Scrapping 3200 LBS Of Transformers & Tons Of Aluminum
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- In this video we scrap out 1.5 tons of transformers and a lot of aluminum light fixtures. Ran in to some trouble with the copper king. Stay tuned for a re-build of the transformer press. #recycling #copper #scrapping #diy #aluminum #scrap #hydraulicpress #projectshopfl #copperking
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Can't imagine all the tweekers watching this and trying to figure out where these treasures are.
😂😂😂 light fixtures in every parking lot
god it'd feed my crack hobby for at least a week or two. thats the jackpot right there. catch yall in the burnt out houses
Thats hilarious 🤣
@@ProjectShopFl oh god, don't give them idea's lol
Me
Recycling has gone full circle in my lifetime. As a kid in the 60’s brass and copper were always collected and sold. In the 80’s recycling became trendy which meant that the municipality charged the taxpayer to collect and sell refuse.
It was a money maker for the waste management company’s regardless where the trash wound up.
Today when I see companies like yours, recovering and saving valuable materials I think it’s fantastic and good for you, and everybody.
Thank you!
The recycling done by the city is a completely different animal than collecting metals like scrapers do. Collecting bottles and newspapers at the curb is more expensive that it's worth, so that's why you need to pay for it. Collecting, transporting, storing before sorting, sorting, storing the sorted stuff, and transporting to the docks is super expensive. Now that China isn't accepting our recyclables for sorting and reclamation, it's becoming harder and harder to get rid of it, and a lot of municipalities are just sending everything that the magnet (steel) and Eddy current magnets (aluminum) aren't pulling out.
@@littlejackalo5326 very accurate. All the municipalities have individual contracts. There are some very bad contracts.
The worst ones allow the recycler to do what they want with garbage. Sell what they can make money on and landfill the rest.
It is getting better, and it is a changing business. People need to know , just because the municipality has a recycling program that cost them extra money that recycling is happening. More people care about what’s happening, so that’s good.
When you rebuild that fixture, you should make a video of the construction.
I will. Thanks for watching
You save the earth 🌎 ❤️ every time you clean up and recycle ♻️ any metals!
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I have been a scrapper for over 45 years. You have good ideas. As a suggestion, bring your work closer to your hydraulic presses. Your cycle time would be cut in half if your work table under your presses were 3" closer, your transformer productivity would may double. The other guy wastes a lot of time having to use a rod to extend the press to push out the steel core out of the winding. Make a table that brings that work right to the core that eliminates having to go through all that extra work every time you push out a core.
Thanks for the suggestion
Like moving the wash plant closer on the gold mine
My step kid is a scrappy. He likes breaking down firetrucks. He says he does good with the brass that comes out of them. If he can get the old firetruck cheap enough.
Wow. I never thought of scrapping a firetruck. lol
My biggest scrape haul was a tread mill. That thing was almost all aluminum! it broke down real easy. The best part is that someone dropped it off in the alley right behind my house! Easy forty bucks. Problem now is the scrape dealers wanting I.D. when you sell....even CRV shit!!
All scrap yards want ID now.
I am the third generation to work and operate our salvage metal yard in arkansas have to say that is a lot easier way to do transformers other then spending a ton of money on a machine that does it for you but I'm impressed with your way
Thanks, I appreciate it
Always some serious scrap work going on at your shop! Sure would be excited to get a haul of transformers like that myself, nice one 👌
Sure long hard hours of processing.
Much love Thub
Thanks man, talk to demo companies and electrical contractors that specialize in lighting 👊
I’m sure you could….do you ever pay for scrap? Or just scavenging?
Be thankful for you awesome helper.
I am, thanks
Just a thought, have you thought about limiting how much your press is going into home position, it does not have to go all the way home, meaning it has less dry run time per cycle
Yes, I will be addressing this in a future video.
it's nice to have the machinery and setup to do all this work!!
It is thanks
Hammer mill onto conveyor, mag belt for the ferrous, then over an eddy current separator to toss the copper alloy away from the plastic.
Sounds expensive and needing a large area and lots of power. lol
@@ProjectShopFl yeah, a set up only for large scale processors.
hooo nice lot wish i had contacts like you lol
Thanks. lol
Man, I am in awe of how hard you work! You motivate me to do and work harder. Thank you for that 👍💥😀. You are making progress with the shop too.
Thats awesome, and the shop is a work in progress for sure. lol
I am really enjoying your content. Looking at you cracking transformers.....you had mentioned repairs and upgrades....what about a longer holding chamber so you could load multiple transformers to crack at once?
The small ones I can crack 2 at once, but the big ones there is too much weld to break. The press is only 20 ton and I'm running a 25 ton cylinder and it sometimes struggles with 1 of the bigger size transformers. The 55 ton press I'm dropping a 100 ton cylinder in will do it with ease. lol
On your transformer press the piece of square stock you need to replace. For the bottom plate, What about a wear plate off of a dozer, loader, grader etc. Should be a little harder than regular steel and maybe not too hard to find. Love your videos keep up the great work!
