Scrapping a Microwave FAST and SAFE! - Make More Money In Less Time!
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2017
- Scrapping a Microwave FAST and SAFE! - Make More Money In Less Time! -
This video is here to explain the fastest way to get the good parts out of a microwave with the least amount of effort. If you want to get scrap copper out of scrapping a microwave faster, this video should help. I help by explaining what to look for and how to know if the parts are worth taking apart and where to stop, as well as what to look out for and how to stay safe. Remember to stay safe and be aware of hazardous materials whenever scrapping electronics for cash. If you want to make money dumpster diving or make money with scrap metal, you should know the dangers as well. Stay informed!
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It is vital you express caution when removing the doo hickey and thing a mabob. Effectively avoiding shenanigans.
Lol 😂😂😂
I'm a retired 62 yr. old welder and like scrapping to while away a few hours throughout the week. It is also my small contribution of removing my negitive imprint on the environment. Peace y'all
How's your eyesight at 62??
6:58 im glad he mentioned the beryllium ceramic, as its a good note to make since beryllium dust can cause severe lung damage and give you berylliosis
Don't forget the probably fully charged capacitor ,love how he pulled the magnetron and just silence lol
That made me afraid of scrap microwaves. Lol.
I'll be just careful. I'm really glad he mentioned it so I learned it.
I have junked hundreds of these and never had a problem with the Megatron or capacitors.
@@mysterybuyer3738 people are just not educated, & pansies. I've taken several apart myself no problem.
@@matthewmickles1997 It's just this newer generation, they are so fragile and want to hide from everything. I bet if they ever found a piece of lead they would poke it with a stick. lol.
Dude I has no idea those where cancerous! I was about to take apart my microwave but then stopped and watched your video. You litterally might have just saved others and my life 🙏 thank you for these videos, thank you, thank you.
😂 I’m a public servant!
Is it really that dangerous?
Beryllium is some of the nastiest shit out there, that is not misinformation, have some friends who have worked with it or around it. It is safe in a solid form but like he said if you smash or grind it and power gets airborne it is an extreme carcinogen, far worse than asbestos and does act much faster. It is an extraordinary metal tho, stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum just nasty to work with but it is out there.
Microwave has radiation is to dangerous
Your hilarious no bs approach to informative display of scrapping has earned you a sub.
You are TOO COOL !!!!
Thanks for sharing. It may be a lot of work for little money, but it is better then watching crappy TV and it's great recreation/stress relief and a few extra bucks.thank you,Cory
Be careful man, those things have VERY large capacitors in them that can discharge thousands of volts at a high enough amperage to kill you. Some of them can remain charged for years. Be careful.
Also you can pick up a set of security bits at any auto parts store for about 4 bucks.
Yesss that's what I was thinking I just got a 2100v 0.90μF capacitor from an old microwave and discharged it right away
So, could I take the magnets from microwaves and then make a perpetual motion machine and use the capacitor to store the energy It creates?
@@elyoj6845 yeah but u gotta be very careful with the capacitor cuz it could easily electricute someone if it's fully charged
@@elyoj6845 If you could make a perpetual motion machine you'd solve the world's energy issues.
@@crawfordarmstrong
I don't see why it would be to difficult to do with magnets.
EYE PROTECTION!!! (as I'm sure dozens of others have mentioned) Also, I've been scrapping for >10 years now and it never occurred to me that the other winding in those copper coated aluminum microwave transformers might be copper hair. Dang. How many of those have I thrown in to the tin pile?!?!?!?!?
Hopefully not too many, those are a good bit!
I never wear protection of any kind when doing this and have been scrapping all my life. Can't be afraid of everything.
I've been scrapping for over 5 years and taking apart microwaves every time I find one. I stopped cutting the wires I just take all the screws out, because most of the wires that connect from point A to point B to point C is all silver coated copper wire. The other wires that are in the motors are copper wires. Since I don't dismantle a microwave on a lawn I use a chisel and the claw hammer to get the copper wire and the aluminum wire out of the motor. I'll usually take a microwave and dismantle it near a dumpster in a parking lot that way I can throw all the steel out since I don't use it. The only thing I will come with to take apart is all the wires and motors and that's about it. Also if you're efficient enough you will take out all the boards that have the fan on it and all the other stuff.
