Scrapping Microwave Transformers | Unbelievable Money & Fast!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- In this video we're scrapping out Microwave Transformers for fast easy money.
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Let me know... do you strip out microwaves?
I just did one yesterday but it was aluminum transformer!!! Nice video just found you and subbed!!!
@@luketippey8664 Check with your yard... you may do just as good selling them as is, and avoid having to process the aluminum/aluminum ones :-) Thanks for riding shotgun for me.
@@luketippey8664 every microwave after a certain year is alu
@Daniel Persson I get motor wight for transformers at .22 cents a lb so it's still worth it, compared to shred at .085 lb
@@luketippey8664 i hear ya, to bad in Sweden transformers go as electronic junk and arent accepted at our scrapyard
The junkie that stole the copper from my Air Conditioner would love this channel.
@@claytonmatt4334 lol, thanks for watching
I was fixing to say I hope no crack heads are watching.
That was yours ?
This video just pisses me off. How much time was spent acquiring the microwaves. How much time was spent selling the copper? This is SO disingenuous.
@samwdavis. If you are out scrapping and collecting everything else, and going to the scrap yard anyways you will end up with a bunch of microwaves. So why not take the copper out of the transformer?
The secondary windings are wrapped with more insulating material because those wires carry more than 10 times the voltage of the primary and the engineers didn't want that to arc to the transformers core.
I see... Good to know! Thanks for stopping by the channel.
That's correct! (Arcing purposes)
I thought it would be something to do with the power running through that one ,worked a few electrical goods factories
About twenty times. Can be very dangerous. :)
I am a professor of logic at the University of Science, and I can confirm that arcing is the reason for the additional insulation.
Just FYI : . The magnetron, which generates the microwave energy, has a sintered ceramic insulator that is made from beryllium oxide . During use it is inert and harmless but if it is crushed and the dust is inhaled you can get berylliosis, an incurable disease of the lungs.
….Wow. Thank you
Yes, you are correct when it comes to older one. That have sense stopped using beryllium. But one don't know which are witch. So don't crush any of them.
@@thescrapmeister Thank you for this information. Because of beryllium I've been terrified of exploring the insides of microwaves for years, really! It's been frustrating because I always knew there was lots of good stuff inside of them!
I want that copper wire to use on electronics projects. There's a wealth of it!
That's just an urban legend. There's no beryllium oxide in household microwaves.
Don't forget to release the energy or you'll get whapped
Wow, stumbled onto your video by accident. You solved (for me) a lifelong question. At 54 now and grew up in a housing project in Pennsylvania. Behind the place was a fairly large, wooded area that was once home to coal mines. During the first 10 years you couldn't walk anywhere without seeing lots of rusted E's of various sizes all over the place and nobody knew where they came from, or what their purpose was. So, seeing them as holding the copper together gave me an answer, I never thought I'd find.
Cool, now you know :-) Thanks for watching.
How many things could you make from those working transformers? How many of them were good to use?
@@bartholomewceremony6981 yes I guess if that is what one was into :-) yes, they were lost likely good. I sold two on eBay and both sales the buyer said not as described and it cost me money for the return shipping. So l just scrap them. If someone wants some, it is easy to find microwaves:-) thanks for watching.
@@thescrapmeister too bad the shipping was not deducted from the refund if they even returned the same one.
Your reply is worded far above average, but then you write, "rusted E's". I have no idea what you said.
It will tell you on the serial and model number tag in the rear of the oven. Look for the copper symbol CU or aluminium AL or both
Now that is good to know! Thanks for watching :-)
Are used to work in the scrapping business most of the newer microwaves. Nowadays are not copper they are actually aluminum wire with copper coating. Only old microwaves and I’m talking from the early 2000s it’s just like a Lincoln 250 amp arc welder is not copper inside. It is aluminum wire inside which are crappy welders. You have to get the early model welders like that that have the copper wire in them. It’s very easy to tell the weight the true copper ones are really heavy. The aluminum ones are a lot lighter. Same thing with microwave ovens the older ones heavier because they’re copper, newer microwaves, are aluminum coated with copper
yes I know this... it is really a shame we don't make things well now days. Thanks for stopping by the channel :-)
😁👍✌@@thescrapmeister
Cardboard is an excellent heat insulator. It prevents heat transfer to the iron core which would melt all the windings by contributing to the heat generated by magnetic eddy currents within the soft iron core. These eddy currents are created by rapidly increasing and decreasing magnetic fields, which induce electrical fields within the iron as well.
