Thanks for taking the time and effort to demonstrate the commercial viability of this for us Ben. I'm sure you already knew the answer but it says a lot about you that you are willing to go through the steps to prove the case. I guess this is only worth the effort is we plan to melt/cast the copper.
powder inside cables is used to reduce friction - like a sandy lubricant, increase fire/water-resistance, reduce heat from the cable itself, increase insulation. It's either magnesium oxide or talc or chalk or superabsorbent polymer
Excellent and informative video Ben. It wasn't a fail, you just proved that for you and your little business this light weight cord is not worth the price gain. It's very time consuming. The amount of labor costs just takes from the value gained. Great example and thanks for sharing. 👍👍
Always enjoy your videos. It helps with motivation sometimes for my ewaste biz that I started in the GA. I watched some of your videos and then magically I saw like 3 or 4 PC on the side of the road and then that was it from there. Now i go to companies and recycle their items. If i see one on the side of the road, I still have to pick it up. it is like i am obligated to get it. I even made my wife jump out of our car and grab one. And then i said "PC".
When you just planned it I thought to myself "Well, that's not going to be too much fun." and sure enough, it wasn't. The only cables that are worth stripping are the ones that used to power industrial equipment. Surely the PVC coating is thicker there but the end results is much more better. Also, to cut thick cable into more manageable pieces you don't really need an angle grinder but maybe some large boltcutters or even a hand metal saw.
Ants D definitely not worth it. Having to strip 3 times the wire. If he made 3 dollars more for the copper but it took him let’s say an hour more to strip the new amount of wire he would be paying himself less per hour than he would have if he did not strip the wire. He said that he would get about a ton of wire every month do you know how long it would take to strip all of that?
The fail was the end result not the experiment , what he failed to do was just strip one piece of wire and do the calculation from that piece, there’s no need to make up a big quantity to explain the result.
I stripp all my wire that’s copper although I’m not a big time scrapper only few cords at a time so foe me. It’s worth it to strip everything. Plus I have 2 boys so they can strip some for new and I’ll pay them a % of total amount when I take it in.
Thanks for another informative video Ben. I did a stripping video as well and had some folks comment that they strip almost all their wire. But as you just demonstrated, that takes a lot of time and effort. I do strip ROMEX, other low gauge solid core wire and serious cable like you did in the last half, but the small stuff just gets sold as ICW. I keep a bin of wire to strip and about once a month or so have a stripping day.
Hey Ben over here in California ...if you got a Harbor Freight there go get you a nice big set of cable cutters they're about 3 ft long with red handles pretty inexpensive.... just lay the cable on the ground and put one foot on the handle and you can cut those big cables to any lengths like cutting butter also if you cut them shorter they're much easier to run through the wire stripper.... trying to cut those big cables up with wire cutters is brutal... onward on with more copper ingots
In the UK that flex is called VIR (vulcanised indian rubber), i never strip it A cos of the amount of waist B the resulting hair wire is classed as No2 copper wire here :( C cos you loose money Even the twin and earth (solid copper core) i do strip isn't really worth it, if it wasn't for the lockdown (IE boredom) and the fact i have amassed a large amount over the last year i wouldn't have bought my stripper, having said that i do enjoy seeing the bare wire come out and build up in a bin :) Cool vid non the less chap, informative and that's what the web is all about after all isn't it ? a resource for information and on that front your a winner mate ;) well worth the time to make the vid IMHO, cheers chap.
Hello Ben, You started off the video with a concept. That of showing how much difference it makes to strip 10 kg computer cables. OK I understand when you stopped. However what you could have done better is to weigh the heavy cable which you stripped to show the difference it makes. You should have explained how much it is worth with plastic on it and how much bare copper (4.1 Kilo) worth to show the time taken to make that difference and could have concluded if it is worth it or not. Just my two cents.
Its a discretionary thing. On the one hand one can leave it unstripped and the processor further up the line can do it just as efficiently and perhaps have the means for a more constructive disposal of the PVC and plastic. On the other hand it is also a rule in recycling and scrapping that there is always a ' quality in determines quality out ' factor. By stripping the 4+ kilos of outer PVC one has improved the quality of the product going to the scrapyard by that amount, which might not show up immediately on the balance sheet, but there is nevertheless merit with it. Its a tough call coz leaving it on and Simsmetal MIGHT send accumulated PVC volumes to Europe for closed loop recycling, but if you strip it yourself the PVC might end up as useless golf course fill at best.
