Scrap Marathon, CRT TV's Chasing Copper

Well, Scrapping CRT TV's for copper is fun but it's not going to last for long.
Thought i'd do a retro scrap and reminisce on the old days when we took free copper for granted out of these TV's.
Copper's use is moving towards higher end electronics like vehicles, it will be harder to get scrap copper so easily which makes stacking copper so much more appealing.
Keep scrapping & Have fun!
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[@Ocelot-ng2jb]

The chicken is planning an escape, it is quietly collecting items for digging and tunnel supports.

[@jackwilkinson2343]

Escapists reference?

[@Ocelot-ng2jb]

@@jackwilkinson2343 Yeh and the missing screw comment

[@KPaul7]

This is an old video but still valuable. I got my first tv like these. Aluminum, aluminum, and aluminum. I did get the cord, one coil, and a small transform. 2004 Sharp Thanks for the video.

[@kenjett2434]

My scrap yard just dont pay nothing for transformers. I'm disabled so i dont put value on my time so i breakdown all transformers to get best value. I got my first flat screen plasma recently and i wish i could get more it was one of my best value scraps i ever had better than best computer. It was a 72 inch toshiba though im sure that had something to do with it. I really enjoy your channel Ben entertaining and informative. Wishing you continued success and happy scrapping.

[@southaussiegarbo2054]

Mine similar they pay little for transformers

[@tysonhenry37]

Yes you did idiot!. I'm kinda sure your 72 in tv had jack fucking shit worth jack fucking shit. vs. a 27in. CRT t.v. you stupid fuck. Fuck off and please don't wear protection 🙃 coppah is everywhere dip shit lol as long as it looks like it 😆

[@RustyNail5856]

That was a great video. and your chicken was trying to help you .

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Garage cleanup marathon!

[@gogos869]

The chicken loves you, you dork! They have feelings too!

[@victorhavrylyuk]

Thank you for the marathon.

[@tonyjensen8847]

I love your video I scrap in perth your video help me a lot with scrapping pc for gold platium and silver thanks ben

[@ewastegold6619]

I picked up 10,000 Sparklers Street Scramming on the morning of July 5th! I will be making them available to some KZbin Channel to do a video.

[@pietersleght8235]

i love picking up TV's and broke 1 big toe when i dropped one in January....that has not stopped me..i got all of my info from you Ben....thanks Teacher. :))

[@Solafox]

When scrapping wear steel toe boots

[@pietersleght8235]

@@Solafox i was on the way home from the store and saw a TV and decided to pick it up then...not officially scraping.

[@Thatgaycoincollector]

For some reason I love to scrap tube TVs

[@Dori4got10]

I did a lot of scrapping out old TVs and old moniters and that is what I did to make them safer

[@joselbazcom4221]

eWaste Ben, you should name each of the Poopies as you call your chickens. How about: PC, Cord Cutter, Scrapper, Copper, Gold Chip, Silver Wings, and Iron Pick. 🐔🐥

[@kevinyoung5119]

Hi Ben, have you ever thought of using an arm like that of an anglepoise lamp to hold your camera? Fixed to roof of your workstation it would save having to keep walking around the tripod and make it easier to use the wheelbarrow when it's full.

[@testarossa7993]

These are getting rare and worth restoring

[@wastescrapper7692]

Great job Ben brings back memories of doing this myself, love scrapping CRT’s when I get them, rare now. Cheers

[@gogos869]

The aluminum wire can be sold or used for artistic wire crafting. It is a beautiful fuchsia color; very soft and pliable.

[@douglaswatters7303]

I've found a couple sony xbr tv's that I think were 40 or 42 inch back in the day. So big I couldn't lift them and I'm a strong guy. I had to roll them into my trailer and the things were almost four feet across with the plastic still on them. Well over 300 pounds each. Usually when I'm done scrapping a crt I put the plastic and glass in a rubbish bin but the trinton has a big steel frame in the tube so I crack the glass up and remove the steel. On regular tv's I remove the steel band that goes around the edge. These sonys had glass over a inch thick on the front. Massive deguase coils and some decent speakers for a crt tv.

