Scrapping electric motors. another method 

I might call that the big man big hammer approach. No wasted saw blades, craft knives, or angle grinder blades.

I spent 3 hours on my first small attic fan motor. Took it to scrap and made 18 cents for copper. Wear and tear on tools and $2.00 in gas. Used bolt cutter for loops. Oh well i appreciate the process and saved some landfill.

That's ingenious. I used to cut these copper wiring with an angle grinder. Causes a lot of copper dust and also the cost of the grinding blades. Your way is a whole lot better. No dust. Maybe you could use a car jack to remove the copper strands instead of a hammer. Just an idea.

I broke those motors down for a living the absolute fastest way to break those down u put the motor in the vice and cut one whole side off with a angle grinder some times i used a chop saw the chop saw was faster then i used an air chisel on the other side the whole thing is done in 40 seconds once it is locked down on the vice on the chop saw i timed it when i did it U make real money when u do volume.

Either way, nice to see all the motors, it means that you have diverted a lot of appliances/electronics from the landfill. That is why I scrap. Also I like spreading awareness of conservation. Keep it up

Hi Bert. Lots of copper. Nice video. I'm 62 and have never seen anyone strip motors, until your videos. Thanks for showing us.

I'm more of a keep it simple sort of gal! A spring and a foot pedal would make your fastest and easiest fix at the moment! OR - have you ever seen the log splitter made with a car spring and counterweight? Also rigging up a boat wench and a hook to pull the copper out rather than banging and prying? I'm a 75 year old woman and have a bunch of motors to scrap! Thanks for the video! You have given me ideas that will ease my labor😁

Thanks for the video! I heard a tip today: use a winch to pull the copper out. So, you'd clamp the stator down, then use hooks probably on chains, running to a clevis likely hooked around the winch hook. You could hang the winch or even do it horizontally! I really like how you noticed there were loops, and just cut the loops with the cable cutters. So much less mess than a saw or angle grinder!

I have a pile of the same kind of motors I am working on now. I been taking apart bigger ones and been finding silver switches with some nice silver disks. I sometimes am unsure if I should just sell the motors as motor scrap as opposed to getting the copper out but I think it really is worth breaking them all down. I use wire cutters and sometimes a pocket knife to get all the string off before I pluck the wire. I basically use the wire cutters for everything. Cut the wire, pull the wire etc. It's hard work no matter how you do it but I enjoy it.

I love seeing other people's ways, or inventions, to tackle a bit of work. Well done, brother. I used a portaband to cut the one side off, then used a bar to pry on the other side to pry it all thru.

Great video, good to know. I was just going to throw away the old motors. Now I can recycle them. Thanks

Love the tip of getting copper from a motor even me as a woman could probably do it😊

Its amazing how much copper wire came out of that really enjoyed that video Thanks Bert

Takes a little practice but after the other end is cut, place the motor on the ground (not standing upright) and strike the uncut end hard with a hammer. After a few blows the copper will bend downward until the loop takes the full force of the blow and the copper comes right out. That cross pen hammer you have really works good for that job (use the pointed end). I have done that so many times that after the copper is cut I can usually get all the copper out in around 20-30 seconds using the hammer..

hacksaw and a screwdriver is all I have ever needed. goes through the copper like butter and the blade will last forever with how soft copper is. I can normally process motors faster than you did in this video with a lot less physical exertion. But I've also been doing that forever. you get fast with what ever method you use most.

This is the video that I started the Scrap Farm journey for me. Always some great tips and lessons to be learned. Thanks SF!

Need to make me an Harbor Freight order 😎 I like the pusher rod idea as well - very cool

I use a plumbers chain vice, cut one side off with a sawzall or bsndsaw if it's small enough. Then I use an iron workers spud wrench to pry out the bundle. Bolt cutters also work well to grab and kinda roll it out. Nice idea with the wire cutters. A.c. compressors also have the same stuff inside. Be sure you have a can handy for the oil.

Ten four your right I learn something new every time I play with copper

Good video thanks for making it. I do mine a little differently. I'm a big fan of the 4 in grinder with a diamond wheel. Put the motor in the vise cut the top off and then I use a punch to punch it out. If that doesn't work I take a pair of snips hold it by the wire and I beat on the steel part use gravity in the beating motion to get the wires out.

great motor strip down for copper - you are sooo right to have the correct tools and life is easy - well easier !!!! well demonstrated and keep safe and greetings from australia !!!!

