I greatly apologize for not including the values of the metals, I was fairly new to making videos and I failed at this video 😂 I’m sorry! The copper came out to $18.56 and the rest of the materials came out around $4 and I scrapped that motor in about 10 minutes. Thank you for watching!
Well, I would have bought that faulty motor from you for 15 dollars, so did it worth doing all that job for extra few dollars?? And also you will have to take it to the shop to sell it so the amount of time plus travel will bring down your profit to 15 dollars thus if you would sell this kind of motors to someone like me without doing a minute job on it for 15 dollars is much better however, I live in UK so need to open my business in USA I suppose...
@@scrapitall200 OK I do understand that too, I Cut TREES and grass in my forests houses in eastren EU and I feel like i just made a billion Euroes so yes I do understand that...
That was a great Machete promotion! definitely worthy of a sponsor opportunity! great work and thanks for the scrapping tips! nice video by the way! keep up the good work!
That was a genius way to cut the motor in half! So simple and yet, I would have never thought of that! When I saw that machete, I thought: "NO WAY!" It worked great.
Dang. I wish I could have showed this to my Grandpa. He was scrapping motors into 93. He never cut them in half and he would cut off the “curled” part and made drifts to pound out the inside part. Your way is so much faster and easy. Thank you for sharing.
quick tip for you from a fellow scrapper with electric motors if you find something brushless / aka digital motors /aka induction drive motors often found in dyson cleaners power wheelchairs/ mobility scooters as well these motors are double wound twice as much copper as a normal motor
Instead of cutting the windings in half, then pulling them out, I find it easier to cut the loops on one end with a set of bolt cutters, then pry them out the other end. Works better on some than others, the ones with a ton of shalliac seem to be a little more finicky.
Much appreciated for adjusting the volume when you used the grinder. That's a rare thing but never goes unnoticed. 👏 I don't have a machete but I do have the blade from a push mower I scrapped out.
You are very welcome, I know it can be really loud, especially for those wearing earbuds. I’ve been thinking about trying a mower blade, been looking for the right one to try. Thank you for watching and for your comment.
I like the mower blade idea but you may find that the metal is too thick to go through. The plates are pretty tight with little to no give to accommodate the thickness of the mower blade.
@Amy_McFarland the thickness wasn't really a problem, aslong as it's sharpened before use each time. The issue I did run into though is the slight curve it has. So it never went down straight/even which was a pain in the butt. But now I have "the proper" tools for the job so I don't have to struggle... as much 😂
Just subscribed. I’m an electrician/ life safety technician and I have scrapped copper wire and motors for 20 years. Mostly wire because it’s just really easy. I don’t strip the #12 THHN but I take the jacket off romex and 14-2 FLRP wire. The 500 MCM I always strip because it’s easy and worth the extra money at the scrap yard. Cool video man. Have a good weekend.
Thank you so much for subscribing, I appreciate that. I still haven’t found any 500 mcm, but that stuff looks sweet to strip. Thank you again and have a great day!
I've got about 25 motors, from 1/4 hp to 10 hp, but I don't have a machete. I'm going to look for a substitute, post haste! That was the fastest motor process I've seen. Thank you for the video. I'm not dreading processing the motors any more!
I have never seen that trick with the machete before. It truly surprised me. I didn't realize that the metal was that soft. Thank you for teaching this old dog a new trick.
@@davidmay2294 those are layers of steel holding all the copper together. So the machete goes in between the layers so it’s just copper that’s getting cut.
@@scrapitall200 was ganna say would work awesome on transformers to def ganna have to try it cos I normally do the cut one end and bash the copper through and that’s noisy takes for ever and you get worn out quick where this looks actually quite fun.. I am only fairly new to your channel but I have followed and will continue to watch
I love the method you break down the motor. I'm going to buy a machete, large vice and large screwdriver. I've started my Hobby of scrapping cause it really is fun for me. Taking apart anything that has copper is very therapeutic for myself. Thank you for all your amazing videos my friend and thank you for praying my friend. Keep pushing your videos cause here you have a Christian friend. God bless my friend.
