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I hate scrapping these along with electric motors. I’ve been scrapping them for years. I used to scrap them right when I got them. Now I wait until I get a dozen of them an I’ll spend an afternoon doing it. I feel like one day I no longer will. It’s just easier for me to get copper tubing and I still easily skin romex/lumex. All other wire goes in as insulated.. my hands start hurting after awhile now😂 even when I’m not scrapping.

My scrap yard will not take ballasts unfortunately. So I just throw them out. It’s not worth (to me anyways) taking them apart and dealing with that. Very informative video

Awesome video my friend!

I don’t like the word scrappers , 😂…… How about ( Prospectors)😂❤

get a small self contained ( has its own air supply)plasma cutter

The spark test is the way!

I usually can tell if something is stainless steel from the dark distinctive shiny color

If the magnet sticks to the stainless steel it should actually be carbon steel

Man your videos are an excellent source of scrapping info, Tinman. I'm glad you're on here!

🇨🇦You should have Canadian flag in your channel name to let people know you're talking about Canadian $. Usually I can't tell difference between Americans & Canadians.

Thanks, Tin Man! I don't like breaking down compressors (too much grinding, oily, messy, pain in the butt, etc), but I love watching the teardown process and seeing the $ tally up. Excellent work, keep it up.

SPEAK UP MAN!!!

I live in a high rise apartment. I went to throw out the garbage (Shute) and someone had jammed the door open with a bunch of electrical cords. Naturally I pulled them all out. I will need to wash them before I can process them. Don’t really want to know what’s on them 😂. A lot are probably aluminum. I looked up copper here and it’s not worth selling unless you have a ton or more 👍.

You Rock Tin Man 😎 Thanks .

I say good for you. But if you take the amount of time (labor cost), it takes you to just get 1 ounce of silver, it costs you far more than going to a coin shop and buying an ounce of pure silver.

Your gonna have them tweakers going crazy 😂😂😂

Scrapped out my home AC which stopped working after 34 years. It was built in 1988 but had an all aluminum radiator and an aluminum motor. Kind of a bummer it was all aluminum but at the same time it lasted 3 decades so I have nothing to complain about.

Just did about 30-35 of these. With some other copper I had, I cashed out $574 usd. Got half a dozen already starting to pile up again

Awesome video tinman. Does any of the metal from the compressors qualify as being prepared instead of tin?

Good video tin man thanks

Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱 👍👍👍

I cut mine all open and remove the copper. People think i am crazy taking the time to do it but as you mentioned you made an extra $45 in 40 minutes. I do it a little faster because i use a plasma cutter to open the casing. I tell people that doubt me if it was costing me money why does the yard have a guy in the back cutting the compressors open and removing the copper? they are paying him a good wage. then they argue with me and say they don't but i tell them which yard and tell them which building to look into. he might be using a fancy piece of equipment that cost thousands of dollars but they are still pulling them apart and paying a guy to do it. same building, they have another machine they run their aluminum/copper radiators thru that looks like it crushes or planes them down and they can pull the copper tubes right out of them. everyone thinks when they go on a pallet or like the compressors in the tubs out front they get loaded up on a truck. maybe in the smaller yards but this yard they get taken to these separate areas to get taken apart farther. People think i only making a dollar or 2 or maybe $5 the most cutting stuff up, even my brother thinks that but once you figure out a good system you can make a good hourly rate. Always pay attention at the yards. not just the scrap pile but what the employees are doing in the background and how they are doing it. . the yard is making good money and wouldn't have employees pulling certain items apart if they weren't making more than their wages back on the stuff.

Great video my friend I enjoyed this video I'd like to see u scrap 1 out

New scrapper here, I know it's an older video, but I'm hopeful! I recently acquired a small AC unit that i thought was drained of refrigerant but wasn't. I started cutting the copper line and it shot out. I got out the shop, but I had to go back in and grab my phone. I held my breath and quickly got a box fan in front of the door to vent it out, when it slowed down, I held my breath again and brought the unit outside and waited for the fumes to clear upz but now the refrigerant is liquified in a greasy like way all over my stuff. What should I do?? I know it's very bad to breath in, but I can't find anything about it getting on your skin and such.