Good to know... Thanks for checking out my channel :-)
I have not seen a microwave Transform that was 100% copper since the early 1970s.
It's all copper-clad nowadays!
I have 5 or 6 different microwave Transformers I keep for electronic experiment purposes in the back room.
I can only dream to find a 100% copper Transformer!👍
We were upgrading micro waves at the hotel. The Avanti brand had them.
I have done hundreds over the last 20 years, and you are right 90% was aluminum copper-clad wire. the magnetron tube it self has more copper, but can contain beryllium also, so be careful.
The ones we micro scrap have one of each.
you are very lucky if you find a microwave that has been made in the last 5 years that has any copper in the transformers
I think it is more about the brand than the time. But yes, the older the better for finding copper. Look for the woodgrain models :-) Thanks for watching.
I know right in the last 30 I found probably only one had copper
Tin Man In Canada said he still finds new ones with copper but the video might be a year or two old. Perhaps his ratio is getting much worse as well.
I scratch the wire and mostly they are aluminum. I don't waste my time on the aluminum ones
Why are the aluminum ones a waste of time, what makes them not worth scraping and just about anything else that has aluminum wire?
Just got back from the scrap yard. Nice little copper score you got. Gj.
Nice 👍I was just out working in the shop and noticed tools are sweating ;-0 Not sure what I can do about that?
That winding is wrapped up because there is 8000 volts on it! Throw the coils in acetone for a few minutes. All that cardboard will peel easily off. If you soak the whole transformers in acetone before disassembly, they will come apart easier. Keep in mind the flammability of the acetone. Soak outside in a bucket for an hour, pull them out & then drain & disassemble. The acetone will get dirty but will still work.
Good to know, Thanks for stopping by my channel :-)
Acetone ain’t cheap. Maybe build a small cardboard crematorium and incinerate insulation off?
Sometimes the primary coil(the thicker gage, less wrapped coil) will be aluminum while the secondary is copper. So don't discount the transformer if you only check the primary.
@@E-BikingAdventures you got that right... I get a lot that are half and half. Thanks for watching.
You need to do the "scratch test". Sometimes what looks like copper is aluminum
Oh how I know that :-) Thanks for stopping by the channel.
What about a magnet test? Aluminum won't pull to a magnet, right?
quite a few around me don't pickup microwaves because the yards charge for them unless you take them apart. so I get quite a few of them because I am 1 of the very few that actually tears their scrap apart for more money. I also get lot of fridges and air conditioners because they charge for those too if you take them in whole. I cut them up, I even take the copper out of the condensers on fridge and a.cs.
If you have the time why not. Thanks for stopping by the channel
Do you live in Canada or the northern US? I can't imagine a yard that wouldn't accept those materials.
@@ScrapperSam wisconsin. Microwaves are a $10 charge whole but if you take them apart and remove the megatron(?) or whatever that part that has the brillion in then you can get paid. i take them apart to take the copper out anyways so no problem to me. but someone throwing out a bad micrwave won't do that.
fridge,freezers a.c. dehunidifiers or anything else with refridgerant in is a $20 charge no matter on size. if you remove it than you can get paid but you also need to have the dnr license to remove the freon which most scrappers don't have around here. don't show up with the condensers cut out without having that license, they will not take them from you.
so it is easy to find these items dumped on back roads all the time. i always take different routes justin case, you never know what you will find getting off the main drag.s
Also you cannot just buy that license and think you are good. they will come out and make sure you are equipped to pull the freon out correctly. they were surprised i had 3 of those vacuum pumps here. when they heard i also work part time for a couple of heating and a.c. guys they knew i was aware on how to use the stuff correctly and signed off.
