Cutting open a Scrap AC Compressor for the Copper the Orange Gold

[@ScrapMetalToCash]

It is great now when people around my area calls me to pick up the scrap they have washers freezers and så i got a good stack building up now of copper aluminium and high quality steel to sell. Love to see others do same things, we do always learning from others and we also spread oure knowledge to more people 👍

[@Okiescrapper]

my add was slow last summer, but I was getting calls from cards that I gave out 2 years ago, and yes, sharing our knowledge is why I put this channel up to help other scrappers, and the new guys just getting into scrapping, I have learned a lot from other scrappers on here

[@SilverScorpion]

Great tear down video and info bro. Thanks for sharing

[@Okiescrapper]

Glad you enjoyed it, no silver, just orange gold, take care and stay warm

[@cuscrapping]

I got $3.31/lb Friday on #2. Prices are going UP!! 👍

[@joearnett9884]

What State are you in ? I'm from Michigan

[@cuscrapping]

@@joearnett9884 I'm from Central Illinois.

[@joearnett9884]

Ok not too far from me awesome that the price of #2 is going up hope everything is going up and stay up I need to make some money have a good one

[@Okiescrapper]

I heard copper was going up, haven't checked out any prices, I need to get the trailer loaded or take in a few buckets of copper, so I can fill some propane bottles

[@raboo3211]

I sure like the technique's you have. It makes it easier to get to the good stuff. I'm still learning from your videos . Thanks Okie! 👍👊✌️😎

[@Okiescrapper]

there are many ways to get the job done, but sometimes you are limited by the tools that you have,

[@raboo3211]

@@Okiescrapper Yes it is. I worked construction for fifty years. I have aquired a lot of tools lol. 👍😊

[@Dave-ty2qp]

Great video Okie. The tool you use for de-stringing the coil is a cottor pin extractor. Good hard steel that works for a lots of things, and is bullet proof. LOL

[@Okiescrapper]

it's an air chisel bit, I cut the V in it.

[@Dave-ty2qp]

@@Okiescrapper At about 16:37 in the video. the tool you use for extracting the string.

[@duanekennard3298]

Great video my friend...and as always....I enjoyed stopping by.

[@Okiescrapper]

Thank you

[@johnnydavenport2015]

I use my plasma cutter to get to the copper stator, works great and quick.

[@Okiescrapper]

I have used a cutting torch, and a plasma cutter, they both do a good job, but most scrappers don't have a lot of tools, so I keep it simple at times for the new scrappers out there. Thanks for stopping by

[@louisrichards3702]

the air hammer does work good when the stator is just removed, and then you remove copper ..now if the bare stator has been sitting outside for a month or two, its going to be hard to get it out that way,so i leave both ends on the stator ,i dont cut either end off, leave them on, i dont like the vibration of the air hammer either, so i use a axe head with a long thin edge,and a 5 pound sledge hammer, and split stator in two,right in the center between the plates,takes about 20 hits,,then clamp one of the stator pieces in a vise and copper pry's right out,no electricity needed , no wear and tear on power tools..usually when you take a compressor apart the copper comes out easy like that sometimes it dont..

[@Okiescrapper]

sounds like you have a good process for doing them, as I say there is about as many ways to scrap as there are scrappers, I was thinking of a way to split them the other day. I have a splitting wedge that is welded to a piece of square tubing, I would have to weld a piece of flat steel on about 6 inches wide to split the stator

[@PhilipRomeo69]

Nice okie I enjoy your channel thank you I have learned alot from you

[@Okiescrapper]

glad I could help, always learning

[@josephcormier5974]

Very nice I have about ten that I need to do plus about one hundred motors also outstanding video great content thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother

[@Okiescrapper]

My pleasure Joseph, thank you for for stopping by, see you in the next one

[@JasonImlay]

I would like to know what kind of deal you made with your hvac guy? I have been wanting to get a consistent supply of electric motors and compressors, but I don't know where to begin. Thank you for the video!

[@Okiescrapper]

ask them where they take there motors and compressors to, and ask to buy them at what the yard they use would pay, and tell them you can pick up how ever often they need, and they can save time and fuel not having to take them in themselves

[@scrappingonthefly77]

Enjoy the videos! Knowledge is the one thing we can share and learn at same time!!!

