Scrapping power supply adapter heads: small items worth BIG PROFIT!! 

I use the very small wire for embroidery, crochet and knitting jewelry, but I only take apart one at a time because I don't need it to tangle before it gets used. I'm glad someone like you knows what they are doing with the rest

As an amateur repair tech, this is was a very difficult video to watch. However the idea of reusing these materials is invaluable. Good show!

It is great to see someone so enthusiastic to share knowledge! Thanks!🌞

Great video! I’ve been scrapping for a long time. I am a contractor so I get loads of wire and pipe/brass fittings. I love taking apart TVs for the copper and gold. Computers are fun too! AC adapters are one thing that I often overlook, so I am grateful for this video! Thanks!!

Dude... you're my hero. I've been telling everyone there's a reason I save all my junk?!

Thanks for this! I see these disposed of all the time. Searching the rest of your videos for more great tips!

You're doing good work for the planet recycling valuable and important metal resources

A lot of people miss out on wall warts. Thanks for letting them know what the value is in them. I'm lazy, I just cut the wire on both sides and pull it out. Then pull plastic out & toss steel into shred bucket. It also lets me know whether it's copper or aluminum. About 90% are copper but I run into Alum every so often. I strip the wire from cords like that. Fairly easy to do. The insulation is really thin. So I slice it a little, then pull the wire through the insulation. It's nice purty #2. The ends, I take a hammer too, I can usually hammer the little brass piece out. I usually just hammer the plug ends out also. Either over a vice and pop them out or on back of vice and smash it. Either way it comes out real quick.

Great tips. Happy Sunday!

My favorite scrapper on RU-vid

WOW therapeutic scrapping, I like it. Great video on the small power units for electronic devices. I am going to check on those security wrenches. 😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥

I am ahead of the game. Had to buy a security bit set this past summer because my license plate is held on with security screws. Love videos like this because I became a full time scrapper (due to heath realted to an MVI) and knowledge like this determines weither I eat bologna or steak!! AWESOME VIDEO!! CHEERS!!

You're a very good teacher, love your work

Glad you resell the working ones. If folks can lot them up we buy them at a wholesale sale price. Be surprised what adapter folks buy off eBay. Thanks for sharing the break down

Thx for the info! I just found your channel & I’m subscribing! I have several 5-gallon buckets of plugs & electronic adapters, so I appreciate the info on how to process these!

Some of the best silver contacts I've found in those.

I save them up they are great small scrap items! Pennies Make Dollars ♻️💰👌🏻 CheeRs Tin Man

I only keep the big ones! I have a 55 gallon drum full but haven't had time due to processing the noble metals first! Great Video Brother!🏆

Thanks my Friend and Brother. Great info

Awesome knowledge my friend 👍🏽

I never thought of that, I have an uncle that was a hoarder, and he had an entire tote full of adapters, some of which are for antique machines. Between selling the antique ones and scrapping the others, I may have a few dollars in there. Thanks for the information.

Excellent lecture thank u sir may u enjoy every moment of your life

I scrap mine out as well. I don't do this for a living, just a hobby. Feels like I'm saving the planet a little while making a little bit of spending cash.

I have slowed down on scrapping. I did not take the time to tear apart transformers. Now that I have smaller items and price is up it seems like a great idea. I get those all the time. I like how you get the most out of the wall transformers. It good to break the Item down in price. Some of the prices we pay for new ones is around $150.00. I would think you might be able to sell some. The ones that we get sometimes have a brown band from use. Those would have to be scrapped. I am sure most of them are barely used. Thanks for the tip. Keep on dropping that coin in the piggy bank. It sure adds up after a while.

Thanks Tin Man this was helpful. I like the back of the hammer tip. ~Blessings

Final breakdown compared to about $1.85 as is: 13 lbs tin ($1.30), 5 oz. brass ($ 0.94), 14 oz ewaste ($0.04), and 3.7 lbs #2 copper ( $14.48) = $16.76 profit. It too, me about 25 minutes to do.

