Scrapping copper from circuit boards. It is definitely worth it!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello scrappers and planet lovers. This video will show you all the free copper you can get off of circuit boards. Copper is currently at a great price, which means it is a great metal to collect. I will show you how to safely and effectively separate the metals in order to maximize your profits and divert as much recyclable materials away from the landfill as possible.
I depopulate everything off my boards and do just what you do here as it makes a big difference in your return. This is a great hobby for me being retired and all I have is time. This is a great way to stay busy and stock pile things of value it's better than saving money in a bank these days. Once you get a nice pile saved up take it in and sell it when prices are up and just hold into it when prices are down. Most all boards once depopulate has copper plate on them and a lot of solder. I intend to experiment and see if they are any silver in the solder and recover the copper plating from all my electronics boards. Hydrochloric Acid and Peroxide is cheap to use to dissolve copper and solder for refining.
Nice to hear. Yeah, I too stockpile, but sometimes my wife gets annoyed. Cast aluminum was down for most of a year so I had approx. 12 bbqs lids and bottoms in the back waiting for prices to go up. I am curious about the silver solder. Let me know how that works out. Stay well
@@TinManScrapper don't forget all ic chips most contain gold bonding wire in them. I have yet to process any myself got close to 3 kilos saved up so far. But from my research they can have up to 2 to 3 grams of .999 gold per kilo. That's a really good return of gold in my opinion but I have yet to test that for myself. But my research has been pretty solid so far so I have good reason to believe the ic's will give good yield.
@@kenjett2434 oh yeah, got a video on that too. Nice score for sure.
Also, thanks for the tip on silver contact boxes. never knew !
Always informative, I appreciate your great videos, your knowledge. Thank you very much, you are whom i seek when i need instruction on my new scrapping endeavors. Thank you once again.
Thank you very much for watching and that huge compliment! Stay well and happy scrapping
FYI, I scrapped the copper off of the 6 circuit boards (excluding the transformers) and got 13.25 oz. of copper. At 2:53 the copper is actually #1 copper wire due to its thickness. I made almost $3.55 from the copper compared to approximately $0.24 from the circuit boards at my scrapyard.
Great to recycle that copper and aluminum back to manufacturing stream. /cheers
Yess it worth everytime. When i find this boards in waste bins this worthly 200% ever.. good job!
8:25 Great piece I save all of mine now.
Another good show! Worth doing as we don't have a e-waste recycler here that I know of. /cheers Tin Man
Thanks. Your support and kind words are always appreciated.
Every bit of copper, no matter the time I spend on extraction of it (minus the super thin insulated crap) adds money to my pocket to invest in other things that pay a dividend! One mans trash is my way to wealth preservation :) found a super fast way to smash open a transformer the other day, nothing but a hammer & protective gear needed, stoked!
I dig all your videos man! Thanks for making them!
Thank you for the compliment and for watching. Stay well.
Good day Boy it does add up. I am surprized that your dad doesn't take it off. I drive for neighbors Mennonites, found old cell phone plastic back, but on inside of back looked like copper? I did peel it off. I took 20 lbs low grade in to scrap yard $2.00 , now this was a half yr. ago, so take all copper off. Thanks
I think sometimes it depends on time and price. He seems to get a better price for his circuit boards. But I think it is always worth it.
The little transformers-the ones you don't take off...can be "de-coppered" easily. Pull off the board /put in vice with metal sides in jaws/hacksaw through one side of copper/screwdriver on other side/pull out. about as simple as it gets. As far as the little spooled copper-put a thin screwdriver in the middle and pull.
You are right, but not worth taking apart for the small amount of copper. They are mostly paper, better to get transformer weight for them.
Thank you Tin man. You are very detailed join your videos! And as a newbe to this, it is so helpful!! Thank you again for this great video!
Glad you found them useful. Thanks for the comment and the support. Stay well.
Thanks for your help I appreciate it
Damn! Just came up on that little ingot. Nice piece haha!