Watching you fold that huge beautiful cable at the end means all that cord cutting made your forearms like popeye. That video was educational material.
I have to refer back to this video now and again when i get the urge to buy a wire stripper to strip wire.😅 Thanks so much Ben for this great breakdown video, its definitely a classic. I do the easy stuff by hand for long term storage and hoarding only. 👍👍👍👍👍
I bought the 750w powered version of that machine- it's awesome. However any fine strand wires are near impossible to strip without making the wire frizzy and prickly so i leave all power cords alone. Im planning a copper granulator for those wires. Like the speed of the drill though, but I'd bet it would struggle on the 1" cables.
I know you're unscripted and that's a big reason I watch you! Have You thought about continuing to be unscripted but adding the bloopers like the tripod getting knocked over?? I think seeing some of the uncut parts would be an awesome additive to your channel whether it is the bloopers from that video at the end or one video with some past bloopers or anything along those lines!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
I leave the small wire as it is because it gets chewed up in my stripper although I sometimes strip bits when I'm board and have no other wire to strip. I also don't let my pile of unstripped wire build up. I also like looking at all the different plugs and finding interesting shapes or odd colours. I also like it when I find a cable with the old colours for the inner wires.
Nice work. Definitely the way to go for those heavy cables with lots of copper. Once the garage is cleaned off you can have room to bolt the stripper down and perhaps use a corded power drill--save your more expensive battery power drill--for better speed and control.
cool vid Ben i have same model of wire stripper and as well upgraded it with el engine with gear tho I'm not stripping nothing smaller than 1,5 mm thickness of copper all under it´s just not worth 👍😀👍
Hi Ben, I own a stripping machine with an asynchronous motor which is really good and much better than the drill. I only strip solid copper wires and leave the soft ones to the yard as insulated PVC copper wire as they are not worth the time.
Thanks for another great video Ben! I faced a very similar situation in my latest video extracting copper. At the end for me, it ended up being an issue of time and efficiency. Once I get the process down faster, it will be a profitable endeavor to extract the copper from the wires instead of selling it as is!
Ha! was looking for a vid to watch/listen to as I had a bunch of mains wiring to strip... so I manually stripped some (with a craft knife, on my carpet, pulling the wire into the blade) and in the 37 minutes of your video, I produced 700g of dry bright, hung on a 'necklace' which is how I collect up all my itsy bitsy lengths of domestic electrical wire. Current value, about £3.50 for that little lot! Not bad for one find in one skip.
@ewasteben. If you hold some tension on the feed side of the wire it will not roll around as it goes through the cutter. it will help. also if you cut the long pieces into 3 foot pieces easier to feed straight. ill make a video running some wire on my channel soon
And what about some machine that strip automatically wire from copper? Did you try to find one? Maybe it's a interesting thing with the volume of cable you usually have.
Yeah I tried this myself a few years back and gave up, all the waste and time involved wasn't worth it to me. I still use the stripping tool for thicker wire only especially if it is only one coating layer, though you get much thicker wire then I ever see.
Depends on the copper to insulation ratio for me. I'll strip 22 ga speaker wire but put HVAC wire in the insulation copper box as there's more value in doing that then stripping the weight away. Plus the yards want clean stripped wire and you'll get a good rep and better price if you strip and sort all your wire. I usually get 5 or 10 cents more a lb then others
A lopper . The bottom handle in a vise lay the wire on the blade push top handle down. The Canadian treasure hunter uses one on copper pipes to take brass of the ends
There has to be a weight ratio for the copper vs. copper with PVC, to make it worth stripping. Find that then you know what size wire you need to start stripping to make extra money worth your time. Plus it cost money to melt metals than to just sell it as is. what is the cost of melting?
This was an interesting and informative video. I was spell bound watching it. It was not a pleasure watching you struggle , but it was good to see you persevere. Stay safe mate and keep on scrapping.
Not knowing anything myself, would you be able to melt the whole cable and to scrape the plastic off the top and to separate the copper from the plastic.
M8 cheers on your endeavour to strip wire . The first wire it's called 45% meaning you get 55% return , that said what's left it's called 55 or 65% which is a higher value . I would suggest to ask the buyer if he has a better price for that stripped wire that you did ; In regards to your mill berry I applaud your efforts to make look so pretty. Keep up the good work . God bless y'all.
Love the chooks. I know you make bars; have you ever tried casting anything else? It does require some artistic talent, but sandcast copper "art" can really sell. If you get ugly mistakes, into the smelter they go!
