Scrapping power supply adapter heads: small items worth BIG PROFIT!!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Hello scrappers and planet lovers. In this video, I take apart some power supply adapter heads for loads of copper, tin, and brass. I will show you how to safely and effectively identify and separate the metals in order to help maximize your profit and divert as much of the material away from the landfill as possible.
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• Scrapping small copper...
It is great to see someone so enthusiastic to share knowledge! Thanks!🌞
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching. Stay well.
You're doing good work for the planet recycling valuable and important metal resources
I am ahead of the game. Had to buy a security bit set this past summer because my license plate is held on with security screws. Love videos like this because I became a full time scrapper (due to heath realted to an MVI) and knowledge like this determines weither I eat bologna or steak!! AWESOME VIDEO!! CHEERS!!
Thanks for the comment. Sorry to hear about the health issue, but glad to hear another scrapper. Take care and happy scrapping
@@TinManScrapper snowy day here so binge watching scrapper videos hehe
We are supposed to get a little snow tomorrow in southwestern Ontario. Nothing big, but a little. I do enjoy the first snow fall of the year. @@maritimescrapper
@@TinManScrapper I would enjoy it more if I had everythign set up. Should have everything ready tomorrow. 🙂
I'm a scrapper I hit dumpsters and I get free food steak eggs peppers
Final breakdown compared to about $1.85 as is: 13 lbs tin ($1.30), 5 oz. brass ($ 0.94), 14 oz ewaste ($0.04), and 3.7 lbs #2 copper ( $14.48) = $16.76 profit. It too, me about 25 minutes to do.
How many power supply units is this roughly and is the #2 copper coming after you broke down the internal transformers inside the actual power unit or leaving the transformer as-is?
Just curious, I've been stockpiling some power units whether or not they had value and busted them open. Now I'm tempted to go through them all like you did in this video. Thanks for posting!
I got 3.7lbs worth of #2 copper, enter to break open then leaving as transformers. It is something you can do on a rainy day.@@Scrapomatic
Awesome video
I wish you would include the breakdown weights and profit in the video. Even if it's just a slide of text on the screen.
so you got around $13.00 More than you would if you sold them for. 15 to 20cents cents a lb, and that was about 1.0 hour to do that pile ( we are scrappers )not 15 minutes
Some of the best silver contacts I've found in those.
Tell us more!
Glad you resell the working ones. If folks can lot them up we buy them at a wholesale sale price. Be surprised what adapter folks buy off eBay. Thanks for sharing the break down
I will think of you next time I have a bunch to resell. Stay well
@@TinManScrapper please do , video games too. I know a whole community of folks that like some stuff you guys find in trash. Look forward to collaborating with you. Thanks for all your vids. They sure helped when I first started scrapping
I never thought of that, I have an uncle that was a hoarder, and he had an entire tote full of adapters, some of which are for antique machines. Between selling the antique ones and scrapping the others, I may have a few dollars in there. Thanks for the information.
Glad you found the video useful. Keep me posted on how you make out. Stay well and happy scrapping.
My favorite scrapper on UA-cam
Thank you for that huge compliment! I am glad you have found my channel enjoyable and informative. Stay well and happy scrapping.
I have slowed down on scrapping. I did not take the time to tear apart transformers. Now that I have smaller items and price is up it seems like a great idea. I get those all the time. I like how you get the most out of the wall transformers. It good to break the Item down in price. Some of the prices we pay for new ones is around $150.00. I would think you might be able to sell some. The ones that we get sometimes have a brown band from use. Those would have to be scrapped. I am sure most of them are barely used. Thanks for the tip. Keep on dropping that coin in the piggy bank. It sure adds up after a while.
You are absolutely right, cannot quit my day job yet for scrapping, but collecting it up and eventually bringing it in is a nice little bonus day. Stay well and happy scrapping
I only keep the big ones! I have a 55 gallon drum full but haven't had time due to processing the noble metals first! Great Video Brother!🏆
Thank you. Yeah, I too save up a lot of my items, like motors, transformers, etc and do them all at once. Thanks for the comment and watching. Stay well and happy scrapping.
