How To Make Money Scrapping Metal For Beginners - Scrap Metal Tips, What To Look For
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- Scrapping metal 2018! Scrapping metal for beginners is a subject with a lot of noise to navigate, so here is a contribution of scrap metal tips on what one should be looking for when scrapping metal for money.
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i get my first car in a few months (nissan 240sx hatch) although it’s a small car i wanna start doing this, all over detroit i see tires, washing machines, bumpers, junk everywhere, i wanna start cleaning up my city and make a profit out of it as well to invest back into my car
Put a 1.25" trailer hitch on it and pick up a small trailer to fill with scrap
I have never been to Detroit but have thought many times of how much money you could make scrapping there. Your sitting on a gold mine!
@brad davidson what language is this!?
who freakingbcares lol
Definitely you will need a small truck. Two or three good G will pay for a quarter of your truck. Trust me I know I have fucked up and tried it with a car before and had to pass up things that were valuable
I live in Ontario and I’m a scrap collector myself I am only 10 years old and I want to buy a Jetske when I’m older so I need to start saving up that’s why I collect scrap metal as is brass copper and aluminum.
Great work ethic! Most wholesome comment I have read in some time. You will have a Jet ski in no time.
We deal in UBC scrap , copper, Alloy wheel , Soft, and zinc
Yea sure your ten buddy .
Raymond Jarramillo ok boomer
Raymond Jarramillo he’s ten dude look at his profile. He has videos of his younger brother for peeing on the floor. Why must be a stupid ass.
I had plans to write a glowing review, based on my over 50 years as professional mechanic and machinist. But your legions of fans beat me to it, and more articulate than . So I'll just say, fantastic job! I would watch your videos always!
This is my first time seeing this guy. So I made a comment about the refrigerant types.
You impressed me, I used to be a plumber and I scrapped lots of copper tubing & hot water coils back when number copper was about a dollar a pound but even at that I made about 400 a month. I learned a lot from your video I do have 1 tip though to help strip wire lay it in the sun to warm up a bit it becomes easier. Be well and keep scrapping.
Good tip!
@@granitestater1029 : yes, plastic loses its plasticiser as it gets old and becomes more brittle. Warming it up makes it softer and easier to strip.
If you're selling copper and aluminum to a scrap yard you're shooting yourself in the foot. You get a LOT more ( like three to five times more depending on your area) if you strip all that copper (with a $150.00 power wire stripper ) and melt all that copper and aluminum down into ingots and sell those to a foundry or refinery. Yes you have several in your area ( within a half hour of wherever you live ) even though you've never noticed them. Just google for them in your area. I actually go to two separate ones because one gives me a higher value for aluminum ingots than the other will and vice versa for the copper ingots.
You also need to look into all those beautiful circuit boards. The silicon chips, the copper and aluminum heat sinks, all of those lovely connection points and almost half of the capacitors you'll see. The tantalum capacitors. Whether it's SMD components or throughhole the tantalum capacitors are money. First the tantalum inside of them sells for good change on it's own and some of the tantalum capacitors have silver in them as well. Recovering the gold, silver and platinum from silicon chips, capacitor housings and board connectors requires very simple and cheaply available chemistry components and is very easy to do. Especially if you're already picking up a given thing anyway you might as well get all you can out of it instead of throwing money in the trash. The tiny nuggets to bars 1" x 3" you can get of gold, silver and platinum will sell for a LOT of money compared to their size to almost any jeweler.
I have become a junk yard for every friend and relative and coworker for all their tech junk and old appliances. I barely even bother to go dumpster diving anymore although I do still keep an eye out for the curb when driving around and stop in to tag sales. I spent ten bucks on two large crates of what the seller called "junk". It was old mainframe computer components from a very large collection of DIGITAL components as well as a shit load of random boards. I made $635.00 off of the gold, silver and platinum I got out of those. So $635.00 - $10.00 - another $10.00 in chemistry supplies = $605.00 profit. It took about two hours worth of work spread over several days ( it takes time for the chemicals to do their thing ) means I made about $300.00 an hour off of that load.
