If you don't mind going to the extra trouble, buy yourself a lead ingot mould for bullet casters (they usually have 4 or 6 cavities that, when filled with lead, give you however many cavities worth of 1 pound ingots! Just melt the copper, which also gets rid of the coating if there is any, and pour into the ingot moulds and then you have it all in ingots, without the fancy stamps! I don't know how much weight they are when filled, but the ingots are MUCH easier to store than all that miscellaneous wire! I have a propane forge that was easily built for next to nothing, that gets plenty hot enough to melt copper and brass that I use to melt them into ingots of varying sizes! Easy and a lot less mess than a lot of wire all over the place! Melt it into ingots and forget all that messy wire! Good video and thanks for posting! I hope that the ingot idea is helpful to you and your viewers! Best wishes!
Kim Curtis I like the ingot thing as well. but when it comes to selling a lot of scrap yards won't accept it. they are worried lead or something is inside. even when you say cut them open. some yard supposedly take them but I hadn't found any. if you wish to sell only on eBay that's fine.
As a responsible recycler, i do all that to the TV. But i dont want the plastic, which is usually a #5 plastic, its marked on the inside, i put that in the plastic bin. There are magnets inside that copper wire you banged up & it can go in the metal bucket & if you are more careful, the plastic that holds the copper can be recycled. Sometimes the frame is stainless steel or aluminun. That's the $ byproduct of getting the copper out.
yeah, the transformers are really great to hold onto, you can stick in some thicker cable where the thin one was, and then BAM, you got yourself a metal melter.
Other than copper most of the ones I have scrapped have a couple of control switches which are used in most power tools for the trigger. If you have a dab hand at soldering you could also relieve the circuit board of it's switching transistors and other useful components such as zener diodes. If you like Amateur Radio and experimentation, you could use a couple of magnetrons and build a line of sight transmitter and reciever, I've seen it done with modulated CW. Amazing stuff. If you are a newbie however I wouldn't condone you playing with the magnetrons they can be very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.
Great idea man. Also i found a quick way to collect the components off the circuit board if youre interested. I basicly just filed down the bottom side of the circuit board with the wheel grinder and plucked off the components :)
after watching you video it inspired me to find some crt tvs. stoped at a local hotel where they are doing a remodel and picked up 100 crt tvs. thanks keep the videos coming
great vid bud, i value stuff at its high price cause thats when i'll cash it in so when people say its not worth scrappin i just say yeah but its worth stock piling. keep at er, cheers.
I have been checking online for years about these home forged copper ingots, and indeed started making my own, he going rate is 6 times the scrap value. So in the UK the current rate ( October 22) is £6.00per kilo, so yeah a i kg ingot is upwards of - £ 36.00 and they do sell, especially if you stamp them up and polish them Brass is the same idea, worth slightly less though, however a polished brass bar is beautiful once its lacquered. I use 2 bench sanders to square mine up and a bench grinder to the primary polish, then finish with the hand grinder and then polishing buff.
when i was helping with construction cleanup via labour works, i always picked up and kept copper wire that was lying around. gathered roughly 3-4kg of copper wire.
Be careful with those old TV circuit boards. The capacitors used in those could still be holding a deadly charge in them. Short them out using a rubber handled screwdriver to discharge them.
JayJay..really? Then tell me why a capacitor in a TV I took apart recently had a couple hundred volts in it. And it had been unplugged for about a week. I ALLWAYS discharge all big caps on everything before handling the boards. Usually they are fine, but every once in a while I find one that would have hurt.
I "fealt" it with a meter. It made a rather large 'snap' when I discharged it with a pair of screwdrivers. And where on earth did you read that caps have discharge resistors in them? Maybe some types do? I've never heard of that, and I've been working with electronics for many years now. Did you, perhaps, make all that up to sound smart?
jayJay, sure dude...that's funny, I was thinking of saying the same to you, but I didn't want to come off as being a jerk. I've been building circuits with capacitors for over 30 years. There are many types of capacitors, and sure most don't hold a charge for long, but some can. There are also several ways caps are used. A lot of times the supporting circuitry will drain the charge when power is removed, but other times, not so much. I don't understand why any one would argue against what another personally has experienced many times. I'm telling from personal experience that I have found caps still charged after several days. Instead of arguing with me, do yourself a favor, and do a simple google search of the subject, so the next time you list a comment, you won't sound like an ignorant jerk.
Buy the way, there is a video of a guy who replaced his car battery with a bank of six capacitors. He let it sit for three days, and it still started his car perfectly fine. In fact, after three days, it lost less than three volts. So if you start off with an old ac appliance, with a cap charged to 110v, after a week.......it could still hurt. I'm not making this stuff up. But if you don't believe me, go ahead and keep grabbing caps without checking them first. You'll learn sooner or later.