[@shaneyork300]

I love the tv's that I've never heard of, because weird enough those have more gold crystal oscillators than any other name brand variety, I've seen!! I don't know why.... but I do like coming across the odd brands! They almost always have less copper though! I can get plenty of copper off the Sony brands!! Had to stop while watching to add this comment! Back to watching the rest of the vid!! 👍👍

[@tysonhenry37]

I'm not watching this video to protect you or to tell you what to do. I'm here to learn. Thank you 👍

[@seberous]

What you said about the safety with those things is all experience based. I take precautions to discharge a crt but if your way works crack on with it. Experience is the most valuable tool. Another thing to mention is for anyone who is gonna go on about safety, notice how Ben is careful to use one hand when cutting the major cords. Doing this, with insulated snips means the power is not going to pass through your body from one hand to the other across the heart. If there's a lot of power it may short through you to ground but that would need a LOT of power. Crts that have been left are safe so long as you don't arse around with then and take the piss. Just be sensible. Good work Ben 👍

[@eWasteBen]

Thanks for a good post

[@tonyjensen8847]

Great video waiting for this video

[@bertoid]

You should keep those flyback transformers intact, wires and all - they are popular with high voltage enthusiasts. And as they become more scarce, they could become highly sought after in the future. Especially from the bigger TVs.

[@judybeckner5623]

Thanks Ben

[@gargalash9191]

sony crt's with the metal cage around the tube are always amazing! the degaussing cable is huge lots of copper. always a treat to find one!

[@Thatgaycoincollector]

I just got one and left the degaussing cable on 🤦‍♀️

[@DBODIN2]

haha, always nice when you have an assistant to help you scrap

[@franckaleksander6435]

great video

[@jezzermeii]

I could sense your irritation when you couldn't get the yolk off that TV. Even though the copper it contained may not be worth a lot, it's frustrating to leave things unfinished, haha. It's almost like when people can't end an argument, haha. All the best from the UK mate. :) Thanks for providing this evening's entertainment. :)

[@markrhodes7065]

I used to scrap out the old TVs as well, so this has been an enjoyable trip down memory lane for me.

[@MD4564]

Great scrapping videos ben :) And your chickens are talking & learning :)

[@gortnewton4765]

The high voltage electrical charge bleeds off fairly quickly. After a couple of hours it is gone. Then no danger. That JVC TV at 42:18 was the best TV for accurate picture ever made. I sold hundreds of those, never had to fix one and the technology was way in front of Sony, National/Panasonic, Sharp, Sanyo and many others. It had a special type of precision-wound yoke that gave an unusually accurate image (high level of registration accuracy for each of the R, G, B, guns on the screen). It also used a small number of semiconductors and ICs and was very efficient electronically. Collectables now.

[@PoliceChaplainMisty]

Another great learning Video . and Your chicken was just up there trying to help you.. And yes getting more face time with you.Stay safe in all you do

[@donnierobertson3088]

Nice job

[@toomaskotkas4467]

That chicken the scrapper is hilarious!

[@shaneyork300]

I think it ate one or two of his screws!! I'll have to go back and look. Too funny!!

[@michaelhader572]

All of those cones usually come off easy when they're stuck like that grab two hands around it hold on tight and turn they'll pop free as long as you took the rings off and by the way those are stainless if you're strapping them you'll need a whole lot for a pound though LOL keep up the good videos

[@gortnewton4765]

At 11:37 that tinned copper braid makes nice desoldering braid which is expensive. Just sell it as desoldering braid and all someone has to do is dip it in soldering flux to make it into quality desoldering braid.

[@shaneyork300]

I've never heard of that. Thanks for the info! I've hoarded all of my braided CRT wires, might come in handy some day!! Have a GREAT Day!!!

[@jonathanreynolds7886]

Yup, that's exactly what I save them for. Never bought an inch of production desoldering braid.

[@markthomas625]

Yeah, cheers for that info.

[@gortnewton4765]

@@jonathanreynolds7886 Make your own flux too, that's easy.

