Scrapping A Television Greg Zanis shows how to scrap a TV for Copper, Aluminum, Steel and Magnesium I edited this video with the RU-vid Video Editor ( / editor )
As somebody who has scrapped close to 100 CRT TV's and monitors in the past, I can safely say that this was possibly the worst example of taking one apart that I've ever seen
gregs wife: buys new flat screen for greg for christmas greg in the summer: strips tv gregs wife: honey wheres the tv? greg: I got the money honey! hands wife the $20 he got
PLEASE...discharge those sets first...and disasemble it correctly without contaminating you and your household residents with toxic materials! Too nice a guy to be hurting yourself.
TheDreamCar they can carry a powerful electric charge after being used.....not have to be plugged in....can REALLY hurt ya. Use a flatheat screwdriver right behind that plug thing in the picture tube...ground out the screwdriver.....could save you a nasty shock. See moosescrapper and mike the scrapper videos very good about scrapping tvs. Good to scrap but require slow carefully. Very toxic and hazardus brother....best regards from Ca.
TheDreamCar he means the power capacitors & the anode. some can hold a charge even after having been disconnected for a long time. especially CRT's are notorious for having lethal amounts of current. not to mention a lot of crt's use toxic phosphorus in powder (gets in the air easily) plus the lead in the glass & some other stuff. there is a reason several landfills consider crt's toxic waste. and professional crt recyclers use a robot to cut open the crt's in an enclosed enviroment & all the workers are required to have respirators (not just the flimsy dust masks) (not sure if moose is the best for safety though)
The metal you are calling magnesium is ferrite I'm pretty sure. Might have some magnesium in it. But it usually considered iron scrap or mixed metal scrap.
If any new scrappers are watching this video do not scrap a tv like this guy!!! The TV back cover can be screwed back on & along with the tube intact can be recycled by Best Buy.
Haha, I couldn't believe it when he not only grabbed & cut the wire of the anode, he used two hands to make certain the circuit would be complete. This video couldv'e ended abruptly.. You're lucky man.
High voltage, ALWAYS use ONE hand, the other in the pocket. The founder of the American Radio Relay League (Ham Radio association, over 100 years old) DIED by making the mistake of not having one hand in a pocket when working with high voltage.
I agree @Paul Knotts. BE SURE TO DISCHARGE THE ANODE, BOOT ON SIDE OF THE PICTURE TUBE (CRT). COULD STILL HOLD A CHARGE LIKE A CAPACITOR. Take a screwdriver and a clip lead and ground the anode to the chassis. That little bit of a charge, that could still be stored in the CRT, can knock you on your A$$. During normal operation of a TV, there is about 20kv to 30kv on the anode connection. I always check when I disassemble TV sets and computer monitors with the old CRTs in them. SAFETY FIRST.
What do you mean more are you not concered about himself risking himself and the viewers to take a apart of an tv that can kill them instantly you dont know what you mean you love his videos im disgusted this is the worst shit i ever seen
YOU should NEVER EVER CUT A WIRE of a HIGH VOLTAGE cable without discharging the CRT tube. It can be still charged up with a high voltage charge, even after several weeks. Also don't use an unisolated tongs/pliers for this.
A Clueless & Dangerous Video. Step 1: discharge the high voltage tube/capacitor, Step 2: wear safety goggles & mask, Step 3: don't break the tube -- it is loaded with hazmat, Step 4: learn terminology: the flyback transformer is dangerous because it powers the high voltage circuits. A TV has no "motherboard." It can have: an Inverter Boards, a Power Supply Board, a Timing Control Board / Logic Board, a X-Sustain and Y-Sustain Board, and/or a Buffer Board.
PLEASE REMOVE THIS VIDEO! If someone were to follow your directions on a recently powered TV, it could kill them without discharging the tube. If that TV had been charged you would likely be a statistic. This video is showing irresponsible behavior as instruction. Pleases delete it and try again.
When driving the center out of a coil you can place it over a socket like 9/16 or what ever size it takes and let the coil sit on the edge of the socket and drive the magnesium down into the center of the socket, saving the center piece all in one part.