Hey Ben, new sub in 🇬🇧 here, nice video very informative and shows just how quickly you can extract the copper from a CRT TV. When I 1st started scrapping I used to get a lot of CRT TV’s but recently if I see them I have just been leaving them. I find it a huge hassle here in 🇬🇧 disposing of the TV’s carcass. If I had the space I’d store the glass, plastic and circuit boards until I had enough to be able to sell them back to their respective recycling plants but I only have a small lock up garage.
There's a guy near me who pulls up on his bike and kicks in the back of dumped tv's. He then smashes the crt, strips the copper parts and just rides off. Don't be that guy please, it's scummy as fuck.
Usually meth-heads. They also rip the motors out of fridges (illegally venting the gas), from dryers/washing machines and just tip them over. Often seen with a beat up ute.
i realize this is about a year old but if you want to find more copper faster try finding old microwaves! sure people would give you 5$ to take them away! they've got a bunch of copper in the transformers :) and you can make some neat things with them! just about anything that has a transformer in it as well has a load more copper than you'll get out of speakers. any wall adapter for most electronics is just a solid transformer!
microwaves , the transformers in them , some are in 2 parts 1 alloy wind the other is copper winding ,odd ones are both copper winds but not all of them
Absolutely cool video. Super impressed with your scrapping venture. I go scrapping on a bike, yes a bicycle. And, I think you'd be v. surprised at the quantities of copper cable that I can accumulate. And it's all free. I strip the plugs as well and here in Ireland the plug pins are the really big chunky ones, so there's value there as well. And yeah, seriously impressed with your scrapping venture there. Liked and subbed.
honestly really wanting to get into this but I live in London and can't really go far since my bike is to say the least a bit old . However it was wondering is there anything is should look out for to get quite a bit of copper so I can sell it . Really just seeing if getting copper is something that I can do to help me save up so I can get a new pc
Hey eWaste Ben, just wanted to say that in my area, as well as many others, it is illegal for people to put whole tvs or the crt picture tubes in the trash. I spoke with a local trash collector and he informed me that it's a $250 fine each for me and him both if he takes one that I have out for trash. I know it's different for each area/region, but for me I can put them in the trash after I break them up and put them in cardboard boxes. I know it's a bit risky, but I've been doing this for a while, and the trash collector says that it's okay because then it's just broken glass.
+eWaste Ben Thanks for showing concern. I'll hold off on breaking down the rest of the crt tubes that I have for now. I do know there is a silver colored coating on the inside. I'm guessing that's what you are referring to about the lead. As for e-waste recyclers, one is about a 40 minutes drive away and only takes 2 tvs or tubes/person/day, and any more cost $25-35/each to drop off. The other one I was told is also 30-40 minutes away, but I don't know much else about it. I do wonder though, where do the e-waste recyclers take the e-waste? I mean, do they actually recycle/process the e-waste? Or do they have it shipped overseas to some remote area as dirty landfill? Any insight would be helpful.
+Kevin Lillis no lead is within the glass, about 5lb of lead per tv, the silvery stuff would be phosphor. this is what is done with crt's ua-cam.com/video/qPx09iB7R04/v-deo.html
+eWaste Ben Thanks for the info. Once I can find one of those places within reasonable driving range, I'll start taking the crts to be recycled. In the meantime I'll try and separate the crts that I already have broken up, the cone glass buckets and the plate in boxes.
+Perry seay Actually he's right. I have broken up both crt tvs and crt computer monitors, and both are the same. Both have leaded glass cones with plate glass fronts and a silver colored coating inside. I stopped breaking them up months ago, but I must say it's getting to be a hassle(nightmare really) to dispose of the tubes. Most places aren't taking them anymore and others are charging for disposal.
Kevin Lillis you wanna know a easy way to dispose of them? you put them in black garbage bags. they trash guys can't look inside them. they have to throw them in the back of the truck. I got rid of a old small hot water tank they wouldn't take. got some large lawn and leaf bags and they took it. you can even ask your trash guy about it. if it's in a bag and they can't see through it they have to take it
You have inspired me to gather copper where ever I see it. I know have a 5 gallon pail bucket full of copper wire and another half full of copper pipes. Any idea what the value would be??
If you take it apart on the street, put it back together for the trash guys +1000, In Las Vegas I've seen a lot of scrappers make an absolute mess of mattresses and many other appliances. I've also seen people take the time to clean up their mess.
I also take the speakers, because I find a bunch of wood too. i make Bluetooth modified custom radios. it's extra cash as well for instance I make cross, or Texas shaped boxes and modify the Bluetooth and speakers into the box and stain them they look very nice and people love them. and most of it is free material
ive just started looking for free copper as ive started making copper coloured wire jewelry, and i thought this was a good video, i learned alot from it thanks for sharing this
It's funny I have not had a TV yoke for about 9 months. Those old tube TV's are getting very rare. I just get the older flat screens now filled with mercury. lol yay.
