This is a 9 hour scrap break down in less than 2 hours. This is part 1 where I show how I quickly process light fixture and recover the Transformers. Part 2 will be breaking down the transformers. Music: www.bensound.com/
Every engineer should watch your videos. Although extreme they can see and learn very shuttle tips. Your comment to make fasteners common throughout the devise is smart for so many reasons.
New subscriber here. Just got back in to scrapping out of necessity but I love it. So far from the 2 videos I’ve watched of yours I’ve learned more, as given more inspiration, more ideas, knowledge from tips you have said n from your crazy elaborate set up than any other RU-vid channel about scrapping. Man your fast. It’s a scrappers paradise you have there clean down to the steel tables n custom setups in the vice for quick processing of #1 and #2 copper. If I had my own space like that it would be so much easier n enjoyable for sure!!! Btw I’m interested in watching your adventure of mercury recovery. Keep them coming!!!
Great video, great set up. Huge load of scrap. You're a scrapping machine for sure and thinking about how you can do more. Thanks for sharing, look forward to part two.
SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT! I absolutely hate flathead screws. Absolute pain, especially when they're stuck. 24:32 is ferrite. Those magnets are great. Here's a tip: I put mine inside a little aluminum box. I still run it over floor sweepings, but simply pull up on the magnet and the screws drop instantly.
In the mid-80s the owner of a oil production company that I knew gave me 56 huge electric motors that went to pump jacks that didn't work. I made a killing in the copper even considering the acetylene used to cut the windings out and having to rebuild the rear end in my truck that I destroyed hauling them.
@@ProjectShopFl I was a computer wiz at 16 before there was a PC. I could have invested in Microsoft, but that was just some kid in his basement with a lot of assembly code pilfered from the newsgroups and cobbled together, against Digital research a powerful company with an integrated operating system for Z80 and 8080 based CPUs. Hindsight is 20-20.
Hello from Sweden again. Tinsips for that is good enough. When I get cords like drop cords and from computers and that kind of thing I use a pair of garden sheers. It works better then any sidecutter. Plugs go in a bucket for pulling the brass prongs later. Stay safe and take care.
35:00 That chunk of copper looks like a heat transfer pipe. They are usually hollow and have a gas / liquid in them. 51:00 As far as LED goes, I find the the ones that are white are just way too bright. They quite literally blind me and make me a hazard on the road. I'm apparently not the only one since my city has been removing the white LEDs they had and replaced them with Amber LED. They are just so much better on the eyes at night. They also had another problem with LED. They don't produce enough heat during winter to melt the snow on top of the fixture. That made them somewhat dangerous. The new fixture have a heating element in them. So yeah, so much for the efficiency of LED.
Engineers need to hear you, they control the design. Can assure you those engineers enjoy nice lunches and Christmas gifts for maintaining flat heads. Believe me I know first had.
I have been watching you for some hours and only just saw your subscriber count why is it so low I would have expected such a awesome channel to have about 100,000 minimum
For being a scrapper you have the most organized, unorganized mess of different metals and electronics operation I've ever seen! Nothing goes to waste your constantly thinking up new ways to get every last part separated. I can't even imagine the Freaking Government Regulations you have to watch out for. It's a backwards mining operation 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I call a bunch of local yards, then I called my buyer and try to pay the lowest price possible. I pick up from all over the place so prices vary its always important to check the local market.
I was interested in the reason for so many different fasteners. The reason that there are still "flathead" screws are because the electricians unions have lobbyists that fight the manufacturers in order to continue the usage of flatheads. Because it adds to the time it takes to work with them and makes it so the electricians make more money(labor time) which increases the unions profit because they get a percentage. Multiply this by thousands upon thousands of workers and it adds up to ALOT of money.