I laughed at him and your comments. Thanks for the chuckles!
I don’t know if I’ll ever take apart a microwave, but watching you do it was entertaining!
Look, hes treating it as a hobby and making a few bucks on the side and sending all that metal back for reuse.
So whats the problem.Good one mate.
Oh I don’t think he needs you to defend him. He knows exactly what he’s doing here...& why... & it’s working very well for him. Obviously.
Maybe he could use all of this money to buy a razor and a haircut. It would do more for humanity than scrapping microwaves. Just sayin.
A hobby?
@@jpyle1a Oh, I have to disagree. .... Speaking of hares...
@@jpyle1a I thought I was depressed but holy shit.. you take the crown, you piss stain.
So many people on UA-cam think they're funny but you actually are. Thanks for the entertainment.
Take a screwdriver blade and short it across the terminals of the capacitor. That will drain any residual voltage that it may contain. Works on any capacitor.
If not discharged it could stop your heart. Know a guy that got shocked by it . they had to jump start him 3 times just about killed him for good.
You got shocked by one too I see. Hahahaha
@@fbsurveyor nope. But the difference between wisdom am and experience is wisdom you learn from the mistakes of others
Experience you learn from mistakes of your own. Better to be wise than experienced.
Would you mind being a little more specific, sir. I don't know what a screwdriver blade is or across the terminals. If you reapond, thank you.
@@guntharnicoleweaver212 "just about killed him for good" - rofl.. yeah thats usually what death does to ya.
I take all the little screws and metal bits and put them in a clean soup can. When half full just pound down the top of the can to trap all the little metal bits in there. You now have a heavy tin can. Not worth a lot of money at 3 cents a pound but it does add up and you have the benefit of not having little metal screws and sharp metal bits everywhere.
I use the stripped down microwaves to hold all the screws and bolts and little metal bits; also, I usually wait till after it rains to take in my tin since each microwave will hold an inch or two of water. A little water weighs a lot ;)
Yep. Lead acid batteries used to bring the highest cash value of all the junk. Not sure what happened or if I got scammed but I got lots more $ for scrap steel in my yard than anything else. Surprised me.
Cool videos man. I work in the HVAC industry and I've been collecting failed everything from compressors, fan motors, copper and coils over the last 20 years and it's paid pretty well. I usually wait till I have a small truck load then take it all for scrap. In some cases I have netted over $700 in one drop.
I love recycling and getting paid to do it is a bonus.
That’s what it’s all about!! I think around 700 is my largest one too actually
Back in the late 80's and early 90's I was making about $300.00 a day by driving many miles a day with an old pickup truck. Once in a small town I picked up 35+ aluminum storm doors. If I saw scrap I had no problem asking about it. I didn't do much with copper wire because it was too hard to process and I definitely wouldn't burn it because of the smoke. Batteries, radiators, transmissions, aluminum siding, mixed aluminum, brass, clean cast iron, and non- magnetic stainless steel. I would also save the following and only cash in once in a while: starters, alternators, heater cores, brass with alumunum, brass with iron, short iron. Being that I was living in Flint Michigan back then I had to cash in my load every morning when the scrap yards were open. I had to watch my truck very close at night to keep it from being stolen With the scrap metal. While I totally enjoyed this back then, the bottom finally fell out. I couldn't make a dime at it now.
great video! my neighbourhood is having a council cleanup at the moment, so I'm gonna go out hunting for microwaves etc now! thanks for the inspiration!
My greatest wish is to inspire others with this channel, thank you! They really are a pain to do often, but if you have a stack of them to rip through it't 2hrs well spent. The trick is finding somewhere to recycle the microwave husks. If you can fill a truck with steel though, keep em!
