Massive Copper Pulled From Generator Stator

[@sherrydunnrealtorgetrdunn8337]

awesome. thank you

[@ProjectShopFl]

You're welcome! 😊

[@Robert-nj8io]

Great video all i can say is you work with what you have at the time. Good job

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks 👍

[@rockman531]

Hi Derek, Great video! Love to watch the copper pile up! Thumbs up! Be safe. Jim

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks Jim 👍

[@robertmann7277]

Working in the high pressure world of fast food delivery, I often use your videos to decompress ( especially when the callouses are healing )

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@Kxy13]

I would like a job like that too, cool job)

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thank you! 👊

[@greekgods3399]

love it

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thank you!

[@Atlantismonkey40]

I used a similar system. We put a touch sensor on the pull. Then repositioned the puller. Far less torque required to remove, rotating the stater.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the tip.

[@25vrd48]

Making your hydraulics faster will really be worth the effort . Great video Derek .

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks 👍

[@markrice3502]

great video derek i like watching you figureing out how to get that copper out too i learn things from watching you ,thanks for shareing

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks 👍

[@y.lelivelt2619]

I love the pulling machine ❤️.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks me too. lol

[@Charles-r2u]

You have some really good tools to do this job. Guessing hand built... Holy crap, Almost got the second pull with one try.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks, Yes they are home made.

[@tomginger9687]

Copper pointer for the professor!!!

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂😂

[@tracypage8516]

We love the nuggets big and small ha ha great video derek

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks! 👍👊

[@silverlicious2086]

Hi Derek. MASSIVE chunks of copper. I will be in touch.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks. 👍👊

[@cappaman2058]

I just wanted to say that this channel is a great channel for the content. I’m personally not a scrapper. I do a different profession, but I do like watching people take things apart.😊

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thank you!

[@fleshbag7754]

I think so too. The camera angles, editing, good mixture of different things, and overall just a pleasant atmosphere. Which is surprising for a mechanic / machine shop type place. But I can just tell, i could trust this man to babysit my kids. Good souls!

[@AdamW-tx]

It's my favorite part of the channel, too.

[@ProjectShopFl]

@@fleshbag7754 Thanks! 👊👍

[@ProjectShopFl]

@@AdamW-tx 👊👍

[@badeadrian]

I think Bigstack-D has to see what have you done... maybe he will learn something... He's using angle grinder to get the copper out from the motor... You do have really great tools there 👍

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thank you! 👊

[@jimmydepres]

Haha , children tools . Big stack is very better

[@hughbaker7597]

Use to work in a junkyard many many years ago for an old fella like you here in nova scotia Canada would love to spend a day in your with you in your shop

[@ProjectShopFl]

You calling me old? 😂😂😂 Just kidding thanks for watching.

[@hughbaker7597]

@ProjectShopFl no man iam old 57 now lol your brain work's the way his did

[@garrettmillard525]

You need to provide side support to the stator. The straighter those coils pull out, the faster it will come. Best to start at the top. Excellent work.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the tips!

[@tank6188]

Copper first.... safety last!!! Everyone can learn a thing or two watchin these videos

[@ProjectShopFl]

At Project Shop FL we take safety very serious!

[@fleshbag7754]

😂

[@smithenstein79]

Doing well with your stator set up. If you could somehow make an adapter that tore out the copper from 2 or 3 sides it would come out in 1 attempt I’m sure! The other thing that came to mind was what if you squashed the stator out of shape first? Push it on the top and the side just to loosen everything up.

[@ProjectShopFl]

I think it would be too much for the hydraulics to pull it all at once. It is pulling harder than it looks on camera.

[@smithenstein79]

Get up in there real deep like ! And loosen that shit up. 😂

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂😂

[@TimberTramp]

You need to rig up some sort of bonus clamp piece that you can quickly throw on (in addition to your hand clamp) for this last few pulls after everything is loosened. Thinking grabbing one side by hand and the bonus directly opposite side kinda setup. If you can reduce the trips back and forth cycling your hydraulics that will up your time. You can grab a bunch at once after stuff is loosened.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Once I get the proper hydraulic pump it will be way faster and not an issue.