We cut off one side with a chop saw then put it in a vise and use a seal puller to get the windings out,we have done 200 in about an hour.

Thats the best method yet, great idea. No wasted copper like with a grinder.

Great video thank you so much for your time, knowledge and best efforts! that cable cutter is great!

Interesting to see your copper chopper process. The machine build idea is cool too. Like you said.. would need to have some torque.

Thanks Bert this is very helpful I’ve had a lot of these popping up so I’ll try your method

I pass you guys all the time at my local metal recycler. While you're dropping off copper, I'm picking up lead! I melt it and pour into buckshot and slugs. The profit margin is between 400 and 700%. With my wife helping, we can make over $1000 per day.

I use old bypass pruners for cutting my motor copper it works on the same pretense and a punch to knock the wire out .

2:20 NO critism, just a tip: Put the bucket with the copper srap under it, so you needn´t clean your workshop and save the litte copper pieces. Greetings from germany

Get that copper brother! Scrap on!

2:41 super idee merci!!!

Princess Auto is the Canadian Version of Harbour Freight - I go there quite often LOL Great Video Bert !

Great timing. I have a small pile my son (mechanic) left me. I just did one from a 1/2 in. Drill motor. I used aviation ships and a biggy flat tip screwdriver. Ha ha, like a monkey and a football. Making that fancy bar tomorrow, happen to have the cutter, lucky me Thanks for that info.

My 1st job was to break the moters open and knock the the center and then cut the copper of either a petrol still saw and then put the rest into a fire. Would do 30 or 40 a day .. Loved that job , kept me fit .

Thanks for the idea mate, I will make my own windings removal tool

Pneumatic air chisel one end off flat and pull other side through. If Some dont pull, then you can use a dead punch tip and start to drive them through with the air hammer. Giant channel locks pulls good.

I would build a bigger vice type holding set up for the motor once you have got it to the wire removal process, then turn it upside down so you are pounding it down into a capture bucket. Less shaking around and saves you the step of tossing it into your bin. Great work though lad, I just strip electric cables.

I like the cable cutter but think about a expanding drawbolt setup with 2 thick plates 1 threaded or nut welded into it and as you tighten the push apart slip them in between windings and steel and use impact to pull

Thatsxa good idea but i cut one side of the windings with a 4 1/2 grinder with a cutting wheel then i beat the wire out like u do good job man like the videos

That's a good way to do it...I use a cutoff wheel to do one side and pound other side out..sucks with the copper dust but worth it in the end #happyscrapping

I've copied your prybar thingamadoodle and it works much better than the punch I used, far kinder on the knuckles too. Thanks man!

Thanks for the tip , on how to get the wire out

I've since been converted to using meat cleaver to hammer motor into 2 halves. That way I get 2 big hunks of Cu tied up instead of having to put everything in a jar.

His use of boltcutters was significantly faster than how I've done this using hand cutters. As for his use of a forked tool for pulling out other side, my needle nose pliers and screwdrivers are just as fast.

I’m going to make one of them out of a jack handle the old-school jack handle that would work perfect for making that tool

Good job

I use my 4inch grinder and cut it off one side the use a rod to knock it out and grab it from the opposite it usually comes out pretty easy because I don't have to straighten it out as i pull it the initial cut did that for me . Hope that helps Keep grinding 💪

Good idea for cutting out the copper. You might be able to use a motor from an auto garage door they are geared heavy for lifting. Those blackberries make tasty jam.

Fastest and easiest way is vice it up vertical , cut one side off flat with a recip saw , flip over , wack a allen key through the copper , attach a 500 watt electric winch hook to the bar thats bolted to the roof , press that button and its pulled straight out

Here's how I did it as a kid... Torch the pots off, throw the windings in a fire, steel and copper. Drag them out with a rake. Once they've cooled, air chisel one side of the windings off smooth to the steel plates. Sometimes you can use the air chisel to "push" the windings out the other side, otherwise get a small hook to grab and pull the rest through. I like seeing other people's methods. 👍

Thanks for this great idea it will make recycle lot easier. Guillermo from the Dominican Republic. Keep it up, watling for the New proccesor machine.

Wow nice stock of motors to scrap.

Hi Bert a lot copper with new toys I do it manually too regards👍👍👍👍🇸🇬

i did hundreds of these for a friend we had a pretty effective method as well

Think that's great for a manual tool, demo drill works pretty good for a powered option, need to get around to make a claw so i can pull with it too

Those motors are a pain to strip but there’s a decent amount of copper in them.