It was driving me crazy about not mentioning the beryllium until 7 minutes into the video lol. I had taken about a dozen apart being careful with the brass ring thinking it was the dangerous part. I'm not sure how hard that pink thing has to be struck to become dangerous but I do pay a little more awareness than the past. Love the video, guys at the scrapyard are always blown away to see a completley bare microwave but I'm with you. I scrap the screws too
I still think I should have been more direct about the beryllium, it’s pretty important. There was awhile I was just passing on all the steel because prices were garbage, but it seems steel is back now! Hopefully it holds. Nuts and bolts are some of the best density for sure, a bucket packed with those is a decent bit of coin 👍
@@thubprint Whenever prices are terrible for something, it's a good time to accumulate it. Once demand drives prices more to your liking, reward yourself with both the money plus open space. Although steel certainly is heavy and common, so it might take up too much space for consideration in some cases.
Thank you for all the tips, saving to show my 9 yr old- he’s been saving cans for cash now he’s ready to expand to other items, we recently took apart an old blender to scrap the copper, we got several key pieces out but your video was very helpful to showing the technical way to do this task, Thank again 🐝 the Good you wish to see ✌️
Misses Donaldson do not take apart a microwave research before you do it.
Rule #1 Tell your 9 year old to put on safety glasses. Don't tell him to, Make him do it!
Your kid is going to electricut himself with the capacitor
The capacitor in a microwave can hold an electrical charge that can kill instantly!!! The beryllium in the tube is highly toxic, will cause respiratory problems for life! This should not be done by a nine year old!!! Do not take these risks lightly!
You got the personality for doing videos. It made me want to read the comments and I learned more. Keep at it. But be careful, I made mistake with 277 volts and it can mess you up.
awesome video. i like that u don't yap on for 40 minutes like alot of scrappers do. u have the perfect mix of action, yap & solid info. ty
Thub is the yap balancer.
Thank you, sir! You do the Earth a fine service, and you deserve appreciation for your efforts. 👏
People processing junk for cash is good, but many of them are busting up air conditioners and refrigeration equipment and venting the refrigerant into the open air. Very bad for the ozone and just a little of it is bad.
Sometimes watching UA-cam is like watching inter dimensional Cable !!
Rickity reckt Uuuuughhhhhccckk. Burp
They say you and people like you are the smartest among us. That's until the meme got old. Now you're just regular people. Ah well. Fun while it lasted.
Yeah i haven't laid for cable since 20011 and i love youtube its a my "WAY OF LIFE" and ive re-learned stuff i was taught in school but i understand way more since im an adult! And some UA-camrs make learning so fun! Btw I love military history like weapons & tactics !
Also love stand up comedy such a vast array of videos that you could entertain urself for the rest of your life even if they stopped posting videos you WOULD NEVER finish them all! How CRAZY is that!?!?!
😂🤣😂😂🤣
I love you
This is a good idea for you channel. I like it! Thank!
your style makes me smile who doesn't like Money for Nothing.. Thank you for the video keep em coming!!
"So you'll wanna carefully remove those"
Starts hammering it 😂😂😂👌🏽
Thanks for the safety information. If you haven't already, you should do a tutorial of the dangers you come across when scrapping.
That’s not a bad idea!
That's brilliant mate I scraped for yrs never new thank for the intro
Thub you are the man! Thanks for the helpful tips to fine tune my scrapping!
Many people dont know that a lot of times the biggest problem with microwaves is one of the door safetys. Easily fixed with a slight adjustment
I loved your video, but after reading some of the comments, telling me what the parts can easily be sold for, I've decided to buy them at the big discount stores or Amazon and part them out. I think I can more than double my money. I know I'll be able to quit my job quickly and go at it full time. Thanks again for the video. I clicked the sub. button.
Now that's a great Idea!
Update? How's your business doing?
thanks for the help and these are fun to watch!