Do you chase the copper line set from the condensor up the back of the fridge too ? 🤣
Still got to enclude the time taking them out of a microwave, and yes you are lucky if you find one transformer out of every 5 microwaves that is copper ( and if it is it will only be the top windings ) and most are aluminium windings
Yes, getting harder and harder to find them. Think woodgrain :-) Thanks for stopping by the channel
Thanks for the method of flipping it over (2 min mark) - always wasted time banging on the windings the opposite way.
Makes is go so much faster... Thanks for stopping by the channel :-)
The extra insulation is due to it being a step-up transformer. The higher voltage winding has more insulation.
Yes I have found that out :-) Thanks for watching, good to see you tuning in!
I play wit Turbo Chefs ALL-DAY!!
Are they copper? Thanks for watching.
Why not soak them in acetone for shellac?
The difference between the price of #1 to #2 is not great enough to make it worth the effort :-) Thanks for watching Brian.
@@thescrapmeister yeah l did my research and figured the same.
Nice work explaining this, thanks!!
Not sure I would go that far... but I think people get the point of how easy it is to liberate the copper :-) Thanks for watching and riding shotgun for me!
I've never found a double copper transformer. I found one a few months ago that was made is the early 90's and it was half copper and half aluminum.
I know it sucks... had a 50/50 one today. Keep your eye out for Avanti brand... Double the Pleasure :-)
When scrapping any type of a transformer if you want to remove the slack to get a little bit better price slightly Heat over the top of a fire pit for a couple seconds the coding will eventually start to fall off a little slamming it on the concrete every now and then during the heating process doesn't hurt either doesn't always work but works some of the time sometimes it even works on motor coils too
Yes, my yard always pays #2 for it. the price per pound is only about .20¢ a pound difference. Thanks for watching!
Also dealer depending some buy electrical steel at a big bump from shredder prices. Not many keep it separate but some true mega places do.
Thanks for stopping by the channel... Ya would be nice, but none of my yards pay extra for it.
If they're newer at least half that is aluminum. Sometimes one side is copper.
Yes, Must always check both... Thanks for stopping by the channel!
Idk anything about scrapping, though I was hoping it would tell me how to disassemble one of these so that I could re-wind it myself.
Anyway, One of the coils, the primary, takes about 120 Volts AC. The transformer turns that into around 2000 Volts AC, output by the secondary. The coil that's wrapped up is the dangerous secondary coil, in case there is some kind of stored energy somewhere you do NOT want to touch that coil
Cool good to know. Thanks for checking out my channel.
One of the coils(secondary) is much higher voltage, so it requires more insulation and isolation.
Yes... Thanks for watching.
Great video
I bet if you were to grab a razor knife and go around the outside of each bundle before trying to remove the paper it would save you a significant amount of time.
Yes, that works best, thanks for watching.
It didn't take a "minute" to capture two pounds of copper. It takes AT LEAST a minute JUST to take the MOT out of the microwave alone. Lets be real.
The MOTs make Excellent little spot welders, and from there you can make all sorts of things.
I have to agree one can make things with them... But when you get 30 to 60 at a time. Finding customers to by them is nearly impossible :-)
170 bucks will get you a propane crucible that doubles as a forge if turned on it's side from Ebay. Melt some of those down and scrape out the slag and see if you can get a better purity ingot out of it. Purchase a unscented box of Borax from target for flux to help adhere to the slag. You'll need to fashion a scraping tool for the slag. I used an old metal ladle spoon that I connected to a long piece of metal from a crappy jack that comes with most vehicles. Line a muffin pan with tin foil and there's your ingot molds to pour into. Aluminum foil keeps it from sticking to the pan.
Yes, I have been thinking of getting a furnace. But so far I have warded off the idea. Someday I'm sure. My stator wrecker is on the front burner right now.