Maybe put the cable through a roller crusher, then two passes through a shredder, then into a water tub ..dump anything that floats.then into the furnace for a melt?
Been watching you awhile. Loved when you said "I'd rather sit down and pull gold pins from plugs, and stuff like that" 25:02; pulling gold pins isn't great fun either!
Just rewatched this vid. I have a barrel full of this type of cord. Plan was to strip and melt it. Perhaps better to sell it as is and buy copper pipe with the $$.
👍I used to strip those cables but also realised it wasn’t my cuppa now I only do the heavy core stuff.i would have used a hacksaw to cut the thick cable👍
Hello Ben, I got a really nice wire stripping machine off on eBay for $200, it strips anything between 2mm and 25mm cable and it works incredibly. They’re from overseas but ship to Australia and I think it was well worth the money. If you’re interested I can email you the link
I had that type of machine with a hand crank. Sold it after 2 years the gentleman I sold it to put a pulley and 1.5 horsepower motor he strips over head power lines no problem. I switched to a copper mine wire stripper. With a 3 horse power motor 4 year later will going strong. A drill is way to week for the machine you have
Good video Ben I am one of those that time isn't an issue but value is. So when stripping if it's less than 50% copper I don't fool with it. Nest test I have tried if you have a cable your not sure of. Cut. 6 inch piece weigh it then strip it and weigh the copper. If it isn't 50% it goes to insulated and I don't fool with it. After a time you just know what you can strip and what not too. A 6 inch piece just take a few seconds to strip and give a very accurate rating of copper %. Of course value does change with price there copper % van change with that.
You should use 8amp or larger corded drill on the wire stripers like you have there . I have a similar style stripper and I’ve burnt up an 8 amp on mine doing really thick wire like you did in the second half of vid! Also a right angel drill seems to work the best for me . You can run it for hrs and hrs with the short breaks between and she never gets hot nor have I been worried about equipment failure or worse destruction! But smart choice on not stripping the double insulated multi wires ! Not worth it ( Time/money ) ratio and in some instances I’ve lost money because the insulation was so heavy it was a majority of the weight . Keep up the great videos .
You got the simplest looking wire stripper. The links don't work. I'd like to get that. It looks much easier than the stripmeister. Can you provide more info. I can't find anything Enerpat that is tabletop
These days we stuck at home im just stripping every wire i found at home, and sadly they look more like those first 10kg but meh, i dont really have anything else to do
New subscriber from New York City. You have Great content!! Question: is there some sort of chopping machine for the plug ends you could use to save the wear and tear on your hands.
a fail from one pov, from another it proves it more of a pain the ass than leaving it as it was! ta ben, you proved my theory right... the cable was crap in the first place... why double it! ☹️ BUT two positives, 1) you didnt wreck your drill, 2) you finished with a beaut handful of lovely high quality melting copper 😎 so bad went to good! 😊 suppose a 3rd... you stopped us in lockdown going crazy! 😊 not to worry tho, it was a good vid regardless 😊
@@cptrikester2671 Point is: If you are not vary of what you strip you get very little money by stripping. It is even possible to lose money, because the weight loss is not compensated by the higher price of the remainder. Of course that depends on your scrap yards categories and price of wires. Example: Currently I stripping single strand 1,5 mm² wire increases the value only 1cent per meter. Not worth my time. Stripping a cord that has 3x 1,5mm² inside adds 5cents per meter. Can be worth it, if nothing better is around. When you only strip the outer layer without making the step to a higher grade, you lose money, because what you sell has the same price, but weighs less. That is the case with very massive cable that are >70% copper.
Would it make sense to use a motor from something you find at the curb? You could possibly run it all the time and just feed wire. I was also thinking maybe you could wire it up to a foot pedal if you didn't want to leave it running constantly. Might reduce wear and noise.
Will gladly take all your stranded stuff LoL. I made a custom guide tube/face plate for my stripping machine to dial it in for the small stuff. Also made a rig to stretch and straighten 6' lengths
@@travismiller5548 it would be cool to see your set up. I got some big wire, similar to what ben was stripping on the video but bigger I think. It was bigger than a quarter. I had to use an angle grinder to cut the plastic off. Some guy sent me a video of his home made stripper that does the big stuff. It was awesome...