I think you would get prepared steel price since this compressor casing is thicker than tin. Same with the inards that the copper came out if I know it's sheets compressed but together it's heavy steel. Well in Australia it is usually 3mm minimum not to sure

Thankyou Tinman for being an earth lover and keeping things out of landfill. I live in Australia and find that people do not remove refrigerant from fridges before throwing them curbside. Do you have the same problem where you live?

G day James Boy make more money than teaching! lol Ths

Isnt the sealed unit and the motor case heavy melt ? Not tin price

Markham metals in Ontario 40 cents a pound for compressors Now they are 35 cents And motors were over 50 no at 45 cents

Final breakdown: 1) sealed compressors 132lbs 12oz. X $0.12 = $ 21.24. 2) opened for copper motors 49lbs 4oz x $0.52 = $25.61 + tin shells 83lbs 8oz x .$0.12 =$10.06. SO $35.67. However used 7 grinding discs (minus $3.50). So PROFIT $32.17 3) removing the copper; 13 lbs 9 oz x $ 5.39 = $73.01 + tin from shell and motors 83.3 lbs + 36 lbs x $0.12 = $14.38. So $85.31. MINUS $3.50 discs = PROFIT $81.81

Oh man, i normally sell transformers and electric motors in a bucket together. Your telling me i can spend more time pulling motors apart.? 0.45c kg emotors 0.75c kg car battery 🤷 not all rubbish or time consuming 🎉🤘

Heres what i know from my years in smelting metals Fresh copper is the best to work with and gets the most value Oxide/green copper is inherently the same as the shiny copper as it all melts the same, and the oxide becomes copper metal, but scrap yards pay less because they can due to its color somehow making a difference to the metal Now tin/solder contaminated copper is a given for lower price as its contaminated and not pure but depending on the level of contamination it may not affect the metal at all but its generally the lowest prices

Your video helped but you ramble on way too much

I have about 80 pounds of bare bright wire and 20 pounds of oxidized 6 Guage do I need to separate them or will they do it at the scrap place?

Meanwhile... here... they are thinking of increasing jail time and fines for those yahoos "saving the planet" by dismantling the electrical grid, and pulling comm cables out of the ground, for the copper. More costs, and disruption... added onto the back of the average person... just so that some guy can score a case of beer, and some cigarettes.

Have you tried putting your silver connectors in Nitric yet?

Hey Tin Man, I have a ton of AV cables lurking in my basement. You think those are worth cutting the red/yellow/white ends off or leaving them as is?

You talk to much, and the camera angle is very poor

Ive seen this other guy use a machete to cut the center, now just how practical that is I don't know and if u ever have tried that ?

Great video nice break down on what to expect when cashing in and different types of brass i never knew it was red brass cool ✊😎🔥

Great video very informative keep up the good work

Great video Tin Man ✊😎🔥

Thanks for the video, very informative. I was wondering if it is worth it. As far as I can say for my area, we are still not getting the prices everyone else is. Our yards are just not wanting to give prime for scrap. Take care and I will see you on the next video.

how current is this video. I live outside of Chicago and only get $1.50 lb for clean brass.

Happy Canada Day Tin Man ✌️. 🐎

Those mosfets are silver plated over the copper

I wonder if I crossed over into Canada, could I scrap my brass and copper over there? You're getting a WAY better price even after the exchange rate. I get $2/lb for clean yellow. Only getting $3.30/lb for #2 copper..... Also, I recently opened over 30 sealed units and the only ones that were aluminum windings were the mini fridge motors. Had 3 and all 3 were aluminum. They were the only ones.

By weight the board themselves are like 80% copper after processing pretty sure scrap yard will not take it though

Great video unfortunately we don't get any ceiling fans is this part of the world