10 Best Places to Find Scrap Copper 

if i give a price of that scrap what would think about that

"free scrap copper" then proceeds to tell you where to go buy old ac units to scrap

It's not illegal to spray chems from the sky. When they say something is bad I wonder what they are hiding. Just saying

Place near me you can scrap the AC adapters on there own, same with the boxy plugs, and all kinds of stuff. Light ballasts, Transformers, PC boards, even regular boards like out of a VCR, or you can even sell PC parts separate by the pound like the ram, CPUS, hard drives. place is endless on what they pay for.

Or a plumber

Literally same but there is a limit with certain things

Yeah, on days off for extra money when you own a pickup truck. It's a learning venture but then it starts taking over when you see money $$$ everywhere, even on dates. Then you start recruiting your buddies with pickup trucks/ trailers for heavier stuff. You soon stop dating all for The Precious, THE PRECIOUS ! AAAHHAHAHAHA, AAAAAHHHHHHH !!!! It IS a damn good free Hunka Hunka change for the taking.

agreed 💯 percent .so fun

@@loganwolf2037 lol.dam money I hate you .but you're right to much of anything is bad .gotta have a balance.

me too

Exactly

Is that what happened 😂

Im 16

Bruh I’m 22

Thanks for the reality check. Damn dose time go quick!

yes if you're not extremely careful you will regret it ..and the gas to ..take it and sell it to a HVAC place or they can drain it safely..I'm glad I watched videos like this before I started ripping into a units..kickass

Yeah, seconded. Microwaves have "You will die and it will hurt the whole time you are dying" sized capacitors in them. Do NOT mess around poking at their guts unless you know exactly what you are doing!

@@peteredwards2318 yup yup and when you're family finds you later on when they get back from dinner at rhe grandparents house they will see you laying on tje floor and plugging their noses because now the house smells like is burnt shit..and you dont want them to remember you like that do you guys ..so dont be a BS .leave it ti the pros.

How can I see a capacitor I’m really just researching this side hustle to see if it’s worth it any other things to look out for is there anything I should look for that’s safe ?

Copper seems worth collecting over time .I'm not about to go start looking the stuff like but glad I seen this comment. As my microwave is on it way out cuda been my 1st easy bit of copper lol 😆 😅

I hear you. I got one of 2 big lots from a residential plumbing/heating contractor who died and his kids were auctioning off the estate. The bigger lot went for $850 too high for me. But the smaller lot I got for $350, and after cost of fuel, wear/tear on my vehicle, made $400 profit so far!

Profit is good!

How lucky u were!

Did that too, we thought we were rich. Couldn't beleive it was high tension wire. Steel inside. The scrapyard knew where we got and gave us like 4.00$ gave us some magnts too😂 wondered why it was so hatd to cut...😅😅😅😂

Anything on a railroad tracks a railroad property is a federal offense

​@@swarm6697Fuck the railroad

There's one in every crowd

Extension cords have a 45% recovery rate of #2 copper wire. I work in the metal recycling industry.

​@@mrobertson188p

​@@mrobertson18898% over a fire 🔥 👍.

Sprocket, Sprocket get out of there. I loved Fraggle Rock I'm 40yo and I was so disappointed when my kids hated it 😭

U know damn well u don't chance finishing your route first driving the recycling truck to wherever y'all empty then driving back to the shop, clocking out getting in your beater station wagon and retracing your steps from your morning route to see if maybe just maybe that bathroom sink is still sitting in front of the Clemson resident house 8 hours later it's sure to still be there.. I bet u carry a few of the must have scrapper hand tools with u on your route truck and and all day everyday u keep your eyes peeled for the jack pot. You don't wait till after work you're not kidding anyone!

@@brandonengler6451whole bunch of haterade getting drank at your house

​@@brandonengler6451What does it matter to you? Very spastic comment, bro!

​@@brandonengler6451depends, maybe he's not in a big city and can get away with it

@Brandon It's really bad for the ozone layer I believe!

My state has a reclaim program, and they supposedly pay between $20-$50 each for dehumidifiers, air, conditioners, anything with compressed refrigerant. Soon i will be looking into this further and possibly cashing in Big!

Honestly large transformers (that work) I prefer to keep. They are just too much fun to play around with.

$50k reward? That's fucked up

yeah you didn't make any profit this not efficient

@@the-beneficiary1809 by the looks of it I made 19-25 and hr. 106-30 for gas is 76/4=19 hr…. 76/3= 25 hr. So I feel like I got 76$ for good amount of work

You need to learn how to siphen Gasolina

Who do you sell the copper to?

