Scrapping an OLD Welder (Copper?)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
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In this video I scrap an old welder for copper, brass and aluminum.
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Hey Srapitall....
Have you seen the Chanel from Projektshop f1??
He is an awesom scraper too and make awesom Videos also
@@dieterprobst3244 yes, I’m subscribed to him. He gets a lot of really nice scrap. Thank you.
@@scrapitall200 He had an awesom way to srap transforners and stators...And I love hes Copper King
@@dieterprobst3244 he’s got some sweet tools and machinery.
@@scrapitall200 Yes and the most of it build by hes own.
greetings and good night from Bavaria Germany
That was a great video, buddy. Welders can be quite disappointing
I’ve come to expect they’ll be aluminum, but at least they are fun to scrap!
@@scrapitall200 that they are fun , save on movie rentals have the whole family scrapping welders
@@nicejunk666 move over Monopoly, it’s scrapping welders now 😂
@@scrapitall200 billion dollar idea I’ll be expecting 20%
19%, don’t be greedy 😂
Nicely done
Thank you
You are welcome
Well done buddy. Nice copper score
Thank you buddy!
1:31 whoo hoo nice wheels!
They are pretty nice lol
@@scrapitall200 lol !! Scrap cart
I gave them to my dad, he LOVES collecting stuff lol.
Awesome
@@scrappingonthefly77 it is, until he wants what I’m wanting to scrap 😂
Happy New Year to you, too 🎉 I hope you had a good Christmas?
Happy new year buddy. Hope you’ve been doing good. Haven’t seen you in a long time.
@scrapitall200 . Thank you. I have been doing well. I have been super busy these last few months. I did a pickup where I had 300 lcd monitors. Stripped all of them from the plastic backings and have only just finished getting rid of the waste. Then yours truly gets more, sucker for punishment I am, haha. Did another ewaste collection on top of that. My garage is chock-full, to say the least.
@@MicroScraprMike oh wow! Well I’m glad you’re doing good and staying busy.
@@scrapitall200 Thank you for asking.
@@MicroScraprMike no problem my friend
Awesome breakdown
Thank you buddy!
You're welcome buddy
Hey SIA! "Eyeballs intact" sorry but i had to laugh. :) "pro tip to make videos - hit the record button" another laugh of mine! verry funny video and i like it when it comes o micoscrapping. all aroud a very cool vid, see u in the next one! happy new year, mate!
Thank you so much my friend, I’m really happy you got a good laugh.
I really enjoy making these videos and reading comments like yours puts a big smile on my face!
Happy new year!
Happy new years scrapitall! I love your content keep doing what your doing 🤙🏼
Thank you so much!
Happy new year!
Fun tear down. 🙂
Thank you buddy.
Happy new year!
That was a good score, broke my heart to see all aluminum windings. But like you said $28 is better than nothing! Great video Brother!
Yeah it would’ve be really cool if it was copper!
Thank you brother.
Every scrapper felt the disappointment of that transformer being aluminum brother. Still made a great video. Camera work is excellent
Right? That darn aluminum, I mean Aluminium lol.
Thank you so much brother, I appreciate that.
Yep, i felt that disappointment too and it wasn't even my scrap!
Good day from Ont, Boy to bad aluminum ! Happy new yr Thanks
Hello buddy!
Yeah that darn aluminum lol
Thank you for watching and happy new year!
Awesome!
Thank you!
@@scrapitall200you’re welcome
Good to see you are making more videos :-)
Absolutely, I just took some time off to enjoy the Christmas season. Thank you for watching buddy.
I know how that feels, hoping for copper and ending up with aluminium. At least there was some copper.
I was honestly expecting it to aluminum. Most welders are be done have been, but the copper cables sure made up for it lol
@@scrapitall200. I guess you can't be disappointed when you know what to expect? Gone are the days of quality metals in old school workshop appliances.
@@MicroScraprMike I think you’re right, but that just makes it more fun, the hunt for copper lol
Nice recovery, May God bless you also. Stay safe and see you on the next video
Thank you brother and God bless you!
Great video. I was 3 years old when that welder was made. Yes they use aluminum in too much stuff now. Great tear down
Thank you brother!
Yeah and it’ll only get worse with aluminum being used, but that’s ok, God provides.
Bought an old welder from 1960's-70's less than a month ago at a farm estate sale. It was in a dark inside barn. Thought it looked like a lot of copper. After watching this, began wondering if it was really copper. Had brought it home with a bunch of other stuff and stuck it in my barn. Just went out and checked. Thankfully, it looks good. I should check things better for sure.
A lot of welders and battery chargers will be aluminum, glad yours is looking good.
Thank you for watching.
The older ones are copper. They switch to aluminum nowadays because it's cheaper.
@@austinhernandez2716 that’s unfortunately not true. I scrapped a welder from the 1950’s and it was all aluminum.
@@austinhernandez2716not necessarily. Was given a big old welder from about 1963- all windings ally. Also given a smaller welder dated 1977- all copper inside, knew it would be as it had a sticker on it boasting copper windings. 4.5 and 5.5mm copper wire, in cotton braided covering- no lacquer so will go in the bare bright.