$3 of copper when the transformer would have gone on eBay for $50 without all the effort..
Yes I know. I sell a lot of beer and soda collectables on ebay, huge problem with returns when I tried selling transformers :-( Thanks for watching!
4.70 copper prices rose. Great video.
Then we would really profit :-) thanks for watching.
high voltage secondary winding needs lots more insulation. Primary 120 volts secondary 3,000 v.
Yes, Thanks for watching :-)
You gotta include the time that you spent removing the transformer from the unit.
Well kind of... there is other copper in them to offset that time. But the intent of the video was to show how fast the copper can be liberated. Thanks for watching :-)
one is the high voltage coil. requires more insulation. by high voltage, i mean 2000+ volts
Yes... That is what others have told me :-) Thanks for watching!
when calculating the return, you also have to calculate the amount of time it took you to obtain and transport costs
yes, I agree :-) thanks for watching hope you'll check out my other videos too.
in the alternative you could gang a bunch up & make a diy welder
@@MrAdamNTProtester lol, I would most likely electrocute myself. Thanks for watching.
Yeah, if you had an endless supply, you can make that much an hour, but no one‘s ever gonna be able to do that not even close to making that much money an hour, man!
You are correct... thanks for watching.
I just scored a really old National Geniuse microwave from the 70's/80's and it weighs a ton [41kg) to be exact. I plan on stripping it down this weekend. Hope its a double copper ive only had 4 double copper transformers out maybe 8 and they were old. You are lucky to get a 50/50 copper aluminium but even 2000 on are double aluminium. Some microwavs have the production or manufacture date on them. Best brands National Panasonic Sharp
Keep your fingers crossed :-) Thanks for stopping by my channel and watching!
I would say the transformer it is worked would sell for more on ebay then the copper would bring at a scrap yard.
I would agree... however, shipping is expensive and you would just be looking for issues with returns. Just saying.
The coated copper wire is graded at #2 coated wire unless you strip the coating off of it. It is only worth $1 a lbs. as coated wire. If you mix it in with your #2 clean copper some yards will down grade the whole batch to $1 a lbs. And if you tell them you will take it some where's else they will tell you not to ever come back. You tried to sell them lower grade material mixed in with higher grade, claiming it was all higher grade. They don't like that. :)
Yes, I'm not sure how Derek @projectshopFL gets away with it down in Florida? Thanks for checking out my channel.
Cool. I have my scrapping thing going on. Nice to see other hard workers here.
Thanks 👍 Stop back soon :-)
So maybe $45. Then you have to spend your gas to get there. Plus there's the time for getting the transformer out of the microwave itself, hoping there's actually even copper in it. This is a great idea for keeping retirees busy lol
I guess not everyone can be a Walmart Door Greeter :-) Thanks for watching.
Get yourself some digital scales, more accurate and can weigh up to 2kg or more depending which ones you buy!! Great work.
Thanks for the tip! I do have them :-)
Can the shellac be removed using mineral spirits, lacquer thinner or carburetor cleaner?
If it would, it is not worth the squeeze, as the margin between #1 & #2 is like .20¢ a pound. Thanks for watching.
When I was a kid back in the 70's, I remember seeing these strange looking E's and I's all over the creek bed and had zero clue what they were... Lol. It wasn't until years later I found out. Evidently someone was tearing these transformers apart for the copper wiring and tossing the E's and I's in the creek. Funny how some things don't changed, people still stripping for copper.
It's funny they didn't sell the steel too.
@@thescrapmeister perhaps maybe because it was more iron in it than steel and wasn't worth messing with?
Might be, or maybe they didn't have a way to transport all the weight. Maybe homeless people or drunks LOL Who knows but it is interesting.@@garyr7027
@@thescrapmeister lol, scrapers needin quick beer money 😂
Nobody has 100 microwaves laying around.
Yes, I get a lot from the hotels I service, thanks for watching.