Best method I've seen, thanks

love the ingenuity! subscribed

i bought a set of the HF cable cutters a while back, use them for a lot of different things, I use an air chisel to cut the end's off one side, works good for me, I like the split bar idea think I will give that one a try,

That is a great idea on the cutting tool.

copper and gold are my most favorite metals

if your going to use Elec for the cutter, get a band saw, cut one end off, then pull the clean cut end through

Son!! Working around heavy stuff and wearing Crocks?? Are you kidding me!! This is telling me you have never had a foot injury!! LOL!!

Thanks for the tips

Simple tools sometimes work the best looks like you got it down 👍

Very economical way to save as much copper as possible (grinding it, it goes everywhere), also a arm workout if you do enough.

I use a grinder with cut wheel. Works good and quick.

Dłutkiem wycina się obie strony i się wybija lekko wychodzi, zła robota.

Cut off wheel on 1 end and air chisel with V cut into it, cleans up real quick

I find an angle grinder cut-off the crown I call it and 2 steal levers work in a vice push the levers in 1at a time using a hammer then put the Second in on top the first using a sissers motion prying up this is faster work you way around all though I will say in percentages it's a tiny bit better then what described above only because it's clean cut the angle grinder turns it to dust that is hard to collect however it still preference at the end of the day These levers I speak of can be found at harbor freight they come bin a package labeled prying bars in is like 4 black steel in a variety of sizes they work well been doing this for a few years now the downsides are many to all reclamation processes is hard work some body at the junkyards is all ways trying to rip us off

Cooper prices has doubled since your videos was recorded. 4$/pound... Crazy

The other night while out scrappin, I came across a huge TV with 2 massive deguasing coils. 6 pounds of copper. I've never seen deguasing coils that big before.

Great one, kudos bro,I represent Nigeria.

Good stuff, Bert! I'll have to try this. Thanks.

I love watching you work I have learned a lot

I been doing this a while .I use a torch to cut them open after I drain the oil .

This is a clean way to get the copper out. which made me wonder can you use a press with a blade to cut one side of the coils, then use the press to push out the coils, 10/20 ton press may be enough for the job.

Seems to work ! I used to burn them out with a weed torch but I had a pile to get through.

Scrap It! don't put it in a dump somewhere. It gives you something to do. It makes you money. The small city I live near has 5 zones for garbage pick-up. Monday thru Friday. My neighbor and me go get all that stuff thrown out and we scrap it all.

thank you Bert.

Cheap demo hammer with a low profile sharp 6 inch blade, split the stator in half across the middle. 2 inch blade with a U shape in it to pull the coils. Will take you less than 2 minutes a stator.

here in Texas at metal’s yard i get 2.30 per pound

There's a few coppers id like to use that on lol , great work Bert !

Excellent way to do it. Awesome

nice friend, got a lot of copper,

Great video thanks B Ert!

Good job Bert a true scraper.

I cut one end with the grinder then use a sds hammer drill with a chisel cut to a shape kinda like yours It's way faster than using a hammer The smoother the cut the easier it comes out

Angle grinder flush cut will save you time and pain of holding to cut each coil. Yes you will spray copper dust but if you have something behind it(a box or bin ) will catch most. Sweep up the rest.

For me, I am going to try this, but keep it manual. I'd be worried about getting de-knuckled now and again with the hydraulic option. Can't wait to try a similar manual setup, as my hands cramp up pretty bad doing this with a smaller parrot beak.

👍👍 Good informational video! Thank you Bert...again!🌞

We strip down 1 to 4 ton motors normally.... if you don't use fire to burn the glue and isolated coating off there is now way you can remove the copper winding....

bet you have to make sure everything is safetly tucked in your shorts before using them cable cutters could have you singing soprano in an instant.

Can you do a video on the price difference of whole motor and break down? Awesome stuff👊

M8 that was some food info that I will try to follow. Keep up the good work. God bless y'al

I've got a 55 gallon barrel almost full of them motors. I'll have to try that.👍

Use an angle grinder to cut off the loops on the first side (- which gives you clean/ straight/ non-connected ends), then removing from the other side is HUGELY faster than this method.

noice woik! excellent presentation. your skills are many but thats your talent. make more vids!

Great video- thanks for taking time to put together.

The fiberglass type handles on the cutters will break. Have broken a couple pair trimming tree branches. They even had a recall on certain ones. Bought mine at Home Depot. Just saying this as an FYI. Don't think you are putting the stress on them that I was.