Can vinegar help upgrade your copper tubing from #2 to #1 copper price?
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Hello scrappers and planet lovers. In this video, I do an experiment to see if soaking your copper tubing in vinegar can help upgrade it to the #1 copper price. I will tackle a few heavy discolored pieces to see how well the vinegar can clean the pipe.
Here is the link to cleaning copper wire:
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Awesome video TinManScrapper I do the same some times I use Bar Keepers Friend and a wet rag and hand clean dirty copper and brass while watching videos from the scrapping community Cheers! ♻😎👍
Your gonna have them tweakers going crazy 😂😂😂
If they tell you it is #2 - Tell them you'll hold on to it to take to a different yard! That should put an end to them games.
great video, if it works and is cheap to do, that is great, you could have another tub with a water and baking soda salutation in it for a rinse, if you are doing a lot of pipe
Yup, true. Thanks for the comment and happy scrapping
Another good idea is to soak copper in Coca Cola aka Coke... When i was a kid my grandparents would give me Australian pennies which are copper (I live in Australia) and they were very tarnished so they would drop them in a glass of coke (coca cola) and they would clean up VERY VERY well in a very short period of time. the results were simply astonishing, and i stand by this method to this day. Please note that I am not trying to diminish what Tin Man is saying, as his method of using vinegar is also a great way of cleaning copper, I am purely offering my own 2 cents as a possible alternative, if it is easier/cheaper/more readily available to buy Coca Cola instead. Great video by the way Mr. Tin Man, love your videos!!!
Yup. I always laugh at that one because if it does that to Pennie’s, imagine what it does to our bodies.
@@TinManScrapper Touche! Same here :) scary thought to be honest.
I’ve had scrap yards say that they are too tarnished as well. This is the scrap yard that I have come to for a year now and had a great relationship with. Recently I’ve been going to a different yard. (Stuff I normally bring in)
Old yard prices
#1 copper $2.20
#2 copper $2.00
#1 insulated $0.70
#2 insulated $0.20
Electric motors $0.12
NEW YARD PRICES
#1 copper 3.17!!!
#2 copper $3.07!!
#1 ins. $1.87
#2 ins $0.80
Electric motors $0.22
Crazy the difference In prices . Check with different yards folks you may be missing out on lots of money
Yup, I too have 2 yards in close proximity, but pay significantly different in price for goods! Thanks for the comment.
Hi Tinman, good idea. I am gonna use it also in the functioning pipes in my house that became black as well. Question: how do you apply the baking soda?
Just sprinkle it on.
@@TinManScrapper Thanks!
Can I use sandpaper to remove the tarnish to upgrade?
Hi again. Did you ever used these pipecutters with two rollers and a cutting wheel?
They are actually very handy, don't make a mess and you don't need electricity.
No, but sounds like a great tool
I do the same but use a brillo pad after soaking to shine it up
Good tip. Thanks
I use sulphuric acid out of batteries. Works great!
Tarnish pipe is number 1 pipe from my yards I. P.E.I. cnanada
Nice, what is the price they are paying out there for #1 copper right now?
Yea some yards... i think tell them off.
If theres no tin on pipes then it should be number 1, if they dont have a seperate price for tubing. Bring them just your nasty number 2, tin-covered dripping solder-joint ones.
Now dissolving the tin from elbows and joints, to get number 1. That would be useful. Cleanin a 5 gal bucket of them would be a nice boost in price.
How long do you leave the pipes in there?
I just soak for a few hours. I have just left them in overnight before. I do also kind of rotate them as well, just to make sure they are all being soaked.
I live in New Orleans and after a hurricane you should see the scrap yards it’s insane
Most scrap yards in America screw you on that
I find that when it comes to circuit boards. One week they give $0.70lb for hard drives and then a few weeks later $0.40lb and then say “we have always given $0.40! Showing them my last two receipts I said “well getting $0.70lb two times in a row is not an accident.
I think its called a patina
Brake cleaner, works best.
You guys are getting ripped off if you're getting no 2
Just came across this video. Same sort of process but 100x quicker if you heat the copper first ua-cam.com/video/v6mlL4FCXk0/v-deo.html
interesting. Thanks for the info
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