Scrapping Hoverboards - How Much Copper is Inside? - Trash to Treasure - Copper Metal Melting

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How much copper is inside a hoverboard? Join me as I do a complete tear-down to find out. Once everything is scrapped out, I melt the copper, purify it and pour a nice ingot from it. I have a whole pallet full of electronics and appliances that I want out of my warehouse. I'm setting aside all the copper I get from each item in a separate stack so we can see how much copper I had sitting there worth of junk.
Want to see the all the parts of this series? Click the links below:
Part 1 - Scrapping 2 battery backup power supplies:
• Scrapping a Transforme...
Part 2 - Scrapping a Bouncy House Blower Motor:
• Scrapping a Bouncy Hou...
Part 3 - Scrapping 2 Microwaves:
• Scrapping Microwaves f...
Part 4 - Scrapping Keurig Coffee Machines:
• Scrapping Keurig Coffe...
Part 5 - Scrapping a Powered Subwoofer:
• Scrapping a Powered Su...
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If you are a copper guy or girl and want to see what kind of items have copper in them and how much you can expect to get? Then please click on the below playlist:
• How much copper inside?
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@Dude_Slick 9 месяцев назад

A little bit of effort sure pays off. Just rip apart over $100 in hub motors, to get around 6 bucks in copper.

@Scrap2Cast 9 месяцев назад

The revenue from YT makes up for it 😉

@artaxerxes2363 5 месяцев назад

@Scrap2Cast, yeah, but what about everyone else.

@Scrap2Cast 5 месяцев назад

Who the F cares. This is a scrapping channel.

@artaxerxes2363 5 месяцев назад

@@Scrap2Cast oh great, get an effin attitude cause you got called out on your b.s.

@Scrap2Cast 5 месяцев назад

@artaxerxes2363 its a scrapping channel, not a resell on ebay channel. Get over it. Ffs the title of the video says “how much copper is inside” Without scrapping it, the question in the title wouldn’t have an accurate answer. Use your heads instead of jumping to conclusions 😉

@itseyona 4 месяца назад

Ya know, this is really cool. I just lost my dad a few days ago and I have inherited his…piles…of old stuff. Old old motors, tools, burnt out drills, etc. I have a lot to go through, but this video popped up and gave me an idea…

@Scrap2Cast 4 месяца назад

Brother, I’m really sorry about your father passing away. On a more happier note, I’m glad you stumbled across a method for going through his collection. After my grandfather passed, I went through the house after everyone else did and took the old door locks that were original to the house that he had in a cardboard box stuffed in the rafters. My intention was to scrap all the brass from the locks, melt it and pour myself a bar. After cleaning the bar I was going to stamp the bar as “Grandpas Brass” and stick it in my curio cabinet as a memorial for him. I still haven’t gotten around to it, but I will soon enough. Thank you for watching my video and again I am very sorry about the passing of your father. 🙏

@charleslanier1992 Год назад

Wow the hoverboards put out a lot more than I thought.

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Yeah I was definitely surprised with what I got from them! I will never pass these up if I see them! Thanks for watching and commenting! 😁

@dukenukem001 Год назад

Yes ... I was genuinely surprised at the amount of copper in those !!

@dukenukem001 Год назад

and aluminum

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

They were definitely a treasure trove of scrap metal! I thought they were mostly plastic, and I had no idea those wheels were the electric motors until I started busting them apart. They were easy to unwind too! I think I spent maybe 15 minutes total unwinding those 4 motors. Thanks for watching and commenting my friend!

@SJWCASTING Год назад

solidifying copper 🤤. An other nice ingot to the stack! great job!😁

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

LOL copper makes me 🤤too! Thanks a bunch buddy! Much appreciated!

@citylotgardening6171 Год назад

Nice video thanks for sharing 👍

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

You’re very welcome and thanks for watching! 🙂🍻👊🏼

@mikelane5287 2 месяца назад

Great video man good copper score

@Scrap2Cast 2 месяца назад

Thank you bro! Too bad the haters in the comments gotta hate 🤣

@caeserjim Год назад

I guess I need to watch for hoverboards now.

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

I highly recommend them! Easy to scrap out too!

@Holy_handful_of_bread91 Год назад

I’m so happy, thank you, I had like 4 of these and threw them away, sad to know how much copper I could have gotten

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Oh man, that super sucks! Live and learn my friend, now you know to hang onto them 🙂

@Dude_Slick 9 месяцев назад

4 X 2 wheels at easily $25 each, or take the time to rip them down for 6 bucks in copper a piece. Okay then.

@Scrap2Cast 9 месяцев назад

@Dude_Slick the purpose of the video is to show how much copper you can get from them. Always someone who gets butthurt over scrapping. 🤣

@HeinrichsMade Год назад

Nice size bar for the stack! You also got some good cast aluminum from them. 👍

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Thanks man! I’ll scrap those hoverboards any day of the week! 😁

@AnonYmous-qg4ph Год назад

One word of advice, don't let your aluminum pile up to far or you will lose interest in melting it. I have about 4,000 lbs(literally) piled up 🤦‍♂️.

