@@curtisw831 I got no problem with folks grinding for the payout and hawking their wares. Even the legends do quite a bit of rock shops, gem sales, equipment etc.. I have no issues as long as they make it entertaining and if its educational to boot, bonus! :)
I serviced commercial pressure washers for about 13 years in which busted pumps were an excellent source of brass. I would “clean” the brass components ie manifolds, unloader valves, seal supports, check valve plugs etc. by taking them apart and throwing the pieces in a five gallon bucket in my truck. Always took awhile and was time consuming. That’s a nice rig for cleaning up plumbing stuff that always has steel stems in things that are a pain to take apart, especially if they are corroded from years of hard water. Good way for a scrap yard to clean dirty materials and make a decent profit.
Hey Jason, I enjoy seeing that machinery in action. I recall as a teen ager scrapping, what a chore it was to sort that stuff. Your machines do a great job and they do it quick. Take Care
Maintenance at section 8 apartments. I'm just focusing on copper and brass here lately, used to do all different types but time energy and the prices just aren't what they use to be.
I'm a handyman in Ventura, CA. I sort and clean all of my scrap, and have been doing it for long enough that the guys at my local scrap yard don't even bother pawing through my buckets any more, because they know that I'm careful when I separate scrap. I have a Harbor Freight 4.5-in angle grinder with cheap cutoff wheels for removing steel screws from aluminum, cutting the brass nuts off braided steel supply hoses, etc. I sort the copper, brass, aluminum, and zinc from the steel. I sort the romex from the communication wire. I bought a benchtop wire-stripping machine for about $60 off Amazon last year to strip the insulation off the romex, because clean copper scrap price in my area is over $2.50/pound right now. One of my realtor handyman clients bought herself a house last year and had me re-wire the entire house because it had 1960s ungrounded wiring. I ended up with 2 of the 33-gal garbage cans full of old romex with the cloth jacketing and all the new romex cutoffs, and I've begun running that through the stripper whenever I have downtime. I also have a neighbor who's a pool/spa contractor, and he gives me all his old pool pumps and heaters that he doesn't care to tear apart. The only irritating part is when I rip apart a motor to discover they used aluminum wire instead of copper in the secondary.
Love these things you made and love how your a hard worker your out there doing the work and I’ll bet when you were a kid you started working early in life . I started like when I was 8-9 with a 60 paper route by the time I was 12 it was 150 papers I made good money and gave it to my sister who kept it until the late 80’s I would still do her Sundays I didn’t care I could work then I wasn’t a big party dude
UPGRADING scrap value after purchase makes lots of sense. it always amazes me to see people drop off air conditioners as steel waste scrap tons of values to recover in those.
hi there my 9 year old son absolutely loves watching your videos on RU-vid and learning about what you do and he loves your mining vids I have sent you a email asking you a question but had no reply as of yet
Did you error on the price of your clean brass? In Southern Ontario, the scrap yard I go to is buying clean brass at $3.00/lb and aand that's fairly comparable throughout the region. Loved the video. I wouldn't need a large system like this but damn would I love to have a small one if I had the room for it.
@dionh70 sweet...right now in Toronto, Ontario Canada I'm getting: Bare Bright/Millberry- 4.65/lb #1 Copper - 4.55/lb #2 Copper- 4.35/lb We have had decent, steady prices here for a while.
What was the process for collecting the dirty brass? Was it from parting out other stuff? I keep stacking stuff I come across off to the side telling myself I will break it down and cast something with it or make ingots to consolidate it.
I've been collecting various metals because I wanna start melting as a hobby, and mine is all from my handyman jobs. Old angle stop valves, faucets, light fixtures, electrical motors from dead appliances, etc. I have buckets of copper, brass, aluminum, and zinc. All steel simply goes into my recycle bin for the garbage collector to pick up, because scrap steel is around $180/ton (9 cents/pound) at my local yard, and it ain't even worth the gas to haul it down.
i have a bunch of used aluminum foil that vie saved for a few years now. it isn't taken by the transfer station and i would hate to stick it in the trash stream. so i keep it. but i want to process it into ingots or find some one that would take it for its value or for free if it was otherwise worthless, but could still be recycled. any idea what i could do about that? if i could melt it myself i would, but thats a cost in its self, as i assume i would need a furnace to get to temp somehow. electric would be preferred to gas in my particular circumstance. but, would love to know what you think about recycling aluminum foil and such into a product that could be sold or re-used properly.
Foil is a pain, because it needs to be compacted into the smallest volume possible to consume the least amount of energy to melt it down, and yes, melting it yourself almost certainly won't deliver a positive return on investment. My local scrap yard pays 1 cent per pound on foil because 99% of it is contaminated with food waste, so I began putting it in the soda cans I was recycling to boost their weight without actually cheating the scrap yard.
@@dionh70 thanks! that makes a lot of sense. i wonder if flux would help remove food residue from it during the smelt or melt. and i guess small batches is not going to be efficient. but if its possible to process it, i figure i have about 20 pounds worth lol...
i've done that but it was single shot brass. i would save it from this one area. go pick up 20 ,30 lbs. when i get over 100 lbs take it in. walk away with decent cash.
I watched a video about how Britain sends electronic products (computers, monitors, irons, phones) to Africa. In Africa, these products are sold first wholesale and then retail for artisanal dismantling and burning in the fire. They are burning wires in the fire. Why can you recycle your own e-waste in America, but not in Britain?
More profitable than mining,but is just not discovering new treasure. Tedious mind numbing work is recycling. Talked to South African last summer that is getting government grants for plastic recycling research. His sale point was to keep micro plastic out of our soil,water,sea,landfills