I once had those amount like that from 30 TV monitor and had 5 gallon bucket full copper 2 from rings and 5 gallons full copper 1 from thick wire around monitor that I found from junk remover. But biggest problem is where to get rid of the plastic housing and glass monitor. I was told by hazard waste recycler they will take the TV if I just leave the chips and speaker with aluminum heat sink, motor, wire, and copper remove for free as long plastic housing is screw together with glass monitor and cleaned circuit board chip for recycler to take at no charge. Made $1.65 per pound for copper 1, $1.50 for copper 2, 50 cents for aluminum heat sink and 30 cents for all tiny insulated wires. That lot of TV to all to hazard waste recycler for free but nice profits for trip to recycler for copper, aluminum.
Mark Brennan if you need to get rid of stuff you use black trash bags the trash company can't look inside they have to take it. I got rid of a old hot water tank. a small one that way they wouldn't take. and you could tell it was the hot water tank. if they can't see through the bag they have to take it
you need to get the huge tube tvs when they went to hd....they have 2 huge degaussing cables. anywhere from 5lbs to even 10lbs of bright copper.....i have some pics on my tablet if u want to see
i did this a lot,took copper out of CRT televisions did it for yrs.problem is the plastic and the glass you have to get rid of it,so the money you get from recycling the copper would have to go to ridding yourself of the glass and plastic.sometimes on computer monitiors you could sell the plastic because its ABS but you dont get much for it.if youre doing a few at a time for fun then yeah,but as a job it sucked.on average i did about 800 to 1000 per yr at the height.
So in the states e waste is illegal for trash haulers to take. Me being a sanitation engineer I always see tvs ripped apart and left. Typically the back is just smashed they break the tube and take what they need. Also a fellow driver mentioned to me there's a tiny piece of gold somewhere in it that has to be chemically removed. How true is this and is it worth the hassle to "go for the gold". I mean it adds up over time and you can mine free gold. Do you know about this. Is it a hard process
Gottlieb Goltz sorry to hear you lost your job. American metal should stay American and not outsourced to avoid taxes and paying insurance and such. maybe one day American metal will come back strong. I know some steel mills have opened back up again
Kathryn Ali tvs, microwaves, basically any consumer electronics. but make sure to discharge the capacitors. or cut the wires to them before taking it apart if it's been plugged in the last few weeks. to avoid a shock.
2018 the CRT tvs ARE HARD TO FIND now - tells me catch up time has arrived all new tv's bought cheap from chiXna soniq $350-43" :) U know whats going in & out via street waste
They are bus bars, made industrially and all people do is cut them down to 1kg size and stamp them, so how are they made by an artisan when anyone can buy them and cut them to size? :)
Some of the later model tv's used copper clad aluminum (Aluminium for you that don't live in North America) for the degaussing coil.If you are just looking for copper cut the coil first and check the color.If it is white leave it.
eWaste Ben Here in the States I find the ratio of 1/3 to 1/2.I lived for a couple of years in New Zealand and I noticed many electric products were of much higher quality than here in America.I am sure it is the same standard for you in Australia.
That 1 Kilo bar of copper is worth about $4.50 in the U.S. at today's spot price. What a scam to sell those form twenty dollars, lol. Thanks for the video.
Modern day crt's have a discharger under the cap that mounts to the tube, it discharges when the tv is turned off. That is mostly for tv repairers who need to get into them straight after turning off, but most tv's people scrap have already been sitting unplugged for days or weeks so quite safe, think i've done a few thousand now, no probs
Ben I know of a plastic recycler...team alliance plastics. now I know where I can get tons of copper because there's a "junk yard" in the woods near me. there's like 30 TVs
I must have a different definition of "free" -going all over town, and picking up tv's. -sit there for 20-30 minutes taking it apart to pull out that piece and reassembling tv before returning it to curbside. -take the parts home and smash up the plastic bit, -more time to clean up the shards of plastic scattered on the floor -now i have some copper wire that's coated with a varnish insulator with lower value than pure copper -all the space wasted storing a big pile of garbage wire waiting for the price to go up a lousy 50cents or $1 over the next decade if you're lucky If someone worked a job at minimum wage for a month, they would get more/hour than they could ever hope to get by collecting random street garbage scrap metal for a year.
MrSonic935 Do you mean a projection TV? I've taken those apart and they basically have 3 times of everything. Just be careful of the liquid that's in front of the glass tubes, it makes a big mess if you accidentally spill it.
Here in the states, taking stuff put out for the trash pickup is a criminal offense in many cities ... perhaps not enforced heavily depending on where you are and how sophisticated your collecting system is, but it's considered stealing from the waste management company
well it's not actually, technically it isn't waste management property until they pick it up, they don't own the streets, nature strips are public property and anything on the side of the road is considered abandoned property unless inside of a trash can.
