Just started getting into scrapping. My2.5 car garage is COMPLETELY FILLED with steel. Few hundred pounds of aluminum but mostly steel. Learned that that was a mistake. Your videos have been helping me a lot, you are well spoken, cool accent, very very informative. Will be watching through all your videos when I get the time
Welcome to the scrap life, some scrap for the fun of it and some scrap for a living, others scrap for a little extra cash, the guys that do it for a living will tell you that some thing are not worth the time, and for them they are right, but for the hobby scrapper and micro scrapper they may take 15 minutes to clean .05 worth of metal. for me it's a hobby the money helps around the house and to buy new tools, as I have said there are about as many ways to scrap as there are scrappers. find a way that fit's you and tools that you feel comfortable with. learn how to use all tools safely, I am sure that you don't want to part with any fingers, other scrappers that you may like k&d scrapping, and here is another scrapper his channel is growing slow, he comments a lot on my videos ru-vid.com/show-UCnUfZRsUujyQ0cQXdohavRg take care and thanks for watching Jack
I mounted an angle grinder and used a foot pedal which allows me to hold the core and turn it while cutting. A couple times around and it makes a clean cut. It's also handy for scarfing.
sounds like a good method, I need to get a foot pedal switch, I have an old grinder with no guard, I could make a table and mount in using a 7 inch blade
@@Okiescrapper I wrapped a bar with black tape so it fits tight in the screw-on handle. Makes it easy to remove the grinder if I want to use it by hand.
12:52 never seen one or even heard of that knarly tool (paused it it said what appears to be bandsaw kit). Will stick with my limited tool collection. Need to get me some thinner discs for my grinders, many have a few types of grinders for various jobs.
Cut the strings on one side, use a screwdriver to pull apart the main bundles, usually into four loops, cut thru them with a cut-wheel on a Dremel tool, then pull wires thru, it's a lil slower, but it's alot cleaner too, ya can even set up a small vacuum to collect any copper dust
great video ;) thats the best part of us scrappers ;) we have our own method ;) im trying to use machine as small i can, for not loos material ;) but still great video ;)
I had the same issue with the Portaband. It grabs wires and jams in the bearings that turn the blade back to the wheel. Your portaband seems to not catch small wires. I guess it depends on the winding size. I have used the sawsaw with a new bimetal blade and it works ok but my grinder with a cutoff wheel works the best. Those pesky strings are a Pain in the A55.
Good thing about air chizel it pulls out all the copper. The oil in the compressor makes it easy to pull out the copper, but when they haven't been sitting in oil the air chizel is very handy.
yes it is, it is one of my go to tools, there is so much that you can do with it, if you have the right chisels, next would be the angle grinder,, I got a porta band saw not long ago and am finding places to use it, much faster then the sawzall and grinder. Thanks for watching
On the motor that only had strings on one side, maybe it would have helped to cut the side without the strings? Then maybe the strings would keep the other side from pulling through? Also, it would be cool to see another "tool maintenance" video, like how to properly sharpen your air chisels? 👍 Love your videos!!
Not knocking your method. But table was wobbly and vice. I would go broke if it takes that long. I’ve tried splitting the stater right in half with bigger air chisel Thin use fork chisel to work copper out of each end. Great video though. Good luck
If you like the air hammer then I would suggest a wide blade chisel for it... it would cut much faster and easier. Also a finer tooth blade on the saw all would prevent the pulling of wires. And for gods sake get a sturdy table and mount the vise to it. All the moving of the table and the vise are a accident waiting to happen. Is losing your life worth a few bucks of scrap metal.