I bought the single head stripper with a motor last summer. My father and i spent 4 days stripping wire like that, in the end there was not even enough money left to pay for the Stripper let alone our time, and not to mention the trip to the dump. to get rid of a mountain 4 feet high of PVC sheathing. There is a reason why in the old days the old scrappers were building fires and dumping all that wire in it to burn away the plastics, i'm not saying its the right thing to do, Far from it, but it was the only way they had to make money with wire. its much faster to strip CRT tv's for the copper and the value is better because its so much faster and easier.
I think it depends on the "methificated value effect" its been documented well in one industry, in which methificated individuals will spend hundreds of hours between the onset and the completion or securing items of value such as massive tree burls and underwater logs. to put it in numbers, sub $1 an hour wages are typically satisfactory because of the freedom of being ones own boss. Wire stripping has characteristics that put it on the upper echelon of hall of fame ways to make money if this "effect" is a accepted criteria.
Look at getting some ck wire sheers yes they are fairly expensive but the aggro you were having with that last cable was almost painful and their designed to cut that sort of cable
If you want to recover copper you need to strip the outer jacket, then you can put all of the thin cable in a a can. The third step is place the can in an fire pit and cook the gasses out to be cleanly burnt. The result is clean copper and charcoal dust.
I'd pop an SDS or hammer drill (but turn the hammer function off) on that wire stripper. would cope fine with the force required. Wall power would be much better.
You need to get that striping machine bolted down and a motor on it with a foot pedal or bump switch so you can use both hands. It's not worth the time to strip it off unless you have nothing else to do, I agree it is monontinous. At least you have a machine I use a knife. Thanks for sharing.
curiosity: for all the plastic parts that you are left with after dissasembling different gadgets, why don't you buy a grinder and put the plastic through it, this way you can stack way more in a bin, than stacking big pieces with lots of empty spaces between, that takes alot of space. there are alot of 2 roll grinders you can get
I can see why you wouldn't do it if you have a ton of it, but i was hoping to see the difference since i only get some cords occasionally and if it would be worth it if you do like a cord or two a day and keep up with it .
I like that stripper, I agree time is money but 1.50 a kilo sounds great to me. I get like 40 to 45 cent a pound but I'm allowed to leave plugs and transformers attached. Even at that the low grade would take too long to be worth it. I might take a day to strip all my number 1 wire.
I sometimes grab my double sided ax or hatchet & give thic wire like that a whack and cut it down to a workable size! A bit of fun to release some anger at the same time!! Good on ya not giving up on the bastard cable and finishing it!
It may not be worth the time for the money. But I find it therapeutic and fun. That is priceless.
Thanks for taking the time and effort to demonstrate the commercial viability of this for us Ben.
I'm sure you already knew the answer but it says a lot about you that you are willing to go through the steps to prove the case.
I guess this is only worth the effort is we plan to melt/cast the copper.
powder inside cables is used to reduce friction - like a sandy lubricant, increase fire/water-resistance, reduce heat from the cable itself, increase insulation. It's either magnesium oxide or talc or chalk or superabsorbent polymer
Usually it's Talcum powder that makes the cable flexible. But only for low current cabling.
Thanks for explaining! Is the white strand inside of say, vacuum cleaner cords to strengthen them in case someone runs over the cord? Is it cotton?
Excellent and informative video Ben. It wasn't a fail, you just proved that for you and your little business this light weight cord is not worth the price gain. It's very time consuming. The amount of labor costs just takes from the value gained. Great example and thanks for sharing. 👍👍
Always enjoy your videos. It helps with motivation sometimes for my ewaste biz that I started in the GA. I watched some of your videos and then magically I saw like 3 or 4 PC on the side of the road and then that was it from there. Now i go to companies and recycle their items. If i see one on the side of the road, I still have to pick it up. it is like i am obligated to get it. I even made my wife jump out of our car and grab one. And then i said "PC".
When you just planned it I thought to myself "Well, that's not going to be too much fun." and sure enough, it wasn't. The only cables that are worth stripping are the ones that used to power industrial equipment. Surely the PVC coating is thicker there but the end results is much more better.
Also, to cut thick cable into more manageable pieces you don't really need an angle grinder but maybe some large boltcutters or even a hand metal saw.
Bypass loppers FTW.
I am a simple man. I see a new eWaste Ben video and I click on it.
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it wasn't a fail... that was a good demonstartion that is not worth it.
How can it be,. He didn't darn well finish it to find out.
Ants D definitely not worth it. Having to strip 3 times the wire. If he made 3 dollars more for the copper but it took him let’s say an hour more to strip the new amount of wire he would be paying himself less per hour than he would have if he did not strip the wire. He said that he would get about a ton of wire every month do you know how long it would take to strip all of that?