... teach a man to fish, SURE. But a $150.00 wire stripper??? Yeah, it sounds GREAT, but it's like a credit card scenario. If we had the coin to start with ... we probably wouldn't be scrapping!!! XD Yes, yes, I know, ya gotta start SOMEWHERE.
thanks for the info bud!
"there's at least a few foundries within a half hour of you"
Jokes on you, there isn't even a single TOWN within an hour of me.
Thanks
Dude make a TH-cam channel too!!! This stuff sounds interesting!
Don’t usually comment on videos but this dude is amazing, very charismatic and fun to watch
Most of those “copper bearing motors” you had in that pile against the wall are actually control transformers and depending on the size have a Shit ton of clean copper in them. They work because of the copper windings in them. If you just crack them open you can cut the windings off easily because they are just pure copper. Same thing can be done with automotive starters, alternators, and regular electric motors. Open them up and cut off the copper windings and separate the steel cases and the hardened chrome steel shafts and you will get the most money out of them.
Mate I found a great way to make a small lathe from a washing machine motor, people who have no idea throw out perfectly good machines because a capacitor has shit itself and basically it's the rest works great. But it is all to hard to get it fixed so out on the junk pile it goes and they'll buy another one for around 5-6 years and waste money for a new one when they could use their brain to make a perfectly good machine run again for the price of a capacitor or something similar. Wish I could throw out perfectly good machines?
The lacquer they cover the windings in are the biggest threat... idk how many times I've gotten shredded to hell trying to break them open and the dried lacquer breaks off like shards of glass and will cut you up quick lol
@@graemeallen3893 yes sir... I wanna find me a good motor and make a pottery wheel out of it... but I need a good size motor which are hard to come by if you don't own a truck...
Trying to find a machine with a motor that's capable... I need a bench grinder/sander to rob a motor out of...
Loved this
I was thinking about doing some scraping myself and this video was great for me.... Now I’m a subscriber and binge watching all your videos, trying to absorb as much info as I can.... Thanks for the video ❤️
Your audience is very lucky on your educating them about this! It took me 30 years to learn what you're teaching of me going back and forth to the scrap yard!
Is therr a scrap in Idaho
Yes in Twin, Jerome, and all over Boise
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There's scrap buyers everywhere!What do you live in a cave?
Actually the easiest way to identify metals are magnets or buy a lower end PMI gun. The reason you want to do this is because if you accidentally run across Hastelloy for example and misjudge it for Stainless Steel you would be losing a TON OF MONEY. Some metals are EXTREMELY rare and expensive. Hastelloy is worth a ton.
If you want to gauge stainless steel GRADES lets say 1-5 with 5 being the most high quality stainless steel.
Buy a HIGH QUALITY magnet and apply it to the surface
1- Sticks maybe even hard to remove = has a high amount of carbon steel in it
2- Sticks but comes off slightly easier and slide = less CS
3&4- Basically same as the other two, but barely sticks you will see yourself testing it over and over to see if it is really sticking or its your mind
5- If you run across high quality stainless steel a magnet should never work. Most people find this confusing because we typically interact with lower grade stainless or even borderline illegally called "stainless" and where API and other companies come in higher industries and you run tests to make sure the chemical properties are in alignment with standards. (PMI gun typically).
Anyways if you are salvaging stainless it may or may not tell you what grade stainless it is. My suggestion as a non salvager is NEVER just throw all stainless into a pile without knowing what it is first. There is a decent pay difference in the industry for what you might see like 316SS vs 304SS. Also if you can find chunks lets say a block of stainless steel 2x2 or bigger if you can verify cheaply it is indeed stainless you should sell if to a manufacturing company locally for more money. They will most definitely buy if they use it in their inventory and will just check it with a PMI test or other tests to confirm its properties, tag it and shelf it.
My point is that you should not always use "weight" as a reference. Also another tip if you run across stainless where it has the tiny text telling you what it is and you see "316L SS" or any Stainless material with an "L" after it immediately take care of that and put it separate these are higher specialized metals and more pure.
