hey moose thanks the reply about bright wire. I am glad I asked you about this cause I use to burn copper to clean it. by calling around I found out my local scrap yards want take copper if it has been burned. and bright wire is #1 copper even if it isn't as big as a number 2 pencil lead. that was really helpful info. now I got a bunch of copper to sort out and clean thanks again
when you repeat yourself about the copper bearing motors, it reminds me of the Family Guy Episode with James Wood.....oooh a piece of candy......ooh a piece of candy.....oooh a piece of candy.......................
Its worth noting to your viewers that a Cathode Ray Tube is capable of storing voltage all on its own. The heavy red wire from the flyback and the suction cup/clip into the hole in the CRT are where the dangers lie. Read up on degaussing a CRT tube before you go wild inside an old TV. It might save you a bad shock and serious injury...... Also not that anyone cares, but the black things with copper in them are relays, the little copper towers are inductors or chokes, and heatsinks will nearly always be a nonferrous metal because of the superior heat distribution properties
+Jason Andersen Thanks for letting those guys know, the 25 Kv charge can remain for quite some time after set is turned off and yes if you come in NEAR contact with the flyback EHT transformer it has been know to kill people, also some of the caps hold a decent charge to.
What's the usual way of discharging the flyback high voltage charge? I seem to recall that there is a fairly simple way of doing it with the set unplugged and the cover removed.
Thanks for watching! I search for things like speaker magnets, alnico magnets, neodymium magnets, and just scrap magnets. Its pretty sick the ammount of money you get for them on ebay.
Thats an important question, its good to know how much you are going to make on something before putting in the effort. Kind of hard to answer because there are different sizes and qualities of TVs. The bigger higher end TV's will have much more copper and aluminum etc, the smaller ones less. I have pulled as much as 3.5 lbs or about 1.6 kilos of copper out of a larger TV and as little as half a pount out of a smaller one. I just try to make sure I get everything out..
Another think to note about TVs are the lenses on some of the flat screens. Fresnel lenses can be sold on Ebay for a pretty penny. Projection TVs also have smaller lenses in them that can also be sold on Ebay. These are usually in much larger TVs
Moose Scrapper Sorry I couldn't remember what they were called at the moment the smaller lenses I was talking about were the three lenses for the red blue and green color projectors at the bottom of the TVs. They sell for about 10 bucks each. Love your channel. I'm binge watching your vids again.
Hey moose sometimes I find another little small black box on the boards they have a small silver colored circle in them do you know if that's a silver contact
Hi there, and thanks for watching!! I actually have several videos on removing copper from different motor types. If you check out my youtube page you will find them in the scrappers corner. I have found that the copper produced is worth more than the weight of the motors however there is a time investment. I take them apart at work while I am on the phone or am able to have free hands. Thanks for watchin!
Been scrapping TVs for years now and hoarding lowgrade too. Did not know about the little black boxes having copper. Moose strikes again! The speaker magnets specifically sell good on eBay or just magnets in general?
the little transistors that are usually atached to the heat sinks are usualy copper also, and i noticed you throwing the screws out of the clamps in you tin pile the second one is usualy aluminum.
Hi Moose.What is in the very end extension of the actual tube,(I'm talking inside the glass tube).?You know the small silver squarish /rectangular ,shiny, silver blocks inside the end of the CRT...Trevor..
the end is the electron gun, its just a little ferrous and aluminum. nothing really worth playing with broken glass to get to. They stick it in there pretty well.
Hi Moose Scrapper, just one question.. how much would you make approximately from scrapping one tv? I'm from Australia, so my currency is Australian Dollars.
Hi and thanks for watching! The term "Copper Bearing motors" is what scrap yards refer to as anything containing both copper and steel. I understand that are a variety of things in this including transformers, coils, inducers, etc etc. It is only meant to be a catch-all phrase not litterally meaning that they are motors with moving parts. As for the charge, you are the first person to say that it can hold a charge for that long! I will have to look into that. Thanks for the info!