[@daaam2160]

23:02 we call that "the birth canal" view

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂😂

[@peteoneill5799]

That penetrating fluid made ALL the difference

[@ProjectShopFl]

I will do a control on the next one.

[@bellowsforge9726]

Derek the dentist pulling out copper teeth… get that copper!

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks! 👍

[@FreelancerFreak]

I wish these kind of things when i have insomnia 😂

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@John-vf9py]

Maybe get a pallet puller or modify another puller as you have to some flat knurled jaws so you are not cutting off what your trying to pull. It would work to get those copper rods out

[@ProjectShopFl]

What I have is a modded pallet puller.

[@johnross9710]

Use paint thinner to soften the varnish you will be able to pull winding easier.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@bentleyalder5492]

You were saying that most of the time was eaten by waiting for the claw to return. It might be a fun engineering challenge to create a claw that pulls from 3 to 5 points all at once (like if an umbrella, a meat hook, and an octopus had a baby hahaha). I could see you adding a lip to the top and bottom jaws of the holding clamp to hold the steel as you pull the copper.

[@ProjectShopFl]

I like that idea but I would need a better hydraulic setup. Pulling the copper in the big stators is harder than it looks the hydraulics are working. lol

[@PastelPalace]

FYI, if you want some more umph on your pull setup, make it so you are extending the hydraulic cylinder rather than retracting, like you currently are. Hydraulic cylinders have more force in extension due to the pressure acting on more area on the side without the rod.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thank you I know you get more pushing than pulling. The setup is not finished that ram is gonna be used in both directions when finished.

[@Sven-OlovHansson]

Perfect very perfect Thank you

[@ProjectShopFl]

👍👍👍

[@DanPeterka-w9f]

Torch!!

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@biggiecheese5255]

Now that you have your mill working, you should make a custom little heatsink for your go pro so it stops overheating

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@christopherleubner6633]

A much easier way to scrap these is to burn the insulators and glue out. A stack several on top of pallets and light it up. Go about 4 pallets deep and stuff the inside of each with scrap wood. Then recover the next day. The copper comes out very easily with a few hammer blows. If you want to sell as number 1 then soak for a few days in diluted sulfuric acid saved from old car batteries. The carbon and other junk sinks, the coils are bright and shiny. Helps to aereate and agitate a little. Over time the acid turns deep blue and you can recover the copoer with electricity and regenerate the acid. ❤

[@ProjectShopFl]

I can't be burning pallets all the time at my shop. I'm looking for a no chemical and no burning method

[@dennishinkle5010]

If I tried to pick up 257lbs the hospital would be my next stop. Thank you for sharing.👍

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂 Thanks that made me laugh

[@trinito97]

Use a large torch for the glue sections

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@AdamW-tx]

COPPER !

[@ProjectShopFl]

👍👍👊💪💪💪

[@JustAnAverageBrad]

buy longer punches for the air hammer....modify them with a grinder as needed for different/new situations like those thin copper bars in the armature

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@grandpakevin3354]

I wonder if you sprayed silicone on them if they would pull out easier.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Possibly, I think the wd-40 did help but I will have to do a control next time

[@Prince1971]

I would say get some solvent to remove the glue, but the fumes could be a problem 😂

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thank's but I don't like the fumes.

[@lioneljohnpilcher204]

Fuck I wish I was there to help you. Thank you from New Zealand

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks I appreciate that.

[@willshady3438]

Cold stripping a stator like that is the most difficult way to do this. First of all , there is no need to split it in half like you did. Just cut off the crown on one side. Second, burn it out, use a tiger torch if u have to, don't melt the copper, just burn off the insulation. It all comes out easy after that.

[@ProjectShopFl]

I can't be burning and making toxic fumes all the time.

