Scrapping taps and faucets. How to sort and separate the metals in order to maximize your PROFIT!

[@Ben-ms5tp]

Very informative, got right to the point. Scrapping will be more profitable for me in the future for watching this. Thanks for your time, effort and knowledge!

[@TinManScrapper]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching as well. Stay well and happy scrapping.

[@aidavewaste2576]

great stuff as always

[@carpentryfirst3048]

I find the best way to get those brass fittings off the stainless hose ends is to put it in a vise and crush it. I find crushing things with the vise is one of my best tricks for scrapping. Brass is soft and crushes easily when it comes to fittings. Thanks for the vids.

[@TinManScrapper]

I will have to try that. Thanks for the tip and for watching.

[@pieordi]

You're a legend. Thanks for the info

[@TinManScrapper]

lol, thanks for the comment. Glad you liked it.

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

Awesome video as always in this video shine some light from me. I have a lot of this stuff to separate

[@TinManScrapper]

Glad I could help. There are some unique taps out there.

[@stevencox2911]

This is a great video

[@TinManScrapper]

Hank you for the kind words and comment. Glad you liked it. Stay well and happy scrapping!

[@tomitstube]

good video, very informative and exactly what i was looking for, got a new plumber in the neighborhood and i'm getting goodies every week, nice brass and copper, and needed some help with the chrome, zinc, and stainless steel. even found a real nice (brand new looking) vice grip in the dumpster, obviously a mistake. keep 'em coming, real helpful.

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the comment. Glad I could help.

[@teamSHTF]

Very informative! I will say that stainless does have a few grades that are ever so slightly magnetic. Especially hardware from Taiwan. I figure if a neodymium magnet picks it up but with out much pull its low grade stainless. Else watch your fingers!!!

[@nandingpanelo]

Nice man

[@rudy1252]

Tin Man great video. Thx.

[@DavidJones-ib3zy]

Thanks Tin Man Scrapper , I had asked about brass fixtures and shot gun hulls on another video & how to get small plastic & Iron / Tin , Steel parts out of these pieces , I guess burning the Sg hulls (w/o plastic ) is a good idea along with the Brass with plastic inside . I also need an angle grinder for those THICK pieces . GD & Thx Again .

[@zartan7779]

One of my favorites to find

[@junitosanchez1070]

Good video tin 👍

[@TinManScrapper]

Thank you Juanito! Merry Christmas

[@jeremylenoury3112]

Great video, thanks

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the comment. Glad you found it useful.

[@swflscratcher5893]

That shroud is not stainless it’s Zinc

[@darylporteous3193]

question new style single handlel kitchen faucets that you dont have in this pile, have you attepted to get the brass out of the zink tube

[@TinManScrapper]

I have, just not on video. I will remove the cap and little screw. Lastly I will cut the item in half and removed ve the brass in 2 pieces.

[@hayesj6698]

stainless is nonmagnetic yes. but stainless does spark. brass does not. thanks for sharing.

[@TinManScrapper]

Aluminum doesn’t. Sorry yes it does.

[@hayesj6698]

@@TinManScrapper what!?! brass does not spark. but it is similar in weight to stainless. you are correct that aluminum does not spark but it is lighter than stainless steel. stainless steel does spark .

[@TinManScrapper]

@@hayesj6698 yes I stand corrected as does spark, but I agree that brass does not spark. Did I say it does by accident?

[@TinManScrapper]

S.s. Does spark

[@TinManScrapper]

When did I say brass sparks? Also I agree, stainless steel does spark

[@Donna-vs2iq]

Have you a video on how to remove the brass found on the inside of a faucet? I find many of them and with no power tools, lose at the yard when I get irony brass because the faucet, be it stainless or chrome is still attached. I scratch my head at hot to remove the brass without an angle gringer/rip saw etc.

[@dr.a006]

Most faucets have brass and zinc/die cast parts. Some stainless steel pieces. Always check screws. Most screws are stainless so they don’t rust. You can shake them off a magnet even though they have a little stick.

[@TinManScrapper]

Agree, thanks for the comment.

[@zartan7779]

Those steel handles brake off easy too if you can get the nut off. My yard will call it clean That way.

[@markgragg9070]

Thanks

[@christopherzweerink176]

The plastic in fosets turns out you just need to determine the direction to turn it in and some just drop in and over time get calcified in to the fixture.

[@Stoney47]

Lots of stuff is marked stainless but it's magnetic and the recycle places will not pay as stainless if it's magnetic.

[@joelapka]

All faucet valves can be taken apart for repair without burning or angle grinders.

[@zartan7779]

I use wire cutter on the plastic items if it cuts easy you can tell its platic

[@maxcloutier5285]

Is Nickel plated brass the same price than clean brass ?

[@TinManScrapper]

Yes

[@TinManScrapper]

But, some yards want it separated and some don’t.

[@nangeela123]

From your experience are faucets like those ever Zinc? I have collected what seems like stainless faucets, not magnetic, etc, but don't spark on the grinder and too heavy for Aluminum.

[@TinManScrapper]

Depends on the yard. Sometimes the sorters will put the chrome ones with zinc if you only have a few. Thanks for the question and stay well.

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

Zinc I thought it was white brass or something

[@TinManScrapper]

@@ScrappingwithGrandpa apparently they put all brass together as brass. I have seen them put zinc and chrome together.

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

I have three poured bars of something that I got from my father-in-law after he died he never told me what it was and I still don’t know today. I’m gonna share it on one of my videos I just want somebody to be able to tell me what it is.

[@TinManScrapper]

@@ScrappingwithGrandpa lead?

[@ricodegallo3060]

👍

[@TinManScrapper]

Thank you for watching. Glad you liked it. Stay well

[@keith102955]

Most of them parts that you are saying is stainless steel is more likely diecast

[@TinManScrapper]

I think it depends on the yard and there are die casts, but the stain steel ones will spark with a grinder

[@keith102955]

@@TinManScrapper OK I didn’t know you did a spark test

[@nj7beat3down]

How do you know your stainless isn't aluminum?

[@adamwade6183]

Good fucking content bro. Appreciate you

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the comment. I appreciate you as well as that compliment. Stay well.

[@ryanreisig1841]

If you use a super strong magnet like from a computer hard drive there will be an extreme small magnetic attraction if it is stainless.

[@TinManScrapper]

Yeah, but not enough, and will still be classified as stainless steel. There are always exceptions to the rule.

[@donvoll2580]

Good day Nice video. I think I heard your wife yellljng , "who took my stopper out of sink" Thanks

[@TinManScrapper]

Lol, funny thing I actually forgot it in the garage for about an hour after filming….oops.

[@kenord3437]

Suggest that you be careful using the term metal. Any metal and plastic can be chrome plated, even stainless, there are lots of metals, the ferrous metals are iron or steel which are magnetic, chrome is a plating not a solid metal,,please remember that you can be confusing using the term metal, as it applies to copper, brass and aluminium. Sorry to be picky, because I like your videos.

[@joelapka]

Some stainless is magnetic some isn't. Don't take my word on it, google if you don't know.

[@whatarewedoing0]

you ever see a faucet that is got the like nickel coating but when you scratch it is copper? seem to have one, when i scratch its def copper color, you think its copper or maybe red brass? idk, what do you think?

[@TinManScrapper]

I have seen with copper underneath. #2 copper tubing because of the nickel coating on it. Red brass usually items like on water tank