Taylor, these laws were enacted in NYC and NJ ... it all started several years ago when the police went through a man's garbage and found incriminating evidence without a warrant, the court ruled that the garbage no longer belonged to him because of his contract with the waste collector, and that it was not on his property. Then in NYC some innovating people began picking up all the aluminum in recycle bins, they were using a fairly big truck, and would do the pick ups early in the morning before the city sanitation trucks got there ... boom, the law was passed. Apparently big cities like NYC make a lot of money from recyclable metals ;)
it most areas of the USA trash is public. once it goes to the curb anyone can go through it. scrappers or cops. we've had a few instances here where junkies got busted by flushing their needles and it clogged up there grinder pump. the second time it happened the police got them. they weren't throwing away the needles because they didn't want the cops to go through the trash and find them. here in Mississippi once it's on the curb anyone can take it or dig and it's legal.
get to the coppah
The motormann hahaha. Good one.
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The most fun accent. Or top 3.
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If you don't mind going to the extra trouble, buy yourself a lead ingot mould for bullet casters (they usually have 4 or 6 cavities that, when filled with lead, give you however many cavities worth of 1 pound ingots!
Just melt the copper, which also gets rid of the coating if there is any, and pour into the ingot moulds and then you have it all in ingots, without the fancy stamps!
I don't know how much weight they are when filled, but the ingots are MUCH easier to store than all that miscellaneous wire!
I have a propane forge that was easily built for next to nothing, that gets plenty hot enough to melt copper and brass that I use to melt them into ingots of varying sizes! Easy and a lot less mess than a lot of wire all over the place!
Melt it into ingots and forget all that messy wire!
Good video and thanks for posting! I hope that the ingot idea is helpful to you and your viewers!
Best wishes!
Kim Curtis I like the ingot thing as well. but when it comes to selling a lot of scrap yards won't accept it. they are worried lead or something is inside. even when you say cut them open. some yard supposedly take them but I hadn't found any. if you wish to sell only on eBay that's fine.
Take a drink everytime he says coppah
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take a drink every time he says "and uh, and so, you know, uh"
John Silverman coppah, uh, and um
Get To The Coppah!!!
As a responsible recycler, i do all that to the TV. But i dont want the plastic, which is usually a #5 plastic, its marked on the inside, i put that in the plastic bin. There are magnets inside that copper wire you banged up & it can go in the metal bucket & if you are more careful, the plastic that holds the copper can be recycled. Sometimes the frame is stainless steel or aluminun. That's the $ byproduct of getting the copper out.
Oops sorry -I dont want the plastic to go to a landfill.
What can you do with the #5 plastic?
Microwaves are GREAT for copper. The older ones have 3-4lbs in big square bundles
yeah, the transformers are really great to hold onto, you can stick in some thicker cable where the thin one was, and then BAM, you got yourself a metal melter.
Other than copper most of the ones I have scrapped have a couple of control switches which are used in most power tools for the trigger. If you have a dab hand at soldering you could also relieve the circuit board of it's switching transistors and other useful components such as zener diodes.
If you like Amateur Radio and experimentation, you could use a couple of magnetrons and build a line of sight transmitter and reciever, I've seen it done with modulated CW. Amazing stuff. If you are a newbie however I wouldn't condone you playing with the magnetrons they can be very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.
Yeah I'll stick with just salvaging the copper out of the E-frames lol
ScienceFoundation not to mention fucking dangerous from chemicals to electricity.
No risk, no reward. And none of my kids have come out mutants yet lol
why the fuck am i watching this, and why the hell do i like it
+vash392 My thoughts exactly :)
Love copper yokes and most degausing cable, sometimes it's aluminum wire in the cable. Real easy to check. Great job Ben!!!
Great idea man. Also i found a quick way to collect the components off the circuit board if youre interested. I basicly just filed down the bottom side of the circuit board with the wheel grinder and plucked off the components :)
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after watching you video it inspired me to find some crt tvs. stoped at a local hotel where they are doing a remodel and picked up 100 crt tvs. thanks keep the videos coming
That’s about $400
You'll never catch me, Copper!
mrfrankcastle083 too much time 😂😂😂
*Coppah
giv it a gud yank (tears the whole thing apart)
'Just give it a bit of a crush' haha I love Australians
“bit of a yank”
*almost breaks entire tv*
Just smashed my flatscreen TV.... Wheres my coppah?
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Flatscreens don’t have to much coppah in them unfortunately :(
Lol
great vid bud, i value stuff at its high price cause thats when i'll cash it in so when people say its not worth scrappin i just say yeah but its worth stock piling. keep at er, cheers.
I know people that make more than a $16 hr job just scrapping. Best part is you arent paying an income tax, just the sales tax.
I have been checking online for years about these home forged copper ingots, and indeed started making my own, he going rate is 6 times the scrap value. So in the UK the current rate ( October 22) is £6.00per kilo, so yeah a i kg ingot is upwards of - £ 36.00 and they do sell, especially if you stamp them up and polish them Brass is the same idea, worth slightly less though, however a polished brass bar is beautiful once its lacquered. I use 2 bench sanders to square mine up and a bench grinder to the primary polish, then finish with the hand grinder and then polishing buff.
when i was helping with construction cleanup via labour works, i always picked up and kept copper wire that was lying around. gathered roughly 3-4kg of copper wire.
