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Copper Eye Joe
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This channel features my scrap adventures. Come along as I take all manor of things apart in the hunt for scappers gold ( copper).
Feel free to visit my other channel ( sheffield woodworks)
Feel free to visit my other channel ( sheffield woodworks)
scrapping water meters.
In this video , I'm scrapping a load of red brass water meters, setters, and various other red brass items.
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scrapyard payday #2 .
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can we beat last months total of $550? come along and find out.
cheap wire stripper review - was it worth the money?
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in this video, I'll be putting cheapnwire stripper to the test for a fair and honest review. are they worth it? you decide.
scrapping an old dehumidifier ( pre copper eye joe)
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this video was filmed pre- copper eye joe- so please excuse the quality. this is an old dehumidifier .
scrapyard payday. making my first run as copper eye joe.
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in this video I make my first scrap run as ( copper eye joe) . as a matter of fact I havnt been to the scrap yard in many years.
scrapping my first ptac unit.
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in this video , I'll be taking apart a ptac unit. I realize I didn't need to disassemble the unit entirely. I did it for content purposes.
starters. sell them whole or tear them down?
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this video is more of a question for all my scrap friends. starters- sell them whole or tear them down?
scrapping transformers the easy way.
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in this video, I'll be scrapping a 450watt hilad light. I will also be trying an easy method for cutting open transformers .
I use old micro owens to store scrap nuts and polts that they go to scrapyard
@viljo4542 good idea.
Very interesting scrap-out. Thanks for sharing. Scrappin' Lou
@@ScrappinLou thanks
Holy sh!t why did you wait so dam long to show me the log splitter trick? That’s the best tip I think I’ve ever gotten off TH-cam
@polishsharpshooter2876 glad it helped , thanks for watching.
I bought the same Temu crank stripper.. thanks for the review !
@dwaynestach7651 mine is still doing good, stripped several thousand $ worth of copper so far. Just keep it adjusted right as the set screws may work loose some times .
Very cool
@@IceMachine411 thanks
The metal piece inside of the porcelain should be brass
If your going that far just get the aluminum out.
What is the name & part # of your Temu wire stripper. I want one, but don't know which one to get. Thanks again for any infromation I can get
Super 👍👍👍 pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱 good job 👍👍👍
Love your videos. What size of impact driver do you use 1/4 or 3/8 ?
@brucevanclief508 the driver itself is a 1/4, thanks for watching.
@@CopperEyeJoe, is it a Bauer, from Harbor Freight? If so, are you happy with it? I haven't bought any power tools from them since they started the Bauer brand. The old stuff they had were junk! I use to have to make a living on my tools (machine shop), now I'm looking to hobby scrap. I'm retired. Thanks for your help.
Awesome video Scrapper
That was pretty quick. Great video 👍
I missed it do it again 😂. Watch out toes😮.
Instead of saying awg, most people call it gauge. So it would be 12 gauge, 6 gauge, etc. The thickest wire you had , 3/0, would be called three aught gauge. Aught is zero, like a 30.06 rifle is a thirty aught six.
@ProductionsLightMike thanks for the info and for watching. It's funny how some people will take offense when someone offers corrective advice. I appreciate it.
Don't buy Temu. Its knockoff Chinese crap.
@ProductionsLightMike I agree on the Chinese stuff but the strip mister knock off one I bought is still working. So far I have stripped 3k worth of wire. We do however get what we pay for. I plan to buy a better one soon.
Great video........I am 74 and do this with my grandkids, they love it. Plus it is teaching them about how things are put together. Keep up the great work with the kids, they will always remember the time you spend with them.
@robertbeltowski2819 thanks, I gotta get back to making videos soon.
I have to say you kept it interesting!
@mattyal9347 thanks for watching.
Aluminum is worth a whole lot more than scrap steel, set it aside, and build it up! At this moment, I think scrap steel is like .08 per pound, scrap aluminum is somewhere between .24 to .40 per pound, depending on how your yard rates it. Either way, pays a lot more than steel!
From here it looked like a dog log 😂.
Lol. The putty. It did favor one.
Aluminium is cheap today, but the price could be raised tomorrow. Take it out of steel and collect it for a future.
get a magnet if you don't have one. that copper looking tube inside isn't copper most of the time.
Dead on my friend, I learned this on a video I watched. It's deceiving.
Depends on the yard but the one i use most times for shred want the capacitors removed. I have seen them reject loads from the appliance stores and see them taking them out in the parking lot so they will accept the appliances. the other yard will accept most appliances full and don't care about capacitors. As others said I remove aluminum wire too. it pays better than shred.
Will do friend.
Photos from in McKinley
Lots and lots of goodies in the back of your truck buddy! That was a great pay day buddy! Just subscribed to your channel buddy!
Thanks.
@@CopperEyeJoe welcome buddy
I likewise tried noname Chinese spy watches, but quality was so low, I avoid noname Chinese. They do work initially, hence YT videos selling, but they fell to pieces after a couple months. If his noname Chinese strippers are good quality, how would we find them in the future? I don't know why anyone would make a high quality product & make it noname Chinese?
The small red one with wire guide dial is a knockoff of my Coppermine 101. I own Coppermine 302 cutting wheel & 101 pocket stripper. I'd reccomend both together because neither has problem of wire slipping off of blade.