Moose, I just got into scrapping again, after about a 12 year hiatus on it. I put an ad on CL yesterday and already have over 30 crt monitors and tv's. You say Best Buy will take up to 3 for recycling in the video. My question is which department should I speak to, to see if our local best buy takes them....tv dept. computer, store manager??? Can you help me out?
+Justin Shertzer They will, but low grade board is rarely ever worth selling to online companies especially if you have to pay for the shipping. Most scrap yards will buy boards, and if they don't have a payable category for it they let you throw it in with the light iron.
Um I have a question I'm scrapping this old TV and it doesn't have a clamp and in the yolk is red Copper? maybe idk if it's Copper or something else and could you tell me what it is and if it was worth going through all that trouble get the damn thing off lol.
Moose Scrapper same were there was a old goodwill store the was a nice Flat screen TV right in front of were it the goodwill closed permanently but it seemed someone else had gotten to it before I did but shockly enough they only took the speakers so I had gotten Quite a bit of copper with 3 Copper yolks I got luck lol. and happy Thanksgiving! :)
I just took 2 five gallon buckets full of tv yokes to my yard, and all they gave me was "dirty aluminum" prices. Half a years work for a measley ten bucks!
+fantabular Well, I would probably go elsewhere and try to separate the copper as well. Its a quick stress relieving smack with a hemmer away. You could have made more than $30 with that many yolks worth of copper.
Moose Scrapper same I'm a kid and I love scrapping TV and other stuff and i went trash pick the other day and I found a phone cool thing is it still works its cracked badly but it still works fine and the model is HTC desire 626...
@@furrson5221 Hey that's a good find on that phone 2 years ago! Way to go! Hopefully you're still scrapping, it's fun and it's free money that's just sitting there. IF, (BIG IF there) you are careful and do your homework on what you are scrapping you will come out ok. Key words SAFE and HOMEWORK, know the dangers so you can avoid them. I watch A LOT of RU-vid to learn (only thing I watch on tv) but not all give you correct information, some are even long complete lies! So watch MANY about what you are doing before you end up sick with something that doesn't go away. Be safe, follow local laws, don't leave trash behind and leave Earth better than when you were here. Don't forget to wash your gloves! Think about it...
I have been getting roughly 8 to 10 TV's a week to scrap now and was wondering if you had any advice other than perseverance with a Stanley blade for removing the black sticky insulation tape from the degaussing wire ?
That is a tough one. I use the WSX and the WSA wire strippers from TNT Tooling so they are pretty easy. If you are going to use the razor method, the only thing I can suggest is to cut the wires into 4 sections at each corner, lay them flat on a bench and slide the razor blade across the top lie you are peeling a carrot. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hi and thanks for watching! There is not typically gold in the CRT tv's, unless the RCA jacks are gold plated. Also rarely there may be gold in the IC chips on the boards. As for copper and aluminum it varies on tv size. At todays metal prices, there is probably about $6-$10 of scrapable material in the average TV. Stripping the yolk, degausing cable, power cord etc for copper, then any aluminum heat sinks, CBMs, wire, ferrous, low grade boards, speaker magnets, and silver in relays and switches. Some things will make you more money selling that scraping like the speaker magnets.
Moose Scrapper Thanks for the info, Man,when you factor in the gas money to pick up the TV from people just giving them away, then bring whats left of the TV to the recyclers ,It does not seen to be worth the effort ,Unless they bring the TV to you. Thanks again ,good video
No wonder all those old TV's that I waited till they were deader than dead to get rid of get picked up quickly once they're put out at the curb by my house. How much money wise is in the average CRT TV? Anybody have an estimate? I just wanna know what I've tossed out at the curb over the last 10-20 years.
@Billy Hills The thing is now it seems like nobody except the most desperate scrappers pick them up as is proven by all of the ones sitting with smashed screens in our alleyways here.
What do you do with the boards once you are done processing them? I have a bucket full of them that I dont want going to the landfill, but not sure what to do with them once they have been stripped.
