Hello scrappers and planet lovers. This video will show you how to sort your taps and faucets that you find while scrapping. I will tell you how to identify the metals and separate them in order to help you maximize your profits.
Very informative, got right to the point. Scrapping will be more profitable for me in the future for watching this. Thanks for your time, effort and knowledge!
I find the best way to get those brass fittings off the stainless hose ends is to put it in a vise and crush it. I find crushing things with the vise is one of my best tricks for scrapping. Brass is soft and crushes easily when it comes to fittings. Thanks for the vids.
Very informative! I will say that stainless does have a few grades that are ever so slightly magnetic. Especially hardware from Taiwan. I figure if a neodymium magnet picks it up but with out much pull its low grade stainless. Else watch your fingers!!!
The plastic in fosets turns out you just need to determine the direction to turn it in and some just drop in and over time get calcified in to the fixture.
Suggest that you be careful using the term metal. Any metal and plastic can be chrome plated, even stainless, there are lots of metals, the ferrous metals are iron or steel which are magnetic, chrome is a plating not a solid metal,,please remember that you can be confusing using the term metal, as it applies to copper, brass and aluminium. Sorry to be picky, because I like your videos.
Thanks Tin Man Scrapper , I had asked about brass fixtures and shot gun hulls on another video & how to get small plastic & Iron / Tin , Steel parts out of these pieces , I guess burning the Sg hulls (w/o plastic ) is a good idea along with the Brass with plastic inside . I also need an angle grinder for those THICK pieces . GD & Thx Again .
Have you a video on how to remove the brass found on the inside of a faucet? I find many of them and with no power tools, lose at the yard when I get irony brass because the faucet, be it stainless or chrome is still attached. I scratch my head at hot to remove the brass without an angle gringer/rip saw etc.
@@TinManScrapper what!?! brass does not spark. but it is similar in weight to stainless. you are correct that aluminum does not spark but it is lighter than stainless steel. stainless steel does spark .
good video, very informative and exactly what i was looking for, got a new plumber in the neighborhood and i'm getting goodies every week, nice brass and copper, and needed some help with the chrome, zinc, and stainless steel. even found a real nice (brand new looking) vice grip in the dumpster, obviously a mistake. keep 'em coming, real helpful.
Most faucets have brass and zinc/die cast parts. Some stainless steel pieces. Always check screws. Most screws are stainless so they don’t rust. You can shake them off a magnet even though they have a little stick.
From your experience are faucets like those ever Zinc? I have collected what seems like stainless faucets, not magnetic, etc, but don't spark on the grinder and too heavy for Aluminum.
I have three poured bars of something that I got from my father-in-law after he died he never told me what it was and I still don’t know today. I’m gonna share it on one of my videos I just want somebody to be able to tell me what it is.
you ever see a faucet that is got the like nickel coating but when you scratch it is copper? seem to have one, when i scratch its def copper color, you think its copper or maybe red brass? idk, what do you think?