At 24:44 that is ferrite, is a ceramic material made by mixing and firing large proportions of iron(III) oxide (FeO, rust) blended with small proportions of one or more additional metallic elements, such as strontium, barium, manganese, nickel, and zinc. The green boards are most likely a low grade circuit board, check with Exotech, nearer you in Pompano Beach,than a Miami buyer, but all that stuff has value Those ballast wires are sometimes copper coated steel!! Use a magnet first.
Thanks man that’s a lot of great information. I will definitely be looking into the boards because I come across stuff like that a lot but usually just toss it. LOL
A modified 20 ton hydraulic press from Harbor freight. Check out my video how to make $900 an hour processing copper transformers where I break down my equipment.
The small transformers are usually high frequency in electronic ballast, so the cores are ferrite, which in the companies that manufacture them, is recycled it is pressed into the size and heated in an oven to get the magnetic properties if not it is ground up and re cast. It may be worth saving the ferrite and selling it back to an US manufacturer of them if you have one as they would only need washing, but I don't know how much virgin ferrite costs? It is not advisable to.process the electronic PCB's and components, grinding them down as they may contain nasty materials, chemicals and dust. It's best to sell them on to a recycling company specialising in them. Thanks for the video.
The part you are holding at 24.02 is a mosfet, and they are expensive. They are sought after by diy electrical engineers, and easy to check if they work.
I do not have anything specific at the moment to cut open AC compressors. But after watching a bunch of videos online I’m going to build one that will cut it open like a pipe cutter.
them lightbulb filaments may have silver in them and them led bulbs have silver and sometimes gold save them anything led 5 gal bucket in corner thats exactly what you should save the green boards they are full of copper plus you can probably find a buyer who plays with acid to get the rest of the precious stuff you should make a shredder decent size grind all them casts up to fit in barrels plus those vids are bad ass not sure why but i can watch that shit for hours haha alright enough of this book chapter
those MV LAMP BULBS should sell on ebay for $5.00 each easily...if the outer glass was broken they would emit dangerous UV radiation,and of course if some was to accidently chop the end off and release the mercury ,the buisness would be shut down and men in haz mat suits would have to clean up the yard due to mercury release ..of course this would cause a huge problem if the buisness was cluttered
Project shop! You have an amazing channel. Although for the purpose of holding the interest of your viewers, and monetizing it would probably be a good thing if you would consider editing the length of the video. My personal opinion is with any channel that I've supported now matter how interesting the content after about 35 minutes or so unless you are doing something that's never been seen before after that amount of time it all just gets to be too much. You have a good channel. But!😳
I do try and keep them below 30 min. The video you are commenting on I think was one of the first times I used a head cam instead of time laps. It's all a work in progress for me. Thanks for the suggestions and thanks for watching.
@@ProjectShopFl not sure man can't remember if was a little bit less or more I'll be going later this month so I'll find out but I know it has to do about the recovery rate kinda like they what they say to you about the thin bare wire from soo cable but that I don't get because it you take 30 lbs of that and thirty pounds of bare Brite and melt them down you should be recovery about the same
Those low grade boards fetch $.22/Lb.. much better than trashed or shred ... i mean u already gotta process the board of wire and removed from the cast housing ... why throw them away?
@@ProjectShopFl correction double-checked what it was it is a raw Iron powder mixed with iron slag powder and sand. Rejected and contaminated iron real cheap. they grind it to a fine powder compress it into a mold and then heat it up to bind the powders. makes it light and cheap to make.
Those big copper plates in youre drum look also silver plated maybe seperate them and test them if they buy it seperate it might be worth a little more
@@harryverboom4032 My buyer used his gun on it but It was malfunctioning. At first it did say it has silver but then 2nd time it said the hole thing was 92% zink. lol He is sending it off for repairs when it comes back I saved a pice so we will check it again.
@@aussiescraphunter7808 Witch is why I don't know why they would still use them. I bet the engineer was laughing thinking " we will do half in nut drivers then add a few flatheads just to mess with them." LOL
Like what you do. Like your video. Jealous of your set up... but please to God stop throwing away pcb boards!! Even low grade boards add up to $ and don't belong in the trash!