No experiment is not a fail. It shows a result, whether it the outcome desired or not.
The fail was the end result not the experiment , what he failed to do was just strip one piece of wire and do the calculation from that piece, there’s no need to make up a big quantity to explain the result.
I stripp all my wire that’s copper although I’m not a big time scrapper only few cords at a time so foe me. It’s worth it to strip everything. Plus I have 2 boys so they can strip some for new and I’ll pay them a % of total amount when I take it in.
Hey, watched your videos since forever, like them! There is just something soothing about recycling metal, very therapeutic.
Thanks for another informative video Ben. I did a stripping video as well and had some folks comment that they strip almost all their wire. But as you just demonstrated, that takes a lot of time and effort. I do strip ROMEX, other low gauge solid core wire and serious cable like you did in the last half, but the small stuff just gets sold as ICW. I keep a bin of wire to strip and about once a month or so have a stripping day.
My husband and I love watching your videos, we are in Pennsylvania, USA.
We're in Harrisburg and we love Ben!
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Hey Ben over here in California ...if you got a Harbor Freight there go get you a nice big set of cable cutters they're about 3 ft long with red handles pretty inexpensive.... just lay the cable on the ground and put one foot on the handle and you can cut those big cables to any lengths like cutting butter also if you cut them shorter they're much easier to run through the wire stripper.... trying to cut those big cables up with wire cutters is brutal... onward on with more copper ingots
Ben you are the best (cable) stripper in town !! 😂👍 Thx for the new video and stay safe 🙂 Greets from Berlin 😉
I love the free roaming chickens making an appearance from time to time
I used to strip every wire, not any more. Thanks for the video. I learn something everytime I watch a new one. Keep it up
In the UK that flex is called VIR (vulcanised indian rubber), i never strip it
A cos of the amount of waist
B the resulting hair wire is classed as No2 copper wire here :(
C cos you loose money
Even the twin and earth (solid copper core) i do strip isn't really worth it, if it wasn't for the lockdown (IE boredom) and the fact i have amassed a large amount over the last year i wouldn't have bought my stripper, having said that i do enjoy seeing the bare wire come out and build up in a bin :)
Cool vid non the less chap, informative and that's what the web is all about after all isn't it ? a resource for information and on that front your a winner mate ;) well worth the time to make the vid IMHO, cheers chap.
Hello Ben, You started off the video with a concept. That of showing how much difference it makes to strip 10 kg computer cables. OK I understand when you stopped. However what you could have done better is to weigh the heavy cable which you stripped to show the difference it makes. You should have explained how much it is worth with plastic on it and how much bare copper (4.1 Kilo) worth to show the time taken to make that difference and could have concluded if it is worth it or not.
Just my two cents.
Its a discretionary thing. On the one hand one can leave it unstripped and the processor further up the line can do it just as efficiently and perhaps have the means for a more constructive disposal of the PVC and plastic. On the other hand it is also a rule in recycling and scrapping that there is always a ' quality in determines quality out ' factor. By stripping the 4+ kilos of outer PVC one has improved the quality of the product going to the scrapyard by that amount, which might not show up immediately on the balance sheet, but there is nevertheless merit with it. Its a tough call coz leaving it on and Simsmetal MIGHT send accumulated PVC volumes to Europe for closed loop recycling, but if you strip it yourself the PVC might end up as useless golf course fill at best.
Watching you fold that huge beautiful cable at the end means all that cord cutting made your forearms like popeye. That video was educational material.
I have to refer back to this video now and again when i get the urge to buy a wire stripper to strip wire.😅
Thanks so much Ben for this great breakdown video, its definitely a classic.
I do the easy stuff by hand for long term storage and hoarding only. 👍👍👍👍👍
I bought the 750w powered version of that machine- it's awesome. However any fine strand wires are near impossible to strip without making the wire frizzy and prickly so i leave all power cords alone. Im planning a copper granulator for those wires. Like the speed of the drill though, but I'd bet it would struggle on the 1" cables.
I know you're unscripted and that's a big reason I watch you! Have You thought about continuing to be unscripted but adding the bloopers like the tripod getting knocked over?? I think seeing some of the uncut parts would be an awesome additive to your channel whether it is the bloopers from that video at the end or one video with some past bloopers or anything along those lines!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
I leave the small wire as it is because it gets chewed up in my stripper although I sometimes strip bits when I'm board and have no other wire to strip. I also don't let my pile of unstripped wire build up. I also like looking at all the different plugs and finding interesting shapes or odd colours. I also like it when I find a cable with the old colours for the inner wires.
