Scrapping a vacuum cleaner for loads of copper, silver, and other metals.
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Hello scrappers and planet lovers. This is a video to show you all the free copper, silver, aluminum, and other metals found inside a vacuum cleaner. I will show you how to safely and effectively separate the metals in order to maximize your profits.
Sounds good I have a few laying around thanks for the information!!
Thanks for sharing...just picked up 2; got the motors out, now I just need to get my copper out 🎉
Nice one, James.
I’m really hard of hearing it echos a lot for me but I still learned by watching
Thank you for watching. Stay well.
3:46 - When my friends come over; they can't tell what is furniture and what is scrap at my place either.
"You've got sooo much scrap here! Hey, how much copper is in that lamp?"
"Put that down! That's my lamp bro!!!" :D
Lol....I am getting a handle on the mess slowly and then it is garbage day again and I am full again! The lamp works so I am not going to scrap it as yet. There is a copper wire in it, prob. .75lb of copper.
Lots of the newer vacuums have copper coated wire so be careful when separating it.
I just found your videos today not sure why it took me so long. But best videos I’ve seen I’m so excited to watch more.
Thank you for the kind words and support. Glad you found them entertaining. Stay well.
Thanks for the info Tin man
En français s'il vous plaît!!! Keep up the good work Tin Man👍🏻👍🏻
My 9 yr old son just picked one up and it worked..Hoover WindTunnel All-Terrain Dual ...saw some online over 250.00
Nice find. Amazing what people throw out.
Great videos, really enjoying them, one question I have is what do you do with all the plastic parts that are not recyclable like the insulation for wiring?
in most places you can take wire in thats not stripped. It pays less than copper strands tho.
come to sphs as a tech teacher
old crocpots are a pretty quick win too!
Yup, as are slow cookers.
The motor core can actually be scrapped a little further for some dirty copper pretty easily, you'll see that on top of the copper coils, there are copper plates for the brushes, a couple hits with the hammer and those pop right off nice heavy copper chunks although still rather dirty.
I agree with saving the silver contacts for maybe it will bwcome a category and be worth something per lb. But mixing them with the acid seems to be a bit too costly and dangerous for the yield.
I'm just wondering do you have any deep fryers to review because I have an extra one and would love to take it apart and get to see what's inside and get to sell some of it
I will keep my eye out for one. Thanks for the idea.
I do the exact same process... but sometimes the vacuums still work so i clean them up and sell em for 20$ once i traded a dyson for a full tote bin of appliance wires! Unfortunately these days lots of the cheaper vacuums are being manufactured with aluminum motor windings and wiring... sux. Always a disappointment. I probably have like 6 working vacuums in my garage lol one for the house, one for the garage, one for the vehicles, one for the camper, etc.
Yeah, I actually just found one the other day and no issues, other than some dog hair around brush. Took it off, cleaned it up and works beautifully. I agree with the aluminum windings, however, the small copper core is still copper. I am sure that eventually the scrapyards are going to want you to separate them.
very wasteful society we live in. Nice to see fellow scrappers helping to reclaim our resources and divert materials from the landfills. Stay well
Nice gloves
Love your videos! What do you think is the best thing about scrapping?
Great question, sounds like another video. Glad you like the videos and thanks for subscribing to my channel.
Once you dissolve the silver in nitric acid, what's the process for reconstituting it?
The silver actually is the only thing that won’t dissolve with nitric acid. It is the other elements like copper that will dissolve away leaving silver to be put together and melted down
@@TinManScrapper Even better!
Scrapper and I have been throwing away all these things that you’re showing me in these videos. All I’ve been taking is aluminum and copper and brass throwing everything else away dammit man 👨
After it's all said and done taking apart that vacuum you might make $8 an hour on that
It all adds up. Not saying I will make a living off scrapping, but good side money for most and great way to keep items out of the landfill
Is this your home? I only wish I could scrap everything the way you do. I’d be rich
Yes, my garage.
Hummm I wonder who this is......
My mom telling me it’s worth nothing and that I’d be making a mess I still did it in 1 year I’ll no longer have her telling me not to
Lol. Easy to take apart and if it does not work, great to divert from landfill
at $7/lb its worth doing. Even if you only store the copper. I took in one 15L bucket full and got €80 (im in europe)
and show your face some more me firth cmon
The logo is all you need. Part of the mystery....who is Tin Man! Thanks for subscribing.
Tin Man mmm wonder who you are not like u emailed me😂...