Thats a great idea thanks.
🎯 I think you should redo the machines with foot pedals. I think you can increase your speed twice as fast. 👍 It may be more safe and less stressful
I have them just have not installed them.
I'll be honest with you foot pedals normally make it less safe bc you get complacent with your idle hands.
It might be a good idea but I think he's got his system down pretty dang good. Why fix it if it isn't broken you know what I mean
Wow thats alot bro I wish I got as much copper as u lol
These guys must buy this stuff
Keep hustling and you will
I do
@@ProjectShopFl u should watch my last video I put out at the end I show my copper hoard
Thank you for filming this,including the problems with the machine. I hope you can fix the problem with the bolds. The weight was awesome.
Thanks, I like to keep it real and show everything. lol
Who do I have to kill to get a press like that; watched with envy obviously!
Haha, I built it out of scrap
That's literally a shit ton of transformers. Nice $ payout ticket. You didn't mention how much you paid for the haul like you usually do, but maybe it was from different pick-ups. LED lighting looks good and bright. And probably costs less to have on. Nice upgrade. The shop is looking clean and lean. Nice work you guys. Flying the drone through the shop LOL Got to have some fun too.
Thanks
Don't you wish we could really work that fast 🤣🤣 That press is the way to go man. Love it.
Thanks Shark. It definitely makes processing transformers a lot easier
Doing it big congrats from texas
Thanks
Hey Big D, I like your multiple screen shots and waiting to see your fix of your machine!
Thanks
The camera angle from behind the transformer breaker was AWESOME!!
Thanks
Let's give some appreciation to the table, with all those transformers on it. I'd like to know if it stayed flat(?).
I built it to hold way more than what was in this video. lol
@@ProjectShopFl
Nice... nothing wrong with a little overkill.
Time is money. The transformer press cylinder is retracting too high, wasting time....the steel laminate barrel should be in front of you where you can just push the crushed side parts on through with one hand while sliding the copper core down to the next man. Redesign the vise to be foot operated instead of using both hands to close it, one side solid to the bench, the other slides to close the vise. Just a matter of lowering the cylinder frame on the sides and welding half the vise to the bench. I could watch you guys recycle all day long! Keep tweaking the operation and you will make tons of money!
Thanks for the suggestion
enjoy ur vids
Thanks
I rarely get lights. But UPS battery backup systems have a lot of the copper aluminum in the same coil transformers. Always cutter transformers.
The only transformers my press breaks are from HID lighting. All other transformers I get are usually cutters.
More than meets the eye.
How so?
I've been in the billboard business for years and have a ton of stuff I need to process and make some cash.
Nice, hope you make big.$$$
@Project Shop FL I hope I make a good amount of $$$$ too! I sure could use it lol
Heck yea! Great video
Thanks
About time the light king installs some nice LEDS hahahah😂
😂😂😂 It's like the cobblers son has no shoes. lol
you ever gonna hit a live stream?!?! maybe a Q&A ?
I've done 2 but I'm thinking of doing some more.
Next time you go to your scrap yard ask the guy if he has a small plate half inch thick of 75 to 120 XK type Steel. That's roll over protection material used in the manufacturer of cabs for like D12 and stuff. It's high tensile strength much higher than normal A36 or low carbon steel that has a tensile strength of around 36,000 lb per square inch. Obviously 75 to 120 XK would have a tinsel strength of 75 to 120,000 lb per square inch. But it's high vanadium content, gives it an impact rating of 3 to 4 times it's actual tinsel strength. This is what you want to make them Vice clamps out of for them Transformers. It might cost you a few bucks to get the plate but it'll last 10 to 20 times longer than what you got there now.
Thanks, I will definitely look out for that type of steel
I wish I could find stuff like this
Talk to all the electrical contractors you can find.
Holy shit you can walk around in their looks awesome
Thanks
Dunno if you already did, but could you introduce your helper and let him tell his story? He seems to have made it through the probationary period and has become the Number Two in your operation. Well done, guy! 😁
I haven't but I will. Thanks for the suggestion
Can't believe you called him number two.
Ruthless
@@aredditor4272 I'd be proud to carry that title
Put 2 transformers in the press. Double production.🤣
I can with the smaller ones but not the larger sizes I need a bigger press.
Put an adjustable return stop on the ram so it stops going up sooner. Less wait time for the press to contact the transformer... 🙂
Thanks for the suggestion
I find it really hard to sell my scrap 😆 when I started collecting copper 20 years ago it was almost 1/5th the price it is now! 😆
I find it easy because I need to buy more. lol
you fixing the claps should help a lot with your ability you can really make that press faster .