4:41 "Just smash it" *thinks of his enemies*
Melt the copper into ingots every few months to keep the pile neat and tidy.
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Be careful with those old TV circuit boards. The capacitors used in those could still be holding a deadly charge in them. Short them out using a rubber handled screwdriver to discharge them.
alot of the time they sit unplugged way too long to hold any sort of deadly charge
JayJay..really? Then tell me why a capacitor in a TV I took apart recently had a couple hundred volts in it. And it had been unplugged for about a week. I ALLWAYS discharge all big caps on everything before handling the boards. Usually they are fine, but every once in a while I find one that would have hurt.
I "fealt" it with a meter. It made a rather large 'snap' when I discharged it with a pair of screwdrivers. And where on earth did you read that caps have discharge resistors in them? Maybe some types do? I've never heard of that, and I've been working with electronics for many years now. Did you, perhaps, make all that up to sound smart?
jayJay, sure dude...that's funny, I was thinking of saying the same to you, but I didn't want to come off as being a jerk. I've been building circuits with capacitors for over 30 years. There are many types of capacitors, and sure most don't hold a charge for long, but some can. There are also several ways caps are used. A lot of times the supporting circuitry will drain the charge when power is removed, but other times, not so much. I don't understand why any one would argue against what another personally has experienced many times. I'm telling from personal experience that I have found caps still charged after several days. Instead of arguing with me, do yourself a favor, and do a simple google search of the subject, so the next time you list a comment, you won't sound like an ignorant jerk.
Buy the way, there is a video of a guy who replaced his car battery with a bank of six capacitors. He let it sit for three days, and it still started his car perfectly fine. In fact, after three days, it lost less than three volts. So if you start off with an old ac appliance, with a cap charged to 110v, after a week.......it could still hurt. I'm not making this stuff up. But if you don't believe me, go ahead and keep grabbing caps without checking them first. You'll learn sooner or later.
Hey Ben, new sub in 🇬🇧 here, nice video very informative and shows just how quickly you can extract the copper from a CRT TV.
When I 1st started scrapping I used to get a lot of CRT TV’s but recently if I see them I have just been leaving them. I find it a huge hassle here in 🇬🇧 disposing of the TV’s carcass. If I had the space I’d store the glass, plastic and circuit boards until I had enough to be able to sell them back to their respective recycling plants but I only have a small lock up garage.
You can find the tube type TV if you get in your DeLorean and go back 20 years but they're all flat screens now.
I burn the cases in my wood burner, in the winter I make a pot of soup or heat water on the stove to do my dishes
There's a guy near me who pulls up on his bike and kicks in the back of dumped tv's. He then smashes the crt, strips the copper parts and just rides off. Don't be that guy please, it's scummy as fuck.
That's classy ...lol
Usually meth-heads. They also rip the motors out of fridges (illegally venting the gas), from dryers/washing machines and just tip them over. Often seen with a beat up ute.
thecouchtripper how is he arrogant?
shades2 a true drug addict would huff the gas and not waste
i realize this is about a year old but if you want to find more copper faster try finding old microwaves! sure people would give you 5$ to take them away! they've got a bunch of copper in the transformers :) and you can make some neat things with them! just about anything that has a transformer in it as well has a load more copper than you'll get out of speakers. any wall adapter for most electronics is just a solid transformer!
microwaves , the transformers in them , some are in 2 parts 1 alloy wind the other is copper winding ,odd ones are both copper winds but not all of them
Be careful of the Fly-back mounted on the side of the picture tube ,It stores electric and will discharge if you touch it......
U shold make a video where you melt it all down.
I will be soon
most furnaces will do 2000 deg f, if insulated properly to keep the heat in.
in a furnace most would use a graphite crucible
John W no not at all. copper melts at a pretty low temp. u can make a furnace to melt it with wood and an air compressor
I go in a undisclosed location with a metal trashcan and burn all the wires to get the plastic off. The liberals really love it
hold your copper don't sell untill they pay us what its worth
Still holds true prices for copper keep going up
I know this was a month ago but you should recheck that bud.
Naw even if it goes down temporarily it’ll go back up eventually just like how oil will as well
China was the main reason the copper was even up and China isnt really buying shit rn. if they continue that it will stay going down.
Naw in this age all non renewable resources will soon get much more rare and expensive
Am from the uk and we don't have scrap on the streets here like you do over there but am starting to collect copper wire now let's see where it goes
Absolutely cool video. Super impressed with your scrapping venture. I go scrapping on a bike, yes a bicycle. And, I think you'd be v. surprised at the quantities of copper cable that I can accumulate. And it's all free.
I strip the plugs as well and here in Ireland the plug pins are the really big chunky ones, so there's value there as well.