Yeah, ingots are always a nice score. Stay well.
That is where I got most of my #2 copper from last time I turned it in. Was off boards. I just take they good stuff off and into the shred it goes. Transformers usually I didn't bother.
Nice. Definitely better than circuit board price for me. Thanks for watching. Stay well
I extract any and all copper off boards. also I suppose any gauge wire larger than #14 ((16 and up) would be considered #2 copper
A lot of finger gymnastics. Scrappers will be good at wall climbing!
My daily dose of scrapping
Thanks for your support and watching. Stay well.
Very informative.
Thank you for your kind words and support
I pick the the board clean separate all then go back and fine tune. Because like you said there is always more than 1 metal on that board. 😂
Yup, I think it does depend on the time you have and what facilities you have available around you to sell the materials to.
You turned a 3 min video into 10 congrats
These are powerboats not circuits, but good vid
It's not steel, it is ferrite ceramic
Your right, and thanks. Since it is magnetic, I still throw it in my steel pile.
Some of the motor windings are aluminum. Which we have to separate from the copper windings . Do you have alot if this from computer windings ?
Computers do have a lot of copper windings. Yes, you have to check the windings for sure.
Might sound like a silly question but what do you do with all the screws from all the casings and the plastics from the spools?
Not a silly question. I actually put them in a container and bring them in as steel. Some are brass so they go in brass. Also if the screws are in good condition, I also use them for other things.
I have a question I just started scrapping about 4 months ago so I'm just learning with circuit boards and there's little buttons on some circuit boards is there anything valuable inside of them? And my other question is what's inside of switches to turn things on
Little bit of brass or copper inside switches….usually brass if you mean little on/off buttons, if light switches nice pieces of brass. The little push buttons have a small hint of silver, they are silver contacts, but too small for me to bother with
great video and info
but i see alot more thet max your profit ;)
Oh yeah, there are a few parts to this series....just focused on copper in this one.
@@TinManScrapper ;) great hehe
dwhere do you sell your boards? my scrap yard will not take it unless I just throw it in my scrap metal pile..I am not going to give it up for 8 cents a pound Out best copper price here is only 380 a pound
Amazing what prices differ by region. That aluminum wire I brought in was actually 1.28 pound . If I brought to Sarnia I would get 0.60$ poumd
hi tin man how do you get the silver off of the metal of the copeer pices .looking for some help
Actually going to have an upcoming video on places to find silver when scrapping next Friday. There a few places to find it. I don’t actually separate it yet, I just gather it up since very small amount if process one little silver contact. Eventually I will get nitric acid and that dissolves the metals except silver. From there you have to melt. Thanks and stay well
@@TinManScrapper ok cool .trying to fight out how to take off of steel .the copper ones a ezay to take off
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FROM the HUMAN GUY !!!
mikka saki shireba choujya
Roughly, in English it means:
“If you can see three days into the future, you’ll become rich.”
I have two garage pails and one garage bag full of circuit boards..mostly low grade, with a handful of medium grade, no high grade. Where in the Sarnia or London area can I cash in on them? I’m in Windsor,On..(not really any place that takes them here, that I know of, I called 🤷🏼♂️)
Any yard in Sarnia but I heard Jewel scrapyard is best for circuit boards. I only get 5 cents a pound at Trijan
@@TinManScrapper Great! Thanks👍🏻
"silver contact boxes" = relays.
Yup. You are right, but both mean free silver.
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wouldn't that degrade the value of the circuit board?
I don’t get much from the scrapyard I go to (4 cents a pd.). Some regions pay for medium board to low grade price, it not worth as much. Some regions don’t take circuit boards at all.
@@TinManScrapper are u from canada?
throw in charcole will burn off paper and plastic not much smoke lot more copper
From the small transformers? Good possibility, but might not be healthy breathing in the plastic.
I am going to melt down my pretty; copper and sell it on ebay
Got it your dad don't take the copper off. Why you keep repeating yourself