Scrap Metal Recycling - Processing the Stash Into Cash!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- It's a big scrapping day! After avoiding working on scrap metal in the garage on account of the winter temperatures, things have certainly piled up! Its getting a bit warmer though, so the time has come to strip it all down and cash it all out. How much can we make recycling such a haul of scrap metal? Let's find out!
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The main reason I like these type of videos is everybody scraps different and sometimes you learn something new. And it's always good too learn something new everyday. Sure there's a chance you don't learn a thing but it doesn't hurt to watch and maybe you can help someone do something alittle easier.
I AM GLAD TO SEE A SCRAPER OUT THERE LIKE ME WHO CLEANS SCRAP LIKE MY SELF .I AM PROUD TO SEE THAT IN YOU... (( ROB THE JUNK MAN WEEKI WACHEE FLORIDA ))
You sliding those batteries made me think of you being a ghost buster trying to catch a ghost lol.
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The blue mlc thing aren't worth it no silver or pladium
Thank you!!! I’ve been scratching my head over those, not much info about them out there
I have the same board and was wondering what they are. Thank you!
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Okay I'm hooked. I can't believe it was an hour long because I was just fascinated by all the different ways you identified the metal and how you got each separated. This was awesome. Do I always have an hour to watch a video, no, but I did today. Thanks for another great video Thub. Looking forward to the next one!!!
$ 957 total. ($ 422 aluminum rims, $ 171 copper wire, $ 160 car batteries, $ 116 stainless steel, $ 88 aluminum.) Neat!
New Jersey - USA
You don’t have to weigh everything out. I don’t weigh stuff when I tear down. I tear down what I get, and I get what life sends my way.
Great job. Canadian Treasure Hunter also does great scrapping and processing videos
Begginer here and watching from Connecticut, USA.. Is their a way to tell the difference between brass and other metals? For example if the brass isn't the normal looking yellow like color
This is going to be awesome, I love long scrap outs 👍👍👍
I'm third! Go Thub!
Yay first
Great video.
Exactly the reason I started scrapping as I'd take stuff apart and realised hey this has to be worth something.
Dont you put tyre valves in with the brass?
It's where any I have end up
I don’t usually, just because I don’t keep much dirty brass. The smaller my pile of dirty brass the better chance there is they’ll toss it in on the clean brass weight
@@thubprint fair point I never usually have that much brass so it's never made a difference plus here (UK) never been marked down for dirty brass as seen in your videos. I wonder how scrap grades vary around the world as seen you mention a few grades that I've not encountered here
Imagine scrapping a coil heat gun instead of trying to fix it to make your scrapping easier those things make metal hot enough to be able to even bend it break it and they're used on engine bolts and anything metal pretty much
watching him turn 5 grand worth of stuff to scrap was hard to watch
Back in the day fasteners were higher cost due to slower production, material cost and labor was real cheap. Nowadays labor cost is higher than production of small parts.
sure wasn't expecting an hour long, but hey you had me captivated the whole time, love the long and short videos equally!
Thanks! It’s certainly not the norm but I had to get all this done one way or another
@@thubprint i enjoyed it! btw what are yall getting for brass up there, i just recently cashed in my hoard and was wondering
@@lukelegg9915 oh I’m not sure, I’d have to check! It’s been a few months since I brought it in so it wouldn’t be accurate anyway. I did share it last time I sold some, it was the previous “cleaning out garage” video
@@thubprint im sure ill see in an upcoming video, down here i got 2.60 for yellow and 2.95 for red!! blew my mind at how high it was
That was an interesting assortment of items to scrap out. The labware was good. Good luck selling the remaining labware items. 👍
Such an array of treasures! I enjoyed the breakdowns, give me insight on how to go about stripping some of my small time scrap. Hope you enjoyed the heatwave. May your weekend be mediocre at worst.
😆 haven’t heard that one before!
awesome vid lets do it wink wink nudge nudge thubs my uncle, totally down with the secret plan....you know the thing!! lol great vid
Canadian treasure hunter uses an axe for some of his cleaning, much faster for some stuff.
