Upgrade Copper Quick & Easy For More Cash 

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They are ripping people off for sure.

You are exactly correct! Same thing here

If you are efficient and have a good amount I think its worth it. Thanks for watching and all the comments.👊👍

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My local scrap yard take tarnished copper as #1 but it can't have any solder or metal screws on it

@@codyswilley literally same here

if your yard doesn't take this as #1 you're getting ripped off.

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@@ProjectShopFl you should get a Devil Forge or Castmaster 5kg furnace and start a melting channel. You could run the furnace as you scrap for these videos. It takes about 30-45 mins to melt the copper. Have a few bar molds for quick clean pouring and you have double your RU-vid income with basically the same work. Use the bars as giveaway prizes to your subs alternating the giveaways between your two channels to send subs from one channel to another or sell them on ebay. Just preheat your molds before pouring them to avoid stem explosions and put cardboard between the firebrick and crucible to keep them from sticking together. BigStackD has videos if your intrested. The whole setup would probably be around $700. The furnace comes with everything to get started except the molds but you will want a decent set of pouring tongs. The ones people make themselves are better than the store bought ones. Videos are available on youtube.

Put it in a bucked with dawn dish soap.

Thats awesome and a great idea, thanks for sharing.

Clean copper pipe is #1 copper it will never be bare bright. If it has solder on it it's #2. That guy is ripping you off.

@@ProjectShopFl thank you. What about stripped copper wire? I had some nice donuts of stripped wire. The wire was about the diameter or your little finger... about 2awg....decent stuff anyway, and it was solid not stranded.... he gave me #1 copper price.....should it have been bare bright grade?

I think some yards are BS'ing people. I do think there is a point where it could be considered #2. The ac coil copper that I scraped the Aluminum off I would even question if it was #1. lol

It’s the same here in Australia, corroded, painted, solder, lag (insulation) all number 2

Thanks for the suggestion

I want to make sure I get this right. Fill a bucket with water, submerge copper and add citric acid will bring tarnished copper back to bright?

@@okkrom this is done in a cement mixer not a bucket. #1 copper is 99 % pure. Free of paint, adhesives, weld or soldier joints, oils and scale. Just another tip I cut out the electric heat element twist it up and throw in to help clean off heavy deposits.

@@paulb5177 interesting, thanks.

Same here in OZ mate, Number one just for shiny copper, all the rest is number two.

Try and rinse it in a bucket of dish soap. Some one in the comments said they use a cement mixer and soap. lol

Sounds like a scam. lol

@@ProjectShopFl ha ha not going that far with washing it! Copper got murdered on the LME yet again. Watch out what your buying these days you could have a huge loss in a mater of a days the way the commodities are heading down!

@@joecoelho7030 Thats why I don't sit on copper! lol

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Thats awesome, I wish I has that kind of cutter.

Nice Pipe Cutting Tip. Cutting on an angle to recover more # 1 Copper Pipe. I've been foolishly cutting straight across.

Great thing about the pipe it gives leverage and weight.

Thanks, every little bit counts.

@@ProjectShopFl هل هذه الطريقة تزيد وزن النحاس ارجو الرد السريع

That sucks!

I would be making sure that is was #2 copper when they sell it.

Wow, sounds like a nice score.

Just got 2 water pumps for it, Got to finish one major project then will be starting the build.

@@ProjectShopFl excellent!!! Love the content!!!

Thanks for the suggestion

Thanks for the info

wow, I never leave copper behind. lol

You what … kids face from meet the millers

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It will never be bare bright copper. #1 clean & #2 with solder

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Thanks for the info

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In this video I did nit have BB copper just #1 & #2 copper

Thanks for sharing.

That sucks, someone suggested a cement mixer and dish soap. lol

Thank you same to you.

Thanks for the suggestion

Its #1 as long as it does not have any soldering on it

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I through it in the old sheet. lol

Thats why I work on my own cars and sell to an exporter. lol

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Wow, sounds like they are ripping people off.

My yard too, anything dirty.

@@ProjectShopFl anything that has corrosion is #2. Basically has to be new off the spool to be #1

Thats an interesting idea, but how much gas and time would have to be considered, Might be more work than its worth.

It wouldn't make enough to pay for the gas in the torch, never .ind the labor!

I don't have to melt the copper I already get #1 copper for any copper pipe with no solder

I guess I should reframe my question…. If I was to melt the copper because of said issues people have brought up. Would that make it #1 copper.

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Klein tools. This one is rated for 350 mcm

When I buy it I try and sell it as fast as possible so I know I am gonna have a certain for sure profit. Then take the money and use it. Don't make sense to gamble and sit on it.

@@ProjectShopFl This is best advice. If you do not sell your material in regular batches, you are simply a commodity stock trader. If you plan on sitting on material, especially material you pay for, (if its free do whatever lol), you should sell on a short schedule, otherwise, you are better to invest your money in commodity stocks because that is basically what you are doing.

At my yard it goes Bare bright Bright, #1 copper, #2 copper

There is a #1 and a #1 bright. The bright brings more money.

@@slimpickins09er87 Ok, thanks for the clarification

#1 bright & shiny is always copper wire, #1 copper is copper pipe with no solder

I think it would depend on the yard and how much paint. A lot of thick paint and I can see them saying it's #2.

Nice one thank u

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Not true at least at all the yards I've sold to. As long as it does not have any soldering on it Its #1 copper all day. Sounds shady they are probably separating it them selves.

That ticks me off I guess I will drive the extra miles to the big yard

@@davepitts1340 Change yards they are screwing you.

That’s straight BS, all AC copper is C12200 alloy copper, they don’t use anything else

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I would just take it to a yard that would accept it as #1 unless their number 2 price is higher than other yards number 1 price

They have only done it once but what I had , had a lot of the oil on it and in it. I bring about 100 pounds of copper a week so it adds up. What’s the prices at your yard currently. No1 2.50 No2 2.30. Last week was 2.90, 2.70 can’t believe how much it has dropped in the last 3 months

Most AC scrap has had oil going through it. I always put it in #2 there's one yard in my area that will take it as number 1. I guess the oil makes it a touch more difficult to recover or scrap yards are cheap.

@@codiwonkanobi9788 No I guarantee you they just throw it in the number one they claim that their buyers give them a hard time for the stuff that has oil on it but I guess it just depends on who’s at the scale that day the owner usually is the one that gives me a hard time but he’s hardly ever at the scale is usually a younger guy that just takes the stuff is number one as long as the solders cut off

Scrap yards are cheep. lol

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I have been selling it like that for years.

I've been selling that as #1 for 10 years. lol

@@ProjectShopFl I certainly understand that the label doesn't always reflect things universally. perhaps one is a fair price for the quality and quantity you have. As far as dealing with the mills and the people that broker it for me. they would have an issue with some of the "1". But keep on with that seems like a good deal and we all have our own ways of doing things.

Englis please. Thanks for watching.

By cutting off all the solder

Thanks for the info

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Dropped $1 per Lb since I was there last. lol

Thanks for the info

wow, that sucks

@@ProjectShopFl I think you got a lucky deal where you're at! From the comments, it seems like this is pretty much the way it is in most places.

#2

Thanks, we will see when I sell it.

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