[@Kreacher1974]

Would it be possible to make a blade wide enough to split the big stators in one pass?

[@ProjectShopFl]

Yes, I'm gonna make one I have the steel for it already. It will be the biggest splitter ever!

[@Kreacher1974]

@@ProjectShopFl can't wait to see it. It will be bad ass, as is whatever you build.

[@nunyabuziness8421]

I admire your work ethic. How much money do u average weekly for all that hard work?

[@ProjectShopFl]

Sometime a lot sometimes nothing. lol

[@JaebertonSantos]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@scrapman502]

At 32.47 you're working on the 2nd rotor, With all that exposed copper, would it be easier to just locate the end and hand un-wind the copper?

[@ProjectShopFl]

I'm not trying to do anything by hand. lol When I'm done with the machine it will pull the copper from everything I just need to tweak the setup.

[@DanPeterka-w9f]

Heat the glue with a torch.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@briankaelin7728]

My guy, you need a better air hammer! Astro Pneumatics “Big Nasty” would be ideal for this kind of stuff. Takes .498 shank bits but it absolutely SLAPS and they’re reasonably priced!

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@StephenMarks-wo4uk]

Dude , you got to much nice

[@ProjectShopFl]

Ok

[@johndaley9188]

Instead of trying to pull the rods can you push with the air chisel? Use flat nose bit.

[@barryrankin587]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@ProjectShopFl]

I tried smacking to with a small blunt chisel but it just expanded the copper at the end and wedged it in more. They are glued in really well.

[@KennethNelson-v7z]

Would baking it in a fire first make it easier to get the windings out?

[@ProjectShopFl]

Yes, it will also make lots of toxic fumes.

[@robertmann7277]

After you have it mounted, would another shot of go juice help to get it out in one piece ¿

[@ProjectShopFl]

Possibly but when I finish the setup it won't be needed.

[@lioneljohnpilcher204]

How much was the psi, I heard it

[@ProjectShopFl]

3000 psi

[@WilliamBrockman-z2x]

Derek, what if you took a steel rod just smaller than those copper rods and drove them out?

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@amjmmint4786]

Might've missed on the yard. I had a bunch of steel that'd accumulated so I was doing a run, chopped up the frame of a treadmill to fit in the back to throw in with it. I didn't think much of it because I just needed to clear out the space in the garage but looking at the ticket now, I'm not sure this adds up, maybe you can clarify. I had told them it was all steel, no plastic, the basket of transformer gills was just another 10m with a hammer and chisel to get those winding barriers out. W/e, if it doesn't give them reason to cheapen the whole load it wasn't anything to me. Looking at my ticket then, I was kinda disappointed they gave me "sheet iron" for it, They had me back up to a normal steel pile bunch of random stuff, mixed metal stuff like fans and a discarded machinists toolbox (which I asked and they wouldn't let me rummage through). So looking at the ticket now it says I dropped 3160g at 7.5000 CW, when I run the math that comes out to just under 7lbs. I unloaded way more than 7lbs, just one of the baskets of transformer gills was 20, and I had 2 of those and a bunch of rods and the thick frame was heavy by itself. Now this was without weighing anything at home, I don't have a scale here, I'm running on muscle memory, but maybe I'm looking at this ticket wrong? Something seems off, it could be the machine was calibrated to much more weight and didn't register the difference very well in the smaller car? Either way, the point was to free up space, so It's not a big deal some cash in the gas tank, just wondering what you think call it a test run. *and the relief cuts between the rotor gills is a decent plan, you might be able to get away with skipping between them if you can free up 2 rods with 1 spacing.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Dang, sounds like they got you!

[@cuscrapping]

You might be able to pull those rods if you had a flat gripper on your pulling jaws. More like a pair of pliers.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion. That glue had them in there tight.

[@StephenMarks-wo4uk]

I've got a hack saw

[@ProjectShopFl]

Nice!

[@robertneff5500]

your thinking all wrong with the pointed blade on the press invert it make a U shaped one that cuts down the sides as id goes down by the time it gets to the bottom the top of the U shape is already cutting the top of the stator..

