yes it is, I love it when I find something that I haven't scrapped before, to see what is in it and how to get it apart, tin was 150.00 a ton a few weeks back down from $160.00, Thanks for watching
good job!
Thank you and thanks for stopping by stay safe
Love this stuff
Thank you
very nice go a head
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for stopping by
I have used a nice sharp air chisel to peel the aluminum ring and fins off the ends of the rotor. You can't get the alum on the inside, but most of it is at the fins anyway.
I never thought about doing it that way, I have been melting it off, I will have to try it your way, Thanks for watching
Just watched great channel u have found u off fb loving it
a little late on the reply but want to say Thanks Dylan. E-waste is something i need to learn more about, i don't get much of it try to hang on to it when i do, Happy Thanksgiving
Did you ever try the chisel on the the opposite side that’s cut off? It would probably pull out the windings out for you. If not fence pliers work well.
I have modified a chisel for the air chisel cut a v out of the tip. so it looks like a Y, I put the pointed tip into the wire and the air chisel pushes it right out, a little slow on big one's but very fast on smaller ones
Thanks i have about 30 key cutters for scap and was wondering if it was worth it to break the down ,so by watching your video I think so
glad to help there should be a motor in each one and the copper power cord,
I do the AC motors with a thin grinding wheel on my 4 inch grinder. Then I use a vice to pry up the windings and pull out. wonder if it would come out easier if I burnt it first?.
it may come out easier but the yard may not take burnt copper, check out some of my newer videos on motors or compressors I took a flat air chisel and cut a v out of the end and use the air chisel to get the copper out now, fast and easy
That's a low rate per hr given the low price of insulated copper scrap. Worth it?
Actually you answered the question toward the end of the video.
Are there magnets in there?
no not in this kind of motor, this has the stater with copper, and tht solid metal center core with aluminum fin's on it, Thanks for watching Jack
Okie.....do they take the rest of the core without removing the plastic insulators.
yes I put the steel in with my short iron
I like how you give it hell until its done right
yeah I kind of got to where I hurry trying to keep the video short
not sure if you will see this older stuff but i did some research and my question before could you smelt away the aluminum and just leave copper and other metals oil burners dont usually get to 2k unless you do some extraordinary stuff to get it that hot so it shouldnt melt copper but always a but the plastic not sure if it will burn completely off leaving what yer after clean plus some motors that are part alum/copper if you melted alum out making copper easier to pull out just a thought in yer burn pot if you could make a couple steel baskets to keep the crap out of molds better so you could sell ingots after only one happy scrappin
may try it in the future, it can't hurt to try with a small motor, wont loos much, what I may try is a copper aluminum coil from an air conditioner, melt away the aluminum fins and have clean copper tubing. Thanks for watching
I'm watching now and it's one year later and scrap is up in MD
yes scrap is doing real good compared to last year at this time, hopefully it will stay up. scrappers need to make a living too.
what many people wont tell you when stripping motors is the easiest way to remove the copper from the buns is cut one side and burn the bun. then the copper literally pulls out with no effort. many buns same method far quicker. its the easiest method for stripping copper from electric motors. chuck em on a fire.
yeah that will get them done fast and easy, so long as your scrap yard has no problem with burnt wire, Thanks for watching John
Burning wire is illegal (environmental hazard) in some places. And many places where it is legal won't take burnt wire. Not worth their time.
I use a 4kg devil forge to melt my aluminum into bars
i made a waste oil burner and have melted about 5 lbs so far, it was fun
@@Okiescrapper thats awsome i like making my own bars
I have a electric motor like the you tore down. I tore mine down to get the shaft out of the armature to be used for something else. if you wanted to keep the shaft how would get the armature off without damaging the shaft?
that is a good question, I may have to look into that. you may be able to cut it with an angle grinder into 1/3 rds. and get close to the shaft and then use a hacksaw to carefully cut it the rest of the way. or you may be able to use a hydraulic press to press the shaft out
I have always used a press. You will need a lot of pressure to take that shaft out.
How can you tell if a metal is tin?
a magnet will stick to tin, and tin is thin metal. Iron is thicker and will stick to a magnet.
I keep hearing you say you put an ad out for scrap what do you say in your ad? I live in Pennsylvania but I have never seen an ad for scrap. It might make easier to come by.
this is my add - - - Wanted, Appliances, AC units, Mowers, Hot Water Tanks,
Farm Implements, Computers, almost any Metal Scrap
will haul it away for free - - - then add the phone #
@@Okiescrapper Hey, you deedn't bring yer truck widjadidja?"
Why let it sit outside for so long?
only one of me and I get very busy in the summer, no time to break stuff down
I Always enjoy your video's. I bet it doesn't take you long to scrap those motors if you are not doing a video about it.
yea doing the video does slow me down a little, setting up takes the most time and making sure i have all the tools i need handy, always forget something. lol . i enjoy it Happy Thanksgiving
I have two 52' refer trailers full of starters, alternators, motors, and battery cables. Mostly were for semi trucks. Then there is over 200 single phase and 3 phase motors sitting underneath them trailers. I own and operate a trucking company and a small communication tower contractor and its all we do is install and decom for Verizon and they let me keep all the 1⅝" coaxial cable and hybrid lines that we decommission. I have thousands of lbs of it just sitting there. I am planning on starting with the scrapping this weekend. Im giving my employees a good Christmas 🎁 this year. Or bonus. I estimate over $150,000 worth. Thats not it either. In my other compound I have tons more.
That sounds like a nice stock pile, you got some work ahead of you, let me know how it goes. Just living the life
@@Okiescrapper I will let you know. Thanks for the video.
Did you ever get all of that scrapped?
hmmm. . . 20 min per motor @ $4 is about $12 an Hr. Not bad for doing something you enjoy doing.
Yeah I get paid more at work but I would rather be at Home Scrapping. Hope to retire in about 2 years and then I can. Just need to pay off my truck, tractor, and land. I can taste it now... Thanks for watching
Here in the state of Maryland ,you don't need a scrapper license also it's all tax free ,if you have steady suppliers you can't make good money .
Pretty good video overall. But it could of easily been a 10 min view with editing. Viewers don't like long drawn out videos.
some of my viewers want me to make hour long videos,
Naa you need to use a cutting wheel takes 5 minutes air chisel takes to long if you have a bunch of them
yeah the angle grinder with cutting wheel is faster, need a mask on so you don't breath the dust, I would like to try a shop vac and see if it would catch some of the copper dust. Thanks for watching
Is there any any one tell me the name of that gun which is used for cutting the coper wire
the craftsman air chisel or air hammer,
@@Okiescrapper thx buddy
Here its 9 bucks pr3 pounds or 1kilo
about $3.00 a lb, I have not checked prices, just checked wichitamaterialrecovery.com/scrap-metal-we-buy-wichita.htm they are at $3.30 a lb.
He does realize that "tin" is not steel, right? He seems to say "tin" in many of his videos, to describe metal that is clearly steel. Not that it really matters, but the two definitely do not pay the same in this neck of the woods.
the yard that I use it's all tin, I could get short iron or prepared steel if I took it to another yard, but when that yard is paying $70.00 a ton for tin and possibly $80.00 for prepared steel and I am getting $125.00 a ton for tin, well then I think that I will call it tin. but I should classify it right for the guys that may get a good price on short iron, or prepared steel. I will try to keep that in mind. Thanks for watching Alan
That's cuz steal is a bad word where we come from
Wouldn't want to say I have a bunch of steal and you get TBE wrong idea now
Another butchered motor video
but you gotta love the copper