Okay so say I wanted to ethically recycle my crt tubes at home....is it possible? When watching videos on how they’re recycled at recycling centers, it appears pretty straight forward. They remove the band, remove the glass cone (at some point pressurizing the inside, I’m assuming there’s some type of gas recycling...??? Is there a way to safely capture the gas? Some type of HVAC air compressor recovery system with filters on it so phosphors dont contaminate?), remove the tin/aluminum sheet metal housing thing on the inside, vacuum the phosphors off of the inside of the glass pane, and then.....??? Melt everything down, and recycle?? If at home doing it, I’m thinking I could remove the band, accept that the gasses will be released in small amounts (tap a tiny hole into the glass cone and allow to air out....obv remove myself from the area for a few mins. Let’s be honest here, is it being released anyway? What happens to it once in the air? I’m assuming it either is heavier that atmospheric air and gets mixed into the surface earthy layer eventually, or, it is light and rises into the atmosphere, eventually either: breaking down via UV rays, or precipitating with water after bonding with it...I mean..what happens to gasses released by the earth? That stuffs harmful too....but I mean, it eventually precipitates and is recycled back into the earth, right?) .....then once the gasses have been allowed to escape, I can remove the glass cone either by somehow removing it all in one clean piece (if possible..) or by gently tapping pieces off bit by bit..if phosphors get on them- I’ll just throw them in the “dirty glass” bin...and then after the glass cone is off- remove the tin/aluminum looking stuff, then......???? Recycling centers vacuum the phosphors but I’m not 100% on the thought that my shop vac will contain all those dust particles....so perhaps I could take that glass panel and rinse the phosphors off? Collect the water, allow it to evaporate/or/ distill it with a solar still, remove the now clean water, and then im left with a bunch of phosphors in a bin.... Throw them in a trash bag and cart them off to some recycling facility as hazardous waste? “May contain yttrium and other toxic particulates. Derived from inside of CRT tube”....?? Also as for the glass, what if I ground it up (in water so no dust escapes), poured it into a one use crucible, and then boil off the water slowly, followed by ramping up the heat and melting the glass and lead and letting the two materials separate via densities? Then I simply cease the heat process, wait a few hours, pop the half glass/half lead (substantially less lead I’d imagine) chunk out of the crucible...and then just put that in a “slag glass/lead chunk” pile until I have enough built up??- at which point I’d melt the lead off with a lower heat, and then pour it off?? As for the glass, now that it’s clean....I can just toss that into my recycling bin...and I now have lead I can sell or make stuff with! Batteries...bullets....tasty paint chips... I’m serious on this inquiry folks. Any advice would be appreciated. I have a few tubes lying around atm and I’m either going to cough up the substantial amount of money to recycle them (😩), OR find a way to safely and ethically do it myself. Hmu with advice if you have any.
When you smashing glass, before smashing the screen, remove all the steel out, and scrape phosphors using card, then spray them out in to backet. It might contain lanthanides and sulfides.
@TheDreamCaror anybody else with knowledge of crts. Is there actually any magnesium in theseÉ If so what percentage as it seems like that would be cheaper than buying those cheap blocks at a store since i dont have the money for one of those thick rods atm
9:00 what a way to harmfully take off that yoke and the screen from the TV, the yoke has screws around the neck area that can be unscrewed, before doing the next procedure be sure that the tube is devacuumed! You can twist the yoke straight off the tube since it is held on by sticky rubber pads, the screen can be separated by pressing on the latches on the side and bam the screen has come out without all that glass mess all over the place!
Don’t follow this DO NOT BREAK THE CRT TUBE OR GLASS and you also can’t recycle broken glass or big plastic like that especially in your household recycling bin
He touched the deadliest part of that tv with his bar hands and without it being connected to ground. That red suction cup looking thing is a high voltage capacitor that could kill you and can keep its charge years after the tv has been plugged in
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TheDreamCar - I know you made this video with the intention to help people. But, now that you have been made aware of the electrocution risk from doing this - please add safety warnings to your video with Captions - or take it this down. Someone really could be shocked to death doing what you demonstrate here.
Stay away from the tube. Most yokes will come off with a little finesse . Some flybacks outputs ( The big red cord from the main board to the side of the crt) will has some very nasty voltage left. Simply wrap a wire around the chassis the other end around flat insulated screw diver. Pry off the the red cap on the crt and short out the hi voltage. CRT will continue to be a electronic waste problem.
Omg! You really need to be more careful and before anything do your research before attempting this like this guy did! I don't bother with the tube and you don't need to break the glass to remove the cone from the back! There are much better videos showing you proper ways of doing this and it is a good idea to make sure you discharge them as you could not only get a shock but risk an implosion causing the tube glass to burst all over the place!
While I respect your desire to recycle, you're handling a CRT which contains about 2-6 lbs of lead. After removing the plastic casing, removing brown board, not green board which you call mother board, the top piece you broke off to release air, has a clamp below to remove what is called a copper YOKE, which if you unscrew the YOKE, you could pull off with out break the tube, aka CRT. That metal inside your tube is LEAD containmination, broken glass now releasing beautiful lead within your environment which you have added to a glass recycle center. The petty amount of metal you received inside the tube (CRT) is not worth the amount of lead you just released!!
so if I was to recycle lead from batteries sinkers etc will I be creating a hazard also i dont understand why this lead in the glass makes everyone freak out its the breathing part right? im ignorant please help me correct that can you just shoot with 22 then incinerate the glass to get the lead back?
Right! I have not done it yet but I won't make those mistakes. Also, a disclaimer should be mentioned. Discharging that the wrong way or not doing it can and will kill you! He needs to drive that home!!!
Brad Swartz Even though there is copper in the televisions,.After awhile many new scrapers will find out that if they put the television in the garbage or take them to scrapyards,they demand up to $20.00 apiece for the old big tube televisions and computer monitors. I do not do them anymore,.lose money. Cheers Brad
So, I see the personal and environmental safety hazards of smashing up that tube; What brought me to this video is a genuine curiosity regarding how to handle broken tube tv glass appropriately. Why is this info so hard to come by. I personally cannot afford to pay $30 per small tv to recycle them. Yet they are dumped all over the place. I want to know if there is a safe and environmentally appropriate way to completely disassemble the CRT, and separate, pre-process, and dispose of the glass safely and consciousnessly. Does anyone know? We need a scrappers guide for dealing with crt hazards.
I scrapped a 100 of those analogue televisions at that time was only wanting the copper removel of the choke undo 2 clamps gentle twist of the tube choke and slide it off the back of the picture tube no need to smash the picture tube with the hammer having flying glass and releasing noxious gas everywhere