And yeah, seriously impressed with your scrapping venture there. Liked and subbed.
honestly really wanting to get into this but I live in London and can't really go far since my bike is to say the least a bit old . However it was wondering is there anything is should look out for to get quite a bit of copper so I can sell it . Really just seeing if getting copper is something that I can do to help me save up so I can get a new pc
Hey eWaste Ben, just wanted to say that in my area, as well as many others, it is illegal for people to put whole tvs or the crt picture tubes in the trash. I spoke with a local trash collector and he informed me that it's a $250 fine each for me and him both if he takes one that I have out for trash. I know it's different for each area/region, but for me I can put them in the trash after I break them up and put them in cardboard boxes. I know it's a bit risky, but I've been doing this for a while, and the trash collector says that it's okay because then it's just broken glass.
+eWaste Ben Thanks for showing concern. I'll hold off on breaking down the rest of the crt tubes that I have for now. I do know there is a silver colored coating on the inside. I'm guessing that's what you are referring to about the lead. As for e-waste recyclers, one is about a 40 minutes drive away and only takes 2 tvs or tubes/person/day, and any more cost $25-35/each to drop off. The other one I was told is also 30-40 minutes away, but I don't know much else about it. I do wonder though, where do the e-waste recyclers take the e-waste? I mean, do they actually recycle/process the e-waste? Or do they have it shipped overseas to some remote area as dirty landfill? Any insight would be helpful.
+Kevin Lillis no lead is within the glass, about 5lb of lead per tv, the silvery stuff would be phosphor.
this is what is done with crt's ua-cam.com/video/qPx09iB7R04/v-deo.html
+eWaste Ben Thanks for the info. Once I can find one of those places within reasonable driving range, I'll start taking the crts to be recycled. In the meantime I'll try and separate the crts that I already have broken up, the cone glass buckets and the plate in boxes.
+Perry seay Actually he's right. I have broken up both crt tvs and crt computer monitors, and both are the same. Both have leaded glass cones with plate glass fronts and a silver colored coating inside. I stopped breaking them up months ago, but I must say it's getting to be a hassle(nightmare really) to dispose of the tubes. Most places aren't taking them anymore and others are charging for disposal.
Kevin Lillis you wanna know a easy way to dispose of them? you put them in black garbage bags. they trash guys can't look inside them. they have to throw them in the back of the truck. I got rid of a old small hot water tank they wouldn't take. got some large lawn and leaf bags and they took it. you can even ask your trash guy about it. if it's in a bag and they can't see through it they have to take it
What is the best way to recycle the picture tubes... and is there any hazards to opening them up?
I'm almost afraid for some reason.
Why
yeah why
Trypophobia?
can't CRTs hold a (deadly) electric shock long after it's been unplugged?
What do you do with any kind of waste? Like plastic, glass, rubber?
plastic goes to a recycler, don't get much glass or rubber though.
save the speakers, either resell them,trade, or scrap them for the brass,magnet, and steel.
Was wondering how I ended up here when it hit me I'm on my 3rd Coppah ! video ,I'm here just to hear him say Coppah!
You have inspired me to gather copper where ever I see it. I know have a 5 gallon pail bucket full of copper wire and another half full of copper pipes. Any idea what the value would be??
You got to weigh it and then find out how much copper goes for
If you take it apart on the street, put it back together for the trash guys +1000, In Las Vegas I've seen a lot of scrappers make an absolute mess of mattresses and many other appliances. I've also seen people take the time to clean up their mess.
now i know where my front porch tv has been going!! D:
Yep, and I took your shoes too.
I took ur car
I'm sorry, but I really needed a couch! :)
I also take the speakers, because I find a bunch of wood too. i make Bluetooth modified custom radios. it's extra cash as well for instance I make cross, or Texas shaped boxes and modify the Bluetooth and speakers into the box and stain them they look very nice and people love them. and most of it is free material
ive just started looking for free copper as ive started making copper coloured wire jewelry, and i thought this was a good video, i learned alot from it thanks for sharing this
+Laura Aqui your welcome, I believe copper has medicinal affects on the body so might be more then just nice jewelry.
+eWaste Ben really? never heard that one before
+Random_rapper20 copper ions kill bacteria when they come in contact
How is that jewlery coming?
It's funny I have not had a TV yoke for about 9 months. Those old tube TV's are getting very rare.
I just get the older flat screens now filled with mercury. lol yay.
yeah, in Vegas there are thousands of speakers and bundles of wire littering the streets
I helped make crt units for years working for Philips.
I like how this video was strictly about silver and gold and not about copper
That glass cone in CRTs contains LOTS of lead, you'd better send it to some special facilities that can deal with lead glasses.