Wouldn't be hard to find 100 go to the dump or just stay home and keep watching videos of people doing real stuff while you sit at home talking smack
If im not wrong, most older power supplies in many things have these copper blocks
Many things have transformers... Even in some large speakers. Thanks for watching.
If you get ChatGPT it'll answer all them questions and you'll have an electric engineer in your pocket
I've never tried AI yet. Thanks for watching.
Why do you need chatGPT for busting open microwave transformers?
I've picked up 20 microwave novena this year every one had all8windings un the transformers. So just throw them in the hard iron pile .and take the wire out and throw the rest into the shred pile
yes, some brands are that way... Thanks for stopping by the channel.
I love how people clickbait 😂 they don’t even try to get close to the truth lol😂 dude I could earn $360 per hour I’d be working 23 hours a day 7 days a week
Well I can only hope you watched the entire video, so you would understand the point of it :-) Thanks for stopping by the channel!
Keeping coils as is, could be used in generators.
Yes, I know. But selling them is a pain in the butt :-) plus, I get so many I couldn't sell them all.. Thanks for watching!
45 BUCKS, WHO IS PILING UP 360 BUCKS OF MICROWAVES IN YOUR YARD A DAY
It's a hypothetical:-) thanks for watching.
I used to wind the larger transformers for use in marine chargers. 4 gauge square copper wire thick stuff. I bet i threw away hundreds in scrap a day. Against my will of course.
I don't know if I'd have the patience to do that day in and day out. Thanks for watching.
@@thescrapmeister yeah it was pretty monotonous lol
How do u make 360 an hour,and,where do u get all the microwaves?
@@RoyVoth I have a lot of hotel clients, and it is a hypothetical, seeing how the copper can be liberated in less than a minute. Thanks for watching.
Why do you save the red part? Is it valuable?
The red thing is insulated copper wire, so yes you can sell it too. Thanks for checking out my channel.
Most microwaves have the DOM on the sticker. Sharp and Panasonic are good one for copper
Really good to know! Thanks for watching :-)
What does that mean?
Which bit?
@@scotthoward4836 The DOM sticker?
Oh. DOM is Date Of Manufacture
Transformers .... transform voltage. Meaning, you have one side with a lower voltage and one side with higher voltage. Thats why the insulation differs from side to side.
Cool, good to know. Thanks for checking out my channel.
I always just leave the paper and tape on the copper coils. Its all counted as #2 copper anyways (since its coated in lacquer) so its a waste to fiddle around cleaning it up
I totally agree, it should not matter. However, the yards around here down grade it if it is not removed. Sucks!
If I striped it that far I would get number 1 price for it
Your lucky, not around here. Thanks for watching.
Thicker wire on the coils means bigger electricity capacity to keep your fingers out of it if so you won't get shocked as your servicing it
Hey, Thanks for stopping by my channel :-)
New subscriber here my yard won’t take the paper do you think a wire wheel on the bench grinder would work?
It should...Try it or look for a different yard
It's #2 at best so they should accept at least some waste on it.
@@thatcanada my yard won’t they give you a #3 if the paper on it here
@@nicejunk666 those savages
Make your own copper bricks and sell them online.
I might get a forge someday... Thanks for watching.
You spending how much in gas looking for them?
Not much I get most of them from hotels that are being required to update them. Thanks for watching.
. Seems like the older microwaves would be most likely to have the copper since everything is made so cheap and disposable these days.
You got that right... look for the wood grain ones :-) Thanks for stopping by the channel!
@thescrapmeister The magic chef! 1983.
Would it hurt to burn the cardboard off?
Most yards will not take burned wire. Thank for stopping by.
Add about 2 hours to take apart 18 microwaves
Yes, but there are other goodies in them to help offset the time :-) thanks for watching!
When I scrap microwaves out I'm lucky if I get copper transformers every now and then 1 side will be copper
keep and eye for Avanti Brand... Copper both windings :-)
@@thescrapmeister I'll do that for sure. Thanks
I stripped a bunch of them and as far as The Weald, a big hammer will break it.But if you had an unlimited supply I just don't see how you can make that much an hour.
