Scrapping Metal from an Instant Pot and Smelting Ingots How Much

[@matthewelliott2213]

In a world of disposable....well, frankly, disposable everything--it's great to see recycling tutorials for common household items. Thumbs Way Up Thub!

[@samueldaniels8415]

I read the title as melting ingots in an instant pot and was intrigued. When I saw you disassemble it, I thought "How funny, is he going to smelt an instant pot in an instant pot?" but soon it clicked that I must've misread lol.

[@dr.a006]

“Ah, security screw” *gets hammer* 🔨 😂

[@mr.zardoz3344]

I love that you've kept that yellow arrow magnet for so long. You and your videos are appreciated.

[@jrae6608]

Interesting to know what’s in different appliances. Thanks for doing this

[@PandaMachine0]

Absolutely love the narrative tone.

[@gravitybear]

I continue to love these appliance breakdown/melting videos. Great work, but sorry about the leg.

[@pearsonschofield7626]

Hey Thubprint! You've inspired me to start scrapping! A couple of my local garages have actually been PAYING someone to pick up there scrap. I said I'd for free and they liked that! My problem is my junkyard only pays 20cad/ton for shred and 50cad/ton for steel and they class everything above 3.5mm as steel. I see most people are getting like 190/ton for prep!! Im hoping the copper from alternators/starters will get me by.

[@mayfieldmetalrecycling7012]

@pearsonschofield7626 Those prices are low. In Vancouver I’m getting $220/2000lb ton for tin (appliance, bikes etc) $175 for shreddable (fridges) and $275 for steel Where are you? Are there any other scrap yards close enough by to make the drive worth it? If so I’d suggest collecting enough material to make dedicated loads (all shred or steel or non ferrous)

[@pearsonschofield7626]

@@mayfieldmetalrecycling7012 I'm in st johns, every yard on the island quoted within 5 bucks of those low prices sadly. The yards are all pretty small compared to what I've seen in people's videos or when I used to live in Nova Scotia. They don't sort past shred or steel and copper is either copper for 5$lb or wire for 2.3$/lb.

[@davidbrock-vs9px]

I get 300 ton for prep steel. But I have alot of steel. Calgary

[@MikeDoesStuff101]

I’m in Wisconsin but it’s about $160usd for a ton of shred.

[@colehagglund4259]

In edm it’s less then a penny a pound for shred. 12 cents for prep

[@empirefinds]

Brother you switch the furnace on. Bring it to temperature check with heat gun. Then you put a full number 8 crucible in for 9 minutes job done. Always pre heat electric furnaces when at temperature then add crucible. Hope this helps brother. Awesome episode

[@adamdaley8090]

Knowledge is power. Thanx Thub!

[@tghepburn1390]

After hitting your shin, that heating element got what was commin' to it! Thanks

[@jamieepley7779]

Hey Thub !! Enjoyed the video..good job man!! Keep doin your thing!!!!

[@kave9482]

Hi Thub! Great video. Hope u get better!

[@jrc630]

All adds up ...😢 awesome 👌

[@ScrappingScotland]

Mosfets are the thing you forgot the name of. The T standing for transistor. Nice teardown

[@BushDogScrapper]

Fantastic video Thub!

[@its_marc]

You don’t sound well mate, hope you’re ok? - interesting bit of scrap as always. Take care.

[@nachostuff]

That thing had so little of everything. They are making a mint on those puppies at a Benjamin a piece.

[@durfkludge]

I've picked up a lot of nonstick aluminum frying pans, and I was actually wondering if i should wire-wheel the coating off first, but this looks like it turned out ok!

[@mrMacGoover]

Thub sounds sicky, feel better soon.🤒

[@joshp6061]

Lost your voice, or a cold? Anyway get well soon Thub!

[@jazzlicafan]

Nice!

[@patrickmorrissey2271]

Great job.

[@andyprigge4754]

Wow that alu ingot is indeed as beautiful as some women I have seen. AKA taylore shwift ha ha. Merry Christmas thubs!

[@GeorgiaDogScrapper]

Awesome video, although you might have gotten the heating element out of that casted aluminum with the torch, rather than beating yourself up. Stay safe and happy scrapping my friend. See you on the next video.