Great video, thanks for posting this, I’ve always wanted to pull apart a welder.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
They are fun, even more fun when they are copper lol.
Good job on the video and thank you so much for not having irritating sound effects or music in the background 👍👍
You’re welcome, I appreciate that feedback.
Thank you for watching.
Happy new year ......great video
Happy new year my friend!
🤙🤙👍 i have only found one that was all copper,but it was from the 50's 😁✌️
I had one that was copper, it was a Miller from the 90’s, but the other 3 I’ve done were aluminum.
Thanks for stopping by buddy.
That wire stripper is slick
@@RayRay-js5hl I love it, it’s been a fantastic tool. Stripmeister, made in Canada.
Thank you my friend for watching.
Great video! Hope your Christmas and New Years was great.
Few days away from recording and you forget the record button...oh boy...lol
Thank you so much brother!
Been praying for you.
Well done sir I find that every one that I have done was aluminum windings but still very much worth the effort thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us six stars brother
I agree, it’s still worth it to me.
Thank you so much brother.
Happy new year!
@@scrapitall200 same here and brother you have a safe and blessed new year
@@josephcormier5974 thank you so much!
I’m from Newmarket Canada Ontario
Ok cool! Nice to meet you!
Made light work of that. Informative video. New sub. Will be watching
Thank you, Dawn, I appreciate that.
I've started to feel not so bad when they are aluminum windings however never would thought for the age of the welder it would be all aluminum. The non-ferrous guy at my scrap yard said it's worth it to pull the aluminum from the transformers and motors as it does pay around .45-.50cent a pound I think he said and you still get shred price on the rest! so I stopped throwing them into my shred buckets!
CheeRs Brother
The steel from the transformer is #1 prepared, at least at my yard.
Thanks for watching brother.
@@scrapitall200 oh nice yea I just get shred for motor and transformer steel
AMEN!
@@imoverthetop44 God bless!
I was surprised it was aluminum instead of copper. God bless.
@@richardroyles1423 they seem to be 50/50 aluminum or copper.
God bless you too!
I had a old Lincoln welder from the 70's same thing ALUM.
I’m not surprised, welders are NOT a good source for copper.
Thanks for stopping by my friend.
That sucks that all that was in there was aluminum seems like anything I tear apart anymore is aluminum lol it sucks! Another great video like always buddy! Hope you had a great Christmas and a happy new years buddy!!
Yeah I think we’ll be seeing a lot more aluminum as the years go by.
Thank you so much brother and happy new year!
Those large plugs are good for plug soup too
That’s true.
Thank you for watching!
Have lucked out and gotten all copper transformers in 1960s and older welders, but majority of others seem to be aluminium like that one, or sometimes a mix.
Wow, that’s really awesome!
Scrapping is funny like that, I have good luck with finding copper transformers in microwaves, where others seem to only find aluminum.
Thank you for stopping on by!
It’s playing a scratch off lottery ticket and losing but still having fun scratching the ticket. That’s how i look at scraping hoping for copper it’s still fun taking that machine apart. Like going fishing and not catching anything but just being out on that boat and enjoying time away from work that’s what matters
That’s exactly right and I completely agree my friend!
Thank you🙏
You’re welcome!
I appreciate you watching.
There’s something very gratifying about scrapping,I enjoy it👏🏻
@@Pureblood10000 I agree, I love it a lot.
Nice job too bad it wasn't copper God bless and have a good day
Would’ve been nice, but that’s ok, it was still fun.
God bless you too.
Is it 🪓 time ?
Not yet lol
Great video ! I'm picking up an old vintage arc welder in the morning ,hopefully the windings are copper and not aluminum ,if they are aluminum ,i will just turn it in as a motor.
I sure do hope it’ll be copper for you!
Thank you for watching.
Thank you for the awesome prayer brother! What part of the country are you from?
Amen brother!
I live up in Washington state!
How about you?
Nice! Except for the low copper weight. What do you figure your total time would be if you hadn't been filming? Also, the copper bands are similar to these ones I got out of an old battery charger except mine were copper on one side, aluminum on the other. I still have them.
It’s hard to say, but I had a total of 1 hour of video footage! So maybe 40-45 minutes.
Oh wow! You should share a picture of that in Discord!
@scrapitall200 I will. It's in the shop but I'll get the video link and the time. Oh, and that's pretty good even if it took the hour
Ok cool!
Yeah I agree, not bad at all.
Whoa! What's that fancy thing you took the second set of screws out with?
Don’t tell my Amish brothers 😂
@HH Recycling you 👀 it to 🤔
@@scrapitall200 I won't say a word. Mostly because they don't have phones and I can't be bothered to send them a letter.
@@ThatsRightRecycling I can't believe Dan hasn't said anything.
@@HHRecycling Dan is slipping 😂
I appreciate that, Chris, I don’t want to lose my donkey as punishment 😂
That thing was in decent shape for hanging around 50 years!
And it had been out in the rain for a few months.
Thank you for watching.