I "LOVE" the aggression!!!! It makes it a lot more fun with tear down....right? GREAT video....THX
He reminds me of the guy that scrapped a couple hundred feet of cable AFTER i told him it cost about $12 a foot. lol
was it wire that you dug up and it was all stretched to fuck and lost continuity ??? then its worth scrap .....if you show up at someones door trying to sell it they might say....."what construction site did that come from?" so yeah sometimes scrap is the only way.
@@anti-secretsocietymovement9552 hello i heard about your problem of being closeted im here to fix it i heard you act super gay but when asked you say i hate gay people simon we all know your gay stop playing
A lot of those with the stainless exteriors are actually just polished steel a magnet can help with identification of that
Your delicate attention to detail has gotten you another subscription and a share..Thanks!
Wow, thanks! Though I guess that means I have to keep it up, haha
best microwave scrap vid yet! Thanks bro
Thanks!! I Figured I'd give it a go :)
After I found out that 2 powerful permanent magnets were available,I became a junkyard junkie
I really enjoyed your video. People do buy replacement glass turners for their microwave on Ebay. Always grab them, you'll make a few bucks and save someone else from paying full price.
I still haven't tried selling on ebay, but I'm starting to think I should
Always nice to have an extra so when one is in the wash u got one to put in .especially if u have kids
@@thubprint Yeah man, you have everything you need. It's super easy.
@@hurkamur1 whats the trick to selling parts on ebay? do you just list them and hope a buyer shows up? i have a lot of parts sitting around that im not using, been thinking i could maybe sell them
@@carsonspence3752 Yeah, they're just like selling anything else. You can actually list on the ebay app right from your phone. There is a bit of a learning curve if you've never sold on ebay, but there are plenty of tutorials on youtube and elsewhere.
I have one of those tools with a bunch of allen wrenches in one tool and I also have one that are the security drivers in one. I bought it when I was doing low voltage work. It's super handy when breaking down electronic scrap too!
This was funny, I appreciate the gas info, subbed. !
Interesting way of doing it, the keypad on the front is usually a silver mylar which can come out pretty quick. Not sure about the yards in your neck of the woods, but some in my area will not take microwaves so i need to break them down so they are flat, the ones that do take them , I first fill the microwaves with all the small steel like screws and fasteners to add weight, then stack them in the truck and go to the yard :)
That's SUCH a good method! Little disposeable buckets, I like it!
When u take apart a microwawe... do you check the fuse before? 80% of the time its just the fuse witch is broken and changing it makes the whole microwawe work again. Its also super easy to change the fuse... just an idea
No we don't because we already have a microwave and we just need the fucking parts for other projects. :-)
Lol
lol on top of that you can make more on selling the microwave vs “scrapping” it like a tweaker haha
If you plug it in and nothing lights up, check the little white cylindrical fuse. If it lights up and runs but doesn't heat, AND it doesn't smell like fried electronics (you know the smell), then it very well may just be the big super capacitor, which is easily replaced with one salvaged from another microwave with other fatal issues. Just make sure that the replacement capacitor is equal to, or of a greater value than the one you are replacing.
Hey yep, sounds like you're pretty smart except in English. I think it's the word which you want instead of witch. Sorry man, I'm pretty hungry I think I'll go make a sand witch.
Love your channel really good to see you strip things apart. I been scrapping since I was young. But have never done a lawnmower there is a big capacitor on it similar to that of the microwave would it be safe to cut?
I love your careful way of doing it...
#thubprint ..... Hey man, thanks so much for the effort & thought you put into making this video, I really enjoyed watching it. As a kid, I loved nothing better than dismantling any scrap I could get my curious lil' hands on. I don't think we even had microwave ovens back then, or if they were about they'd a been in the 'upper' part of town.
