Scrapping a CRT TV for Copper and Pouring an Ingot! 

Your tangents always lead to the exact things I'm interested in. It's frankly uncanny.

This is now one of my top 10 videos in ALL of RU-vid. I have been on this platform (on different account cuz I was a moron in high-school) since 2013. I LOVE CRTVs. I have no real reason but something has drawn me to collect and store my favorites. I appreciate how much YOU appreciate them because, to be real, I also don't know how they really work. The fact that rock and dust somehow makes a moving image is so magical and wondrous to me I can't help but love them! Anyway spectacular video, brand new fan but for my lifetime now. Keep going bro!

LOVE Your commentary. These topical videos are so much fun to watch. Thanks

This is my zen me taking apart things to scrap and recycle. I enjoy the videos of you taking all things apart.

Love these voiceover videos

I do like your advice, and I think people forget that all the time.... The scrap price is the absolute lowest.... If the TV works, it's definitely worth something.... There are people looking for that stuff.... $25 bucks, $50 bucks, is clearly over scrap value.... Even if it doesn't work, if it looks cool, or is a Sony, or is in great shape & looks mint, someone will buy it....

I’m actually watching this on a CRT. I have a Roku box hooked up to it to watch old movies and play games on.

Love the channel and all is glory

Love taking TVs apart! Awesome video my friend!

Yes, I love this series. Very Fun to watch.

Thanks for making this video! I love taking CRTs apart but I always felt bad about doing so because I felt like I was destroying part of history, but I'd do it anyway because I didn't think anyone wanted them anymore. I'm really glad to know there a a lot of people who still do.

Now that's a good video about CRT, and amazing tangent. Glad to see inside a more recent flyback, I rebuilt/rewound older ones, but never took a modern one apart, curious about where the HV diode is located. Very wise, the value of a CRT is higher as is than the scrap value, especially for the effort. Thanks!

I probably would have taken the lazy route and put the CRT in a shopping cart at Best Buy.😂 💪

You finally did my request. Let's goooooo, I've always wanted to see you do a video on box TVs. Love tour videos

I really liked the point of your video. It was well executed and I totally agree. It's better for the environment and pocketbook to find someone who wants something than to scrap it, especially CRT TVs. Way to leave it better than you found it Thub! ~Blessings!

Loved it and was reminiscing of years gone by. Thanks Thub. ❤️💙

3:53 Park at the front of the store, drop it near the door, find a space to park and walk back to the store. I used to hobble around with CRTs until someone pointed it out to me 😀❤️👍

Always enjoy your videos, been a subscriber since ypur old how to acrap a tv video

Thank you so much for your videos. They've really REALLY have been insightful. Without going into to much detail I started scrapping a while back because the company i work for, and the other companies around us, sometimes throws out some crazy stuff.. Tons of wires.. I had found out that scrap yards take wires and even someone told me I should take them home, strip them and come back. However that sounded like more work then i wanted to do. After doing it for several years, though only 2 or 3 times a year, I came across some extremely large wires and decided i should strip them and i got more then i thought i would. So I started looking for advice and found you. Sorry but believe me this is the short version, 😂. With your advice i got $358 one day. My biggest pay out, that is until i decided to step it up and the other day my scrap yard was at $4 a pound for copper. So i grabbed everything i had saved and went over and came out with over twice my previous payout.. thank you so much. I love your video and they have been incredibly helpful and insightful as well.. please keep it up, your are doing an awesome job!!

Well done thub!

I had a real good one I gave away a few months ago (free ad on marketplace). Dude was happy, I was happy. But now watching this geez maybe coulda got 20 bucks lol. Recently I scrapped a few of these just for fun and any copper I get I melt into bullion.

You know it was going to be a good day when the teacher brought those bad boys out

I’ve started saving a couple of these that are in good condition in my attic.

Just scraped one of these. I don't know why, but it's one of my favourite things to scrap.

Looking forward for your next video

M8 on time stamp 7:14 to 7:30 your ability to use the speed wrench is amazing ( sledge hammer.) I have an ol TV in my bedroom that works great , and it has more life than my new flat screen one ( that I replaced twice already .) Keep up the good work. God bless y'all.

Great video my friend

Welp, Im hooked.

Nice video. The grey wire on the right is number 2 plated Copper with some Brass (2:10) The screews and rings from the copper cone must be checked. 3 of the 4 parts are usually Stainless Steel (1:50)

Showing the comparrison of the gaming video was epic! I'm so lucky, of all the different types of CRTs I've broken down I've only ever found one aluminum degaussing cable! 👍

Nice one Thub, interesting stuff :)

I found a masive floor model crt tv once. Too big to lift, but it had 2 huge deguasing cables. I just took those. Total 6 lbs of copper just from the 2 cables.

A very interesting vid! Like much of your content! Thanks!❤️

Great video I love it, I could die happy rn

I'm really enjoying your videos. I was stoked to take a truckload of scrap to the yard, but disappointed that they didn't offer me anything for it. I guess it's my fault for not calling ahead and asking how that process works. Oh well saved me the dump fees at least.

You describing that tv sounds like you were describing me!

You should probably break the vacuum before passing it on. Those things can blow up like a bomb if mishandled. I'm glad you didn't try to break the front glass. I've found the bigger ones don't sell as well as the small ones. They're so heavy

Good video thank you

I saw a TV-Spider!!!