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Hey Ben.. the Akai TV you scrapped would have been well worth selling rather than scrapping! It has a SCART connection, visible at 32:15 and the retro gaming guys go nuts for these CRT TVs!

[@Reloadeez]

The crt days of easy money are almost gone. Years ago I got 1000 of the sony trinitrons from a NCAA football stadium when they converted to lcd for free. The college loaded them in 26ft U-hauls for me. After breaking them down to the yoke/degaussing copper, and electronic boards I got around $10,500 at the scrap yard. After paying U-Haul fees, construction dumpster rental for the waste, and hourly helpers for breakdown I made about $6,000 on them. Trinitrons are the best crt to scrap, a lot of other brands use aluminum degaussing wire and small boards aren't worth much.

[@tonyjensen8847]

Chicken on bench funny

[@raymondcote6669]

What about a video showing breaking down yokes for the copper?

[@shoppy00]

What the chicken is trying to say is "bring stuff with more bugs and spiders which i can eat!"

[@Dori4got10]

After you remove the copper off the top , pinch the top until it hisses then it is afer to move around without it exploding if it gets pumped

[@billysmith6131]

Yea, nice ta see ya, doing your hobby side of your job

[@Dori4got10]

You can pinct the top of the picture tube with plyers to let air into the tube, wich will make it safer to handle sfter , just pinch enough to just lrt the air in.

[@dr.a006]

I’ve found there is almost always a crystal oscillator inside the metal box where the antenna cable attaches. Just peel off the cover plates easily.

[@shaneyork300]

At the 37 minute mark you had a yoke that didn't want to come off I did one of those about 2 months ago and the only way I was able to get it off was to carefully tap a hammer on the end of flathead screwdriver under the yoke. Then after about 10 to 15 hits it loosened! I was able to get it off without the bulb breaking or cracking!!

[@donsparrow1782]

Great video Ben, bwak bwak

[@aga5897]

Great scrapping !

[@999DusanGoldrecovery]

Great video like always mate,keep it up god job.

[@shannonknopp5021]

I like to watch your videos as well Dusan

[@eagleeyes5638]

Greetings Ben. What an amazing wealth of knowledge u have. Luv the way u pass it forward. Love all ur video's. PLEASE PLEASE stop making them. PLEASE b CAREFUL in this humid weather drink plenty of water 💧💧💧💧🧢🧢💪💪❤. B safe, healthy & blessed

[@scrappingtogether908]

It's helping u picking all to good stuff out

[@RafalScrapper]

ha ha chicks hanging out cool and funny

[@joselbazcom4221]

Thanks for the great videos with lots to learn.

[@michaelbrumfitt]

👍chicken doing quality control 👍

[@tomnugent1344]

Hello Ben, if you really are worried, take a wire and put a banana clip on one end, clip it to a ground and then take the other end and touch the Tube & connectors you clipped first and this will ensure you have no voltage on those capacitors. I am not sure what the time it will take to discharge them but if you just unplugged it, then I would ground those leads to the capacitors.

[@danielluma2948]

I like your T SHIRT AND THANKS FOR SHARING

[@chuckp_again_and_again]

I think it's a quote by David Icke: "IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO FUCK OFF" 😂 😂

[@bandixd535]

When TV was opened I saw a bug run out chuuuck got it instantly :)

[@fredpimpstone7024]

Which tv

[@4lifejeph]

Love the chicken! Especially when it pecked the TV lol

[@shaneyork300]

THAT WAS GREAT!! I Loved every bit of this one!!! Who doesn't like a marathon vid with Ewaste Ben!! It took me two days, but savored every minute!! QUESTION! So with the new laws, does that mean next year you won't find "as much" electronics curbside??? We have a similar law in the U.S. but it's been 8 years and people are still putting CRT'S to the curb here!! Good for me, bad for the environment!! The law makers thought they were passing a law to keep CRT'S out of the landfills. Since they charge $40 per t.v. here alot of people are pitching them over the bridge into the rivers and just going out in the county and dumping them on the side of the road as well as alot of other bad places!! NOT COOL!!!!

[@eWasteBen]

the new law here is no e-waste in landfill at all, so that means landfill need to separate it. they have all created a transfer station on site so e-waste will be diverted to a recycler.