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@josephohara7407]

The trolley might not come off but your Rub Goldberg construction might collapse

[@ProjectShopFl]

Possibly

[@dustyflair]

isnt all that copper coated?

[@ProjectShopFl]

Yes so it sell as #2

[@ericcapucci9869]

after you do this for a while you will learn that if you get it started all the way around first it will come out much neater and much faster. fyi

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info

[@tangovalley528]

it would be easier if u take the wedges out of the slots

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@houdinix]

ill just give you a tip. insted of all that work, before you do anything, put a fire going outside in one oil drum and put the stator and rotor burning during de morning,. in the afternoon all the varnish will be only ash. thefore all the space that it ocupies will free the cooper. then just pull it of or cut it with a grinder. i do that all day. probably ill do around 2 or 3 of those a day easy. just saying...

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the tip but I can't burn stators every day and there is no need. By the time you burn 2 or 3 in a fire creating toxic fumes and cut with a grinder wasting blades and creating dust I can process many more and this set up is not finished.

[@roymantanona925]

Can u not melt the glue? Put some heat to it?

[@ProjectShopFl]

That takes time and energy, I want to use brute force. lol

[@burtmichaels2676]

How much do you get out of one stator? Seems like alot of work with little reward. You just said, "should have had it all in one pull with proper setup" Still seems like alot of work. But you are the recycler and im the viewer

[@ProjectShopFl]

How much you get depends on the size and style so it's hard to judge off just one. The setup I have is way faster than doing it by hand.

[@mylynne1953]

What could possibly go wrong??????

[@ProjectShopFl]

Everything!

[@tyrantlocator]

Just thinking about the electricity bill is causing me anxiety, and it's not even my bill

[@ProjectShopFl]

It's included in the rent.

[@markavargosr]

you can always start selling your used work clothes as rare items and put them uo for sale, you would be suprised

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂 Thanks for the suggestion

[@markmumby6682]

at 51 minutes could you not drill the copper out of the rotor and use a magnet to remove any steel. Thank you for some heavy hitting videos

[@ProjectShopFl]

Possibly! Thanks for the suggestion

[@alexanderbarrera9140]

IM RICH!!!!!! IM RICHH!!!!

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂

[@TimberTramp]

100t press and your messing with a grinder…,think bigger, young jedi

[@ProjectShopFl]

I split them now with the press.

[@ericcapucci9869]

i think the word you are looking for is janky

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@ScottySwans]

The fact that Premiere exports that stupid Media Offline image instead of just black, is so dumb 🤦‍♂️

[@ProjectShopFl]

It was a clip that I've had in other videos I'm not sure what happened.

[@ScottySwans]

@@ProjectShopFl part of the ongoing love/hate relationship with adobe 😂

[@scrapmanindustries]

Too slow. The Pakistani’s coulda had that done in 1/4 the time with just a hammer chisel. Just kidding. I’m curious to see if my new design is gonna withstand them big ones.

[@ProjectShopFl]

And wearing sandals. 😂😂😂

[@StephenMarks-wo4uk]

Not worth it , you put too much in

[@ProjectShopFl]

Ok thanks

[@GeorgeRichardson-cv4xz]

You could use 2OOO lb winch real cheap plenty strong.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks I plan on making it electric.

[@jimmydepres]

Your hedrolice system is very simpel , it had no power , your jack play to legt , right , down and uper side , your system need to very help ing , many diffrent working and person support . This machine is good to kies plays .

[@ProjectShopFl]

Ok

[@Jon-hz8mq]

That would be fucking hilarious if you bent that hook on copper more than likely the copper would rip before that hook bent

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂 I hope it don't bend.

[@lioneljohnpilcher204]

How much was the psi, I heard it

[@ProjectShopFl]

It gets up to 3000 pis if you are referring to the hydraulic pressure. I stop pulling if it get more than that so I don't blow seals in the ram