Scrapping 500 Lbs Of Aluminum Transformers, Is It Worth It??? Plus I Get E-Waste And New LED's

[@lwcentraltn3447]

The board you pulled out of the slots with the gold fingers are finger boards go for over 4/lb. The board on the bottom that they slide into usually go as peripheral higher grade or backplane board maybe 2-2.50/lb up to 3/lb if backplane it is kinda hard to tell if it’s all one board or two on the bottom. On the finger cards ythere are removable chips that are raised on the boards that you can remove. You had your thumb on one of the chips. Those removable chips go fro about 7/lb. The last board you showed I would toss in with peripheral but it would be more considered low grade peripheral at around .75/lb. Reach out to me if you want more help I primarily deal in ewaste I’m probably 80% ewaste 20% metal.

[@jbarbatano]

Follow up with this guy, this sounds about right to me. DON'T DEPOPULATE THE BOARDS OR CUT THE GOLD FINGERS OFF. It's never worth it if you can sell the boards.

[@ProjectShopFl]

@LW Central TN Thanks, I will be making a video just on them.

[@ProjectShopFl]

@John B Thanks for the suggestion

[@cuscrapping]

Be caredul with those golf finger cards!! A lot of them looked like High Telcom!!

[@lwcentraltn3447]

@@cuscrapping 10:11 I looked again I could see two of them going for telecom would possibly need to leave the removable ic chips to make this grade . The other two cards looks to be to much excess. High grade telecom is about 1 dollar more than finger card. All of my numbers and estimates on grades were from boardsort or cash for computer scrap. Local yards as you all know vary.

[@triforcewielder8500]

Hello sir, I went ahead and spent 4 hours prepping them copper panels to make em all number 1 copper and I had 257 lbs and I made $758.15!!!!! Thank you sir

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thats awesome!

[@y.lelivelt2619]

Thanks for sharing this video.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for watching.

[@afineliner740]

What a great score on all those lights. If you can hold and sell that would be best. Oh yeah, you're going to have to branch out into e-waste if you're getting good boards like that, maybe even a bit more micro-scrapping. 😁👍

[@ProjectShopFl]

I plan on using a lot of the lights to light up my shop.

[@terryeason4319]

You definitely have one of the best shows on KZbin. I Appreciate all the videos

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks! 👊

[@OrangeJeep852]

Love your videos and always look forward to your uploads.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@davidmurphy4263]

not sure if you all are prone to power failure , you could use the exit lights as a emergency back up battery light when they do

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks, I live in south Florida so yes we loose power often. lol

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

My tecommendarion. Get some of the 1000 watt equivalent corn cobs and buy the Mogul to medium base adapters they are incredibly bright for a garage or shop. I’m sure you have some laying around

[@ProjectShopFl]

I have a ton of corn cob's from retro fits. lol

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

@@ProjectShopFl same here I could light a small village. But really that is your best bet. Just try and find some quality adapters don’t go Amazon cheap clearance section(I’ve tried and all of them broke within a week!

[@joshp6061]

Definitely some high grade boards you got there. In general boards with black IC chips and gold fingers are worth more. Looks like you’ve got some low and medium, and a bunch of high grade of even telecom and those are worth more than bare bright

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

Just wanted to update you I’ve got a really good deal with one of my scrap yards. told him I wanted to start buying big industrial transformers and he said well are you interested in the smaller ones and I said of course that’s what I bring in every day broken down he showed me to fold bins of copper transformers they don’t keep the aluminum ones in there so they’re gonna work out a price and hopefully it makes sense for me!

[@ProjectShopFl]

Good luck!

[@christophermac1797]

Id love some EWASTE vids from project shop haha

[@ProjectShopFl]

I will be making a video on the ewaste.

[@HeavyDKC1]

Man you got a badass operation. Where can I buy scrap like this? I scraped a.c. and furnaces for a HVAC company for 5 years so I have allot of tools for the trade. Needing work any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated, from you or any viewers. Thanks and I wish everyone happy holidays.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks, Talk to electricians that do lighting repairs.

[@HeavyDKC1]

@@ProjectShopFl thank you. Appreciate the advice.