Your hair is so beautiful when it's down, but I understand it probably gets in your face a lot (hence the man bun) but that few seconds of it down I was like WOW!!!
😆☺️ ty! I just leave it down to dry, can’t really have it all over the place with sparks and such
Love these longer videos and especially with so much variation and different things scrapped! Make a long video every time you do a clean up like this, I'll definitely enjoy it! :D
Thank you so much! I’ll keep doing them then 😊
It was interesting to edit for sure, this one could’ve been four hours long if I was lazy 😆
@@thubprint Sounds great! Looking forward to the next one! :D Could've been 2-3 hours for my taste, but I do love long videos! :D
Valve stems are dirty brass
My garage looks exactly like yours lol I need to go . I’ve never been to scrap yard before so I’m trying to sort all my copper as best I can just got done stripping another 50 pounds of bare bright and about 20 pounds of #1/2
You’ve never been? That’s gonna be a fun adventure! Hope you’ve got a good one near you 👍
@@thubprint no sir just started scrapping a few months ago. It’s not my full time gig. I just see stuff when I’m out delivering food and pick it up.. brother in law works on cell phone towers so the bare bright is a steady stream
Gotta say. Your videos are really helpful and enjoyable to watch. You’re just the right amount of whacky and sensible. Thanks for doing the thing and sharing
Scrapping definitely slows when it’s cold!🥶
Nice pay day, very good inspirational video, clean work and organized. as a scrapper too. I try to keep things the same. save some copper for future sky hi. keep tha good work, wish you good finds and health
And the copper does seem to be trending up still!
@@thubprint Copper wil be need i the world electrification. electric cars with lot of copper, millions of motors, wind turbine projects, small planes with electric motors, chargers every where. not enough copper in mines. that will be good for us. keep saving copper, be patient
Love the extra long video. It's more like watching a TV show than a TH-cam video. Keep doing the thing.
The Valve stems from the wheels should be able to be sold as dirty brass
I applaud what you do, I understand it is for income and content but you are also leaving a better world for the children of the future. Why let metals that took so much energy to refine rot in a landfill? Thank you
Thanks for the support! It’s true I come to it as a means to provide but it is nice to be doing something that has a positive effect overall
Brass is my favorite - and my weakness. I find myself spending too much time trying to recover even the smallest bit of poor man's gold! Sometimes.
Absolutely, it feels so chunky and worthwhile but sometimes there’s fiddly bits that I completely lose track of time on
Nice to see Gary Oldman has taken up scrapping just in case the acting gig doesn't pan out. Haha!
That was a power of work. Well done and your garage space looks so much better.
It’s almost finished! Sure would be pretty with that wood stove crackling 😊
My man thank you so much ! Keep doing the thing champ ❤️
I watch Scrapping with Grandpop. He also takes the time to sort through his treasures to get the best value out of the items he finds or is gifted. Have learned that he has changed scrap yards to get better prices. Be safe.
You are so tenacious. Good video. Very enjoyable. ☺
Presuming you have a good set of long / diagonal wire-cutters, this video shows a good way to quickly strip BX / MC cable:
m.th-cam.com/video/cJmSUo1rm3E/w-d-xo.html
I just found you and subscribed today. Instead of Netflix and Chill, I’ve been Thub N Chill… I’ve watched 90% of your videos today! No lie. It’s all I’ve done. Keep doing the thing!
Great video my man! I recently started scrapping and have learned a lot from you. Thank you!!
Love the longer videos
This is a winter problem, I’m going through the same thing. It’s too cold to clean my stash so I’ll wait til the spring.
ny right now it’s 50 degrees
Nice
Is it worth scrapping steel rims? Or is it only really worth it if they're aluminum?
I like steel rims, I get a couple bucks each because they go in as prepared steel so they’re worth a bit more. I don’t think it’s worth burning through blades to cut tires off them though
@@thubprint thank you for you reply, I love your videos and content!
FYI hex keys (Allen wrenches) work really well in triangle screws.