Nice work. Definitely the way to go for those heavy cables with lots of copper. Once the garage is cleaned off you can have room to bolt the stripper down and perhaps use a corded power drill--save your more expensive battery power drill--for better speed and control.
Waiting for copper melting videos heheheeh
Nice video by the way! Love giant cable strip video!
cool vid Ben i have same model of wire stripper and as well upgraded it with el engine with gear tho I'm not stripping nothing smaller than 1,5 mm thickness of copper all under it´s just not worth 👍😀👍
Hi Ben,
I own a stripping machine with an asynchronous motor which is really good and much better than the drill.
I only strip solid copper wires and leave the soft ones to the yard as insulated PVC copper wire as they are not worth the time.
good on you ben you deserve a couple of beers
Thanks for another great video Ben! I faced a very similar situation in my latest video extracting copper. At the end for me, it ended up being an issue of time and efficiency. Once I get the process down faster, it will be a profitable endeavor to extract the copper from the wires instead of selling it as is!
I love your machine looks and seems to work like a paper shredder
really was hoping you had a video like this. it's great to see the value Vs time and then have left over junk to deal with.
👍💰Thanks For the Great Video! Love it!!!👊
Ben I bought that stripper and had the same issues your having nice to see Thank you
Ha! was looking for a vid to watch/listen to as I had a bunch of mains wiring to strip... so I manually stripped some (with a craft knife, on my carpet, pulling the wire into the blade) and in the 37 minutes of your video, I produced 700g of dry bright, hung on a 'necklace' which is how I collect up all my itsy bitsy lengths of domestic electrical wire. Current value, about £3.50 for that little lot! Not bad for one find in one skip.
@ewasteben. If you hold some tension on the feed side of the wire it will not roll around as it goes through the cutter. it will help. also if you cut the long pieces into 3 foot pieces easier to feed straight. ill make a video running some wire on my channel soon
And what about some machine that strip automatically wire from copper? Did you try to find one? Maybe it's a interesting thing with the volume of cable you usually have.
Yeah I tried this myself a few years back and gave up, all the waste and time involved wasn't worth it to me. I still use the stripping tool for thicker wire only especially if it is only one coating layer, though you get much thicker wire then I ever see.
Depends on the copper to insulation ratio for me. I'll strip 22 ga speaker wire but put HVAC wire in the insulation copper box as there's more value in doing that then stripping the weight away. Plus the yards want clean stripped wire and you'll get a good rep and better price if you strip and sort all your wire. I usually get 5 or 10 cents more a lb then others
A lopper . The bottom handle in a vise lay the wire on the blade push top handle down. The Canadian treasure hunter uses one on copper pipes to take brass of the ends
There has to be a weight ratio for the copper vs. copper with PVC, to make it worth stripping. Find that then you know what size wire you need to start stripping to make extra money worth your time. Plus it cost money to melt metals than to just sell it as is. what is the cost of melting?
This was an interesting and informative video. I was spell bound watching it. It was not a pleasure watching you struggle , but it was good to see you persevere. Stay safe mate and keep on scrapping.
Not knowing anything myself, would you be able to melt the whole cable and to scrape the plastic off the top and to separate the copper from the plastic.
That's a big job that creates both noxious/environmentally hazardous fumes and degrades the quality of the copper in the melt.
M8 cheers on your endeavour to strip wire . The first wire it's called 45% meaning you get 55% return , that said what's left it's called 55 or 65% which is a higher value . I would suggest to ask the buyer if he has a better price for that stripped wire that you did ; In regards to your mill berry I applaud your efforts to make look so pretty. Keep up the good work . God bless y'all.
Love the chooks. I know you make bars; have you ever tried casting anything else? It does require some artistic talent, but sandcast copper "art" can really sell. If you get ugly mistakes, into the smelter they go!
Maybe put the cable through a roller crusher, then two passes through a shredder, then into a water tub ..dump anything that floats.then into the furnace for a melt?
20 odd mins of my life gone to discover you didn't even darn well finish what i started watching....
If you just strip the outside layer, will it upgrade the wire at all?
thanks Ben, you have saved me a lot of time and money.
Why not use a electronic motor with a on off switch, it will save burning your drill out so often.
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Videos Dude👍👍
White dust is baby power. it's used to keep out layer of insulation separate from the 3 insulated wire
Been watching you awhile. Loved when you said "I'd rather sit down and pull gold pins from plugs, and stuff like that" 25:02; pulling gold pins isn't great fun either!