[@sandymcgill1910]

You sound like you have a cold.. get well soon.

[@williammeeks1283]

Great video Thub. Sounds like your throat is a little sore if so i hope it gets better soon

[@mollynakamori]

This was painful for me, too. I love my Instantpot. Sorry about the shin, but I bet it left a bangin' bruise. Bit of a cold, my friend? Stay well.

[@tommymadden9746]

I just scraped one of those. some of that stainless would make a floating magnet pull torwards it. disappointing but I didn't pay for it. a buck is a buck buck

[@jjchouinard2327]

Yes! Sleg drag!

[@allroundgamer3541]

how can you tell if something is cast aluminum and acual aluminum

[@swifty2844]

Usually those yellow pieces on the circuit boards have copper inside too 👍

[@thubprint]

Oh? I could’ve checked. I popped one off and found it filled with resin so didn’t want to try any harder than that

[@The.Grateful.Norse1979]

I'm just wondering, aside from the satisfaction factor of having nicely minted ingots, is it worth the propane usage in terms of the cash value of the metal?

[@thubprint]

It absolutely is not lol. Some people will tell you “you can sell them on eBay for ten times the price of scrap!” Which is kind of true, but you need to be making artisan quality ingots (sanded, polished, no visible porosity). From a financial standpoint, it’s a waste

[@andyprigge4754]

I have a brand new one in the box but I heard a few months ago they went out of business. Gee I wonder why.

[@atomstarfireproductions8695]

I have a broken instant pot, maybe I’ll do that someday

[@ryanthescavenger]

Did you get your 100,000 subscriber plaque yet?

[@rebuiltmags5832]

Just an FYI, "smelting" is the process of separating metal from it's ore. You are just melting.

[@Eldiversificador]

Dude was new 😢😢 jajjajaja nice video

[@bond1j89]

Right now its just best to store the scrap then sell it.

[@al9929]

I think you got the AUD wrong. The down under buck worth more than the Loonie.

[@thubprint]

Oh? Shoot.. not easy to fix that now lol

[@Twelveoglock1]

Feel like your audio is a little low was hard to hear you at parts, but great video.

[@marksteps1712]

might not be efficent but was enjoyable to watch nonetheless, perhaps something more substantial next time will be more rewarding. I hink object/appliance selection might be the key. Keep the aluminum 80 years left in the world before we run out and copper 200 years as future investments #ThubStax and scrap the rest

[@thubprint]

Yeah I don’t expect stacking aluminium bricks to pay off lol. This one I didn’t think would be loaded with copper, there’s no reason it would be, but given the appliance name itself had ‘brand power’ I figured there might be some gas there

[@marksteps1712]

@@thubprint I did say a future investment lol, obviously not aimed at you short of you planning on living for another 80/200 years respectively, more an investment for your grandchildren who'll thank you i'm sure whilst the world digs through our old landfills to make heat syncs etc. yeah true, yeah you'd have thought. Anyway for what it's worth I enjoyed it, take care and stay safe. Peace and love

[@MattBrander]

The first bar was shinier because of the borax most likely.

[@thubprint]

Huh… yeah that makes sense lol

[@wszechmocnieuzdolniony]

👍👍👍

[@ironangel667]

A better way to remove the cast aluminum is use a torch.

[@tomokovlog8567]

So reselling it for $4 is more profitable

[@Wreck-Gar]

Ooooh hit in the Shin 🥺 Rather that than take it square in the nuts though.... 😖

[@andyprigge4754]

Feel better hope your voice improves. Blessings,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@ryanthescavenger]

I just did a video on scrapping a slow cooker.

[@vincedibona4687]

…cookie?

[@ryanthescavenger]

@@vincedibona4687 “cooker” or a crock pot but they call them slow cookers online.

[@michaelmccoy3996]

Why do you sound like Batman?

[@patrothwell9138]

Wish u would get back to scraping

[@vincedibona4687]

Please stop using the term “smelting”, as that is NOT what you are doing. I am all for Thub, but this isn’t right.