[@harryverboom4032]

Haha chickens on tv i have the same with my cat always watching how i scrap out computers on my workbench good video ben oldskool thanks

[@shaneyork300]

LOVE that VCR!! Would've been working on that for awhile before I'd think to pull it out the front!!

[@mauriliozamora6627]

Great video Ben, thank you !

[@maryannrussell7255]

An other way to take the charge out is to hook just the ground wire to a plug. Attach the bare wire to a screw driver, flathead. Wiggle flat head under the rubber with the red cord pop it of, there is a clip that goes in the tube. Then you can cut the wire no problem. You have discharged it back to the ground

[@Alrik.]

I was looking forward to this, nice job!!

[@RoeMantic]

Every bit counts, I picked up 4 crts this week!

[@matme9962]

all those tubes noble metals

[@Venge94]

Another precaution you can take from shocks is to not touch the underside of the board where the capacitors terminals end, ive had shocks through completely disconnected boards like that before.

[@bigcountryscrapper6885]

Gotta love that copper im also trying to build up my hoard in copper i think ill start grabing the crt tvs i find ...thanks for the great video and info keep em coming

[@sharkinvestments4892]

The county transfer station now treats the CRT TV's as trash. Sure hope there aren't many hiding. I do scrap what I find and always depop the IC's and the copper coils.

[@davegdm954]

I scrapped a large crt a client dropped of to me and of course just my luck the degaussing cable was aluminum. I took it to my scrap yard and the gave me shop wire grade for it (equivalent to #2 insulated) I didnt complain

[@joan7823]

Hi all, You make it look so easy..

[@tonyjensen8847]

I scrap tv all the time never been shock at all

[@tonyjensen8847]

I'm only 13 give me a break

[@OriginalNethead]

Love the chook!

[@davidranew4796]

Great Video Ben keep up the good work.

[@jasonsmith3573]

If you want to take the guess work out of whether a charge is still present or not just do a simple discharge with a screwdriver and bridge the two legs on the mains filter cap in the power supply and use two screwdrivers to discharge the LOPT by pushing one under the ultor cap at the top of the picture tube while placing the other under the earth braid around the tube before joining them together so they make contact. Any charge present will result in a spark. Obviously both times keep hands on the insulated screwdriver handles unless of course you feel you need a wake up jolt.

[@jasonsmith3573]

notice how this clown can't handle being told something that he really should know but is too stupid too? LOL too funny. He can't handle criticism either due to his insecurity and wanting to be the authority on this loser subject. No wonder he has to fudge the attendance figures at his dead forum to pretend there is plenty going there when there is less than 1/2 a doz and thay aren't worth bothering with either. What a deadshit with a dead deadshit forum.

[@richardburgess5215]

Nice shirt Ben. 😁

[@aga5897]

The only power that can give you a jolt is in the CRT (26kV+) which acts like a big capacitor, and the one or two capacitors around the PSU section of the board (450V) where the power plug comes in. Nothing else on a TV board ever had enough voltage to even notice. You could short the tube HT cap to ground, but a week lying with no power and it'd definitely all have buggered off due to the internal resistances.

[@Wetballs]

Not the safest but you can always get a flat head and touch the 2 solder joints of the capacitors. 450 volts usually won't do much to you considering it's at a low amperage usually no more then a combined total of 30 to 50 watts.

[@aga5897]

@@Wetballs Pretty much what every TV repair man has done for decades. Also the tube has a graphite coating (which is why it doesn't look like glass, also why those tinned copper braided earthing wires work, so you can cross 2 screwdrivers, touch one to the tube and shove the other under the rubber cap to where the HT lead hits the tube.

[@TheHorodateur]

Dr. eWate Ben haz a helping hand.

[@faruksahinpasic6103]

You have the helper there, lol

[@scrapperpun5553]

That RCA has a bonded yoke. It's epoxied to the CRT.