I can tell you if you can manage to find Hastelloy you better grab it and run.
P.S. 6 years in Quality Control/Inventory Control and ERP/SAP systems in manufacturing high end metal parts for chemical plants and aerospace parts.
In fact I would guess the people buying your salvage may actually have this knowledge and test the materials and separate them.
and how does one acquire a pmi machine without breaking the bank?
Well you just need to do some math. If you for sure have a place or method of obtaining say a ton of rare metals how fast can you pay that loan off or whatever it may be. I would say most scrappers would not want one. But if you are only or mainly scrapping Stainless and above it could be a huge difference. It really depends what you are scrapping and how much etc.
In a nutshell I would bypass scrapping and start a manufacturing facilities disposal and profit split . So for example you take "X" tons pickup and drop off all the services for a manufacturing company and in return you give them "X" profit. Basically just beat the current copy that does it. Any local small/medium manufacturing company is always up for negotiating if you do it right.
Really the only place I think you will find SS like 304, 308,309,316 and so on is in a metal scrap bin in a fabrication shop yard that deals with those. Of course all stainless has a grade but the higher grad stuff is used in applications like pipe for a refinery or medical use. Chances of you stubling across any high alloy stainless are quite slim
I *NEVER* Comment on vids. However, this one NEEDS a comment... So, Found this vid by accident. Was trying to fabricate a custom tip for my soldering iron, to be used for wood burning. Needed a special pattern for a project. Was watching another vid on how to visually tell the difference between Stainless and Zinc-Coated, so I could figure out which of my "Mystery Hex Bolts" to use to create the custom tip. Hands were busy winding a spring, and I couldn't stop the "Up Next" video from playing. Not into scrapping, so I wasn't interested. However, a few mins into your video when my hands were free again, I found I couldn't turn it off. You were so absolutely straightforward and laid back, cool and collected, casual and extremely articulated and well-spoken, informative and entertaining, all at the same time. Like, the worlds coolest and most chill Documentary Host. If you hosted a documentary series or marathon on anything at all, I'd watch it. Just because you have that on-screen super-cool demeanor and personality. OUTSTANDING Job, good sir. Coming from someone with literally *ZERO* interest in scrapping, but now fostering a slow-brewing thought on that proverbial "back burner" in my mind, simply because of your presentation. Stay true, and keep it going.
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Exactly what you said (including the part about mystery hex bolts being examined for zinc - though not for wood burning equipment)
GOOD VIDEO IVE BEEN SCRAPPING FOR YEARS AND I LEARNED A FEW NEW THINGS.
one of the better intro to scrapping videos i've seen. thanks for talking fast and showing examples :)
I have been scrapping since I was a kid in the 60's! Great for the environment and economy. The $ helps too!!
Let's say I start scrapping, how probable is it to make a living out of it? How much money would I generate?
@@magalyledezma6533 It is hard to say how much $ you can earn, the price of scrap changes daily and how much scrap you can get your hands on are also factors. I friend of mine makes his living scrapping, so it is possible... best of luck!
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You are very detailed thorough and have a great sense of humor. I enjoyed watching and learned a lot. Thamks
Thanks for this, every one should recycle
I just happened to stumble upon this and i'm not usually one to comment but I loved the vid,man. So much great info and presented by a guy with such a laid back disposition. It was like hanging with a buddy . Thanks,man. Great job.
I agree! Very well done.
But he doesn't know what things are
@@dazedandconfusedstacker9923 Like transformers?