Hi Ben another great video from you copper wire good money take care your health keep scrapping regard 👍👍👍👍🇸🇬
Thanks for sharing your project Ben. Cheers.
Just rewatched this vid.
I have a barrel full of this type of cord.
Plan was to strip and melt it.
Perhaps better to sell it as is and buy copper pipe with the $$.
👍I used to strip those cables but also realised it wasn’t my cuppa now I only do the heavy core stuff.i would have used a hacksaw to cut the thick cable👍
Hello Ben, I got a really nice wire stripping machine off on eBay for $200, it strips anything between 2mm and 25mm cable and it works incredibly. They’re from overseas but ship to Australia and I think it was well worth the money. If you’re interested I can email you the link
Yes
I had that type of machine with a hand crank. Sold it after 2 years the gentleman I sold it to put a pulley and 1.5 horsepower motor he strips over head power lines no problem. I switched to a copper mine wire stripper. With a 3 horse power motor 4 year later will going strong. A drill is way to week for the machine you have
The extra fine copper wire is like super sharp needles
Good video Ben I am one of those that time isn't an issue but value is. So when stripping if it's less than 50% copper I don't fool with it. Nest test I have tried if you have a cable your not sure of. Cut. 6 inch piece weigh it then strip it and weigh the copper. If it isn't 50% it goes to insulated and I don't fool with it. After a time you just know what you can strip and what not too. A 6 inch piece just take a few seconds to strip and give a very accurate rating of copper %. Of course value does change with price there copper % van change with that.
Thanks again for all your videos .. I really do appreciate it learn a ton from ya ..
You should use 8amp or larger corded drill on the wire stripers like you have there . I have a similar style stripper and I’ve burnt up an 8 amp on mine doing really thick wire like you did in the second half of vid! Also a right angel drill seems to work the best for me . You can run it for hrs and hrs with the short breaks between and she never gets hot nor have I been worried about equipment failure or worse destruction! But smart choice on not stripping the double insulated multi wires ! Not worth it ( Time/money ) ratio and in some instances I’ve lost money because the insulation was so heavy it was a majority of the weight . Keep up the great videos .
You got the simplest looking wire stripper. The links don't work. I'd like to get that. It looks much easier than the stripmeister. Can you provide more info. I can't find anything Enerpat that is tabletop
Thanks for the video. Always something educational.
These days we stuck at home im just stripping every wire i found at home, and sadly they look more like those first 10kg but meh, i dont really have anything else to do
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Question: is there some sort of chopping machine for the plug ends you could use to save the wear and tear on your hands.
Not that I know of
a fail from one pov, from another it proves it more of a pain the ass than leaving it as it was! ta ben, you proved my theory right... the cable was crap in the first place... why double it! ☹️ BUT two positives, 1) you didnt wreck your drill, 2) you finished with a beaut handful of lovely high quality melting copper 😎 so bad went to good! 😊 suppose a 3rd... you stopped us in lockdown going crazy! 😊
not to worry tho, it was a good vid regardless 😊
Removing the first outer layer may make sense. It's quick and it brings the remaining wires to a higher grade.
It may bring it up to a higher grade but would it triple in value?
@@cptrikester2671 Point is: If you are not vary of what you strip you get very little money by stripping. It is even possible to lose money, because the weight loss is not compensated by the higher price of the remainder.
Of course that depends on your scrap yards categories and price of wires.
Example:
Currently I stripping single strand 1,5 mm² wire increases the value only 1cent per meter. Not worth my time. Stripping a cord that has 3x 1,5mm² inside adds 5cents per meter. Can be worth it, if nothing better is around.
When you only strip the outer layer without making the step to a higher grade, you lose money, because what you sell has the same price, but weighs less. That is the case with very massive cable that are >70% copper.
Would it make sense to use a motor from something you find at the curb? You could possibly run it all the time and just feed wire. I was also thinking maybe you could wire it up to a foot pedal if you didn't want to leave it running constantly. Might reduce wear and noise.
If you cut that in to lengths of 1.2 to 1.5 it's on the big stuff so much more manageable the longer the cable the longer its takes to strip
Upgraded that small stuff from 42% to 64% without the final stripping though... My local yard was cool about it and gave me better rate than 42%
Great video thank you for sharing
Ben it was still a good video everything is worth a try keep the videos coming
I enjoyed watching this , thank you. 👍😂🤗
Ben could you do more of this then straight into the melting but pin the flap out the way so its not going clank all the time
Hi ben you mentioned you get heaps of cable each month where do you get it from?? Im in Adelaide and am starting a scrap business
in south australia they are paying $2.20 a kilo
Instead of going all the way down to copper would your buyer give you a better rate for the wire with the outer shield stripped?