Some scrap yards will buy them for a few cents/lb to get the copper etching off. There are some places on line as well that will buy them. Sadly, that is the part that usually ends up in the landfill as there is not much that can be done with the board once it is stripped clean. Thanks for watching!
of them from the wires, plug, parts of the circuit board, the speakers, magnets on the speakers, etc. If the remotes work i sell them on ebay as well as the speaker magnets. TV's are a relatively quick tear down so as long as you have a way to recycle the glass tube and casing I would say grab them all. I can strip down 7-10 tv's an hour giving me 10-20 lbs of copper, a couple lbs of aluminium, some brass, silver contacts, boards, etc.
just scrapped a CRT TV Monitor today. It took 2 of us to carry it, was large and friggin heavy...circuit board I swear is about 2 ft x 2ft...MASS copper. It weighed over 200 pounds
Yeah don't forget the clip on the piece you get cbm price for that clip is also is aluminium. Like the videos love them yolks. That thick copper wire around the screen nice if your lucky but sometimes this can be aluminium.
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Mine does. They have noticed that the cords are gone and often there is a piece missing where they can see the inside. As long as there are no sharp edges or broken pieces they don't have a problem with it.
i do take capacitors off the boards they are worth about $1 for 20 second hand i guess still good if something is failing it is usually the caps on the board are going bad
so, my guy at the scrap yard is buying the capacitors, round battery looking things that populate the boards, at $1.00 a lb. He said that there is tantalum inside of them. maybe something you want to look into. i have yet to sell him any, i am saving up an 18 gallon tote full, not the tiny ones though, he said they have to be 1 inch or longer. Ill let you know if anything comes of it.
yeah let me know, I have not heard that those have tantalum in them. Tantalum last i checked was over $100/lb so if it is in the big capacitors that would be great! Thanks!
Moose Scrapper hey how much do you get per tv around about number thanks for you time regaurding this regardingr the tutorial ive been scrappiI’veand saving for my 2 yr old daughters college otherwise i would never be able to afford tuition
I know not directed toward me, but per tv is a very difficult category. As moose has shown, an old plasma MAY have a dollar worth of stuff, but I have take 12$+ out of a huge 42" Sony crt, and probably that much out of a 60" Toshiba DLP. With DLP's a lot of your money can come in heat sinks on the board. So cleaning the boards is key, selling the fernell (spelling?) Lens from the screen on craigslist to the solar heating enthusiasts can net you another 10 or 20 as well. Moose has said it time and time again, scrap is the LOWEST POSSIBLE VALUE. if you can sell as an item instead of weight, do it.
Ricky Warren TVs are a crap shoot. Some have a lot of copper and some do not. I have not found a TV with less than $4 in it so if you have a free responsible way of recycling the rest of the tv parts then by all means have at it! Steve has an excellent point though, one that often scares people though. If you want t make some real money, sell the parts on ebay etc. Those lenses in projection TVs are really big with solar enthusiasts and preppers. Other parts can help make money as well. My best example is a microwave. I can easily make $50 on the parts of most microwaves selling the magnetron, transformer, motors, glass plate, HV capacitor, etc.
wow i had no idea there was that much money in a microwave I’ve taken at least 50 to the scrap yard just broken down. Thank you for the feed back i was going around finding t.v.s all the time and just cutting the cord off the back and leaving them
I have noticed that SONY tvs seem to make the most money. To bad they are also the heaviest ones. Had to pull a 42" trintron from a second floor the other day. Damn that sucked.
Moose Scrapper well, i rough scrap about a dozen t.v.s at a time, then in the evening ill high grade everything, i didn't set that one separate from others, but i do know i had a large degaussing cable that i am pretty sure was from it. yea it was quite the beast, im going to say safely 300 lbs +. my helper was not too happy.
Leave a TV on the curb for long enough and someone WILL come along and bust it open to steal the copper out of the deflection yoke. Doesn't bother me a bit, TBH,
Damm i get 10 cents a pound for my crts even after i take out all i want, as long as they are closed back up and not smashed they dont care. This is at a recycler not scrap yard though. I had one old 20" monitor give out 7 pounds of copper with just its degaussing coil.
Yup, I have found some of the bigger sony tv's to be a varitable copper mine! I wish we had a place around here that bought them as is. You must be near a lead glass recycler.