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Dude you are so right when you say that!!! I just keep adding and adding to that blue bin! I’m thinking after the blue pallet series I’m definitely going to have to do a mega aluminum melt and call it the blue bin series 🤣

@AnonYmous-qg4ph Год назад

@@Scrap2Cast do it all in 1 video. 2x speed, slow for the pour.

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

@@AnonYmous-qg4ph I will definitely keep that under consideration! I’m kinda limited in my melting time. Long story but I get away with what I can do 😉

@EeekItsSnek Год назад

Good stuff! Only thing I'd have done different would be stealing at least one of those magnet rings from the PM motors in the wheels. But I have a magnet problem lol. Great video as always!

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Bahahaha! I tried prying one out off-camera and I destroyed two of them in the process lol. I scrapped out 50 hard drives once and still have a ton of those neodymium magnets within an arms reach. Lol I have a magnet problem too 🤣

@thelocksmithdude4324 5 месяцев назад

I also hoard magnets 🤣

@dombeavis6442 Год назад

After watching this I'm happy I picked up 15 out the local skip

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Hell yeah! They aren’t “that bad” to take apart. You can even remove the magnets from inside the wheel housings with a small cold chisel and turn that irony aluminum into clean aluminum. The weight adds up nicely!

@donl4914 Год назад

Nice copper SCORE!!! It's good to be a Scrapper...lol 🔥🔥👍🏻👍🏻😎😎 Keeping track of the Ingots. 🙂 Good video Bro!!

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Thanks man! I live being a scrapper. All the stuff I scrap was destined for landfill to begin with. It’s a win / win for mother earth and my portfolio😁

@Dude_Slick 9 месяцев назад

Nice score? The value of the motors makes this a net loss of about $94. Not counting his labor.

@Scrap2Cast 5 месяцев назад

It is a nice score if you are a scrapper. Tell me you're not a scrapper without telling me...

@charlesinscore4107 Год назад

The sub woofer, was my favorite so far. 3 years working in a scrap yard. And never tore one apart. But did you take the copper out if the speaker. I'm waiting on those roll around acts. I consider them a pain. Will you cut open the compressors for the copper. And strip the copper tubing out of the radiator's. Patiently waiting: Chuck

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

Wow, I'm jealous that you worked in a scrapyard. I always wanted to own and operate one! I actually did not extract the copper from the woofer. From my experience they have always been pretty "light" on the copper. Plus it wasn't a decent brand of woofer in my opinion anyways. I do however have a larger powered subwoofer that I do plan on scrapping completley out, including the speaker. A Polk Audio. As far as the AC's are concerned, I am definitely going to extract as much copper as I physically can out of them. The Rads are definitely a pain in the butt to get the copper out of, but I do have a few tricks up my sleeve. Thanks for commenting, your positive feedback and being a supporter of the series and channel :)

@steveciarico9824 Год назад

If you poured a little wax in the mold prior to the copper it wouldn't have those pockets in the bottom

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

I’m definitely going to try that!!!

@steveciarico9824 Год назад

@@Scrap2Cast also any kind of carbon soot in the mold prior to the pour works well too. Like an oxy acetalyn soot from a torch without turning on the oxygen. That kind of soot works best.

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

I also heard that if I coat the mold with graphite it helps release the bars easier. I wonder if it would also solve the problem with the pockets / holes 🤔

@Zamn-NW Год назад

Not worth to scrap, those motors sell for more on eBay than the material is worth.

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

True but then I wouldn’t be able to melt the copper 😉

@Scrap2Cast 5 месяцев назад

If they even worked that is... unfortunately we'll never know. The steel from the motors is probably in China somewhere and the copper was remade into something else :)

@todamnbad Год назад

Have you priced out the different between aluminum cast, extruded, sheet and your pours? Curious which one has the highest value

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

I’ll be honest, I haven’t. The scrapyard that I go to get rid of the junk I don’t want never gives receipts. They just hand you cash. I usually ask the going rates when I’m there but I haven’t been there in about 4 months. The only reason I go there is because they take everything and there is no paper trail which is a must for me personally

@todamnbad Год назад

@@Scrap2Cast I have never recycled hand pours but I know grades of metals have different prices, was hoping that doing all of the work of a handpour would increase value to help justify the fun

@Scrap2Cast Год назад

@@todamnbad i definitely feel that no matter the grade, if you remove the impurities, it’s getting the metal closer to pure in my opinion. Especially with aluminum and copper. Brass is a different ballgame as it is an alloy of copper and zinc.