I've owned my own business for awhile.....I came to know all of this years ago. I STILL watched the whole video. You did such a fantastic job on this. Best start up scrap video I have seen to date. Well done :)
Agreed... I'm just now getting to the point I'm gonna make the dive... I've watched a few scrappers... but truly enjoyed this video and his insight... I don't own a truck just a few cars... but I think with the big trunk of my 99 Mercury Grand Marquis I can haul quite a bit of scrap and make a decent dollar... and also help keep my city cleaner
@@travisfowler8345 Yes indeed, it can be rewarding. A truck/trailer becomes crucial with growth of the hobby/business if you want to take all that is offered or available. Unfortunately prices has skyrocketed but in the last few months plummeted. One of the great things about scrapping/junking is the things you come across or have given to you. I haven't bought any tools in many years as I was the metal guy for estate sale clean outs. A natural progression too, is selling online, yard sale or just plain old wheeling and dealing around town. My eBay store inventory is almost all free stuff I have acquired by scrapping. Right now especially, there is far greater value in the motors, cords and knobs of an appliance than in it's scrap weight. Enjoy the adventure and best of luck with your endeavors!
@@-ChrisD surprised to hear from you after your 3 yr comment was posted lol... my family and I have a couple flat screens... and a surround sound system I worked on breaking down tonight in my free time... I plan on seeing what else I can scrouge up and wanna get it broke down into specific piles since I'm working with a limited haul... we are also saving our pop cans and crushing them down now too...
@@-ChrisD I'm an aircraft mechanic with a wife that is sick and on disability we have 7 kids altogether... I just need to find ways to make money outside of working at my aircraft plant... things like this I can have my kids break down scrap and they have fun working screwdrivers and cutters... and I just cycle through the scrap they broke down lol
@@travisfowler8345 Excellent. I don't have kids but scrappers I know who do, often have their kids help and the kids generally love it. At some point, consider selling via eBay, Craigslist, Facebook marketplace etc. A washing machine could be $5-$10 in scrap while the knobs might be $10-$15 plus the cord and motor and so on. Scrapping is quite enjoyable but salvaging the valuable parts and then turning in the scraps left over is the way to go. I get too much to deal with hardly any of it but I could make alot more if I had the time and space to process. I actually have the "space" but the space is full. This is inspiring me to get some stuff cleaned out and sold so I can start processing what I get in order to maximize profit. Scrap prices are way low right now .....
And yeah, I'm glad I caught your comment 👍🏻 Thank you for it.
Thanks for "recycling " your knowledge. Haven't scrapped in years, but getting back into it to supplement my investing in gold and silver. Thanks for sharing my man. You win the awesome human award!!!
Got into scrapping yesterday. Driving back from the grocery store, I saw a stainless steel dishwasher on the side of the road. I just happen to drive a truck, so I pulled over and easily loaded it in the back of my truck. There is also room at my house to store and break down scrap. That being said, I will start doing this on my spare time. Thank you for your beginners lesson on how to get started! I look forward to watch the rest of your videos. New sub here. Take care✌️
Well thanks for saying hello! The trick is definitely to not spend too much time on those sorts of things. All the best on your treasure hunting!
@@thubprint Thanks man. I appreciate all the help I can get!
some of what people scrap as aluminium is actually zinc, if left to the elements, it will look fairly corroded on the surface , and it can be cast into more precise shapes than aluminium such as machine parts with the nut screw threads as part of the casting , the test for zinc, and magnesium is to pour vinegar on to scratch exposed metal, zinc reacts to produce a few bubbles, magnesium reacts to produce a lot of bubbles - it fizzes
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I'm taking all this in bro. Thanks so much for all this great first timers advice. Boy oh boy did I need this.
Thank you for all this information; now I don’t have to watch tons of videos to learn the same stuff you have taught me here.
I too stumbled on this video and wow. Thank you for the info. I will certainly treat my junk differently.
Thank you. You and your knowledge has helped alot. Saved me so much tear down time.
Great video. Little trick to check for non magnetic stainless. Get a neodymium magnet. If it sticks hard- steel, barley stick- valuable stainless, does not stick - aluminum. Best place to find neodymium magnets for free are inside hard drives.
Also 1 thing most scrappers miss is simply selling found items. Some people throw out good stuff, if you can resell it as is you will make more then you ever will scrapping.
Scrapping got me through some rough times.
People may look down on you but you're making free money. I've made thousands from scrapping.