60 an hour, 2 pounds in each = 120 pounds of copper x $3.00 a pound :-) It is a hypothetical. Thanks for watching.
@thescrapmeister Understand if you could do that many you're fast. I'm 53 back when I was 6 and 7 copperware was 4.Something I went around with several hundred in my pocket 6.7.8 years old. It did go up to 4 sometime once a couple years back.
What do you do with all those (empty??) cans??? I know you said you sell them on ebay? People buy empty cans on ebay?
You bet they do! People collect them. in the 70's beer can collecting was bigger than coin and stamp collecting. I also sell a lot of them to Hollywood for props in movies and commercials. Check out the BCCA.com :-) Thanks for checking out my channel.
So which brand have them and which don't or do I have to learn the hard by getting them and searching ......???
I have found that the Avanti brand has copper other than that it is hit and miss. Thanks for stopping by the channel.
Im betting the wrap them differently, just to make identifying which one is which easier.
It is actually because of the High Voltage :-) Thanks for watching.
the top coil is the one that will apparently give an output over 2000v because of the winding ratio. maybe thats why
Well that makes it understandable:-) thanks for watching.
That's one way of dismantling them. Just brute force with a hammer eh, rather than mucking about with a hacksaw, angle grinder or hammer & steel chisel. I'll try it.
Do microwaves in America plug into 240v like they do here in the UK, or they still only plug into 120v? Took a few apart with intention of making 240/50hz power inverter, saving the wiring for projects. Took some smaller high frequency ferrite transformers out of TV's, which are easier to take apart just putting them in the oven first.
Learning how they work instead to get to 400 volts then use high powered Mosfets to attain 240v ac, tho' find it tricky to understand some of the maths involved.
Thanks for watching... Most all are 120v here in the US. Be careful repurposing them, they can knock you on your ass or kill you :-)
Were these really copper or aluminium windings? The weight is a dead giveaway...
They were copper or copper/aluminum:-)
15 pounds of number 2 copper at 2.77 a pound is $41.55. Now include all the time to collect those microwaves and open them up you might make $20 an hour but you still have to drive to the recycling place. $15 an hour at best.
The point was that you can open 1 a minute. Thank for stopping by my channel.
My point is, your not being honest about the amount of work in time it took to get all those transformers. Profit/time =pay
@@oneministries4878 i agree, there is more to it than just harvesting the copper :-)
Of course if that is cash, it is more like $25 an hour.
Yeah this guy has no clue at math
Instead of fighting the tape, there’s a razor knife right above your hands to the left
LOL, it's weird when you are filming ya kind of forget stuff like that. Thanks for checking out my channel :-)
How do you take your first person videos? I've been trying for a while and my footage is always shaky or the wrong angle.
@@OrganicGreens I use a gopro with the head mount. Pointing down at about 60 degrees:-) thanks for watching.
@@thescrapmeister Thanks so much for the reply. This will really help me out for making my gardening videos. Hope you have a great week brother.
A friend has a farm that was used as a dumping station for ole industrial motors some that are about as big as a vw bug. I would say there is probably
2 semi truck loads. He said I could have it if I remove it. I should start breaking them down this spring. I would think there is 10k lbs just in copper.
Then 5x that in steel. Cast iron and aluminum. I also have 3 huge sail boat keels I need to cut into manageable size to recycle. Probably 20k lbs in lead.
Only thing I can think of is buy a cheap chainsaw and cut them up. Allot of work.
Now that sounds like a honey hole... get in there and start on it as soon as you can. Things can change in a minute! Thanks for checking out my channel.
I'd be all over that
That sounds like it’s worth doing . You will need a piece of equipment
Figuring them at 360$ an hour doesn't include time to get those buggers out of the mw
You got that right :-) Thanks for stopping by the channel
If you stopped to pick up a nickle it takes about 3 seconds. Giving you A dollar a min or $60 per hr.
See now you get it :-) Thanks for watching.