I remember *EXCITEDLY* going to the town rubbish dump with my Granddad and bringing home more stuff than we took there to dump lol. Great big old B&W TV's, Old school radios (as big as TVs), sewing machines .... you name it. I loved nothing more than setting up on a tarp in the backyard and getting to work dismantling my bounty ...... you know, to see how it all worked lol. I had wooden crates and big jars full of Vacuum tubes, The holey Grail *Cathode Ray Tubes* , the first transistors, capacitors and a million other colourfull little components I had no idea about :)
One day circa the 1960s ...... I found something that for 8-year-old me ..... well it may as well have been dropped off by a flying saucer LOL. ............a mini-cassette tape recorder someone had thrown out, it couldn't have been more than 2" x 2" 1" and it not only played these tiny mini cassette tapes, but it also recorded, I'd only ever heard of such advanced fanciful things and my 8-year-old mind was BLOWN WIDE OPEN!! Of course, with great confidence, I tried my best to fix it but it was way WAY beyond my ability lol. I must have spent a whole weekend slowly & delicately dismantling it to see how such an amazing piece of technology might work.
Anyways sorry for the ramble #thubprint ..........It ain't always about scrapping for money, ................. so I really enjoyed watching your video and all the memories it brought back for me, some of which I'd say I hadn't thought about in over half a century, fond memories they were too my friend, so a very sincere thank you :)
All you have to do to discharge the capacitor is cross the 2 connectors with a screwdriver with a plastic handle. Just don't touch the metal of the screwdriver and you are fine. I do it everyday in the A/C trade
Kevin Walters, I do HVACR also, careful giving advice on how to do something, they may try it and make a mistake doing it then sue you! For us it is very easy for us to leave things out because for us it goes without saying. Kinda like walking up on an ac and leaning on it.
@@billdidit7790 I intend to take a m/w to bits soon and I have made a discharger out of a thin piece of wood 12x1 inches and put a nail through it close to the end so as to touch both terminals . Do you think its a safe way to do it ??? any input will be appreciated thankyou
You gave me a good mood with your humor .
A Nice start of the day, sun is shining , no contrails.
Coffee is perfect , it is going to be a Nice day.
I can smell the morning air with a sniff
of coffee aroma .
The birds stopped singing to do some home construction.
You can smell the Beryllium in the air. AAAAHHHHHH, gonna be a great day!
THIS FRIGGIN GUY'S A CHAMP!!
AWESOME!! THANKS BRO!!
Hey, Thub! New sub here, looking back through your catalogue, and I was wondering if you could do an update on the microwave scrap, showing the small differences that a counter-top microwave and a range-hood or above-the-stove microwave oven have. I scrapped my first micro today, but it was an above-the-stove model and it was built a bit differently.
Thanks for all the great info!
Well welcome and thanks for saying hi! I would like to do an updated version of this, it’s sorta old and I would make it shorter and more complete for sure.
@@thubprint Looking forward to it whenever it may come.
"So you'll wanna carefully remove those" ×smashes with a hammer! 🐿😹😼
This video was truly cathartic for me.
I just love to watch you work with this stuff☺👍👍
The microwave oven transformer can be a good source of dangerous (Electroboom) voltage for experiments, or carefully stripping the HV secondary and replacing with a few turn very heavy gauge can make a transformer for a DIY spot welder
@ianjsutt I've made a spot welder from a MOT, and use it for lots of small projects. :)
One of those magnetrons had beryllium on it. Watch out for berylliosis!
The beryllium is in a ceramic form, fairly safe to work around as long as it's not destroyed, so not grinders on the magnetron folks, otherwise low risk
If the beryllium cracks... or fractures....your screwed, so in ceramic form it's not safe to huck around. And the next set of kids to play in that backyard might develope unknown illnesses.
Those microwave ovens looked fairly new, Beryllium oxide, if used, may have been used in older MW ovens, but in the industrial-sized ones. Working with Beryllium oxide is really hard, it needs to bee isolated from the worker putting the magnetron together, it's too brittle and really not worth working with because of its toxicity. Today that pink stuff you see in these ovens is called Alumina, it's harmless, its a by-product of making aluminum and it's harder than Beryllium. I believe that Beryllium oxide in-home microwaves is just a myth. I never met with a magnetron that had beryllium in it, although if I correctly know it is still used in radar technology.