Great video. I wanted to mention the comment in the video about not getting bare bright due to size. Even if it met the gauge requirements, you still would not get bare bright because it is magnetic wire. What that means is the wire has be laqured so that it can be wound around as a coil in close proximity of itself without the electricity jumping across the path and creating a short. Bare copper wound would just be a dead short. Not a electromagnetic coil such as that in a motor or transformer. So it's never bare bright because it's coated.
You are right. I just wanted to make the comment about thickness because I get a lot of viewers that ask the difference between #2 and bare bright.
@@TinManScrapper I learned about the gauge requirements from you! Lol. I had just had the experience in the past selling transformer windings, motor windings( if you have a fast way to strip those let me know, they're hard), and contactor coil windings. I'm a parallel refrigeration rack mechanic of 22 years. I usually save all my old parts for a year then scrap it all.
@@TwistedkittensGaming My brother is an electrician, so imagine how much copper wire he acquires in a year from job sites. It is amazing that some of us coworkers want nothing to do with collecting it and bringing it in as a bonus….they can’t be bothered. Stay well and happy scrapping
As an amateur repair tech, this is was a very difficult video to watch. However the idea of reusing these materials is invaluable. Good show!
You're a very good teacher, love your work
Thank you! 😃 I appreciate your comment and for watching. Stay well.
im fixing to build a foundry to make bronze after watching this i know where to get brass and tin. thank you
Thanks for the comment. My future plans are to make a forge and melt some items. Although here you have to be careful, some scrapyards will not accept bars since they question the purity. Stay well and happy scrapping.
What is commonly called tin in scrapping videos is not the element tin (Sn). The chrome or nickel on the brass makes it not good for melting.
i’m a Scrapper down here in Texas and I do my electric motors with copper aluminum ends some insulated wire that’s real small. I don’t peel it with my shredder wire tool operates by drill. I got another one coming. It’s multiple wires without having to go through and adjust the wheel and the cutting wheel and everything like my little single one does breakdown and AC operator and AC I take the AC motors and split the casing and grind off one top and pound it out of that pile a little platelet metal. I’ve been scrapping for a long time. I like that you take apart those little transformers I do pull my brass pieces some chrome colored, but I do pull those out of extension cords, vacuum cleaners, our extension cord, vacuum cords, small wiring that’s something some AC units washers and dryers they call that extension cord. Everything is too small to strip so I just it gives about 70 to 80 something cents a pound for that light white copper wiring I’m pounding out a AC motor right now with the punch and my vice in on getting all that and then taking the rope string off of it.
It is amazing how quick the little things like brass plug ends and small spools of copper from these adapters can quickly add up in weight. Thanks for the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping!
I am in the electronics repair business and I see thousands of wall warts being thrown away. People are usually too lazy to even save or sell them, and just leave them in a drawer. When I tell them I can dispose, they are happy to give them to me. Working, I sell them. Cheap, easy money. If old, damaged or ?? I bust them up, keep in a bin. It is money in the bank. The worse the economy gets, the more parts I get, the higher the payout goes, the easier it gets to turn them over. Awesome video.
Thanks for the comment and for watching. Glad you can make some extra money selling them or taking them apart. I agree, most people are happy you take the items off their hands. Stay well and happy scrapping
Thx for the info! I just found your channel & I’m subscribing! I have several 5-gallon buckets of plugs & electronic adapters, so I appreciate the info on how to process these!
Thanks for the sub! Thank you for watching and glad you found the video helpful!
Those tools with the hole in the end are called security torx bits.
I have a few hundred of these. My yard told me they will only take them as shred so I've been holding on to them. I may have to break them down now. Thanks!
Good day James Yes they are good scrap I had to buy one for laptop 58.00 Didn't have any that size
Thanks
Too bad, unfortunately some things are scarce. Is that not the way, find tons of them except the one that fits in your laptop. Thanks and have a good one.