How does it have lead , it's just copper and steel
@@wertiaaudit5746 Lead is melted together with glass to lower the melting point
@@zazio5535 ok
nice this is the 1st gypsy survival guide ive found on yt so far
I once had those amount like that from 30 TV monitor and had 5 gallon bucket full copper 2 from rings and 5 gallons full copper 1 from thick wire around monitor that I found from junk remover. But biggest problem is where to get rid of the plastic housing and glass monitor. I was told by hazard waste recycler they will take the TV if I just leave the chips and speaker with aluminum heat sink, motor, wire, and copper remove for free as long plastic housing is screw together with glass monitor and cleaned circuit board chip for recycler to take at no charge. Made $1.65 per pound for copper 1, $1.50 for copper 2, 50 cents for aluminum heat sink and 30 cents for all tiny insulated wires. That lot of TV to all to hazard waste recycler for free but nice profits for trip to recycler for copper, aluminum.
Mark Brennan if you need to get rid of stuff you use black trash bags the trash company can't look inside they have to take it. I got rid of a old hot water tank. a small one that way they wouldn't take. and you could tell it was the hot water tank. if they can't see through the bag they have to take it
Well, good for you, but I pass up the CRT TV's at this point, due to disposal restrictions for cathode ray tubes.
Greetings! Have you use silica gel with your copper stack, to protect it from oxidation??
you need to get the huge tube tvs when they went to hd....they have 2 huge degaussing cables. anywhere from 5lbs to even 10lbs of bright copper.....i have some pics on my tablet if u want to see
ill take a look i have 2
i did this a lot,took copper out of CRT televisions did it for yrs.problem is the plastic and the glass you have to get rid of it,so the money you get from recycling the copper would have to go to ridding yourself of the glass and plastic.sometimes on computer monitiors you could sell the plastic because its ABS but you dont get much for it.if youre doing a few at a time for fun then yeah,but as a job it sucked.on average i did about 800 to 1000 per yr at the height.
That one you smashed up.....how much is that worth? Aud or usd or gbp etc?
As an intact yolk? It’s worth the copper value. H
And you can sell the circuit boards 0.40 a pound with is quick to get when collecting copper
Tried it couple years ago almost all of the copper looking coils were just colored aluminum
So in the states e waste is illegal for trash haulers to take. Me being a sanitation engineer I always see tvs ripped apart and left. Typically the back is just smashed they break the tube and take what they need. Also a fellow driver mentioned to me there's a tiny piece of gold somewhere in it that has to be chemically removed. How true is this and is it worth the hassle to "go for the gold". I mean it adds up over time and you can mine free gold. Do you know about this. Is it a hard process
wow will you say where did you get it?
I used to refine copper in Anaconda, MT. Before the Anaconda Copper Co, moved to Brazil. I still have the "spatter scars" on My upper body.
Aprons are your best friend
While refining 250 ton a charge asbestos suits work best I think, especially when working at the mouth of the furnace and "Splats" are flying.
Gottlieb Goltz sorry to hear you lost your job. American metal should stay American and not outsourced to avoid taxes and paying insurance and such. maybe one day American metal will come back strong. I know some steel mills have opened back up again
Your a good dude despite the errors it's for a good cause so thank u
Why should someone find and save copper? I'm curious. Do you just sell it when it's worth more?
Hey everyone. What would I find 26 gauge wire in to strip? or take a part? I need it for wire weaving. 20 gauge and 26 gauge.
Kathryn Ali tvs, microwaves, basically any consumer electronics. but make sure to discharge the capacitors. or cut the wires to them before taking it apart if it's been plugged in the last few weeks. to avoid a shock.
2018 the CRT tvs ARE HARD TO FIND now - tells me catch up time has arrived
all new tv's bought cheap from chiXna soniq $350-43" :) U know whats going in & out via street waste
how is it an "industrial piece of copper" if it was made by an artisan?
They are bus bars, made industrially and all people do is cut them down to 1kg size and stamp them, so how are they made by an artisan when anyone can buy them and cut them to size? :)
This man spent all his skill points on the scrapper perk.
You'll never catch me alive Coppah!!!!!
I recently scraped 4 TVs and got the some copper out of them, but what materials can you get off the motherboards?
Hey Ben what do you think of scrapping gas heaters? I’ve just scrapped an rennai heater and got a fair bit of scrap out of it
Scrapping heaters is a good way to get a lot of copper. I get free copper I’m allowed to pull off of them at work (flexes, cables, etc.)
in the speakers are also magnets for free
Some of the later model tv's used copper clad aluminum (Aluminium for you that don't live in North America) for the degaussing coil.If you are just looking for copper cut the coil first and check the color.If it is white leave it.
Yes but not many, i'd say 1:100 that I have found have aluminium degaussing cables
eWaste Ben
Here in the States I find the ratio of 1/3 to 1/2.I lived for a couple of years in New Zealand and I noticed many electric products were of much higher quality than here in America.I am sure it is the same standard for you in Australia.
That 1 Kilo bar of copper is worth about $4.50 in the U.S. at today's spot price. What a scam to sell those form twenty dollars, lol. Thanks for the video.
ive seen people build backyard furnaces to smelt this down into their own ingots :)
what's the part of the TV will shock you
Just found your video, what about the new flat TV screens? You mostly see them these days. Do they have any copper in them worth going after ?
no unfortunately
Old ceiling fans have a bunch of copper wire in it!
coppah😂 i love the accent
If I had a nickel for every COPPAH in the vid
I would have way more bitches.