Also known as airborn death. Military connectors often have beryllium copper contact pins.
I have never seen any precautions on any of those packages.
U can jump the capacitor by touching the connections with a screwdriver and making it touch the connection and steel frame to kill out any charge left ( make sure your holding the handle of the screwdriver and not touching the metal or you will get scrapped )
You are SMART, ARTICULATE, HARDWORKING, a GOOD TEACHER AND HAVE MARKETABLE GOOD LOOKS. YOU ARE GOING TO BE A TV STAR ONE DAY SOON. Liked and subscribed.
Anytime you're taking apart an electronic device you want to be careful some of these things especially like a microwave can carry enough electricity to kill you so yeah we're gloves and be careful I once took apart an old TV and was shocked to get shocked and it wasn't plugged in
A CRT TV has capacitors that do contain enough of a charge to end your life. It is advisable to discharge the stored electricity with a piece of wire attached to a big screwdriver shoved in the ground.
You might find this hard to believe but I we used to be allowed to catch fish on the beach with a seine net, Illegal now but there was a little trick to throwing the small stingrays back in the water where nobody would step on em. There were these indention's behind the eyes and a thumb and finger would fit in there perfectly like they were made to pick up and throw back like that. If you know what a skate is it looks a lot like a stingray just has a tail like a shark. I thought I could grab one just like the stingray and toss it back. I didn't know they had a shock like an electric eel. Kinda felt like the old lawn mower spark plug wire trick. I also made the mistake of not making sure when I was peeing near the electric fence to pick strong weeds to pee on. I knew the electric fence would light me up but wasn't paying attention that the more I peed on the weed the heavier it got until it bent over enough to touch the electric fence. Not a good place to get shocked either.
"If you break that you'll get cancer crazy fast"
PROCEEDS TO TOSS MAGNETRON AROUND
I like this man..seems like I know him..he is teaching you differently..in a good way
I feel like watching an idiot do it can be very inspiring 😆👍
You have a wonderful sense of humour and are very entertaining to watch...keep up the hard work..you are appreciated by the environment especially
Thank you! I will keep doing the thing 😊👍
"Some of these and a few of these things..."
Out of work aeronautical engineer?
Boeing maybe...
Yeah, that's what they're called at NASA, the yellow things and a couple of the red things.
Can I go with the obvious?....meth head.
fucking awesome always tried to figure out how to make $1.43 for 5 hours of work
Ikr. Now I dont have to sell myself on the street corner I live on.
ripntearit well said
could do buns on other (males) buck a head ,fast like track suit style
@@bakedpagan4674 I dont have proper certification for that buns on males thing.
How did you get yours?
@@rassy440 looking at antifa videos ,or cuckold porn
Great footage of the dissection of the magnetron
This guy is hilarious 😂
Subbed
Money for nothing sounds great! I am holding out for the chicks for free though!
Remember....you've got to install microwave ovens.
Best reply ever Tom!!
great reply... Must have grown up when MTV played Music.
@@davidpanton1364 Bob Geldof's "Live Aid" helped raise 100 million dollars for starving people in Ethopia. The problem was he stupidly handed the money over to the dictator General Mengistu who was deadlocked in a war with the opposition. Mengistu used the money to buy sophisticated weapons from Russia and slaughtered over a 100 thousand people. The starving people didn't get shit and many of them died from Mengistu's war. Bob Geldof was warned about all this happening but he still met with Mengistu and shook hands with him on the day he handed over the money. The whole Live Aid thing was one gigantic ironic backfire. Well done Bob Geldof you twat.
Oh hey there ya go, kinda what I was thinking. I wish I was a whore but I don't think I'd make much $.
some of those doohickies and thingamabobs are still holding what could be a lethal charge; so can the whatchamaphuck
I got the Jesus zapped out of me from some kind of poloroid camera battery once
Eric Miessner thats a capacitor, a small one, now imagine what one a thousand times bigger would do,.... ive seen them weld stuff, fuse tools to peoples hands, burn off stuff and cut holes in hands. dangerous stuff...