[@goldmagnet]

I can get $300 a ton for clean short steel here in Australia, which is anything under a meter, so all the motor and capacitor/transformer metal goes in that.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Nice thanks for sharing. You get paid for capacitors?

[@goldmagnet]

@Project Shop FL copper ones yes, but aluminium ones they won't unless I had a few ton of them as it's not worth while just taking a few in now and then with there being way more steel to aluminium percentage so i put em aside to separate in my spare time otherwise they'd just end up in shred for 6 cents kg so im better off taking the time to get the heavy steel for 30 cents kg, and I live too far away from the main city where they would accept them.

[@goldmagnet]

@Project Shop FL I might have to rig something up with my hydraulic firewood splitter to press out the aluminium winding lol, your set-up has given me some ideas 💡 😄.

[@ProjectShopFl]

@@goldmagnet I think we are thinking of 2 different products. You are saying capacitors I'm thinking of the steel or aluminum can filled with sticky oil that comes with the transformers and sometimes electric motors. No one buys them around me. Good luck with your press, I've seen a few people crack transformers with a log splitter.

[@goldmagnet]

@@ProjectShopFl haha yes transformers sorry

[@torkgasm]

Do you clean the paper off of the aluminum and copper coils or bring them in as is?

[@ProjectShopFl]

I sell it as is.

[@TRADINGMAN1]

I'd be checking out Ewaste Ben's channel as he knows his boards and stuff - great video as usual 💪

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@taunusrunner3767]

hay :-) i do professional elektronic recycling in germany. i by 20-30 tons every year. this cards with the gold fingers, and also the backplan is good quality, the worth ia about 5 dollar/pound ,,,,even better than copper.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Wow! Thanks for the info.

[@robertlivingstone3947]

Very interesting video

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks

[@phpicker1552]

I got 3 cents a lb at my nearest scrap yard for steel last week in Southern Missouri. I have to drive an extra 20 miles to get 5 cents.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Wow! It's crazy how the price is so different in some places

[@phpicker1552]

@@ProjectShopFl No joke. I wished it was your price. lol

[@SuperRashead]

I would looove to have a couple of these EXIT signs. I don't know the prices to ship it to me. And your price. There's gold in the chips and the goldfingers. And the boards.

[@ProjectShopFl]

I will save some if they are in good condition.

[@SuperRashead]

@@ProjectShopFl Thank you sir. 😀

[@djdew78]

@Project Shop FL love this stuff were like minded on how to make money or just how to profit the most out of less work

[@ProjectShopFl]

👊

[@sandisherck4636]

In Reference to your question about gold in electronic scrap... A youtube channel called Sreetips has a video you may be interested in. One year ago he bought 6 lbs of trimmed computer fingers for 800. from ebay. He was able to recover 11.6 grams of pure 24k gold. He also has other videos on processing gold pins. The video is called Gold Recovery Computer trimmed fingers.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info

[@cditzler6313]

you go Clark

[@ProjectShopFl]

😂😂😂

[@BushDogScrapper]

New Subscriber from Alberta 🇨🇦🤘🏻

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks! 👊 Just gave you a sub

[@BushDogScrapper]

@@ProjectShopFl thank you so very much!

[@judybeckner9047]

Be sure to watch Ewaste Ben for ewaste education 😊

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@joshuaminkkinen1282]

I buy one of those caged in lights

[@ProjectShopFl]

I will save them if they are in good shape.

[@ojaneyboy791]

Contact Jason from the MBMMLLC, excellent equipment on e-waste and the processing of it.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks, I've actually talked to him on the phone about one of his hammer mills.

[@johnangelo5567]

We keep it sketechey around here..... shit didn't notice, all the safety lol

[@ProjectShopFl]

👊

[@sticksandstones1885]

🎯Anything with aluminum windings just send it unless aluminum's paying a super high amount and I mean like over 60 cents a pound. The E-Waste is not as good as it used to be it's not worth to pull the tantalum capacitors even though it does pay five to 15 bucks a pound it just takes too many hundreds or thousands of them to get to a pound. Goldfingerboards right now are only paying a dollar to a dollar 25. And if it doesn't have gold on it it's considered a bad bored. Bad boards are only paying 8 to 25 cents a pound and cannot have excessive steel plastic or foreign material on it. I personally clean my bad boards because I feel like I get more I get the aluminum off any little bits of copper or brass.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info