Thanks Tin Man this was helpful. I like the back of the hammer tip. ~Blessings
glad you found it helpful. thanks for watching. stay well and happy scrapping
Yes the back is better assuming that your using the hammer with the claws that are not curved at a hard angle.I sharpen my claws on the bench grinder ever so often.
if somewhere in this video, you had said something along the lines of " the X , X and Y is the valuable bits mentioned in the title" I would keep watching. I watched for five minutes as you talked about not scrapping them, how much you love the earth, your friends, facebook marketplace etc. Started skipping around to actually find what the video is about and absolutely no clue. Now im frustrated, will ignore this channel and stop procrastinating on throwing away the massive boxes of adapters i ended up with after being left the contents of a electronics store. It's worth presenting your videos in a way that they are accessible to everyone, not just the longtime fans
Sorry, not sure when I ever said not worth scrapping?
@@TinManScrapper shud prob watch yer own videos then
He's Canadian. 🤷♂️
@@everyday80sdude86 Yes I am.
Thanks for covering these.
Now check out how Scrapitall slices them in half with a machete and a hammer. Cuts like butter and the two halves of copper slide out.
I have a couple buckets of these I still need to process.👍
I like your trick using the the claw end if the hammer to help separate those metal plates. I use a rough edge of a file to work them loose but it really puts a strain on the hands. I’ll definitely try your method
It is easy to separate this way and no stress.
Nice. I was saving them up in case they were useful, but there's not many applications for them. Most of the transformer based ones are 6 9 or 12v with small amps. They have been totally supplanted by newer tech that is vastly more efficient, so it's okay to scrap them guilt free. Pretty easy too, most of the time it only takes one wack of the hammer (or in my case a rusty butchers knife)
Only possible application I can think of is for Nintendos (uses a 9v1amp ac supply)
How much copper is in a penny?
HUH? So how are you getting AC line to DC or to a lower voltage ac current without a transformer? I think you need to do some reading
How much would you sell 12v 5 amp dc adapters for?
@@bartholomewceremony6981In the U.S. almost none for the last 40 years. They are zinc with a thin coating of copper. Old solid copper pennies have about 2 1\2 cents worth of copper in them. It is illegal to scrap them however.
@@xHICKORYx smoking Crack in the white house.
I have about 500 of these. Just been saving them up!!! Love your videos! Great content.
I don’t think I have that many 😂 but now I wanna dig em out and count them ♻️🤪🤣🤙🏻
CheeRs Bro
that will be a nice score for sure. Thanks for the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping. Thanks for the kind words as well.
Head is always the best part.
Excellent lecture thank u sir may u enjoy every moment of your life
Thank you and same to you
Where do you sell the scrap to? Because most scrap yards in the U s, just throw it all together and give you one price. Maybe i'm just not looking at the right places but any information would be greatly appreciated. Or maybe i'm not asking them to right questions
Great tips. Happy Sunday!
I’m a weirdo, I take everything apart. I make miniatures and it’s amazing what little parts make.
nothing weird about taking things apart and reusing the items or selling them. I think you are pretty creative and intelligent for having the knowhow to do so. Stay well and happy scrapping
I also take everything apart, and build minis! It's amazing how much inspiration comes from the most mundane things! Eyeshadow tins=cake pans, 25¢ machine plastic egg=Webber grill, top of coffee creamer bottle=front loading washing machine.. lol! Good stuff! Glad to know I'm not the only weirdo out there!
Thanks for the comment. You are not a weirdo for seeing the value in the items we use each day, or trying to make a little money from the items we have already purchased. Not to mention the environmental impact you are making by reducing the amount of items that could potentially end up in the landfill. I am actually truly amazed at how many scrappers there are worldwide. Stay well and happy scrapping @@jenaarons2204
I scrap mine out as well. I don't do this for a living, just a hobby. Feels like I'm saving the planet a little while making a little bit of spending cash.
Awesome 👍 very informative and thanks for the total break down! I love taking those apart too i wish i knew a place i could buy those.also you get so much more 💰 per pound than us in the States 👍👍
Yeah, I actually came across a nice little pile that were collected, stored and just the chord was taken. it is amazing hearing the different prices from country to country and even state to state, province to province, and even town to town.
Have you ever heard of or used knipex cutters and other tool they Mack. Great cutters. All made in Germany. Not cheap but worth it!!