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you'd have about $4.35
Donnie Thornberry I
Can you make a full video about how to get the copper out of the tv in more detail?
will do
Well
You open it
Break the cone
And take it out from the cone part
That's how i do
just smash that shit n get all the red out
V Thors true
V Thors hahahahaha
That thing looks so cool
you should tell them how to discharge a CRT if they're going to do this it is a really dangerous think to do with out discharging it
Modern day crt's have a discharger under the cap that mounts to the tube, it discharges when the tv is turned off.
That is mostly for tv repairers who need to get into them straight after turning off, but most tv's people scrap have already been sitting unplugged for days or weeks so quite safe, think i've done a few thousand now, no probs
That's a very irresponsible statement you just made right there. Giving people the impression it's safe to play around those tubes.
it is safe. Didn't you read the comment?
Joshua Rosen
Then go play with one.
brad mack I have done so on numerous occasions. I'm not dead yet.
Ben I know of a plastic recycler...team alliance plastics. now I know where I can get tons of copper because there's a "junk yard" in the woods near me. there's like 30 TVs
same here. up by a dirt bike pit there are a bunch of tvs and appliances
So how do you get rid of the rest of the TV for free?
was not expecting so much coppah 10/10
Do you drive a Ford ?
Make sure to put the cover of the TV back on so you can fool the next person looking for copper. Lol
What do you do with the crt afterwards? I have some old burts out TVs and would live to pull the copper but I have no way to get rid of the leftovers.
Put it out to bulk. As long as it's not plant matter, they'll take pretty much anything.
You got to de gas that cylinder though with glass where copper is as if you touch it sometimes they blow done a few of them
Not gas, it's a vacuum, breaking the tube will suck air in
ya good idea but tvs now getting hard to come by in the trash if people keep them another 20 years be collectable things probly
OMG!!! where do you find all these old tv?????!!!
I must have a different definition of "free"
-going all over town, and picking up tv's.
-sit there for 20-30 minutes taking it apart to pull out that piece and reassembling tv before returning it to curbside.
-take the parts home and smash up the plastic bit,
-more time to clean up the shards of plastic scattered on the floor
-now i have some copper wire that's coated with a varnish insulator with lower value
than pure copper
-all the space wasted storing a big pile of garbage wire waiting for the price to go up a lousy 50cents or $1 over the next decade if you're lucky
If someone worked a job at minimum wage for a month, they would get more/hour than they could ever hope to get by collecting random street garbage scrap metal for a year.
I wouldn't have crushed the ferromagnetic material like that, but I love the video. Thank you.
Isn't there a danger of getting shocked by the CRT monitor?
hey if you ever find glass attached to the ray tube save it and I will buy all of it from you for a price you can't beat.
oooh why ?
oooh why ?
+Sven Carlson I use them for making glass art.
Jeff Griffin
Jeff Griffin how much you offering?
what about a old school flat screen tv?
MrSonic935 Do you mean a projection TV? I've taken those apart and they basically have 3 times of everything. Just be careful of the liquid that's in front of the glass tubes, it makes a big mess if you accidentally spill it.
Dude theres alot of copper in the transformer!
no theres really not tbh
Bruhh wdym you can find these crt's,tv's everywhere kindly explain
Where do you sell your copper?
If you strip it on the street make sure you put the lid back so no kids get trapped inside mate!
Here in the states, taking stuff put out for the trash pickup is a criminal offense in many cities ... perhaps not enforced heavily depending on where you are and how sophisticated your collecting system is, but it's considered stealing from the waste management company
well it's not actually, technically it isn't waste management property until they pick it up, they don't own the streets, nature strips are public property and anything on the side of the road is considered abandoned property unless inside of a trash can.
But yes, if you operated as a commercial collector then it's a different ballgame, but that's not what scrappers are.
Taylor, these laws were enacted in NYC and NJ ... it all started several years ago when the police went through a man's garbage and found incriminating evidence without a warrant, the court ruled that the garbage no longer belonged to him because of his contract with the waste collector, and that it was not on his property. Then in NYC some innovating people began picking up all the aluminum in recycle bins, they were using a fairly big truck, and would do the pick ups early in the morning before the city sanitation trucks got there ... boom, the law was passed. Apparently big cities like NYC make a lot of money from recyclable metals ;)
it most areas of the USA trash is public. once it goes to the curb anyone can go through it. scrappers or cops.
we've had a few instances here where junkies got busted by flushing their needles and it clogged up there grinder pump. the second time it happened the police got them. they weren't throwing away the needles because they didn't want the cops to go through the trash and find them. here in Mississippi once it's on the curb anyone can take it or dig and it's legal.
Watch out for the RCA tvs because the copper yokes have been dowsed in resin.
David Redfearn it burns off
What do you do with all the tubes from the tvs
how do you find someone to buy the old tv boards?