Lucky for me the town i live in has a deal with the local landfill and they will take like 10 TV's from each resident. Not that I'd ever need to get rid of 10 LOL

@ 6:12 yeah, back then, Sony Trinitron was really good, and costly. Any Sony, even today, there will be piles of youtube videos on how to change the bulb, how to do repairs... Because basically it's good, and it's worth fixing..... For retro stuff, Phillips was also really good... They were named best color picture a few years in a row back in the late 80's early 90's.... they sold the same TV under a different brand, but I forget what it was.... If you wanna win a trivia contest, Phillips also invented the 4:3 PTV test pattern, which was a color TV color circle resolution test pattern that was widely adopted & used for many years....

I stopped scrapping CRTs as much because the effort isn't worth the time for me. I have been collecting them and testing them out for potential sales to my Retro Gamer friends. I actually just found a really nice 13 inch one with fake wood grain and aside from a missing piece (a little flappy cover doodad) it's great. I'm not sure what brand it is but as silly as it is it's honestly adorable.

From an energy use standpoint flatscreens are better. I scrap things because I like figure out why things fail and how they work, oh and the money. It’s one of those hobbies that pay you instead of draining your bank account.

I see those in the garbage all the time sure is sad but thankfully I've seen people take them

You can get this "retro" effect of older video games by simply blurring your TV down and fiddling with the color and saturation. You can make older games, even NES games, look incredible on a 4KTV.

I'm curious what do you do with all the metals you melt down into bars?

I always heard there is a thing in old televisions that can shock you if it's not discharged correctly? Some kind of diode button thing?

Some scrap yards actually allow old tvs in the shred pile.

They had better sound as well due to decent speakers

Haha you're going for a "The Post Apocalyptic Inventor" style video. You should do it in a german accent.

Can you sell the circuit board as e-waste or is that more of a computer board thing?

Around here you can't get rid of them if they have been stripped.They are also hard to get rid of to begin with. I rarely see them

If u have the room n hoard PCB boards if u don't have a yard yet that pays well for them. Use" board sort "as a guide to sort the boards I hoarded my little bunch for ten years till my yard I go to here in Nova Scotia started buying them for decent prices. My ewaste hual was 2 grand in June 2024 but I never tooK.,Pata hdd boards ,cell boards. They worth way more than "high grade " of $5.60 a pound .so I keep them. Ram n CPUs take up no space really so I hoard them too

I hhave had requests from musical theatre groups for working CRTs because they are the best option for transmitting a zero latency image of the conductor to the performers on stage. The nature of theatre means that CRTs tend to get damaged and broken a lot. Theatre groups are getting desperate because digital TVs and monitors don't work well in this setting.

Drops it off for electronic recycling bit he takes all the electronic parts out hahhahaha

Why do we do what we do? I found 3 of those on the street. Now in my defense I didn't know that there was any value to them like the 20 dollars that you stated. But will that change my mind about scraping them. Probably not. I don't know why. Maybe when I'm out there looking for scrap just finding the scrap is like a victory and I don't want to give up the win.Yes I'm psychotic.

Unfortunately, here in the USA, you can't give these away, and Best Buy doesn't take them anymore.

Anyone else see the little spider at 0:56 lol

hi thumb have you redeemed your silver play button

I have about 50 of these lol

Look at you LittleStackT

I thought you made an earlier video saying not to make ingots ever. .. am I miss-remembering that?

My parents have one of these exact models, I want it from them to play GameCube, eternal darkness on it.

Amazing isn't it? You get the occasional CRT that's say 10-20 years old but you see newer flat screens only a few years old being thrown out every day. The old tech just lasted longer.

@ 5:07 I'll be the last one to defend big corporations.... Buuuut... the switch to aluminum in some of that stuff also made the TV Monitor lighter.... Which WAS being driven by the customers at the time.... So yes, it saved them money, but also, some consumers were seeing that lighter TV Monitor as a positive..... So it wasn't "all" about the profit.....

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i can only keep 1 CRT even tho i like to keep some around but they are just too bulky and heavy to keep around. Destroyed alot of sony trinitron, panasonic, toshisba, jvc tvs

Always be careful with crt's, the caps can hold their charge if the grounding is damaged or not present....they will absolutely nuke you or your tools. Its 1000's of volts

Ya the crt is good for 20 yrs for most sets whereas the pcb and components will die first. I know this for a fact for I have a 20yr old set crt type and still has warm colors. Happy days dude.

Could have picked one with a good copper cable...

FYI if that works you can sell them.. there is a demand 50- 100 depending on condition and model

I see that your Canadian judging by your totals of how much you made in scrap

just sell it... someone will pay over scrap for it even if it doesn't work, because some of the components are worth more than scrap value alone, and very hard to find for restoring other CRTs.

$20 makes up for a lot of time and travel.

21st! :D

Are you getting only $4.50 for #2 copper? it's $5.60 here.

Sorry bud, i scrap these things every time I find em! No market for them here… Ive tried

I thought you can get seriously electrocuted by doing this?

Flat screans are not better. Crearity on digittal are great but they burn out/ware out quicker than the dino tv's/ CRT's. I loved taring apart them crt's just for the yoke and that #2 copper!!! Editing time. Computers wires around them monitors are mostly aluminum cables...

@2.10 the silver wire is actually Brass wire I collect them and make things with them