I will check it out, thanks
Man those scrap prices compared to the area in the u.s. i live in are nice. I get about $3.05lb. For #1 copper . Brass i believe is about $1.80lb. That covers red, yellow and white
Great video my friend
Buck Converters can make use of some odd voltage power heads.
Would have been nice to see the breakdown of what the value was for the 18lbs of chargers
I save everything now except aluminum which I take in now and then. My retirement work/fund. Saving all this scrapping knowledge too. Thanks for bothering.
it is a nice extra during retirement. Thanks for watching and happy retirement! Stay well
Yes this is a hard asset, unaffected by inflation.
@@Mike-v6r I'm a self employed kinda seasonal worker. Timber frame barn repair contractor , up north too. A lot of rainy /snowy days so it will give me something to putter with. Copper especially isn't manipulated by the big banks like silver and gold.... as far as I know.
I save old ones for reuse later. But when it comes to scraping them.. i dont break em down. More money in processing other things.
I guess it depends on the type of scrapper or availability of items you can find/scrap. I store them up and do them on a rainy day.
Getting that plastic off is very easy.The bigger ones are worth pulling the copper out of.Either way they sell and when you find them there's usually multiples.
Do you have a regular full-time job or are you able to find enough scrap to scrap full-time?
He is a teacher and must be a very good one! I like his videos because he is very thorough and informative.I have learned a lot of tips on scrapping things from him.Have a great day!
@@montyculbertson694 Sounds like a side fun hobby then. Good at teaching this as well.
I don't understand how he has enough time to teach.
@@gaildeckant267 Good time management and you can usually make time to do things you enjoy doing. He enjoys scrapping and teaching and teaching about it.
Transformers..
More than meets the eye
lol, Transformers….money in disguise
would it be worthwhile to melt the copper into bars and sell it that way?
You could get out all/most of the impurities that way as well
unfortunately some yards won’t accept melted bars because they question the purity of the metal. Melting them would make it easier to store though.
For the small time scrapper who doesn’t come across big piles of wire..doesn’t frequent construction or demo sites, and who doesn’t commit acts of blatant theft - little things like power supplies are like gold. Things like this/aluminum cans, etc..I let them rack up for the better part of a year or more, I don’t do this for a living so it’s well worth it to let it all rack up, ‘s a nice payday at the end of the year, ‘s like free money in my eyes.
That said, someone who has regular access to bigger ticket scrap pieces may not think it worth their time to fiddle with these things as it does take some time to rack up an amount worth taking in..to me/in my area at least (I certainly don’t get anywhere near $4+ per lb of copper lol).
I too will do a pile of these, preferably in fall or winter when cooler in the garage. Thanks for the comment. Scrapping can be a nice side job for sure.
Someone else may have already said this, It's not bare bright also, because it's winding wire.....It's got an enamel insulating coating so the turns don't short out, one to the other.
Yes, I agree, but I just wanted to highlight for beginner scrappers that any wire less than 16 gauge is #2 regardless of color
Have you considered using a bench grinder setup to quickly remove the epoxy resin and other misc materials like hot glue instead of the hammer claws just for efficiency? I would think that it’s possible set up a jig to hold the transformer for a quick surface removal. I literally have 3x cardboard file boxes filled with working AC-AC and AC-DC wall wort transformers that are sorted by various outputs and currents/watts that continue to come in handy to solve issues that arise over time. The older ones have more variations than the newer ones that have mostly standardized around 12VDC for most things like routers, Apple, Home Automation etc etc.
I remember when these were over $10 USD “landed” w warantee and now a watt or so is sub $1 USD which is crazy cheap ( to the end product supplier like Linksys, NETGEAR, Apple, etc etc ).
I have a few old USR PS that’s are HUGE beasts with like. DIN connector that most youth have no idea what it is. Ok
Thanks for the comment. I just hope that these adapters don’t change like motors and all become aluminum winding instead of copper. Thanks for the comment and happy scrapping
Head is always best
Nice Job, $30 per hour is not bad at all. People are leaving money on the table.
Yup. There is a lot of money left on the table or in the trash just waiting to be picked up. Thanks for the comment.