@@lettunengt3723 scrap yard

I am obsessed with sodium metal, I buy salt at the supermarket, then evaporate the chlorine using laser and get sodium into inert atmosphere inside a bottle and sell it for 20 bucks for 10 grams. you can make a lot of money if you learn science

@@absolute___zerono you don’t , cause if you did that there would be a huge conglomerate doing it to

@@JoeRogansForehead while there is no big demand for pure sodium metal, there is a huge demand for sodium-based products. Table salt costs 30 USD per ton here in Mexico where I am currently living. Caustic soda is priced at 4 USD per kg here in Mexico. If you sell 1 ton of caustic soda you will be making 4k USD per ton while in sodium you will be spending much less + energy and machinery setup. Of course if you don't know any physics, chemistry , mathematics and programming you won't make this money easily. But you can get this knowledge say in 3 years, and then lots of business opportunities will appear. Caustic soda is used to make soap, fyi, a product that everyone needs.. With solar energy dropping in price the production cost will be getting lower, and the profit getting higher, but for a guy who doesn't have any knowledge this money will always stay unreachable. Knowledge = money, literally, in 21 century.

@@absolute___zero okay Jose thanks for telling me how to make money while I sit in my house in the United States and every single person from your country is dying in the desert to come over here. But I appreciate the third world advice . Does the cartel know your using their internet to brag. Can’t wait to see you on best gore

Kind of hard for them to catch you since the dumpster is on the clients property and you are doing the client a favor by lightening their load and in some cases, they gave you permission.

if in the USA there is a law that helps police anything in the trash is forfeited of owner also helps scrapers police will say you can't because they don't want the call later to trusspass you (lot pf paperwork)

The Supreme Court has ruled anything placed in the trash is free to claim. They can try to press charges all they want but it isn’t going to stick

@@E-BikingAdventures yeh but you forget how so many Americans are trained to be autistic karens and will report you to the authorities over nothing.

If it’s mixed with trash they aren’t saving it for scrap. Also I look for no trespassing or a locked bin. If nothings locked or behind a gate I think it’s free game.

I'm in southeast pa. Forklift batteries are insane.

Skips?

@@vincedibona4687 in the UK the open type dumpsters are called skips 🙂 no idea why lol

So people can skip stuff!

Oh nice! It’s been on my production schedule for a bit but I wanted to get the recent few done first. I’ll have to check yours out, probably have a few good ideas that I hadn’t thought of 😄

@@thubprint thanks so much for checking it out, I didn't realise you didn't have the mini copper shower tanks over there, what a shame, I love them! Have a great weekend 🙂

It’s been a long time coming 😅

@@thubprint You're doing huge favors for up and coming scrappers like myself. This year is my first year I'm taking it serious. Usually it's turn in few bags of crushed cans with some scrap metal for a $30-$50 profit at least once a month. My collection of #1 & #2 copper has me wanting to learn more about scrapping. Also I have a suggestion, would you consider making a beginners guidebook for your website for people who doesnt have access to the internet such as my gramps? That would be helpful to lots of people who can download your guidebook and have it in their vehicle instead of going through youtube or get misinformation. Stay positive my brother thank you

Appreciate it, thank you!

NICE! Thank you!

Reeeeally??? Wow that ain’t bad! I’ll keep an eye out in case I see one haha

@@thubprint over 20kg of copper and brass

Maryland prices for #1 copper went from 3.80 last month to 2.50 this month. I was going to take mine in but I think I'll wait

How hard is it to pull the gas if you’re not an HVAC tech?

@@goobygoo3253 it sucks! Sometimes just better to wait. We were as high as like you said 3,80 $4 a lbs It’s just hard to wait sometimes because we need rhe money

also a good thing for a scrapper is to learn about the economy and economic trends. usually when global economy enters deflationary period (like now) commodity prices drop big time. any economic deceleration (which is called recession or depression) causes massive hoarding of cash (and cash in a global economy is called US dollar) and selling of all the accumulated goods on the market (any market including scrap), this causes massive demand of cash (US Dollar) , rise of unemployment which triggers more cash hoarding and more rise in the value of cash (US dollar) and that goes like falling dominoes. The depressions are usually caused by industrial revolution and robotization, which is the era we are currently living so crisis is the "normal" thing you all will live through your life. Thats why if you have to save the money for a period (years) when you won't make any money in scrap, but have enough storage to store accumulated valuable metals to sell it later when the economy comes back. And btw, that's why folks with big bugs no longer do any physical purchases and sellings but use trading exchanges (like NYSE or CBOT) to make money.

@@goobygoo3253here in Utah roughly a year later than your initial comment and we're still $2.70-$2.90/lb! Rough!

Take off the plug pins too. They'll go as brass in most yards

@@trench124 yes, got to love scrapping plugs, so much brassy goodness too👍

not bashing or anything, but what are the consequences if caught scrapping from abandoned buildings. im pretty sure they are serious

a burglary charge. Rarely is anything abandoned, merely vacant.

Hey that’s not bad! Just make sure they aren’t particularly nice tvs, some of those are actually worth a good bit of money and they don’t make them anymore

Oh I did a whole video on silver! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JcbtwnOWq8M.html The little buttons are not pure silver, they have a bit of cadmium in them to harden them. Very toxic fumes, which is why I can’t just melt them down as-is. They’re easy to clean the copper off though, just leave in hydrochloric acid with a splash of hydrogen peroxide to kickstart the oxidization and the copper/brass/solder just gets eaten away.

😂