HOW TO TAKE Copper Wire OUT OF A Electricity Transformer scrap. Recycle old transformer has expired. Electrical Power Transformer Old transformer that has expired. How to Recycling Copper Wire from Electricity transformers scrap.
👇🏾 below 👍🏾 Copper tends to yield the most money compared to other recyclable scrap metal. If you renovate your home or own a business that produces junk metal, consider recycling it for extra cash. Most copper wire requires a little prep work to command the highest price. It often has insulation or other attached components that brings its value down. Collect scrap copper wire until you have about 20 lbs. or more, remove the components and bring it to a recycling center to sell. 1. Separate your copper wire into grades. Grade three includes copper foil and other thin pieces of copper. Grade two includes copper wire that is corroded, tarnished or painted. Grade one copper wire is clean and has no paint, varnish or any other alterations. Recycling centers pay the most for grade one wire and the least for grade three. 2. Call local recycling centers and junk or scrap centers and ask about their current copper prices. The price of copper fluctuates often and you might find a better deal depending on where you go. Ask each recycling center if they give you a lower price for your copper wire that still has insulation attached to it. 3. Remove any metallic components the copper wire might have. These can include end fittings and brass connectors. Removing these components raises the value of the copper, but leave them on if they do not come off easily with your hands. 4. Strip the insulation off if the recycling center pays less for wire with insulation. Slide a sharp knife along the insulation and peel it off. Small-gauge copper wire is challenging to strip; if you have trouble, leave the wire as is and avoid risking injury to your hands. 5. Bring your copper wire to the recycling center and watch while the clerk weighs it. Ensure that none of the wire hangs over the edge of the scale. The clerk calculates the price he will pay you based on how heavy the copper wire is. Things Needed Warnings Avoid burning copper wire to remove the insulation. (reference 2) Avoid selling to recycling centers or scrap dealers who use portable scales. These scales can become inaccurate and you might make less for your wire. How do you recycle copper wire? How do you clean scrap copper wire? What is the scrap price for copper wire? Can you scrap copper wire?
You should see the Transformers Inside old forklift battery chargers I bought one from a scrap yard for 50 bucks and within an hour had 60 lb of copper from these two Transformers inside of it alone and the windings were half inch square pieces of copper not actual wire
If the oil was made before the seventies it had pcb'sin it. todays oil is mostly mineral oil or silicone oil, silicone being cheaper to insure because it doesnt burn if the transformer caught on fire, example a lightning strike or a short in one of the coils.
Yes that's the best way to assure the workers have a bout with some form of, usually brain cancer In the future. The oil is toxic/radioactive. I've handled such oil in my younger years one time and was surprised to find simply allowing it to get on my hands was enough to cause my mouth to become completely numb. I quickly realized I shouldn't be playing with that crap. It's almost not worth going after the copper due to having to deal with the oil which almost always finds it's way into the ground at the spot where the transformer is dropped/stolen off the telephone pole.
I love how they spin the wrench a quarter turn and then take it off and put it back on, just spin it in a circle really fast and then the bolt will come off faster lol
If you look closely he has a lifting lug in his way, a battery impact would be the ticket, but he only has a ring spanner so he is limited in his operational capacity. Plus he has all day and little to show for it, you don't want to wreck yourself
You've got to be kidding me!! A man working around heavy, moving, or dangerous machines and all he is wearing are high top tennis shoes and another wearing sandals to protect his lower extremities? Is he insane? Is this a foreign scrapyard. If it is, I get it then. No OSHA there to protect an idiot.
OMG, This must be Mexico. In the USA even the 'non-PCB oil has some PCBs in it as both were made in the same plant. Now of course, nowadays totally non PCB oil is used. IT MIGHT be that non PCB oil was used in these countries as PCB oil was more expensive. By the way oil is used as an insulator.
It's also the first thing that came to mind when I saw them. The 2nd being that they did not have a mask either (like the gases contained in these transformers) and that anyway they did not protect not the soil on which they dismounted their stuff ... So I stopped the video because frankly I do not see the interest of showing the destruction of our Earth by pronouncing a so-called "ecological recycling" !!! Pfff, a beautiful bunch of morons beach tap !!!
This is an electric power company recycling depot. These people don't make money recycling, they get paid dismantling. All these still belongs to the power company. So dream on people
At those yards they are there for a reason by then. It also means fixing it, storing it, advertising and finding a seller. Which would cost these kinds of businesses more from time spent
@@sneakyguy4444 I'd be willing to purchase 15 million USD yearly just for the transformer core. They did all the hard work taking the old windings off. I'd then resell them wound up to 3rd world countries that need them.
Isn't that oil PCB oil , handle with care a and avoid direct contact on your exposed skin, rubber gloves guys. Probably need some respirators as well. Careful disposal of oil is a must it is full of dioxin if I remember correctly.
antes vi video empresa USA,MUY LIMPIA ,con maquinas hasta para ir al baño. y no me sorprenderia fuese filial este taller empresa de la anterior empresa, aqui con la minima herramienta y aunque tratan de no contamirar lo hacen y se esponen fisicamente,sin siquiera botas de seguridad o sea es traspatio de USA. De seguro.
Einen schönen Gruß an die Umwelt 😭. PCB Öl Probe?? Interessiert dort noch ne Sau , und vor allem der Arbeitsschutz der Fachkräfte 😭 , schöne heile Welt
these men are really talented at what they do. I scrap so i have some idea of what they are doing. image how much more they would process with some battery or pneumatic tools.
Gotta admire their hard work. But... from the scrap from one transformer you could have a nice battery impact. Get that shot done three times as fast making three times the cash.
Open toe shoes. Cloth gloves, for some. No eye protection. Would imagine personal safety equipment is a bring your own there. Some of those transformers look pretty old. Wonder if the oil they are selling for a $1 a liter has PCB's?