Hi- I agree it is worth the time to scrap them tranformers- more than meets the eye. What are those Allen head tools with holes drilled in them called? Myself I place Transformer in vice and use a hacksaw to cut the Copper. The reason is I live in a 4 family house and don't want to make noise 5 am of 8pm. THANX
l-key security set
Not anymore. Old ones are heavy and have a transformer with copper windings. New ones use buck/boost switching converters and it’s just a PCB with a few worthless components.
Yup, just like new motors are using more aluminum windings instead of copper.
That's number two copper because it's got varnish on it. Shiny Brite is pulled out of plastic and has nothing on it.
All of the copper from these is #2 because of both rules varnish covered and also thinner than 16 gauge
Speed kills bro.
I collect all my plug/wire heads just because I'm a trash goblin. It's cool to learn they do have some value
Yes, and they add up in value. Stay well and happy scraping!
Have you logged the time you spend extracting materials vs scrapping the whole components? I would be curious to know exactly what value you added by investing the time to separate things.
I don’t spend a lot of time scrapping since I am a full time elementary school teacher, but I come out to the garage to scrap at times to unwind, or clear my head. I actually find it therapeutic since I enjoy seeing how things come apart. I will also say that some of the items like copper and brass if stored up for a while do have a great payoff
@TinManScrapper hey tin man great videos. I was interested in others sources of tin to look for while scraping. If you know of any it would be greatly appreciated
Very informative, I never though of collecting these for scrap. If you know which go for a better price you can replace the cut wire. Not a difficult repair & sell as reconditioned. Profit should be better than for scrap. Do you sell the scrap at a scrap yard or on line?
Adding another 👍
Stay well, Joe Z
I sell a lot more of my items/metals to the scrapyard
👍@@TinManScrapper
Hi Tin Man, When say Adapter Copper is surounded in Tin, is solid Tin or Plated, Many thanks Mark
The plates are solid metal. They are thin and connected together layered around the copper.
I use the claw side of hammer to crack these transformers open.When i scap i will oniy use the hammers with the straiter claw. The hammers with the curved claws doent work near as good.
Interesting video - thank you!
I must be overlooking the breakdown of what the 18.5 pounds yielded - can't seem to find it. Thank you
From the 18.5 lbs. I got 1.3 lbs of #2 copper, 0.2 oz brass, and 14 lbs. tin
@@TinManScrapper Wow, that's a surprising yield to this newbie that's considering scrapping. Thank you so much for taking the time to reply - really appreciate it!
No problem. The light ones don’t have much copper, but the heavy ones have a great transformer inside. @@papercents
0:30 easy to open sometimes, most of the time they don't want consumers opening them at all and your method with the hammer worked pretty quick but if you're at all clumsy like me you'd probably hit your fingers eventually. maybe put them on the ground and use a bigger hammer?
lol. Oh, I have hit my fingers a lot.
I wish I knew this way earlier in life. Could’ve of cashed in all that time.
Thank you for the comment and kind words. We have all passed up things in the past. I wish I knew earlier how good CRT television were with #2 copper inside. Also the old microwaves having almost 2+ lbs. of copper in the transformers. Better late than never I guess. Stay well and happy scrapping
great energy
Thank you. I try to stay engaging and energetic.
You get better prices in Canada for scrap! They don't pay that kind of money in United States for scrap! At least not where I live by, Lol. So not worth my time to tear them apart by! I'd rather get drunk 😂! But I enjoy your videos by👍❤️
This is also Cdn money I am saying prices in. Our dollar is not as good as yours. Thanks again
Isn't there away to use a heat gun so the cord can be replaced rather than purchase a new adapter. I have a few adapters that need a new cord and I can't seem to find new adapters at any electronic store. They are over 12 v, more like 20v.
Not sure about the heat gun method unfortunately. I know how to take things apart, but not as knowledgeable about being able to put things back together
Love ur advise is there anything inside curling irons
Not a large transformer like these but I do believe some silver, a nice appliance wire and a little copper. I actually have a few and was planning on doing a video in the not so distant future
Is it better to melt copper down into bars?
