I love this. Went dumpster diving for the first time today after watching your other videos. Didn't get much beyond wires but I'm gonna watch this anyway
This was a very interesting video, I like these kinds, I don't get nothing done, because I'm to busy watching what you're doing, but that's ok, that's why I come to watch. Thanks
The momment you realise, your wish to be there to help do the stuff that needs to be done, just became some what actualised. You bloody brilliant PANDA
You are definitely my favorite RU-vid scrapper I love videos like this I'll watch them in the morning to build motivation for the day I learned something now and then but more important is your positive attitude
Love this! Love the longer videos, and just watching you take things apart is like a kind of meditation for me! Very soothing, very interesting, and it gives me loads of tips for scrapping! More of these please! :D
I really enjoyed just hanging out while you processed the scrap. I have 6 years worth of semi-serious collected scrap. (I grabbed anything I came across, in everyday life) I have about 30 motors from 1/3 hp to 10 hp, and about 400 pounds of copper wire needing stripping. Sometimes, I just put an audio book on and go to town. I would like to have my garage back. It's a two-car affair, COMPLETELY filled with unprocessed scrap metal. I'll get there... eventually.
That sounds like a full week of work, but what an amazing payout it’s gonna be! With so many motors it’ll definitely be worth picking up a hammer drill and cleaning them out. All the best with that endeavour!
Thanks bud. I’ve been saving the bits of copper from wire stripping and during the video (with you as my scrap partner) I took out all the bits of insulation
That was a giant transformer. I also enjoyed the video. I sought stuff to scrap and found two broken computers and a audio/video receiver. The last one had a nice transformer, but will take care of it later.
Thub what I tend to think that most people like myself who watch these types channels is that we find it very interesting for those who scrap like yourself! When you find the
This was a great idea! Thanks, Thub. My kitchen is soooo clean. I was leaving that and the birthday gift wrapping till tomorrow, but it's all done now thanks to you! It really meant a lot to me - I'll explain more on FB. I'd do this once a week, I love the idea that much!
Saved this bad boy for today. I like the idea of this. I try to find more talking based videos when I have large jobs to tear down. Got about 150 bay lights to tear down and a pile of hydroponic gear. Maybe this will keep me motivated enough to process some cars in this terrible Saturday weather we’re having. Keep up the hustle buddy 🤟🏻
Should be able to make some decent scrap out of all that! I appreciate you framing it that way for me, if I do another one of these I’ll see about picking items with talking points. I was a bit worried some parts of this one were a bit empty
Hey Tim, the monotounous work was the real deal how the big picture works sometimes. I would like to see more of this stuff as I am working along with my stuff I need to do and leaning never gets old. :)
This was great. So many reseller Group work podcasts know their main audience is people working, and then try to steal their attention. Makes no sense. This was perfect, really playing to your strengths, a nice, calm worker earning a paycheck beside you.
What a great video, because I got motivation to take a part an old big junky space wasting table containing screwed metall pices to fit it in the bin and seperate the metal. Always enjoy watching your videos. Please, share more content like this. Stay save and blessings
This is a awesome idea for a video I'll watch while I organize my hoard of scrap in my shed! Also its bulk pick up week in Spruce Grove there will be a few truck loads of treasures coming home I'm sure 😂♻🌎👍
@@thubprint well the haul was awesome filled my truck with old vacuums and lamps got a ton of old Christmas lights some scrap steel and aluminum and spent the day with my mom she loves street scraping and scavenging ♻🌎👍💚
Enjoyed seeing the use of different tools. Know that stripping wire is an acquired skill. Microscrapping is very different and it is very useful to learn how to do it. We bring all of our computers to recycling were they a palleted. Don't know if they are still being shipped overseas. Glad to see that you are mindful and using your safety equipment. Have been watching PolyProfit, an Australian scrapper. He collects small washing machines and dishwashers and removes the motors to sell them separately. He talks to the items he picks up. Also uses a small pickup and tows a small trailer. Looking forward to hear what your being paid for your metals now.
Hey thub, I appreciate the thought put into the topics of each video that you make. But on the flipside I also watch other youtubers like Canadian Treasure Hunter, Scrap Farm, Poly Prophet, Vid Vulture, and Mike the Scavenger, and these guys never have a topic/theme/educational moment. You may not have the time, or you may want to keep your channel a certain way, but I think people would love to watch you just street scrapping and dumpster diving, and it's been a while since you've done that. Sometimes we just want filler.
I like doing repetitive task on a night in front of a TV..lol ..I use my grinder on everything those rivets would have been destroyed. I enjoy doing such tasks and find that eventually you end up with a mountain of non ferrous.
My issue with scrapping while watching tv is I really enjoy dramatic cinema, and they kind of demand one’s attention 😅 The cast al and brass wings probably would’ve been an alright way to spend the time grinding off rivets, but the one I tested was so stiff even with one end free it felt like it would’ve been one of those tasks that quickly became irritating. No right or wrong answer, but I’m not losing any sleep over it haha
More tools! Woof, Woof, Woof! How about getting access to a cheap hydralic press for those special moments...Great vid, getting philosophical! Dang, had to get out my Websters to spell philosophical right... sigh..
Love your indepth stripping. You also take very good care of your hair its beautiful when down and like it up as well. Airhugs of positive energy to you and yours thanks for helping to save our planet.