I like when you thank God for what you do i m in metal fabrication for 43 years and i thank God too for everything i accomplish i wouldn t do it without him
I highly appreciate the narration! Thank You! The videos without narration makes it so I have to watch every second and then I am unable to multitask... So again, Thank You!
You're lucky the copper came out that easy. I've scrapped motors where there was so much lacquer that I had to soak it in Vinegar to loosen it up a bit before using a prybar! Thanks for sharing.
I think having it in two pieces help, but I know what you mean, I’ve had some that were a real bear. I’ve never heard of soaking them in vinegar before, I’ll have have to give that a try, thanks!
I like your attitude towards scraping it's a fun way to make some spare money from home , and the good Lord opens up all these avenues for us to do so.
I haul scrap part time and do my teardown work at night, little side hustle to cover some expenses and learn how different things operate, I'd rather makle $$ while relaxing instead of passing it up, microscrapping saves $$ by not driving around looking for items but maximizing your return per each
That was a brilliant break down from start to finish and very well explained my scrapping friend, you got a good amount of copper from that moter god bless my friend
Let me teach you a way to do that a whole lot faster man. I personally was a lead connector on stator motors for several years. That string you see, it's called lace string. Take a razor and go around the motor cutting all of it. Now itll basically just fall off now. Once thats out of the way, here's the main trick. You see the little white pieces that're coming out of it that look like plastic strips? They're mylar strips, used to keep the winding from.grounding out on the frame. So if you stand the motor up and look down in it, they will be somenwhat U shaped if you will. Now get s pair of needle nose pliers and grab the end of one and pull up. They'll come right out. Itll take a second , but once you get the hang of it, it'll go quick. Once theyre all out,just push the wire towards the center and it'll come right out. Once yohve done one or two, you'll be able to have everybit of thebwire ojt in about 30 seconds start to finish.
Ok so I understand every you’ve said and I’m going to give that a try, but what about the ones that have a lot of extra lacquer or glue poured all over them? Seems to me that those insulator sleeves get stuck from all the glue. Thank you so much I appreciate it.
There shouldn't be extra on them. They're laced, and then ran through what they called a dip and spin, which is where that's applied. I've always known of them all being the same. Now granted, a different company might do that part differently. But hopefully it'll help you out.
@@ryanreynolds8597 I’ve had some that look like they dipped them like 10 times 😂😂 But I will give your method a try because I believe you and I’d love to make things easier for myself. Thanks again, I really do appreciate it.
I used to find tons of those motors on roofs all the time back when I was cleaning grease exhaust systems. I always took them home with me to scrap but I was never able to get the copper windings out like you did. I found 1 one time that was on a hospital roof that weighed probably 50 lbs. Needless to say that was good payday. Lol And before anyone says i was stealing them, I wasn't. They were all bad and left behind by lazy contractors that didn't want to carry a heavy motor down a ladder after they replaced them. So they left them there. Thanks for the helpful content. Just subscribed bc of your prayer. All glory to our loving God! Amen
I believe you, lots of people can’t be bothered carrying those heavy motors and they just abandon them. Thank you so much and God bless you! God is great!
I was struggling to get a motor opened earlier then I remembered this method and it worked it was slicker than snot on marble lol thank you I hope you had an awesome day today 😊
Thanks for leaving the prayer in the video. Sincerely. Machete! I can't believe I never thought of that. I use a machete for everything. Im a small scale farmer and my wife can attest to the fact that I usually have a machete in my hand and a couple dogs in tow. When we hike trails in the state park I carry my machete🤣. I use one in the garden to coppice or to harvest vegetables. I use it to slice those vegetables when Im feeding them to the pigs or other livestock. I find a hundred other uses all the time. Its basically my 5 in 1. So before my little love letter to machetes gets even weirder I'll just say thanks for the great idea!
I totally agree with you. I use the machete method and it seems other scrappers have picked up on your method. I do not like all that dust from the copper when using an angle grinder among other things. God Bless!
Me too my friend, I really don’t like that dust all over everything, plus it’s really dangerous to breathe in. Yeah I’ve been amazed at how popular the machete has become. Thank you for watching and God bless you too!