Some yards will actually not accept them because they question the purity of the bar. I would call your local scrapyard, because everywhere is different.. Thanks for the question, I hope that helps.
In our experiece scrapping is time vs reward. How much is your time worth?
It does not take a lot of copper or time to build up weight or payoff. I think environmental impact can be priceless as well
@@TinManScrapper valid point.
I have a box of transformers sitting down the shed. I will scrap them not because the output voltage is wrong but because the plugs don't match anything anymore
Yup, that happens too. I have so many and then try to use them and they are either too big or too small to fit into the appliances I have to test them.
I didn't realize all of that was in these. I won't be throwing out any more.
Glad I could help. Stay well and happy scrapping.
It is not far away when old scrapped items will fetch you more than to buy the equivalent today considering the way things are going.
The 2nd market is growing because today's consumer products are becoming shittier day by day.
oh yeah, things are not made like they use to. I see that especially when taking apart appliances with everything going from copper windings to aluminum.
build you a small forge. melt down the brass and make 1 lb bars.
My yard often takes them as is on the power cord as extension. 1$+ a pound no extra processing.
That is a good price. It is amazing the different rules and prices set down by various scrapyards.
I’ve noticed that a lot of copper wire is coated aluminum. Any value there?
As long as you scratch and it reveals the copper underneath it would be #2 copper
@@TinManScrapper
You may have misunderstood my latest comment. I have come across a few instances where the aluminum wire was coated with copper. I don’t remember where I the wire from. It is most definitely from a transformer. Might be old.
Not sure. I have come across some motors and transformers that have some copper wire and some aluminum. in that case, since I am taking the copper wire any way I will put the aluminum wire in a bag and sell as aluminum, it I have not come across aluminum coated with copper. You could bring it in and sell as dirty copper or mixed wire. I think since it has some copper content a scrapyard will buy it.@@disoldman72
@@TinManScrapper
I went through my scrap wire and I found the hybrid wire. It was definitely from a motor. It’s #10 ga. primary transformer wire. Upon closer examination it looks like the colour of copper as if it was just an anodized aluminum.
So if it is aluminum wire, there is a market for aluminum wire as well, since there are aluminum wired motors and transformers. Not sure of the price if it is coated, but clean aluminum goes for about 0.50 lb. here.@@disoldman72
Transformers have #2 copper not because of the size, but because the wire is coated. It's not "bare".
Yes, you are right, but some transformers actually are not coated. I have seen some that are bare. I use both cases because I am trying to teach fellow scrappers that regardless of how clean the wire, it will never be #1 or bare bright because of the thickness.
@@TinManScrapperIt is coated. It would not work if it were bare. Some transformers use wire that is insulated with clear lacquer or polyester, so it looks bare, but it’s not.
Surely, a sharp knife could be used to slice off the rubber coating on the transformer laminations. (9:22 in video.)
yes, it could.
Ones from the 90s used silver and gold.
I never knew that. I have to find me some of them! Thanks for the comment.
@@TinManScrapper Computers from the 1980s gold mines literally.
Cool. Hope to find me one soon. Thanks for the comment.@@METALMAN4Wii
I got $2.25 per pound of clean copper last time i scraped. That will be, the LAST time i scrap. The supposed metals market isnt consistent with lucrative pay. Working a fast food job can often pay more for your limited time. Good video though.
Thanks, yeah scrapper prices do fluctuate. I held on to my copper for a while and my cast aluminum for even longer until it got to a decent price. Scrapping isn’t going to make me rich that is for sure, but it does have somewhat of an environmental impact and a little play money. Thanks for the comment. Stay well.
@@TinManScrapper I sincerely appreciate your reply my friend. I wouldn't consider scraping to have an environmental impact. A real impact, would be to make all of the people jumping on the electric car bandwagon to wake up. The cost of materials in the batteries, the cost to manufacture one, the power that charges them comes from coal! 😂 Cracks me up that so many people are willing to believe what Democratic owned news networks will tell you.