[@greekgods3399]

love it

[@ProjectShopFl]

👊 Thanks

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

Eager to see the massive transformer break down I can’t remember if you said they were copper or aluminum. I just went to one of my yards today and they’ve got six or seven industrial or commercial transformer sitting out back I took a file to him and three or four of them have copper coils none of them have those copper plates or copper bars solid copper bars that I could see but they have thick wire

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

If you could give me an estimate of what I should pay I mean it is coming from the scrap yard so I’m probably gonna have to pay a little bit more than what they paid for it but I believe they bring a different price than lights transformers

[@ProjectShopFl]

Aluminum

[@ProjectShopFl]

Are you gonna sell the copper and Steel back to them? If so see if they will do a % on the profit. If not usually they have a name tag with info on it and will have the weight. It depends on the TX but usually if you figure a 80/20 percentage on the steel and copper you can get an idea how much it would be worth processed. Some will be more or less so look them over and make sure the coils are big and don't have lots of spacers. I pay the same as the smaller TX. Usually I go off the price of #2 copper. If #2 is $3 per lb I will pay .30 or more depending on the situation. Say its 2.50 lb pay .25, if it's 2.75 pay .27. now buying from the yard you will have to step it up some. I would ask what they pay then ask what they get for it. Then if you are selling it all back to them tell them by selling to you they are gonna make money 3-4 times as opposed to 1. If they sell it off they make money once. If they sell it to you they make out on the first sale, 2 on the #2 copper, 3 on the prepared steel (If they buy it that way) and even 4 on the sheet steel housing. Hope this helped and good luck.

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

@@ProjectShopFl this helped tremendously thank you sir! Thank you for your time!

[@bigcountryscrapper6885]

Great video

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks! 👊

[@josephd8395]

Nice

[@ProjectShopFl]

👊

[@Prince1971]

Gold definitely, and probably rare earth metals in the chips. More investigation would be required.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info, I might try and recover the gold. lol

[@ericchamber1614]

my yard would have me remove the plastic from them or i get dirty aluminum

[@ProjectShopFl]

thanks for sharing

[@Blackmagic42222]

✊

[@ProjectShopFl]

👊

[@pauljackson5482]

E waste ben, is the board guru, he would be able to advise you best.

[@ProjectShopFl]

THanks

[@thepvporg]

IDK why you don't smelt the metals in to ingots and get a better price.

[@ProjectShopFl]

How would that make it worth more?

[@jakemartine6564]

If u want to learn about green boards watch some e-waste Ben videos

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks!

[@djdew78]

allllll them new led lights try and sell it if that doesnt work send it to the scrap gods lol

[@ProjectShopFl]

Haha, I'm gonna light up my shop.

[@hvacmzike233]

Shark scrapper on KZbin is in Florida and all he does is e-waste. I know alot of e-waste guys sell to a company called board sort.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info, I'm subbed to shark

[@christopherzweerink176]

Contact shark scraper he is in to computer scraping he is also in Florida gust go to his channel and leave amesige in comments.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info

[@billymoad]

Just watching your new video bud if you whant to know anything about e waste bud watch ewaste Ben on KZbin he is Australian bud he smartest at it bud

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the info

[@billymoad]

@@ProjectShopFl anytime bud always enjoy your videos

[@jimmydickson8854]

Plus’s you got to pay for electricity

[@ProjectShopFl]

Its included in the rent.

[@billrey8221]

Were are the green agenda people here? This scrapping idea is too obscure, to distant for them to realize. I am so disappointed in Obiden.

[@ProjectShopFl]

Ok. lol Thanks for watching

[@cuscrapping]

You've got good value in them boards. Check out Shark Scrapper on KZbin, and reach out to him! He is down there in Florida as well and will be an incredible local resource for you!!

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks, I'm subbed to his channel

[@harryverboom4032]

For circuit boards contact shark scrapper on youtube he is from florida too he does a lot of e waste recycling

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks, I am a subbed to Shark.

[@Anthony-oh3sj]

Go look at ewaste Ben he can help you

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks

[@georgeross7280]

reach out to omegageek64. He may be able to help with the electronics

[@ProjectShopFl]

Thanks for the suggestion