Scrapping a refrigerator and a freezer for copper and Aluminum 

Good video, if you are into silver recovery there are relays and other switches in those. Almost all switches and relays have silver contacts.

Here In Estonia or Finland.. scrapyards don't even want to see any fridges or freezers.. too many plastics and foam inside of them. Great video! Keep going.

We use the food trays at the bottom of the refrigerator for our chickens water and food nice video

Really interesting video, to see the difference between fridges and freezers where you live and here in the UK. We get far less off those items here. Just the compressor, few bits of copper you showed and the mains cable. Enjoyed. Cheers Okie.

Wow very nice idea.to scrap ref your video is great you are awesome.

Thanks for the video I have six fridges to pick up tomorrow I know I was going to wait till I got to Florida but decided to put an ad up on Facebook and it's working out good

This is exactly like my side by side. Tear it up !

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Okie

I am new member to your video.i will support your video.

Love breaking these down

I’m just a kid and my parents just threw a fridge so thanks for giving me a idea on what to get

Great video! My favorite part was the donkey going crazy. That dude has something to say!🤣🤣

Did you leave out the part where you released the refrigerant into the air, or was it already "properly" reclaimed lol? In my neck of the woods, people put whole units on the shred pile and the crane does all the releasing when it smushes them up anyway, so I don't feel too bad making them go "pssshhhhhhhh" myself. At least you don't see much R22/21 anymore, which is the nasty stuff.

Nice Video my friend

What I need are the freezer shelves

got a fridge to scrap, was wondering if there were any goodies, just got a big old water heater too. always enjoy your vids.

I took a 20lb propane tank turned upside down with legs to make a thru and thru dirty copper smelter same as your aluminum used kaowool and refractory with inside lining of loose weave fiberglass plaster skin coat liner yes liner wears off after about 6 or 7 times but just made a solar 12v 1A electroplate tank out of glass jar to get all bright copper and except checking the bars every couple hours it’s a set and walk away use 1 1/2” pipe 12” with end for mold takes

To get the aluminum off the copper coils in AC heat entire coil to 600 to 700 degrees for an hour to make the aluminum brittle and just brush off with a steel wire brush into a drum split in half on its side

Good day Interesting video. At about 18-00 it sounded like donkey hee-haw. Boy I from Ont. Canada I wish I could kneel down without getting wet knees, Thanks

Thanks for the video, its going to help me out. Now when you refer to the "tin" items in the fridge... is that just your way of saying steel or is it actually tin? Ill be needing tin in the future for melting, thats why im asking

Right on, I have been trying to find out if the viscosity of compressor oil is too thick for a waste oil burner as is or if it needs to be thinned out with some kerosene or something. I have a lot of compressors to do and didn't want to throw the oil out so I want to build a scrap melter like you have.

Awsome video new friend here

I get rusted or out of date propane tanks for free from Ace Hardware, where they refill them, but they give the unfillable away. I use the tanks for secondary air tanks, portable air tanks, and to make small smelting furnaces. Only tools required to remove valve is ratchet strap and a 5 to 6ft 2x6 to keep tank from moving, strap side of tank to end of board lay board on the ground with tank strapped and using a pipe wrench unscrew if keeping handle need a pair of channel type pliers too. To make it safe fill tank completely with teaspoon dawn and water wait 10 minutes dump and fill 2 more times only with water wait 10 minutes each time before dumping water out and 24 hours upside down to dry. Then safe for using grinder or many times I use plasma cutter on it.

Great video man 👍

Thanks

Your lucky in canada we have to have those tagged to show the freon was properly removed

Is the separating wall between the freezer and regular part of the refrigerator hollow? Generally could one drill a fist sized hole from one side to the other without worry of hitting some wires or piping?

how do you bleed off the refrigerant? or are they bled when you get them?

The ice maker on the double doors will go as dirty aluminum at the scrap yards.so don't toss it save it

do u have the unit freon professionally removed ?

How do you remove the refrigerant before cutting the lines?

Some of the compressors are not copper..cant tell until opened them up

My question is it better to scrap the whole fridge are brake it down then scrap

Do you recycle the screws

So once I have the compressor out , I’m assuming I don’t attempt to open it ? Just take it & the copper to a recycling metal place ? Cheers

How meany £ do you recon per frij and frizzer £6???

I was given 7 refrigerators and 4 stoves today are they worth cleaning are should I just take them in as is

Is freon hazerdous ?

👍 aluminum is crazy low it hurst cuz aluminum is so lite. No wonder everyone is grabbing all they can ya know make it heavy.

Did you just have to pull the alum heating unit out of the back in the freezer? What was holding it in?

How can I tell if the compressor is aluminum or copper?

New to scrapping. Is the compressor considered a motor?

#Happyscrapping

I don't want to be nit picky but at 7:15 that "Thermostat rod" is just a heating element.

I'm not trying to be a wise a$$ but what about the wiring inside the fridge for the lights and ice maker or maybe I didn't see that part

My friend how many bound of copper inside these sealed unit (compressor) . Thanks

Now aluminum is high🤣

Where does the refrigerant go?

what do you do with your freon?

How much for each one... Did I miss something?

How much is 1kg of copper

Isnt Tin $11 a lb?

I wonder how they recycle all that plastic junk? I've heard of a company making fuel from plastic.

Sorry, but tin is not magnetic.

The two doors one is literally a totally new one never used