I do it the same way. Once I get that it all apart. I take a propane torch and just run it around and it melts all the cat gut as I call it. They're wrapping on top of that and then when I was watching somebody else I got a piece of 2-in flat stock quarter inch thick about 16 in Long and I cut an inverted v in the end and it really makes it easy to get the copper out. You can pry it out or hit it with a hammer on the end and it pulls the copper out. Either way, try different ways. Good video!.👍👍🙂🇨🇦
On behalf of 90% of the people of earth, thanks for taking the time to add the metric weights. It's nice to finally see a copper scrapper who, after all the effort of doing a video and setting up a channel, actually has a vice mounted on a bench! I've seen videos where they have no vice, have one sitting on the floor not bolted to anything, and one with a vice bolted to a short piece of 9" diameter tree trunk sitting on the shed floor! They just can't be bothered setting things up to make work easy. Your machete seems to work, but I dunno about bashing the back side of it- the wrong tool for the job normally gets mangled. I just cut one end off with the 1mm thin disc and pin punch it out as I don't frequently get motors. Planning a pnuematic claw puller after seeing a homemade hydraulic puller that strips motors of wire in 15 seconds.
I don’t understand either why some don’t properly mount their vise. I’ve been using the machete for quite some time and it’s holding up really well. I like it because my shop is a shelter logic tent and I don’t use the angle grinder inside of fear the hot metal dust or sparks will put holes in my tent. I also like it, because when the stator is in two pieces the copper comes out much easier, especially with the ones that are incredibly tight. That would be a really cool thing to have, I’ve seen videos of those and they are sweet. Thank you for watching. P.S. in my newer videos I add more information for users of the metric system along with the values of the metals in Euros, British pounds, Canadian dollars and Australian dollars.
@@scrapitall200I finally got around to trying a nice sharp bench axe on a longer stator- it cut through easy enough, but the copper wedged into the gaps and was a bugger to punch out. It may also have been an especially tight wound motor too though. I dont own a machete or would've tried that- i realise the axe being thicker may not give as good a cut.
@@rossbrumby1957 I tried a hatchet on a stator and had the same experience. I’m thinking it’s the thickness and not as sharp as a machete that makes that happen. That’s a bummer it didn’t work for you.
The machete really does make it quick, plus no mess from copper dust from the angle grinder. $22 for all metal and it took me 10 minutes to scrap. Thank you so much for watching.
I just took apart an air conditioner and the copper didn't want to come out. It was packed so tight I had to take apart the housing 4 layers at a time. I got a decent amount of copper, but it took too much time. Nice video brother
@@Horsecatcher that’s frustrating when that happens. They dip a lot of motors in shellac then cure them in an oven and that makes everything stick to together. Fortunately a lot of motors aren’t like that. I’m hoping soon to make a video on how to deal with those frustrating motors. Thank you so much brother.
I do it almost the same way. Instead of an angle grinder I use my plasma cutter to open the casing. Then I use similar pliers usually 1 of my 2 bigger ones and instead of using the screwdriver I just flip my pliers upside down after getting it loose and roll the plier neck on the steel edge for leverage or on the vice sticking the one end under the copper like you did the screwdriver and out pops the copper usually pretty easy. Doesn't pop out then I grab my bigger pliers. my yard wants the strings removed too.
I work for a university campus and they have motors that range from 5lbs - 500lb+ let alone all the other metals and Cooper piping etc. I think most of the time they just trash it all.
Agreed! The machete was impressive and a really great time saving tip. I ha e one I found buried and now I know exactly what to do with it! Again, impressive friend!😮
I think this one was the best one yet I’ve done! Came from my local grocery store from one of the refrigerant systems, I think. Thanks for stopping by buddy.
What i did on one of these is, I cut the top ribbon of copper with my angle grinder. That allows you to pull the strand up through the shoot. I didn't have to cut the battery in half
@@steveherr450 I find it hard to resell items, so many want to lowball on the price and the frustration and time is usually not worth it, but too each their own, right?
Thats a good idea to split the laminations and cut the coils in half, I'm going to try and take it a step further and make a plate with a sharp edge and try to split it with my hydraulic press.