I'm pretty sure that those pump things you dismantled were some sort of hydraulic fluid injectors. If the item seems to be relatively intact and in decent working order, it is now possible to take a picture of it and a google app will identify it and list its relative dollar value as an intact working device.
I started watching your channel, to figure out the optimum way to dispose of some major hi-tech machinery that I got saddled with. Among many other things crammed into my basement, I have two 4'x4'x8' silicone chip manufacturing machines, two 4ft tall 5ft long, industrial lasers (working w/manuals), 3 industrial MEGA microwave generators Weighing nearly 100 lbs each (also working w/manuals and precision computerized control units themselves the size if a microwave oven), and a never opened industrial grade hydrogen generator (I'm probably going to KEEP that one, though). I love taking stuff apart, but I'm in way over my head with these and don't even know where to start
I've always been a science geek with a touch of mad scientist/inventor. I appreciate the practicality with which you approach scrapping, but I practically cried watching you dismantling the stirring hot plates. it was somewhat comforting to hear that you had set the nicer ones aside. If it doesn't take much to refurbish the nicest working pieces, they will certainly fetch a better price than scrap value.
Where does one obtain such pallets and bins of science-y MacGuiver goodies?
ditto, E paid me #2 insulated price in June 2021, then my next scrap load in Oct 2021, same quality of wires, he downgraded to cords/CAT5. Oh well. he must have created new category to fit in what people are bringing in mix bag of #2, cords and cat5 wires. If i knew what his #2 insulated spec beforehand, i would have separated them. Yes, loving the YYC chinook
Oh its very interesting, and I totally loved it!
12.48 It looks like an alignment tool for fitting a Safe Combination Dial The Rod from the dial has to be exactly straight or Problems WILL occur .
The reason most screws were flat head is because a flat blade was a lot easier to forge. Back in the old days you could just hammer a piece of metal flat to use as a screw driver, or just use a coin. I’m totally talking out my butt right now, I believe flat head screws should be illegal! So annoying
It would be fun to make the couple hour trip to come visit Thub I'm west of Edmonton an hour! 👍
Good work Thub , persistence & commitment wins the race . $200 is $200 at the end of the day whether it took you 3 hours or 3 days , still a nice little tickle and better than a poke in the eye with the shitty end of the stick 🤣🤣🤣 As ever , hi to Wub .
A good mess though
Electricians must love flat heads . It always pisses me off when I come across them. Or coke across 4 types of screws in one item. Not very productive if you ask me
Let's get Thubprint to the top Scrapper channel 💪👍 also let them adds play through so our brother gets that extra add revenue 👌
Wow you got a lot accomplished! This was fascinating!
If the mlcc's are magnetic then I don't think they are worth picking off. 😩😉
Where do you get all those rims?? Also I need a small 4 cylinder Longbed truck.i have been looking in Craigslist and Facebook marketplace. Nothing. I have been working out of my good old Camry. Don't know where else to look any ideas. Thank you David
The way I see it the Iron and steel gets me by until I hit payday with the more expensive metals. Keep up the good work!
Precisely what i have learned. Move weight, the brass, copper, etc are small compared to steel and aluminum.
Tbh for the weight of that wire since I'm kinda close to wear they actually drive the wire to and ship it aka on boats if you looked into it you would be surprised because for a Rubbermaid lawn garbage like the big plastic ones I go over there and get almost $900 for my wire literally but if I try to scrap it in town they give me $150-$275 so just a quick tip like for me the boats that ship them to other places and pay the most is in Tacoma but for you I wouldn't know just letting you know because for wire I have been seeing you get wrecked on wire tbh and I'm an electrician and my boss told me that. Because when he got back and me and him could only split $200 because I went in town. lesson learned but if you have a recycling places with ships that's where you want to go
Yo Bro, you should invest in a devil forge. Save up all the little bits and melt them into ingots. Purified aluminum from all that dirty, painted, glue covered aluminum is worth so much more. I know my scrap yard will buy Al ingots up here in oil country. Go Oilers Go
good to see you got to enjoy the warm breeze that came through. a little pre spring clean up. nice price on extrusion. i've mainly been collecting scrap to melt. might have to think about putting the extrusion aside. cheers
Separate as you go my friend!