I would have a bin for copper and 1 for aluminum. Make sure to separate clean from dirty. Clean ( no tape or paint or flanges )pays more.
Thanks for the tips. I have gathered several totes, barrels, and other containers since this video. Only problem is I can't seem to ever have enough lol.
hi i do put aluminum wires in a bucket because it’s 7 cents per pound left in shred pile and 30 or 45 cents per pound as aluminum only
I get very little AL wire and it is always heavy guage and I run it through my stripper. My scrap yard ahs no problem putting it in. Actually I do not even need to sort my AL they pay the same for all three types and put it all in one dumpster. I do pull out AL/CU computer heatsinks/
A very nice load there. Those are some really nice prices. That is one heck of a payday. God Bless!
Thank you. So far I'm getting about one scrapyard run per month. I really wish stainless steel paid more than it does. Thanks for watching .
@@CopperEyeJoe A pleasure
Hello fellow NC scrapper! Recently discovered your channel and subscribed. Love seeing someone from NC on here. Amazing payday today!
Hello, welcome to the channel.
I love your Playlist by the way.
I love finding new channels, have subscribed 🙂👍 lovely buckets of yumminess you've got there!
Thanks friend, I'll sub you back.
Nice haul 👍. 🐎
Thank you.
I did this with a shop press and a hardened steel scraper blade. I found it worked better if I sharpened the tip of the blade so it could get between the plates and not bend them. After about 40 transformers, even though the blade wasn't damaged, it needed resharpening. Then my scrap yard only gave me 45 (mid grade copper wire) price for it. I took the money because the other yard close to me couldn't even make an offer. It's like they can't tell what 99% copper looks like. So, I'm keeping my copper from now on, melting, casting it, then selling it for 10x scrap value. Dishonest scrap yards aren't going to get rich off my labor.
Sorry to hear that, friend. I took some copper off Friday, and it was 3.80 a pound for bare bright.
Yeah, some of these yards are something else! We get $2.80 per pound with a smile, very nice people, but your ass hurts when you're leaving!! Going price is something like $3.30-$3.65 per pound for #2 dirty copper right now, but good luck finding a yard who will give you what it's supposedly worth. I thought about melting it down, but damn, that would be some long hot hard work in the summers, but who the hell is going to buy it for a good price to make it worth your while anyway? It's looking more and more like going to work for minimum wage is going to be further ahead for me.
@patrickm.8425 I think bare bright is like 3.80 at my local.yard right now. Funny thing is another local yard ( same distance away) was only giving 2.80 per pound. It's crazy how some do their prices.
@@patrickm.8425 some people get 10x scrap value just for copper ingots. Imagine what else you can make with cast copper. I'd like to play around with growing copper crystals with electrolysis, and making bronze/brass alloys and casting large items like bells, oversized historical insignia, etc. I also collect rocks and can imagine making decorative items with gems and copper.
Do you even know anything about scraping? Bec in this vid you act like you dont know what youre doing
I'm a rookie, obviously. Excellent observation.
Everyone starts from somewhere... There is a saying in my country that says: "If I only knew that in my 20s..." I'll try and be positive, in the sense that I would encourage @CopperEyeJoe to follow some well-established scrapping and micro-scrapping channels, since one will at some point definitely come to harvest a computer or a flat TV, but circuit boards are in washing machines nowadays!!! (I love their weights, as they can be used as a mooring’s ballast!) Definitely target for the ABCs: Aluminum, Brass, Copper. They are "the poor man's gold". "Clean" (no tape, paint, solder or flanges) always pays more than "dirty". I wish there were someone to make an in-depth tutorial on scrapping, including micro-scrapping... Many of us would greatly benefit from that! Cheers Joe!
That's a good payday.
It sure was. Thanks for watching.
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I gotta get caught up on your videos friend. Thanks for watching.
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Did he weight the copper?
If you missed it, fast foward to the 13:36 mark to see copper weight. Thanks for watching.
Please leave the crunching splitting noise next time
I will just for you my friend. I wasnt sure if the noise of the gas engine would drown out the scene, so I opted for the music.
That was awesome!
Thanks buddy
Nicely done and pleased to see your videos doing well.
Thanks , I appreciate you.
working on a splitter I picked up at the dump , needs a capacitor , ordered one off Amazon yesterday ;-)
Nice.
@@CopperEyeJoe well , It might be . Or it might be a waste of 25$ lol
@ONEMANSTRASH1 well I'm wishing you the best of luck that it works out.
Bardzo dobry materiał poglądowy 👍👍
Thank you.
AWG = American Wire Gauge
Thanks for the info and for watching.
You do need the guard it hurts when the finger enters the machine.
I'll bet, I only left it off for the demonstration. If I put the drill on ,I'll definitely use the guard.
I bought a knock off stripmeister $79.00 it works very well after I modified it to use a 12 volt scooter motor using the chain and sprockets from the scooter but I now use the pipe holder for a flaring tool with a razor blade between the two halves pulling the wire through by hand.
My stripper was only 140 dollars and works great
Awesome payday!
Thanks.
Rite on , new sub here , doing a scrap run at lunch tomorow 🙂
Hope you make some good money. Thanks for the sub
LOL "You've been doing some of this without me." Make sure you're both wearing safty glasses.