I liked your technique..... thanks for sharing
@2:25 - "... so you want to carefully remove those..." Thank you, just about spilled my coffee I was laughing so hard. Interesting vid!
Scrapping electrical safety hint - Never cut more than 1 wire at a time.
By cutting more than 1 you are effectively shorting out every wire you have in the wire cutters. And its especially dangerous when messing with capacitors. Even if you dont get shocked your tool will get damaged. It can literally blow a chunk of metal right off your cutters.
this was my exact thought when he cut both.. talks about dont have the proper gear.. then cuts in the worst way possible
? I’ve scraped hundreds and never had a problem. Of course they sit in the yard for a while before I take them apart, so idk ?
Or somethings are better left to those who do actually understand! I wonder how many people have be hurt watching DIY videos? I know of 4 gas furnaces that blow apart last year because of watching diy vids, luckily no one died!
As for the capacitor all ya need to to is short out the two terminals with a screw driver
Thanks
Wet tongue works better, LMAO.
And how do I do that? I'm so close to just cutting the cord
i love your channel. i'll give you style point too! Keep on!
Great video! Thanks for the warning about the stuff that blows up into dust in your face, and causes cancer! Like all the little copper bits.
And the capacitor can electricute u instantly too
I want to do this but I’m also 14 with no experience and don’t really want to die
How are you holding up now??
If you don't feel safe about handling a shady piece of scrap, it's best to just clip the wires off imo
That was cool how you dismantled the transformer.
I luv your video informative with a bit of humour
Lol, super entertaining, thanks bro!!!!
on the capacitors just take a screw driver touch the two terminals it short out and draw the power out if there is any
As long as the screw driver has a non conductive handle or it will ground out through you! :)
Hey you don't have to be a smart ass any one that messing with should known how to short it that was a dum thing to say not to bright good luck
Man, as a commercial and residential electrician I have to say I enjoy scraping trash for cash as well but taking apart a microwave can be seriously dangerous the transformer can hold a charge and it may only take in 110volts from your wall but it's on a dedicated circuit meaning it doesn't share the electrical load with anything else like the circuit in your living room which has a bunch of plugs on it I'm glad you did eventually warn them! Trust me brother getting hit with 240 volts or more if it's a big unit it hurts like hell!!!! I've been hit with 480 and you definitely don't want that either LOL stay safe man for real
Nichole Crouch electricity is no joke. My buddy (pretty good electrician)got me a helper job (commercial)1st job 2nd day...l happen to come around the corner into the utility room of new wing of elementary school & there’s my friend stuck on a fish tape that had laid across contacts .locked up w soot under his nostrils. Happened to be a piece of a 2x4 laying there .whacked him off of it .its a wonder I didn’t try grabbing him or something stupid. Didn’t know much about anything at that point. L8r. Good advice. Take care
I got a jolt from a 1,200 volt 450ma filter choke in a Yeasu HF reciever that knocked me out of the chair I was setting in. The shock only went from one finger to the wrist of the same hand. If it would have went through my hand and across my heart to anywhere else it could have killed me. And No, I'm not going to make a video of it!
Awesome video...thank you.
Awesome video. I use your guide to successfully scrap the copper wires and the magnetic rings from my busted microwave. Woo-hoo~!
Great video! About how much would you say you got for the scrap out of this? Sorry if you said and I missed it. I have the attention span of a gold fish and fast forwarded at times.
Three cents.
My attention span is equal to that of a squirrel
Thub ...i like your videos & your attitude towards life & the scrap & salvage biz... you are a good samaritan & environmentally conscious person & your videos are funny & entertaining more so than most & i doubt the people who make comments on how u could've sold such & such on eBay could not produce & edit half as good, fun to watch, positive message containing content as u do & they fail to mention how long, if ever, it'll take to sell said components on eBay...most people just buy a new microwave when theirs go out & unless its some super expensive, premium brand of microwave most will not call a appliance repair guy & pay them to repair a small appliance when they can go to Walmart & buy a new one for $30-50. Keep doing what your doing to pay no mind to the negative, nay-sayers that got nothing better to do that troll people on the internet ...keep up the good work turning would be trash in a landfill into cash & keep making ur funny, entertaining, & informative videos... i for one will keep watching.