[@Okiescrapper]

Absolutely! thanks for watching

[@markmiller8971]

Like the air hammer idea, better than a hammer and punch.

[@Okiescrapper]

it works for me, I used to pry them out all the time, this is much faster and easy

[@alexbrashear7406]

Sweet! Thanks man

[@Okiescrapper]

you are welcome and thanks for stopping by

[@billjunking_fool5549]

Nice video you're getting it done👍

[@Okiescrapper]

Thanks Bill. good to see you are still at it, I need to stop by and see how pourville 2 is coming along

[@waltwood4113]

Love the air hammer idea, what size compressor do you use? I have a 60 gallon 2 hp motor compressor so it runs out umph pretty quick. I save all the large sealed units I have atleast 7 5 gallon buckets full I need to process inside and 2 55 gallon drums and 6x6 wood bin mounded full I need to process. 2 yrs of units they just keep coming in and no time to do. The small ones I just throw in a Gaylord box and haul it to yard as sealed units #happyscrapping

[@Okiescrapper]

I am running a 27 gallon Husky air compressor, I think it has a rating of 5 scfm at 90 psi I picked up a 60 gallon that needs a motor and it says 10 scfm @90 psi. on the tank, I need to see what a motor will run me

[@andy349ber3]

What do you do with oil after😊

[@Okiescrapper]

use it in my waste oil burner and melt aluminum with it

[@mattyal9347]

When the inlet and outlet copper tubes are smaller than 1/4" the windings will be aluminium

[@Okiescrapper]

ok that is good to know

[@cathykaiser6633]

👍

[@ninefingermining8694]

Cool but close to $12 the 2 cutting discs are $3.50 each & your time which it takes roughly 30min to scrap one of them. I used to scrap but stopped way more work then profit

[@Okiescrapper]

where are you getting 2 cutting disks? and the price is way off, I used maybe half of a disk cutting it open and changed disks to cut the wire but I still have both disks that I used very little ware, I will use the smaller one to do more cutting on something else, and I get 50 disks for $27.00 that is just over fifty cents per disk, so as you said $12 for 30 min work is $24.00 an hour, and the shell of the compressor is short iron, that alone will pay for the disk used. Thanks for stopping by

[@ninefingermining8694]

@@Okiescrapper I live in interior Alaska

[@TIMUR-ASKET]

💰💰💰👍👍👍👍

[@SunRabbit]

Oh, I hate these. I've only done one and it was so messy I decided to leave them wherever I find them. I got more than enough TVs and weed whackers to cannibalise here in Germany. I'd say that on a per-weight basis the best stuff to take for Copper are electric weed whackers, TVs, the old monitors, and vacuum cleaners (provided that someone else didn't cut the cord). I recently found an old telephone switching station thrown out and was shocked at how much Copper it had in the 48 relays inside.

[@Okiescrapper]

yeah, the oil can be messy, that is why I try to drain them and have them over something to catch the oil when I cut them open, the nice thing about these is that it is all sellable, tv's monitors and such have a lot of trash, It would be nice if we could recycle all plastic.

[@THELockerGRIAL]

Sawzall

[@michaelwillcutt2619]

And I would of already been done

[@MissMaggie246]

Nice video…thanks for sharing! You sound out of breath. Do you have a breathing problem? Maybe an inhaler would help? Take Care

[@Okiescrapper]

the way the mic picks up my breathing you would think that I have a breathing problem, but they have run every test they could think of and then ran tests on my heart, and in the end they told me may be if you lost some weight you would breath normal.

[@tulsahscrappah250]

those sawsall teeth look a little to fine,,,,,,, like you said wore out,,

[@Okiescrapper]

I try to get my moneys worth out of them

[@michaelmaluchnik2940]

Why didn't you use the plasma cutter

[@Okiescrapper]

sometimes I gear the videos toward the new scrappers. and most of them don't have plasma cutters, some don't have angle grinders, but an angle grinder is cheaper to buy for them. and will most likely get used more.