Tried doing this for a living 30 years ago had a deal with a local scrap yard they furnished the motors and i tore them down and they paid me for the copper and i gave them back the rest didnt really work out for me even with an unlimited supply of motors to scrap course copper didnt pay as well 30 years ago and the scrap yard owner always found a way to down grade the copper so he paid me less all in all the experience was less than enjoyable for me :)
There is a company that i know of that is makes money hand over foot that makes money buying only scrap metal and making it into ornate metal fence. I used to scrap until I found out the TV parts I was scraping for pennies actually have value in the hundreds. All those boards and backlights are worth way more than any scrap yard will pay. One DLP chip from Mitsubishi was selling for $400 a piece at the time. I was selling 5 a week on Amazon and ebay
I bet those fences are really cool! Yeah there is definitely money to be made selling components like that. I’d love to find a few of those DLP chips lol. Thank you for watching.
Wow that was amazing how you chopped that motor in half with a machete. I actually thought you were joking at first. I have worked with metal for 40 years and would never have thought of that wild idea. Great video new subscriber here.
Wow, so much copper in that little motor. Nice one... Even to cut it with a Machete is so fast. I didnt believe that. Hope i can get one here in my country. So on, keep scrapping. Bye and greetings from Germany brandt-heiss
That machete of yours is some tough it went though that faster the grinding the cap pretty much with like you say no copper dust wasted! CheeRs ScrapItAll ♻️🤘🏻
Gave it a try on a 60hp motor a few years ago. Man has to know his limitations 😂. Spent a full Saturday getting the copper out, was about 65 lbs. So roughly $200 for a full days work, very hard work. Its a shame it isn't easier because I have access to about twenty or so 30hp to 350hp motors a year.
Those huge motors are definitely a lot tougher but for me as a hobby scrapper, it’s definitely worth it. Wish I had a few 350hp motors lol. Thank you for watching.
@@scrapitall200 $27 Dollar worth of copper you got for that one motor now I say it took you about ahhh 45 min to 1 hour to do all that work then you need to bring to scrap yard that will take you other say 30 min so you need to bring a lot just pay for time and say so in a day if you had 8 that come up to $216.00 now $16 will for new took and gas and lunch so you make 200.00 a day now that all good the only problem you need endless motor now that had part and to be that kind of motor or better was fun to watch you do that was the motor any good? because it would be worth way more then $27 I say about used $60 or double that $120 new
@@MsSugercrispThat's something scappers overlook all the time. I've seen so much perfectly good stuff get chopped up and sold for scrap at 1/10 the price they could have gotten for it. People will even buy broken stuff if it's repairable or if you can repair it yourself, even better.
@@Breadbored.I owned a small engine shop for 12 years and made friends with a dozen scrappers. I said anything with a gas engine I'll take for more than scrap. The equipment they found blew my mind. Old Dr brush hogs , snowblowers , rare horizontal engines from the 70s. It was an amazing business relationship. Thanks to covid and a bad business partner with addiction issues I had to close. I definitely miss it, it's an in demand dying industry. The amount of money you can make in April and may alone is unbelievable. (That's just from mowers, mainly old riders)
@@allenrusselljr My favorite time of year. I used to love driving around with my father looking for treasure. One time I got a $2000 commercial laser printer on my way home from work. Nothing wrong with it at all, it just needed a new toner cartridge. God bless the rich people that don't know what anything is worth, lol.
I just wanted to say thank you too 🙏 You just earned a new subscriber!!! First time that I saw the knife slice method and I loved it AWESOME 👏 Fast💨 Clean 🧽 Easy 😊
Here in Australia scrap copper is $12 per kilo. Electric motors are 60 cents per kilo. Niw that i know how to get the copoer from a motor i will give it a try. And here i was selling electric motors fir 60 cents a kilo. I love scrapoing. Its like a hobby to me especially now that im retired. Thanks for sharing. I learnt a lot from watching
Motor could have been rebuilt and sold for a lot more money. Most time all that's wrong is a stuck or worn out brushes. If it spins freely, has continuity in the fields, with no shorts to the housing = good sellable motor for the price of a pair of brushes
@@AndersAylward in my area motors are being offered for free and no one takes them. I’d rather have fun scrapping a motor than try and find that one person willing to buy it.