Hi Ben...When are you going for street scraping again?
I tried doing an extension cord, gave up after one 4ft piece. I'll stick with single strand, not braided...
Will gladly take all your stranded stuff LoL. I made a custom guide tube/face plate for my stripping machine to dial it in for the small stuff. Also made a rig to stretch and straighten 6' lengths
@@travismiller5548 it would be cool to see your set up. I got some big wire, similar to what ben was stripping on the video but bigger I think. It was bigger than a quarter. I had to use an angle grinder to cut the plastic off. Some guy sent me a video of his home made stripper that does the big stuff. It was awesome...
Not a fail for me 👍👍👍👍💕💕
I bought the single head stripper with a motor last summer. My father and i spent 4 days stripping wire like that, in the end there was not even enough money left to pay for the Stripper let alone our time, and not to mention the trip to the dump. to get rid of a mountain 4 feet high of PVC sheathing. There is a reason why in the old days the old scrappers were building fires and dumping all that wire in it to burn away the plastics, i'm not saying its the right thing to do, Far from it, but it was the only way they had to make money with wire. its much faster to strip CRT tv's for the copper and the value is better because its so much faster and easier.
Some buyers won't purchase copper wire that has been burned or if they do they give you a much lower price like say a #2 or even #3 price
@@DominicUbble no yard around here will touch burnt wire. It's the way the thieves were getting paid for copper stolen from homes they broke into.
I think it depends on the "methificated value effect" its been documented well in one industry, in which methificated individuals will spend hundreds of hours between the onset and the completion or securing items of value such as massive tree burls and underwater logs. to put it in numbers, sub $1 an hour wages are typically satisfactory because of the freedom of being ones own boss.
Wire stripping has characteristics that put it on the upper echelon of hall of fame ways to make money if this "effect" is a accepted criteria.
Look at getting some ck wire sheers yes they are fairly expensive but the aggro you were having with that last cable was almost painful and their designed to cut that sort of cable
For the large stuff maybe you could get a ratcheting cutter and again rig up a foot pedal to save your forearms.
i like the chickens watching you...
Where I live insulated wire is 10 cents a pound. We either strip it or we get hardly anything for it.
If you want to recover copper you need to strip the outer jacket, then you can put all of the thin cable in a a can. The third step is place the can in an fire pit and cook the gasses out to be cleanly burnt. The result is clean copper and charcoal dust.
I'd pop an SDS or hammer drill (but turn the hammer function off) on that wire stripper. would cope fine with the force required. Wall power would be much better.
You need to get that striping machine bolted down and a motor on it with a foot pedal or bump switch so you can use both hands. It's not worth the time to strip it off unless you have nothing else to do, I agree it is monontinous. At least you have a machine I use a knife. Thanks for sharing.
curiosity: for all the plastic parts that you are left with after dissasembling different gadgets, why don't you buy a grinder and put the plastic through it, this way you can stack way more in a bin, than stacking big pieces with lots of empty spaces between, that takes alot of space.
there are alot of 2 roll grinders you can get
Why don't you stripped the thinner flexible cables?
I didn't bother with stripping the multi strand standing light lamp wires I stripped the exterior coating off
I always cut the bigger stuff into about 2' lengths, much easier to manage. Maybe you could get the chickens doing some work? 😁😁😁
A corded drill with the button held down would really improve efficiency
I can see why you wouldn't do it if you have a ton of it, but i was hoping to see the difference since i only get some cords occasionally and if it would be worth it if you do like a cord or two a day and keep up with it .
In Finland you really dont want to strip those power cords. We dont have to take the plugs off, and you actually get less money if you strip them.
I like that stripper, I agree time is money but 1.50 a kilo sounds great to me. I get like 40 to 45 cent a pound but I'm allowed to leave plugs and transformers attached. Even at that the low grade would take too long to be worth it. I might take a day to strip all my number 1 wire.
I sometimes grab my double sided ax or hatchet & give thic wire like that a whack and cut it down to a workable size! A bit of fun to release some anger at the same time!! Good on ya not giving up on the bastard cable and finishing it!
nice wire stripper it ran through fast with that drill.