Thanks I hope so. lol
A nice big Anvil would work better for pounding that copper with the hammer you won't have any movement like you do with the table it'll take half the effort
Thanks for the suggestion
I would love to have a close up view of your press underneath to see exactly how it is breaking them down….I use a pneumatic chisel…it is a lot slower…
Edit saw what I needed at around the 15 minute mark….thanks..
I've also made a few videos breaking the hole thing down.
Ive stopped scrapping recently, copper just aint what it used to be. Might be better to hold on to it right now.
I wish I could. lol
@@ProjectShopFl And thats the curse we carry for doing it, never having enough room to do that.
I repair stuff. Cool to see it get destroyed.
Haha, Thanks
I wonder if a decent size arbor press would do the job on the secondary press operation for the transformers - that way you could go steady on crackin' um.
It might but would be more physical work and I have a 2nd pump for the 2nd press.
All I see is Green Lights!
All I see is $$$! lol
Stacking dimes with those welds lol
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I’ll say you wouldn’t want that guy with the army shirt grabbing you, look at his friggin arms.
😂😂😂💪
Great job
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Transformers More Than Meets The Eye
Ok Thanks
love it
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Oo yeah!
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No way I'm watching 45 minutes of this.
Ok thanks for informing everyone. lol
@@ProjectShopFl your quite welcome.
I'd say on the smaller ones, you'd to 10 a minute if you put two in at a time..!
I wish. lol I will be addressing this in a video soon.
Nice work 👏
Thanks
Try 10000 lbs of just transformers at once😅. Goals.😅
😂 Ok I will try.
I’m trying to get to your level brother. Got a job that will have 330 transformers if all goes well. Time for a press
Nice! Just be carful and have a way to hold the transformers they will fly if you are not holding them tight. lol
Thanks for pointing out those half aluminum and copper coils. Appreciate your attention to detail! Picked up 10 transformers today and ALL of them had 1 of these coils in them. I deal with enough I know when the weight feels a little heavier than Al but lighter than copper.
I owe you a big I'm sorry, I thought the cheesy music was your choice; I didn't realize it was foisted on you by UA-cam- so please accept my apologies from the left coast as I flog myself as punishment
😂😂😂 No Problem. lol
Very interesting, but it's not clear) Recently on the channel, and I don't understand why not sell these lamps as a product, not disassembled?
No one want's them. Everyone wants LED's
Is it really worth the effort to strip out the ballasts? Seems most scrap places have price just for ballasts so most guys i know just go that route. Plus the ballasts are messy with some really nasty ingredients.
You can triple your money if you process them
Is the piston returned with spring force? If so, put blocks of wood to prevent it to travel all the way up. I did that to my log splitter just to save a few sec each small log.
Thats a great Idea I could just put pins in the frame I need 3 different lights. Thanks 👊
Want some of what you guys are using😉
Not sure what you are referring to but the only thing I use is machines to process copper.
The real flex is having a table strong enough to hold a ton, could almost hold some moms
😂😂😂
A lot of places call that painted aluminum 6061 and 6063
Thanks for the info
Looks like a blind man does the welding for your "equipment" 🤣🤣🤣
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On the smaller one why not put 2 in at once?
I can and have but with the worn out part one will sometimes slip off and Jame
I wonder how you get the metal, do you buy it or get calls from people
I get calls and then I buy it from electrical contractors
could you throw a fat weld on that lip they keep sliding off, and then take a nice square pass cut on the milling machine to square um up?
Thats a really good Idea because the bottom formed to the base plate witch is bent. Even if I put a new square stock it would bend to fit the base plate. lol
@@ProjectShopFl 😆 it will be custom! lol
What was the cost of purchasing and moving everything??
Not sure it was from a few small pick ups.
U 2 work good as a team. 👍
Thanks 👍
What are common applications for all them transformers? Before or after step-down to 120V?
Is your increase in supply from the recent canes?
Good content/work gentlemen, thanks for sharing!
Look like microwave transformers to me.
@Tk3997 10-4. I'm still thinking power surges from the storm could've fried a good number of microwaves? Gotta get them surge protectors I guess 🧑🎓
They are from street/parking lot lighting.
@@andrewholz1414 he said in the video that they're from the lighting.
uk bright copper per kg.£5.50
we sell in pounds here.
This is awesome, I know you
are very talented at what you do! I wish I could work with you! I am a machinist and I love your channel ❤️ 💕.
Thanks, I have a milling machine and lathe I will be making content with too.
I would like to also start buying from outside sources, so I have to ask, in situations like this, (hopefully you'll answer this), are you paying dirty aluminum prices on this material to process, or slightly better then that?
Yes If it has any Aluminum I pay .10 or less
We're you get all thow I can't even find one?
