No problem. Thanks for the update. It really does depend sometimes on the day you go, prices, and who is working the scale a lot of times in my experience. There has actually been a few occasions where I have had to threaten or take some of my load back because I refused to be downgraded, etc.
@@jamesfirth1280 I should have refused the downgrade but it was my first time selling appliances wire. I probably lost 30 or 40 dollars. I still got 217.50 for 145lbs (4 totes) and now I know for the future. Thanks again for sharing all your knowledge here on RU-vid. ✌️
Final breakdown: 10lbs plug whole 10 x 0.19lb = $1.90 separated 1.14lbs brass (3.05 lb) = $5.74, 5oz #2 copper ($4.37 lb) = $1.37, and now 7.12lbs waste. = so made $7.11 compared to $1.90. It took about an hour.
You went a step further by leaving prices in the comments, doesn't earn you anymore, but thank you! Remember that weight gives you a better price- and then grade. If you don't have to have the cash, sit on it, the price rarely goes down, unless it's a day, or two after covid gets announced
Thankyou very much tin man scrapper ,, i have been doing scrap metal recycling here in Australia for over 30 years and have only encountered this reduction in cost value due to the plug ends being on the chords and probly only around 3 years ago that they started doing this here. I am going to give this a go tomorrow and I'll get back to you to tell you how i went. Thanks again for you advice. Cheers from John in Australia
Thanks tinman good info. I fill a bucket with those small uncoated thin gauge copper snips and save to melt. Number 2 price for 99% Cu does not make sense. * Those bigger plug blocks often will have silver contacts on the brass prongs, with a solenoid to open and close on things like the A/C plug or any with a reset/test function. Snip those contact ends off. May be worth checking the bucket if you have done alot of them. 👍
Us brits started the plug soup 🍲 method and there is 5 different graded plugs ,to me your type seem very easy to strip compared to my types of plug soap, but great outcome
@@BushDogScrapper ik a guy that used to fill appliances with water n let em freeze he got criminally trespassed and charĝed something about intent to comit fraud.... the piced the appliances off the trailer with the claw and out fell a ton of 🧊 ice lmao
I try and find podcasts and audiobooks I can listen to while I work on little bits of scrap like this since it's not exactly high dollar amounts per hour. I figure it's a good way to spend my time since normally when I listen to a podcast I'm not doing anything physically.
I love plug ends. I enjoy removing the pieces. I saw someone put them in a vice and it was easy to remove using the channel lock. Does it really pay to remove the copper from the brass or just leave as is? Love the videos!
I have a question I recently got some TV cable wire along with a couple of small cast aluminum boxes with TV connections and there are pins in them, are they gold??
I have another question I've been micro scraping for a little over 2 years collecting gold are there places you can take it to in order to get money?? I live in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania
In the US I know there is a place you can send it to called boardsort.com. I have actually not sent there yet since I live in Canada an shipping costs need to be less than profit for me
You have a wife, and she lets you do that at the kitchen table? I saw the same video, and to be fair, the guy was older, out in the garage, and didn't have the same energy level as you. That being said, the only thing I would do differently would be to strip the cord wire of its insulation and get #1 price. I don't let anything get away from full value; as far as a soup or a tan, I would maybe set them in front of a heater vent or on top of the water heater, which is about all I would do if it's winter time. Oh, and one more thing, I stockpile and don't get rid of anything until I have over 100 pounds of any one thing (metal). I'll have 500 lbs aluminum, 150 lbs copper, and 100 lbs brass, with 100+ lbs your lowest weight of any one metal, and then I call every scrap yard within reasonable drive and tell him the minimum weight of what I have-it doesn't have to be exact, but at least the weight you are bringing because they don't know if you are bringing 5 lbs or 500 lbs, so naturally they give you the 5 lbs price, and that way you get a better price or grade for what you have and how clean it is! Good luck and happy trails!
I actually have a video on co axial cable. The nice thing is you can find tons of it in dumpsters and some of it can be copper wire in the middle and aluminum casing
FYI most copper wire is shredded (In a granulator), and comes out as little pebbles(chops). The brass ends up contaminating the copper. That's why the plugs must be removed.
I like to cut my prongs off with a grinder and throw the rest of my plugs in copper baring or copper content. I'm in northern Ontario I use Sudbury scrap yards for my non ferrous and such and manitoulin for my shred tin and appliances or white goods as that's where I am
why would you call those copper strands number 2? they should be number 1 right? pure copper no coating or anything....right? my yard gives me number 1 for all that
Because of the gauge of the wire. His yard wants a larger gauge to get number 1. I think he could negotiate that if he had a very large amount. I choose to melt mine into ingots
The pricing you get is insane compared to Vegas! Even Kommiephonia isn't much more. Copper and brass are less more than a dollar of what you are getting!
I’ve got a big box full of wires from various appliances and I was planning to leave all the plugs on them, then I thought I better cut them all off, now I’m seeing you leave some on and take some off. I’m confused 🫠😂
If they are the 40% ones leave the heads on and just pull off the prongs. The weight from the heads is good for the weight. However, the 60% wires you need to take off anyway so it is good to get out as much #2 copper as possible.
Just wondering.... if you're getting basically free materials, why don't you melt it down, make cool stuff you could be selling .... alot better pay than scrap yard