Awesome 👍 very informative and thanks for the total break down! I love taking those apart too i wish i knew a place i could buy those.also you get so much more 💰 per pound than us in the States 👍👍

Great video my friend

I have a few hundred of these. My yard told me they will only take them as shred so I've been holding on to them. I may have to break them down now. Thanks!

you are the most workaholic guy i saw the way you tear those copper wire waoooooo man with your bare hands you are a lion of scrapping

I like your trick using the the claw end if the hammer to help separate those metal plates. I use a rough edge of a file to work them loose but it really puts a strain on the hands. I’ll definitely try your method

I am in the electronics repair business and I see thousands of wall warts being thrown away. People are usually too lazy to even save or sell them, and just leave them in a drawer. When I tell them I can dispose, they are happy to give them to me. Working, I sell them. Cheap, easy money. If old, damaged or ?? I bust them up, keep in a bin. It is money in the bank. The worse the economy gets, the more parts I get, the higher the payout goes, the easier it gets to turn them over. Awesome video.

Good day James Yes they are good scrap I had to buy one for laptop 58.00 Didn't have any that size Thanks

I have about 500 of these. Just been saving them up!!! Love your videos! Great content.

Great video! I am 45 minutes south-east of London Ontario!

Thanks for covering these. Now check out how Scrapitall slices them in half with a machete and a hammer. Cuts like butter and the two halves of copper slide out. I have a couple buckets of these I still need to process.👍

I’m a weirdo, I take everything apart. I make miniatures and it’s amazing what little parts make.

Ahhh... a real scrapper...😊

Great video. I wanted to mention the comment in the video about not getting bare bright due to size. Even if it met the gauge requirements, you still would not get bare bright because it is magnetic wire. What that means is the wire has be laqured so that it can be wound around as a coil in close proximity of itself without the electricity jumping across the path and creating a short. Bare copper wound would just be a dead short. Not a electromagnetic coil such as that in a motor or transformer. So it's never bare bright because it's coated.

Thank you!

Those tools with the hole in the end are called security torx bits.

Interesting hustle.

Head is always the best part.

great energy

I just put the adapter in the vise and crank the vise. Cracks like an egg and easy to pull apart. However, not as therapeutic a whacking with a hammer, Cheers and well done.

Where do you sell the scrap to? Because most scrap yards in the U s, just throw it all together and give you one price. Maybe i'm just not looking at the right places but any information would be greatly appreciated. Or maybe i'm not asking them to right questions

Love ur advise is there anything inside curling irons

Man those scrap prices compared to the area in the u.s. i live in are nice. I get about $3.05lb. For #1 copper . Brass i believe is about $1.80lb. That covers red, yellow and white

Nice. I was saving them up in case they were useful, but there's not many applications for them. Most of the transformer based ones are 6 9 or 12v with small amps. They have been totally supplanted by newer tech that is vastly more efficient, so it's okay to scrap them guilt free. Pretty easy too, most of the time it only takes one wack of the hammer (or in my case a rusty butchers knife) Only possible application I can think of is for Nintendos (uses a 9v1amp ac supply)

Buck Converters can make use of some odd voltage power heads.

im fixing to build a foundry to make bronze after watching this i know where to get brass and tin. thank you

'The head is the best part' - I tell my Wife this all the time, but she always gets mad at me

Speed kills bro.

Hi- I agree it is worth the time to scrap them tranformers- more than meets the eye. What are those Allen head tools with holes drilled in them called? Myself I place Transformer in vice and use a hacksaw to cut the Copper. The reason is I live in a 4 family house and don't want to make noise 5 am of 8pm. THANX

With the small transformers I cut the wire with a cutoff disk on one side and push it with impact chisel through the FE (yes loose some cu dust to cutting) but very fast

I sometimes use the very small coil wire as sewing thread on work clothes with problematic buttons and zippers.

(Bang Bang Maxwell) also loved hammers.

Interesting video - thank you! I must be overlooking the breakdown of what the 18.5 pounds yielded - can't seem to find it. Thank you

Have you logged the time you spend extracting materials vs scrapping the whole components? I would be curious to know exactly what value you added by investing the time to separate things.

Thank you for recycling.

Head is always best

I save everything now except aluminum which I take in now and then. My retirement work/fund. Saving all this scrapping knowledge too. Thanks for bothering.

Have you ever heard of or used knipex cutters and other tool they Mack. Great cutters. All made in Germany. Not cheap but worth it!!