Electrical contractors that do a lot of lighting maintenance
Are you getting paid for glass, plastic etc.? Or is this just garbage? How do you get this away? Do you have to pay for this or?? How are you getting the drum out, when it is full of maybe 1 tonage of metal?
I just dropped a video that shows everything. I can dump some for free but if I get a lot I take it to the dump and pay
What is the need for the respirator?
When the welds break it makes a cloud of dust.
What do you do with the glass lenses? Do they all break or are you able to sell them to a glass shop?
Usually break them, I don't know where a glass shop is or if they would but it.
Add a foot switch?
Coming soon
So did you go collect the lights? If so how many miles was the round trip, Aluminium in motors & transformers makes me ill....LOL..I have come across copper and aluminium mix from compressor.
Yes, 3 different customers and took about 8 hours. one was on the west coast
Great channel
Thanks 👊
Awesome. How do you acquire all this scrap ?
Electrical contractors
@@ProjectShopFl Wow, good on you !!
Have you ever scrapped out a neon transformer? Curious if you have a video in them or how often you come across them. I’ve got about a dozen. They weigh about 15-20 pounds full of tar like the big ballasts
Yes I have, they are a pain best to cook them. lol I have not made any videos on it. They are rare
@@ProjectShopFl I think I remember you mentioning that neon is going away. I have a company that throws them to me for free all the time. Just broke some down. The ones with tar…. 3 copper coils between the size of 275 and 400 watters. About 3-4 pounds
@@ProjectShopFl got my hands on a truck and trailer. Picking up 20 1500 watt sport lighting tomorrow . These are the ones I’ve been getting double copper 8 pounds per transformer😎
Just using These wire Cutters and my biceps the size of watermelons
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Any reason you can't crack 2 at the same time ? Travel on that head is high - can you reduce it based on size of your crush target ? Workin' Man !!!
On the smaller ones I can crack 2 at once but with the ledge worn out one will fall off. On the medium & large ones I would need a bigger press. I'm running a 25 ton cylinder in a 20 ton press and It struggles with the large one. I have a new press I am building with a 100 ton cylinder that will solve that problem.
So do you have plans for your presses that process the transformers?? Could I buy a copy? I have two 55gallon barrels full. I tried using a log splitter but that just makes a mess and doesn't work
I've made many videos on how it works and how its built. Unless you have a good stream of transformers I would not waste the time making all this for 2 drums. I would just cut the welds with a grinder or use a hammer I've made videos on that as well.
I appreciate you responding.....very cool! I've watched so many of your videos. Love your content! So thank you! I must have missed the ones on the build of the press. I'll look it up for sure. I've been doing the grinder and hammer trick and have gotten pretty fast with that. I'm always coming across scrap and still have many many more lights to process and will have another few barrels of transformers to process at some point. I just like for things to be as efficient as possible and the grinder and hammer just don't fit that bill. I'd like to try and get into buying it the way you do at some point. I especially enjoy the wire stripper you have. Very very cool.
Can I make some sort of deal with you about buying transformers from you I need them for a business startup they don’t need to work well the top coil needs to be good that’s about all but I need the coil to be copper I’d be interested in finding out what kind of price you would charge for a nice size box full of them say a shipping tote size for starters????
I triple my money so it would have to be in the same price range. I have a email in the about section if you are really interested. Good luck.
what is the market for copper coated aluminum wire such as your transformers?
It's not copper coated aluminum, Its just an insulating coating that looks like copper. I sell it as cast al.
if you get in any big round tororid transformers in and they are cheap maybe around twice or more of the cooper and steel scrap value please let me know ! Even if they have aluminum wire i wound still like to buy if large and round ones I am Ben shipping cost are around 1 dollar a pound so if you had a few of them i my be able to pick them up in person
I don't get them that often. If I do I will let you know. What do you do with them?
@@ProjectShopFl thanks i use them mostly in home built low freq pure sine inverters
The drone is funny I saw 1 video of 1 guy with a 5 k $ remote control helicopter he decided to test fly it in his shop the ceiling fan killed it
😂😂😂
Bad recycle bad!!!!
Explain how?
Excellent content ! On your transformer press you may be able to increase production by lowering that unit so it doesnt have to travel so far and consider upgrading to a foot petal instead of a button controller , just some advice . I like your videos start pumping more out !
Thanks, When I am running by my self or when the 2nd press had its own pump I would stop the return close to the transformer just like you said. When both machines are running off 1 pump and 2 people working it will return all the way. It's a work in progress. lol
Bigstackd wants to know your location
South Florida
I'm a minor for a heart of golf..
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32 wysg
Ok. lol
Question about capacitors that are wired to transformers to they go in separately or in the tin/shred bin?
Trash. lol No scrap yard in my area will take them
Do you have a LAN cable I could borrow?
Not sure what that is, but if it's got copper its probably been stripped. lol
@@ProjectShopFl 😆