You scrapped RCBS reloading scale pans, I would have bought them from you
Buy a propane torpedo heater
I’ve got one of those! It worked real well at the last place but I let it run for 2hrs when it was -20 and it made almost no difference. There’s just too much dead space connected up top I think
well you said it took you days for the $200 and who knopws how long for the other $200 in copper and other stuff. You aren't setting any records. Besides $100 in copper isn't that much copper.
Brother I would highly suggest learning a bit about how to make stuff as well so you can make some of your own tools to simplify your process. A mini hydraulic snipper for screws is one Idea
great video mate, there's something about scrapping I can just sit there and watch it for hours, really enjoyed this one keep up the great work, cheers from Australia :)
Thanks! I certainly can too haha
It taps into to our hunter gather brain
Found a old video your other one gave been great so why not
When you find a blue tanks with pipes coming out of bottom do you open and take out copper coil cause .it's about 15-20 pounds of copper
It may or may not be worth investing in a bead/sand blaster on that painted aluminum. Consider where you live, especially in the winter, I guess it would not be best....
You should catch Cu thieves. Put GPS inside batteries on pallet & leave in corner of large yard beside chain link fence as if forklift driver forgot it there.
I like the longer videos man, on all the channels I watch.. I hate the algorithm!!!! 😂
@13:01 a spray of salt water on a scratch should cause carbon/tin plated/zinc plated steel to rust in about 24 hours; stainless steel can resist rusting from salt water much longer.
The easy stuff is just that.
The separation of goods where you are helping them help you is the hard part.
You don't want to create difficulty with the people at the yard, and the individual can't provide them a commercial volume without the room to store it and time to categorize it, while waiting for a target price.
Keep doing the thing.
Spend some of that scrap money and insulate your mom's garage. You can actually get more processing done in a warm garage. 😅
Man I love scrapping those UPS systems. they're one of the things on my list of fast scrap and good value
Everyone is definitely different bit to me there is no such thing as dirty brass. I cut it and make it clean. It's worth it to double your money
great video loved it super informative and lots of wierd bits and bobs! 52:07 sonic's rings?
Where do you find your scrap? Been trying shops and been trying to build relationships but seemingly getting lied to over the phone.
I know this is a very late comment but I was wondering what the liquid you used for identifying the metal
I’d be a little more careful with that lab stuff and look into it more. A lot of lab stuff has pure platinum or palladium and sometimes even rhodium
I have a truck and I need tips on where to get started instead of just driving the roads aimlessly…lol. Please help.
I'm a residential building dumpster diver I understand most of the stuff but where tf did you get sooo many rims
Well that was fast 1 hour :) Great video once more .Thanks ++
I like the can picking video's because I do the same thing.
Better than the light Days !!!
The Box you threw in a trash can with the receptacle plugs on a face you didn't open it up and take the brass out
This is kinda like watching paint dry. I’m just saying.
Always a great day when @thubprint uploads a new video 👍
How in earth did you come across that many wheels and batteries??? 😲
Just a question. You're not throwing the plug ends away are you?
That must be awful working in those temperatures.
Brilliant! Wow Thub done it again. 👏👏👏💙
Nice Thub... I was watching while scrapping my own stuff! I'm planning a big load to Melbourne next week if the weather cooperates (ie. not too hot!). I'd better film it I suppose! 😁
its sad you have a landlord which means hes getting most of your rewards
Would you make or loose money if you melted stuff down into bar's?
Heck of a hoard you have there in that garage. Those rims alone will be a great payday! We can only turn in 2 batteries at a time. Way to spend some winter time. Spring will be here in no time. Happy Scrapping.
The tire air intakes are brass, either in shred pile or dirty brass.
I really miss doing this stuff!!! 😞😞😞
Great video..U sure do a lot of work taking all that stuff apart
Long videos are definitely content and at least for me, they are at the top of the ranks.