Very informative, I never though of collecting these for scrap. If you know which go for a better price you can replace the cut wire. Not a difficult repair & sell as reconditioned. Profit should be better than for scrap. Do you sell the scrap at a scrap yard or on line? Adding another 👍 Stay well, Joe Z

Transformers.. More than meets the eye

I collect all my plug/wire heads just because I'm a trash goblin. It's cool to learn they do have some value

I wish I knew this way earlier in life. Could’ve of cashed in all that time.

Have you considered using a bench grinder setup to quickly remove the epoxy resin and other misc materials like hot glue instead of the hammer claws just for efficiency? I would think that it’s possible set up a jig to hold the transformer for a quick surface removal. I literally have 3x cardboard file boxes filled with working AC-AC and AC-DC wall wort transformers that are sorted by various outputs and currents/watts that continue to come in handy to solve issues that arise over time. The older ones have more variations than the newer ones that have mostly standardized around 12VDC for most things like routers, Apple, Home Automation etc etc. I remember when these were over $10 USD “landed” w warantee and now a watt or so is sub $1 USD which is crazy cheap ( to the end product supplier like Linksys, NETGEAR, Apple, etc etc ). I have a few old USR PS that’s are HUGE beasts with like. DIN connector that most youth have no idea what it is. Ok

Might I suggest a straight claw hammer, you’d be surprised how much more effective they are in the destructive phase.

You ever check coil inductance ? Or coil resistance Do they all avout have the same

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I've been looking for a used one to repair something...Before pandemo I used to see them everywhere, even at goodwill, now I can't find even 1.

the metal plates you call tin is that plated steel or something?

Where do you find who buys this variety kind of scrap metal?

You get better prices in Canada for scrap! They don't pay that kind of money in United States for scrap! At least not where I live by, Lol. So not worth my time to tear them apart by! I'd rather get drunk 😂! But I enjoy your videos by👍❤️

I save old ones for reuse later. But when it comes to scraping them.. i dont break em down. More money in processing other things.

Nice Job, $30 per hour is not bad at all. People are leaving money on the table.

Isn't there away to use a heat gun so the cord can be replaced rather than purchase a new adapter. I have a few adapters that need a new cord and I can't seem to find new adapters at any electronic store. They are over 12 v, more like 20v.

Machete or a sharp axe and a lump hammer is very quick for splitting transformers

You should sell the spools of wire to jewelry makers and crafters, as it has more value as a working material than it does as scrap.

do you melt the brass from the plugs

Someone else may have already said this, It's not bare bright also, because it's winding wire.....It's got an enamel insulating coating so the turns don't short out, one to the other.

I'm surprised you haven't gotten a go pro yet Tin Man.

Mantap boos

Can you please put a link for the security tools?

Head is the best part😂😂😂

Most of these are a switch mode supply these days, and don't contain any transformer to speak of (only a tiny little one). You can tell by the weight; they weigh almost nothing.

I use the claw side of hammer to crack these transformers open.When i scap i will oniy use the hammers with the straiter claw. The hammers with the curved claws doent work near as good.

I didn't realize all of that was in these. I won't be throwing out any more.

Do you have a regular full-time job or are you able to find enough scrap to scrap full-time?

I'd definitely take the time to recycle the plastic . Noticed you called it garbage .

That's number two copper because it's got varnish on it. Shiny Brite is pulled out of plastic and has nothing on it.

0:30 easy to open sometimes, most of the time they don't want consumers opening them at all and your method with the hammer worked pretty quick but if you're at all clumsy like me you'd probably hit your fingers eventually. maybe put them on the ground and use a bigger hammer?

Could you post the tool sets you utilized above the comments?

Is it better to melt copper down into bars?

I have a box of transformers sitting down the shed. I will scrap them not because the output voltage is wrong but because the plugs don't match anything anymore

Not anymore. Old ones are heavy and have a transformer with copper windings. New ones use buck/boost switching converters and it’s just a PCB with a few worthless components.

Hmm, perfect for melting down into projectiles...

Surely, a sharp knife could be used to slice off the rubber coating on the transformer laminations. (9:22 in video.)

Try the machete method to get the copper. Much faster.