I agree. I actually just read an article whereby the owner of an elector car was furious that her replacement battery cost $63000!! I do wonder if electric cars take hold what will be the new cost of hydro? @@Chriscovelli1
@@TinManScrapper $63,000 is so insane for a battery! And good point about the Hydrogen cars coming soon. They too will probably have a dark side to them we won't know about till later.
i would wear a thick leather glove on your right hand, or a piece of wood on edge of vice , the hammer will kill a a finger , we are human and make mistakes sometimes
oh, I know….I have hit one before. Thanks for the comment. Stay well.
Can you please put a link for the security tools?
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If the economy fails, we are all ahead of the game.
Not too bad 40.00 an hour no taxes. Now how much time to cash in also needs to be figured in
Yup, I actually have just been storing copper and brass, everything else I offload to the scrapyard for space and some side money. It all adds up in time.
There is a much faster and easier way to remove the copper wire from a transformer, simply cut the transformer in half between the steel plates with a large knife and a mallet. It will take about 10 seconds and the wire will just fall out.
Thanks for the tip. I will have to try that one.
If you melt all your copper down you will burn off all the impurities and have bright clean copper. Maybe not worth the energy to melt everything down??
Problem is that some scrapyards won’t buy the melted metals because they question the purity.
I save these in a bucket. I ha e about 3 buckets full. One day I am going to get a huge hammer mill and crush them. Putting finer screens in and use a magnet to seperate out steel. Then use an air seperator for plastic. The rest will be brass and copper.
I do have a bigger hammer, but the small one worked for me. Great source. I too collect and save items and do them all at once to save time. Thanks for the comment. Stay well.
Great video thanks. Love the cathartic feeling of smashing those power adapters.
that's a lot of beetus for little award.
It depends on the scrapper. I don’t take apart some things that other scrappers would and visa versa. Given the price of copper right now, it worth it for me.
Mantap boos
dude does this for therapy, helps him relax ...lol
Yup, I can turn off my brain and smash away. Actually the whole process of scrapping and separating the metals is very therapeutic and relaxing to me
chances are you would know better than anyone
Where do you get all these adapters like this and. UNITED STATES doesn't recycle as Canada does. Only a few states give a deposit back ok on glass jars or bottles. Years ago all the states gave any where from $.02 to $.50 a bottle, at least there was more of a chance people weren't throwing them away. I live in the country and need to save garbage bags full of smashed tin cans and smashed plastic bottles to recycle and I'm disabled. They have recycle pickup in some areas, but not where I live. I think they should make it mandatory to recycle. It's not difficult it's just having pickup service. Think about how it help slow down making the environment better. Even if we aren't making money something should be done.
I agree, it is amazing how much we have to throw out because recycling facilities don’t run in certain areas. Also a shame how some places don’t offer free electronic and appliance drop facilities. Some of my viewers say they have to pay over $30 to drop off an old crt tv. That is crazy and promotes people either throwing them in the dumpsters or worse, in the ditches. Thanks for the comment. Stay well.
sometimes you can make good money thrifting old lamps for cast aluminum brass. scrap
Yup, I have done some of that. Also different trophies, and other vases. Thanks for the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping.
In the United States we call this a professional tweaker
Sorry TMS first time to your channel, but 33 seconds in and I'm baling, only that voice tonality of yours is like Joe Pesci had a love child with bugs bunny, geez bud you made my ears cry.
Wow, pretty harsh. Don’t think I can really help the way my voice sounds.
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Why does the gage matter of us all by weight? Sounds like a scam on their end.
I know, copper is copper. Just a rule, just like copper pipe cannot be bare bright.
Hair in America number two coppers gone for 350 in pound then we got 345 350 for number one
U should mount your phone on the wall we could see every thing
There also very poisonous too!!
My ex was scrapping my metal that I found and she said it was therapeutic until she finally figured out she was only making a dollar an hour 😂😂😂
I think it depends on what you find. Finding copper is a lot more monetarily valuable compared to aluminum for example. but yes it can sometimes make little. I can’t quit my day job.
so 5 minutes for one?
On camera yes, but not when I am doing quickly.
Is rollie your brother
Bigger hammer = more fun 😅
lol, I like your thinking. Stay well and happy scrapping