So the manager at the scrap yard I sell to told me not to tear apart microwaves for that box because it's copper colored aluminum and not copper at all. Now I'm confused!
The transformers, the real heavy part can have Copper/Copper windings, Aluminum/Copper, or Alum/Alum it is getting harder and harder to find the Copper/Copper ones. I have found the copper/copper ones in older microwaves. Keep an eye on woodgrain ones. I also found many Avanti Brand have Copper/Copper. Their is other copper in them as well. The motor that turn the plate, almost always copper. the fan motor about 95% of the time copper. So I would rip them all open. Then use a rat tail file on the 2 windings in the transformer. If one or more is copper, Remove it. If not leave it in and just clip all the wire out, and grab the two small motors:-) Hope that helps.
Good thing you clarified you’re not an electrical engineer .!! 😂😂😂
Nice showing.
Thanks! Some people get it ;-) Thanks for watching.
Not sure where the word send it came from but when i used to cook , when a order was done we wouls say send it
Derek at @ProjectShopFL says it a lot :-) Thanks for checking out my channel.
He said "number two"! =)
Yup! Thanks for watching.
Can you short the whole winding up with an electric charge, and soften that glue?
There is one thing everyone needs to know about electricity... You must respect it, the first time you don't it will knock you on your ass, or kill you! So no I would not try that :-) Thanks for checking out my channel.
Where u get them?
I pick up from a lot of hotels :-) Thanks for watching.
Don't feel bad, I suck at math too lol.😂
Always happens when filming :-) LOL Thanks for stopping by the channel.
You really should include the time it takes you to pick up the microwaves and take the transformers out.
Thanks for checking out my channel... I have videos showing how long it takes to strip out all the copper from microwaves :-) about 7 minutes.
You've got much younger transformers than me. Mine are more than 50 years old. The sad part about scrapping them is that they still are useful as working transformers. A hammer doesn't split them. Time to get out the hacksaw or angle grinder.
Well they should be copper though :-) Thanks for stopping by my channel.
That's great but I live in Saskatchewan where finding free microwaves is next to impossible. It was ok in BC, I had a house full of stuff to scrap. But here it sucks. Valu Village sells 476,879-year-old microwaves for 20 bucks each. at the weight you showed, at 4 bucks a pound, that's $11.50. I'd be losing $8.50 on every microwave.
This province sucks for scrappers and recyclers and repurposers. In BC there were plenty of places you could get microwaves, TVs, appliances, or just about anything. At every landfill there was a shed that you could take stuff OUT of for free. At the bottle/electronics depots you could take anything you wanted as long as it hadn't made it inside yet, and people would drop off electronics by the door and the staff would take it inside. Curbside scrapping was seldom there but it was there, people don't put things curbside in Saskatchewan. Any scrap bin was fair game unless it had a lock and fence, or a no trespassing sign. That was in BC. Saskatchewan SUCKS!!!!
Yes, finding them in numbers and free is hard. I get them from my Hotel contacts. Thanks for watching.
Apparently you don't understand the heat energy potential in the process off converting electricity.
Also, you could just burn off the paper.
I do :-) Us youtubes say things in the videos to spur comments. Thanks for watching.
How do you make $360 an hour?
you have to do 60 an hour :-)
They rap it because smaller windings vibrate and hum
Cool, did not know that! Good to know. Thanks for stopping by my channel.
No but your a destructive electrical engineer.
LOL... Thanks for checking out my channel.
You do know that if you was to burn the coating off you'd get paid for number 1 copper
Around here it would still be #2 copper, that is how the yards grade it. If you try to bring in burned electrical wire they will not even buy it. Thanks for watching.
Not true don’t say stupid things please
Now I just need a time machine
Back to the Future :-) Thank would be awesome.
Great video. I have a few to do
Gotta Love double copper :-)
that looked pretty easy , I got some old streetlights this summer , they have transformers in them 🙂
Yes, it can be done really quick. The cobra head lights are great for aluminum and copper transformers. Thanks for stopping by my channel.