I'm Starting To Scare Myself - Scrapping Electric Motors For Beautiful Copper 

Nothing better than harvesting more copper for the pile. Yes it all adds up. I'll have a good follow-up vid with the long stator....melting the copper out of it. SuuuWEEEEET!

Nice little bonus with those little “E” looking pieces. 🎉🎉✌️😎

Love that copper! Great job

That's what I do with those, I just fire them and melt out the copper. Great video buddy

NICE!!! Great video. Scrapping motors can be a pain, but lots of good copper. Awesome job brother 👍

Great video.

Nice

Under those "E" pieces is a brass ring around the shaft, usually the larger armatures. Cutoff with a hacksaw, cutting disc wont fit.

I like the way each pieces got smashed :D

I do so love taking motors apart for that copper goodness good job

You've got a nice vice.

AWESOME video!!!!

Great video

Niceeee🥰🥰🥰

press or hammer out the shaft of the rotor,. no big deal . Then you can cut the windings of the rotor with a heavy blade , just through that layer of iron sheets held together by the windings.

That was really interesting how you broke down that armature. I agree, put the whole thing in the melting pot to get the copper out. 👍

The golf cart motors that I get Waze about 45 pounds times $.25 piece if I took the time to try to recover the copper I would lose money definitely better turning them in like they are

Nice video .Go Loins

You look and almost sound like the guy I went to welding school with. His name was Jason, I wouldn't be surprised if you were him.

Awesome copper pile thanks for sharing skuller metals

You can get all that out in the core I do this all the time, you cut one end of and put a screwdriver in the other end few strands at a time and pull them through, it gets easier once you pull a few through. For the more stubborn ones you can use a air chisel

Big mistake grinding off Cu off rotor top. I'd use meat cleaver at 1/2 way & pry out Cu.

Lately my hands cramp up doing micro scrapping. You?

Only just found your channel, I'm a copper girl, love it, have joined you 👍

Thanks for sharing!! I never had the opportunity to scrap a motor!! Looks like a hold lot of fun !!🦞👊🏻👊🏻🦞

Now that was an educational video!

Great video. I'm collecting the brushes out of electric motors to get the silver out of layer

I have a few of them to do myself. I need stickers for the new channel

hello my friend. Are you in Florida? I am a new subscriber and a fan of copper from motors...

Scary indeed I use an angle grinder and a cut off wheel usaly with a 5inch wheel then make a fire burn the plastic the rest will pull out by hand experience is keys my man be careful with the reciprocating saw

Where is the melt video?

Way too much work trying to get that copper out of that type of motor in my phone. I’ll turn them in like they are. They have a lot of weight to them so $.25 a pound that’s a good $10 bill without taking the copper out of it not sure you can make that up with Copper.

The commutator is nothing more than copper held in place with epoxy. Commutator is what the brushes ride against.

Hi there ,, nothing better than if at all possible that if first you dont succeed , whack it with a 4 pound sledge hammer (or sledgie as we call em here in oz) if that dont work a 14 pound (sledgie) hammer should do it hahaha ,, hey ive seen videos of people doing where they get a fire going and are throwing the armatures into the fire which melts all the hard plastics but they mostly do this in india and china where they dont give a shit about the environment so much. It does however do the job after cooking it for a few hours and virtually just have to cut the ends of the burnt copper wires and the rest of it just falls out where the glue held it in has been melted to nothing. I wouldn't recommend it but you can always chuck the armatures (after you have reclaimed most of the copper) and throw it in with either mixed steel or into No.1 insize (its what we call it here in Australia) to be smelted. Time is the important thing is here if we do the scrapping of these electric motors the way we are doing it it will only benefit us. If we sell them whole as electric motors the chinese and the peeps in india do exactly the same thing tho they use the plastics as fuel in there furnaces where as here we care a bit more about our planet the most countries do the same. Anyhoo , good video and keep up the good work as if we do this it makes our time more valuable to us scrappy's. Cheers from John in Australia.