it is on a pedestal and the base is a little bit rounded, I got it at an auction a few years back, I need to weld a few nuts around the base to make the outer edge hit the ground and not the middle
yes that is for sure I use the grinder a lot too. lot of dust, should use a dust mask at the least. almost always have to use a new disk or nearly new one to cut all the way through. thanks for stopping by
they were from sealed units, think they would have worked better if they were tied with string on both sides, the first one went well. I use the air chisel most of the time just wanted to show some of the ways for the new guys, I saw one video the guy was using a 14 inch cutoff saw
@@Okiescrapper 😣 its coating over aluminum wire. The only copper I found was from the short power cord, the tiny motor that rotates the dish and maybe a gram or so off odde and ends. But hey... got me two fine magnets!
yes. the grinder works well, I saw a video of a guy using a cut off saw with a big 14 inch blade, I am thinking of a big hammer drill and split them in half
yeah I thought of using a big grinder, I saw a video of a guy using a 14" cutoff saw, I have used the air chisel for many years. does well most of the time, I picked up a pneumatic jack as scrap last year, I need to bring it up to the shop and see if it works, may be able to turn in into a splitter, was also thinking of a big hammer drill with a wide chisel split them in half and pull the copper out
@@Okiescrapper one moe thing, I picked up an older microwave but this one was very heavy. I opened it up to find two of everything. Transformers and fans and all of wiring was copper. I would have been tempted to have it repaired but I wasn't careful loadind it in the back of my truck. Ever seen one of these?
just a mention as new scrappers may not have many tools, so they have to use what they have and build up from there, I have built up my tools with scrapping money, my first compressor was a 1 gallon, try to use an air chisel with a 1-gallon compressor, it will teach you patience. I have added a lot of tools in the last few years. Thanks for stopping by
You need to check what windings are in the motor, aluminium ones aren’t worth the effort to strip, use a nine inch slitting disc to cut the end off , get a hydraulic ram to pull out the windings, anything else is uneconomic.
the aluminum windings are a big disappointment but the good thing is you don't get a lot of them, a 4 1/2 inch cutting disk will cut them open fast, I just got a plasma cutter and plan to try it, I use an air chisel to get the windings out with a bit that I modified. works well, a lot faster than prying the windings out. thanks for stopping by and Happy Thanksgiving
Just took in 132 lbs. of can's @ .40 per lb. but that yard pays low. a lot of yards won't take cans at this time, I got .72 on aluminum rims different yard and .50 on aluminum rads
this is a hobby for me and I well I came this far, may as well finish it, most hobby's cost big bucks, this hobby will pay you back, I have a good job for paying the bills and hope to retire in about a year, so this will keep me active and help to supplement my SSI. and now with the RU-vid income I should do alright, like I said I do this for a hobby but it is still kind of hard to spend much time cleaning aluminum when it pay's so little and takes so much to make a pound, If a guy want's to maximize his profits he needs to work in bulk steel when the price in mid summer was $140.00 a ton I was getting $400.00 per load of tin and if you had the resources to get that much per day you could load easy in 4 hours. It would be hard to clean that much copper in that time, so cleaning any metal would be done in slow or down time. well thanks for watching and have a Happy Thanksgiving
@@Okiescrapper I to have this as a hobby I do a lot of micro scrapping mainly copper and brass some aluminum and some sheet metal. I was just making a comment on what I do my transformers mostly for the copper.
Yeah I picked the vide up at an auction good vice, it is on a pedestal and a round flat base, I may need to weld some nuts around the outside of the base
yeah it does take more time, the grinder is the fastest, I didn't mention it in the video but a 14 inch cutoff saw will work too, a guy could hook up a shop vac. and suck in most of the copper dust, my videos are geared to the the beginner scrapper and the hobby scrapper. most guys that do it for a living don't take the time to clean stuff up. time is money to them, if you look at a few of the loads of tin that I took in I was making $400.00 a load, a guy could load that up in a few hours buy himself, but not sure if it would be possible cleaning copper in one day, let alone day after day, a lot more handling involved. Thanks for watching Raymond
Thanks UK yeah I think the grinder is fast, you loose a little metal but not that much, and you could use a clean or dedicated shop vacuum to catch the copper dust, I am trying to remember the newcomers to scrapping that may have limited tools. Thanks for watching