Sturdy built back in the day. Well except for all the aluminium instead of copper.
@@maxb301 sadly, a lot of welders, old and new are aluminum. But yes, very well built otherwise lol
Hi, I am 15 and am now making a fair bit of money scrapping in Sydney, Australia. Your advice has been very helpful. Could you suggest any good tips for getting the most money out of a 1960s house in about 8 hours? I will have 1 day to tear out as much metal as I can before it gets torn down. I am particularly unsure about whether to focus on copper plumbing in the crawl space/walls or aluminium window frames and sliding doors? I inherited a few nice Ryobi battery tools from my grandfather, so I am not limited to hand tools. Edit: I also don't have to worry about the mess, the owners don't care if there is glass all over the floor.
Hello! Glad you’ve been enjoying my videos.
Oh cool, that should be fun.
I would start with the easy and obvious stuff. Go for sink taps because they might be brass.
Go after the the copper pipe and any of the wiring you can get.
I’d do the window frames last as they can be hard to clean because of the window seals and glue.
In an old house like that, the door handles might even be brass.
Hope this helps, feel free to ask me more questions if you need.
Thanks for the advice, good to know that I should focus on wiring once I grab the obvious stuff.
My scrap yard only has 2 grades of aluminium, irony/dirty and clean, unpainted extrusion so it doesn't make sense for me to put too much effort into cleaning painted aluminium. I get about 60c Aud per kilo for the dirty stuff and about 1 dollar for clean. I suspect the scrapyard is giving me a low price because of my age, but I don't think there is much I can do about it. They give me $7 per kilo on clean copper.
@@ethanhumphrey5758 you’re welcome!
Yeah some scrap yards can be a bit shady, especially when younger people are involved and they assume you don’t know anything.
That’s a good price for copper. Yeah I’d definitely go after as much copper as possible!
Check the main electrical panel, really nice thick copper will usually be going into them. Also, and I’m assuming you already know but just in case, make sure the electricity and water are shut off before removing anything lol.
Thanks, the owners did already get a qualified electrician in to disconnect the house from electrical. Interestingly, the main cable going from the street to the house is aluminium, not copper as I had hoped. Pretty sure all the wiring inside is copper though.
Thank you for the video. I really appreciate the AUD currency conversion :)
I was curious whether it was better to sell my old crappy AC welder, or scrap it out. Looks like if I can get $40 for it it'd be better to sell it
You’re welcome!
Thank you for watching.
Yeah if you can sell it as is, you’ll make more money.
bummer to the max. i cant believe that. seen canadian scrapper do a welder recently and it was alu also. i thought abougt buy old welders on facebook or whatever but probably not worth it now. too much of a gamble
@@stevesrt8 I wouldn’t take the gamble unless it was dirt cheap and they came with the copper leads.
$28. For aluminum not bad at all for zero
I’ll take it lol
It's allways a bummer when it's aluminum.
I know what you mean, but at least I had fun.
Thank you for watching!
@@scrapitall200 that's what matters, I've been doing a lot of micro scrapping since it's cold out, I don't do a whole lot in the summer, I enjoy doing it, I watch videos and do it in my living room, I'm only doing clean stuff.
@@John-jl3ky micro scrapping is perfect for that in my opinion.
Where are you located at?
Washington. Where are you from?
Nice breakdown on the 1975 old welder, still $28 in your wallet, yeah I've seen lots of welding machines have aluminium windings, melt all the aluminium windings down in that nice crucible i sent you 👍, any update on when you will be getting your furnace buddy?How's the weather where you are, its wet and cold 🥶 here in England 🇬🇧
Thank you brother!
It probably won’t be until summer, because I need to save the money and as you know with our climates (we are very similar) it’s so wet everyday and that is a no no with melting lol.
Late next week we are supposed to get really cold, overnight lows of -10c 🥶
I was manufactured in 1974
Nice!
Happy 50 years on earth.
🔥✝️🔥✝️🔥✝️🔥 AMEN 👍🎦👍🎦👍🎦👍
God bless you my friend!
I pray that God will do amazing things for you in 2024!
Thank you for being here.
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Yes you are buddy!
@@scrapitall200 I know right!
It’s true! I’ve seen Chris give you the number one finger lol
all the sheap welders are made in aluminium ....also the news have more alum than copper .....only the olders 50 " 60 " years. and some. of 70". ..have the "jack pot " de red gold ¡¡¡¡¡¡.
I’ve found one welder that was copper, it’s definitely rare.
Thank you for watching.
HENLNO
What’s that mean buddy?
@@scrapitall200 hello
@@smitchlego hello and good morning!
How are you doing buddy?
@@scrapitall200 Well the coin show is tomorrow :D
Ok cool, that should be fun!
Next time fix the welder then learn to weld! You would make way more $$!
I have access to much newer and efficient welders. Plus I’m a hobby scrapper, I do it for the fun, money is just the cherry on top.
Thank you for watching.
لماذا قمت بتخريب هذه الماكنة الفريدة ؟ سأعطيك عدم الاعجاب
That’s rude!
It was broken and no one wanted it.