[@richardburgess5215]

We all need to get a deep screw now and then 😇

[@lynfreeman2383]

Chook is hoping you will unearth some more bugs for it. Well done Ben

[@gtols228]

You are picking a America'n accent. While I'm starting to sound like I'm Australian mate, love when u say copper in us or the hardest one aluminium lmao peace brother from Michigan

[@bajahipb5846]

I hope you realize that you have created a monster. MORE CHICKEN VIDEO! MORE CHICKEN VIDEO!

[@FredBloggs919]

Reckon your pet chicken is full of electronic parts that it’s eaten mate … Chicken and chips! :)

[@JacksawWorld]

Im scrappinf my. Crt tv now

[@davidlonergan3420]

Chooks are very social, use to have one that would sit on my lap

[@robharp6973]

As chicken picks out those stray mlcc"s. Might lay palladium eggs for you some day. Always time well spent watching your videos.

[@Ultimaniacx4]

I knew this was coming after that haul the other day.

[@peter89013]

for the last tv you did. My parents have three very similar tvs to that one. One of which was brought from overseas about 31 years ago. They didn't have the vhs slot tho. But look very similar regardless. We don't use them anymore though. One still works the other one is dead and the one from overseas we never turned it on since we brought it to Australia (I'm pretty sure) due to the cord being different to the ones in australia. 😛

[@helencarinaliljegren1859]

Hi E-Waste Ben, Love your videos and have watched a mountain of them. I'm not sure whether you or your subscribers would be interested in this information? . The glass T.V. Tube can be recycled by ' Glass Masters/workers. My uncle who was an Industrial Glass Master and had a friend who melted the T. V. tubes into 4cmx4cm tiles. My Uncle had those tiles completely incorperated into their backplash in the kitchen to create an interesting and beautiful effect. I don't know who buys glass in Your area, but think about it?! Helen, Barcelona.

[@TMR37]

Love the conten Ben 🤙

[@tonyjensen8847]

Wow that rare 3 alliminum degoseing cables

[@joshuaw4258]

Aluminum? Or what is alliminum

[@richardburgess5215]

Where did you not learn to spell ?

[@richardburgess5215]

Go away

[@tonyjensen8847]

Ausie speeling mate

[@tonyjensen8847]

I'm only 13 give me a break

[@wayneloveless5259]

They are really good for copper, but here in my area in the states, they charge $10.00 each to dispose of them!

[@dr.a006]

Wayne Loveless you’d think all the TV manufacturers or places that sold them all those years would at least accept back for free what they sold. Now it’s lead glass waste and we have to pay to dispose?!

[@donniebrown2896]

Just got rid of my last one of 42. Easy peezie. Take set completely apart, puncture seal where suction cup attached to tube, released vacuum, cut up cabinet, put in box, de-construct tube (hammer) put glass in box with plastic cabinet, tape box and put in trash can.

[@wayneloveless5259]

@@donniebrown2896 What do you use to cut up the plastic cabinet?

[@tonyjensen8847]

Lots of copper

[@ps4only125]

You should have a KZbin channel

[@arthurroy5263]

THANK YOU BEN THAT WAS GREAT N YOUR CHICKEN LOOKS GOOD LOLLL

[@teenagebrains8187]

lol youve probly heard it before but i almost got shocked by one i picked off the street. it must have just been unplugged when i picked it up cuz I cut the red wire and saw the sparks.

[@lonewolfgeoff]

scrapper chicken looks very interested! maybe wants the back half for a nest box! well its a thought! probably been asked before, but would the transfer station let you take some of the pc's so you could scrap em? would be great for bits!

[@shaneyork300]

I know you probably saw the chicken house tour! I've seen your comments for very long time. You think it's wanting the upgrade from the vintage that's in there now!! Lol

[@chuckp_again_and_again]

My county in the USA charges to drop off crt's. I noticed my scrap yard charged me for my plastic computer fans too. Jerks didn't even tell me. Now I know.

[@ireneburke1732]

Just found your channel and I am really enjoying it. However, you sure do say aluminum funny. Took me a minute to get what you were saying. Also, are you calling that one wire a divorcing wire? The big one that you say is rarely aluminum? I watched the vid with the new stripper you bought. Very nice. I really enjoy the deconstuction of electronics for some reason. Please do more.