-Robert-
Houston, Tx
Your spot on about how dangerous that ceramic is
Thanks great video. You got me motivated to go scrapping for a living. He has a couple of tips to make your life easier. If have electric available you can go to Harbor Freight and with a coupon for about 10 bucks by yourself an electric cut off grinder. Or if electric is not available they make cordless ones along with a cordless Sawzall but of course there more money. Another tool that might come in handy would be a chisel invest in the one that has the rubber wall plastic cover it'll protect your your hand so you don't wind up in the emergency room with a broken hand. A heavy hammer and good eye protection is also important thanks for the awesome video
Good tools are super important! Almost as important as eye protection, haha 😉
You’re careful and my careful are 2 different things. Still enjoyed the video.
"For this you should use well insulated gloves and noncunductive wire cutters. But i dont have those so lets hope i dont die" the current mantra for all my projects
Very educational and a benefit to all mankind
Love your sense of humour mate. Great video
The aluminum fins on the magnetron are very easy to take off they are only pressure fit around the core, take a large flat screwdriver and just twist and they pop off. Just be careful not to damage the beryllium oxide ( red=dead). Also don't bother trying to turn the tamperproof screws out with a grip just take the same large flat screwdriver or a pry bar slide it in between the sheets and give it a good twist the screws will just rip right through the thin sheet metal.
I have a stockpile of magnets from the ol microwave. Handy they are.
Yeah man! They're no neodymium, but they're great. I actually found they were the tits for making blanket forts. Try it sometime, changed my life!
I have a feeling magnets and gold will be very valuable some day
Excellent video with no bs or waste.
he has a great personality..was fun to watch.
Im glad people do this. I just throw crap over my fence and its gone
Loved the video just had to correct you on one thing. That capacitor is most likley a run capacitor and totally safe to handle. It is also not used to produce an extremely high voltage, that is done with the transformer. All in all great video
It's not a run capacitor, can hold over 2KV and will do bad things to you if its internal bleed resistor has failed.
This was the first video I saw of yours.. Thanks for all the beginning tips.... and now look at my evil empire lol.. thanks again man.!!!
Very Professional….thank you.
Hey my man, i like the video but you missed the most important thing to do when scrapping appliabces, check if they work 50 bucks on craigslist is more than 4 dollars in scrap
Do you know what there giving for a ton steel
Yeah, I found an like a big 18" blade electric cut off saw in the garbage. Only thing wrong was the cord was cut. KA CHING, $$$$$.
Most microwave ovens stop working because a 10 cent fuse burned out. Change the fuse, clean it then sell it for $20 bucks
Search hot microwaves near you for some sexy photos
Great job pointing out the potential hazards of a capacitor!
In hindsight I should have talked about how to safely discharge one too 😅
Great informative videos mate.
I notice that you rip open the casing to get at the parts. I remove the casing and fold flat. Scrap steel. Because as well as the insides I use the microwave body as a bin for all the scrap pieces of everything i scrap. All the screws, bits of plastic, even all the easy-to-shatter toughened glass from nice alum patio sliding doors.
The microwave has a handy closing lid and handy carry handles formed by the left and right sides of the chassis. Because it carries easily i put my heavier scrap shit in them. I just chuck (well, slide) them into the scrap steel pile at the recycler yard. They are heavy (which is good) and they don't know what's inside. We pay a 2c/kg enviro levy here in Australia anyway for all the plastic we chuck (fridges, stripped AC wall units, etc) so i dont feel bad about it. I don't go as far as putting bricks (or water filled plastic milk/drink containers) inside front loader washing machines though lol.
So i always love microwaves and usually have a stack of stripped ones waiting to be filled up with small scrap 🙂