@@scrapitall200 not criticizing the scrapping. The point being person having broken motor repaired instead of replacing it. The original equipment needed a moter like this.
I've been a dumpster diver/ scrapper for over 33 years and I've broken down exactly 113 motors exactly like this one and I can tell you that they have never weighed 6 pounds. 2 to 5 pounds maybe 😮.
@@stevenbryant9097 You've been hating and angry for many decades now ! I have 41 yrs experience and his weight WAS right on. STOP the hating and jealousy, stop using those two wasted emotions ! Now the real anger WILL show.......GO !!
Wow I was surprised at how the machete cut thru real easy. I have 5 of these I'm about to cut them open. I was going to used my grinder but I'm not machetes time😂. Thank God I ran into your channel. Shout out from Brownsville Texas u got a new subscriber.
Yes, good clean copper, but still #2 copper, not #1, because it is so "fine"..most yards use the diameter or a pencil lead as the cutoff diameter between #1 and #2 copper..so, the shiny doesn't really help you.
In Texas that clean fan motor wire ghost for about $3 show 3 * 6 get split a couple of them to make $100 . But that was a damn good guess on the weight 😜.....
A question for you. I often wonder when I get stand alone floor fans and also pedestal fans. Some of the casings are cast aluminum and some steel . I usually sell them as is. Do you think it's worth taking the copper windings out? Thank you 👍👍
Great video, mate. Good to see your machete is still going strong. I recently watched a great video on a channel called VisconVee and he uses a plough blade cut into the shape of an axe blade with a slight bevel on the edge, worked a treat.
I do hvac so I scrap copper a lot, never thought about breaking down the motors, I’m not sure that’s worth my time but interesting video learned something new, maybe when copper goes to 5$ per pound lol
I do it as a hobby but if you have different things you’d rather spend your time doing I can see it not being worth it for you. I’d love it if copper got that high lol. Thank you for watching.
Yeah, me too...I have been getting market 25 cents-35 cents lb. for electric motors..I just am skeptical that it is worth the extra time to crack them apart and remove the copper...and, most of the yards will accept the motors from the outside condensers with the fan still attached...adds to the weight(not the squirrel cage motors still in the housing though). I sell the sealed units intact for the same reason, not worth the time involved for the return to take them apart...I do get everything I can out of the hvac stuff, though, I clip out all the #2 INS wire, take out all the relays and anything else that has a small amount of copper, brass, or aluminum in it and toss it in the Breakage bin..usually 21 cents/lb...I shear the ends off the copper/alumn. radiators, shear them off with the sawzall blade right flush with the steel ends, and you can easily and quickly pick the copper out of the ends for #2 copper. If you are sloppy with it and leave a bunch of aluminum on the ends, you are usually better off selling the radiator ends as is, as the copper is very difficult to remove that way. For me, it's a balancing act of return versus investment of time, as my time is worth something, too. And when enough volume of a given material is saved up for a run, I call around 3-4 yards and get prices...seldom does any one yard have have the best prices on everything, so I often take different items to different yards. Just make sure you have saved up enough for your trip. Unfortunately, there are no yards that are extremely close to me, so I have to be strategic about my trips. Another consideration is which yard is pickier or more lenient about grading on a specific material...
Angle grind one side. Air tool flathead with the middle notched outed if u dont have that hammer. Old dude on here showed it. He was done very very quickly. Very easy
@@eljokerjce wow, that is awful. I scrapped a General Electric microwave the other day and everything was copper, I was pleasantly surprised, then I scrapped another one and it was all aluminum. I have great luck with electric motors though. Thank you for watching.
Thank you buddy, I appreciate it. Well thankfully I’m a peaceful guy 😂 It was better than I thought, was so much fun scrapping. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
To remove the copper at the end, it is much easier to make a steel right angle triangle from 6mm (1/4 inch) steel. It needs to be about 25cm (10 in) by 5cm (2in) and grind a point on the sharp corner. Tap it through horizontally and it will push the copper out easily. This is how I do it and it saves a tremendous amount of time and effort.