Look into then diamond crusted cut off disk for the grinder they last alot longer and no risk of them blowing apart and badly injuring yourself but they do cost a fair bit more. I find them at the dump sometimes they are worn down but they still work and the nice part is you always have the full use of the dimension of the disk as they don't wear down look normal cut off disks!
Love your videos and you may already have something like this but was wondering could you make an indepth video on how to differentiate different metals and whats best to scrap and also seperating them into all the different types that scrap metal recyclers take
It's impossible to tell the difference between the different metals. You have to be a scientist with millions of dollars worth of equipment. Iron and copper are identicle. It's not like you see on youtube where you just use a magnet and look at the colour.
Honest feedback - I just went off doing other stuff and had the random workshop noises in the background! It's probably not something I'd watch again, but I am way behind on watching all my favourite channels at the moment anyway due to time pressures with my big clean-up. Good on you for trying something different tho Thub and I'm sure many loved it!
Use a heat gun to get any part off circuit board mate your going to end up ripping hand I have in past or put them in a pan for a minutes then tap them on edge of pan they will all fall off
I had thought about that for sure! If it was any longer I would’ve had to, but it was in that “middle ground” where I felt like it was fine, I’ll just struggle haha Sometimes I put them between the drill and vice and reverse twist them, that doesn’t take very long but it also only works on sorta short bits
Thanks bud! It’s an odd sort of relationship we have with strangers on the internet, but for me this has become a pretty large part of my social life so answering comments really means a lot to me
when i was 16 = about 12 years ago i used to crack open washing machine engines with a hammer but it was fun and I have good memories of scrapping :0 with 0 power tools not even a drill ;p
Love your show you're inspiring and this was a great video and you had a great word and it's kind of funny as I was working processing you were processing and it was kind of funny like when I was struggling with something and I could hear you in the background like oh man this is kind of rough but we're going to do this and and like right when I don't know the thing that I was struggling with and then you got done then I got it done like it it was just weird so technically don't need to have someone there but you can do it by Spirit or by sound. But really I got on here to ask you about those video cards or computer cards whatever you took off those little square boxes like what holds value in that. Is it like Platinum I mean I'm not very key on my metals yet but I'm learning.
Oh man. I was using that same tool @16:22 it slipped and I drove it straight through my finger nail and in to the nail bed. Bled like crazy and hurt so bad I saw stars. Hahaha
If you screw a piece of 2×4 to the benchtop to use ase a backstop for the small stuff, it helps keep you fingers out of the way and its more secure. Ask me how I know.
Also one thing iv found with twisted wires like that it’s easier and faster to cut them into 2ft lengths to unravel them faster and just feed the individual 2 ft lengths through the wire stripper
@@vincedibona4687 fair enough it’s all good as long as the cable isn’t too thick to fit in the drill iv only just recently got myself a new vice as I smashed my other one to bits beating steel to make things on it what I really need is an anvil haha
@@ccartershecticlife True about the wire/cable thickness, I don't think about that because I rarely come across really good wire. And I think all vices end up being used as makeshift anvils... my poor little guy... *ROFL*
Its a bit late, but try taking all corner bolts out & hitting the seam or weld & all theplates holding the transformer will basically fall off its a lot better for your productivity lol
Get #1 if you remove the shellac otherwise it's 2. I usually toss them transformers in a fire for a min the after I remove the color I steal wool it so it don't have the burnt look and get rejected from the yard
That seems like a lot of effort, and a good amount of pollution to upgrade few pounds of copper by 20 cents or so. Just keep a #2 bucket, #1 bucket, and bare bright bucket and save time and pollution.
Not much effort at all. I also forgot another step that you can use. Far as pollution goes either I do it or the government does it. Really doesn't matter.
have you tried to depolutae a board with a heat gun? Hold the board with pliers over a bucket, heat it and smack it. You then can sort through the componets and may even get clean tin beads :P
Just wondering what precious metal is in the Mlcc’s and tantalum capacitors iv recently started collecting e waste but not sure what best parts to remove from the boards to get the best gold / silver/ other precious metal recovery other than the obvious gold fingers and gold plated parts of some boards and relays for the silver contacts
Subscribe to Ewaste ben, and watch some of his older videos one low grade, mid grade, and high grade boards. Also, 999 Dusan I think his name is, he processes these things for the precious metals and shows what is in them. Older MLCCs contain a good amount of palladium, I think the newer ones are mostly nickel, but that's just from youtube education, I've never refined them. As for tantalum capacitors, they contain tantalum which is a valuable metal. i don't think you can refine them, but you can save them until you have a large amount (pounds or kilos worth) and maybe sell them on ebay. There are plenty of chips and other items to remove if you want to eventually refine gold, and ewaste ben is certainly the best source on youtube to learn what those items are.
What a weird concept for a video. But, alright, I'm going to spend an(other) hour diagnosing a big electronics project that's been sitting on my bench and had me stumped for 2 years. ... also, gah, that big beautiful transformer, turned into scraps instead of a welder. Oh well, can't save 'em all.
If you want to blur brand names on cups, you use keyframes & blurring in a video editor. Important if someone doesn't want to be on YT. I've used Kinemaster to do it.