Shitpost Bot thousands in how much time. That’s the most important questions ,
Not necessarily free depending on how much of your time you’re trading gathering scrap for the “free money”
@@peanutbuttersticky
>muh time
Who's paying for your time? What else do you really have to be doing but what you want to do
great tips I learnt so much even though its not my 1st time scrapping, some scrapyards wont tell you these things
Great advice for a newbie. Thank you!
I found this to be an extremely helpful and well done video - kudos!
If you are interested in stock piling gold. Keep an eye on the ends of your electronic cords and cables and the ports the plug into, ie: chargers, usb cables, etc.... Ends- gold bearing bucket / wire insulated #2 Cu pile. Also printer ink cartridges, sometimes have a small amount of gold fingers, just like computer memory does. Another tip: inside a lot of computer keyboards is a thin film of plastic with thin silver circuit board printed on it. Not going to get rich quick, but it's another way to make money and keep more items out of the landfill.
Similar to the spark test, a torch test can be used for stainless. You can use a piece you already have confirmed as stainless. Heat a small corner with one of those portable camp propane torches or something similar. The “heat signature” along with the weak magnetic attraction gives it away.
Maybe explain the "heat signature one should look for...??? Please...
@@travisfowler8345 you can usually get a rainbow coloring from any steel you heat up, but it is more pronounced in stainless and the lower temps of a propane torch won’t give you the rainbows in regular steel but should I’m stainless. Only do it in a corner because it will speed up the heating process and will remove the stainless properties when it goes from lighter to darker coloring.
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Terrific video Brother I enjoyed learning a lot!
Explained very well and the video was never awkward or corny...good job man
Just started hounding, scrapping, and wailing for the years to come. This is vid is exactly what I need! Like
Thank you! Glad I could contribute. Wish you the best out there!
Best thubprint scrap video so far! Been watching you since your start and I got to say this is my favourite of yours!
Great video for beginners. I come across alot of this stuff in storage units. Thanks fot sharing
You’re a professional scrapper dude. Wow. You know lots.
Thanks man just starting out very good info answered alot
I know some one stated this already but what you call#1 insulated I strip with carpenters knife while watching TV most of it being worth 3 bucks a pound and you get fast at striping it with practice. The same goes for the solid aluminum conduit filled with wire, pull out the wire strip it and the you have #1 copper aka bright and shiny and clean aluminum both paying more.
Informative, entertaining, and delivered with a unique style that holds one's attention. I hope he continues to make more videos.
I'm a greenhorn at scrapping...this was the most beneficial video I have seen.. much appreciation for your knowledge and time.
You have the best scrapping channel on this entire site, hands down. I'm just getting going and you have so much wisdom in these videos.
Wow, so much knowledge gained from this video! My fiancee and I are new to this game and we were not exactly sure if we were starting in the right place...turns out, we could definitely be spending our time in wiser ways than we are. Your video has definitely helped us figure out what we should be looking for. It's also more encouraging than you might ever know to see that you, a fellow scraper, has the same vehicle (or at least the same exact vehicle space) that we do...if you can manage decent loads with the space you've got, then I know we can too! Thanks for sharing your knowledge; let's say its worth it's weight in ferrous metal, lol. Happy scrappin!
I looove my little car, haha! Everybody tells me to get a truck, but I would have to make that much more money to pay for the gas. I'd rather just keep the money, lol
Great information and tips! Thank you for this.
By far, the best “scrapping breakdown” video I’ve found and at time of writing this the video is 5 years old! Thanks for the info!
Thank you thank you thank you, I'm just starting out and I learned so much!!
PEACE
ALSO So another thing to turn you onto. Light Switches, Circuit Breakers, Relays, there pieces of Silver in there, if you do take the time to get it out of the Plastic, My silver pile has been growing ! and as well as Gold plated stuff, I get a ton of that stuff, separate the plastic, and keep the boards, and gold plated, sell the steel and Aluminum from the Electric components i get . .
nice man!
Most older fork lifts have quite a bit of SILVER 2INCH BY 2 INCH SIZE IN RELAYS WORTH GETTING.They can weigh easy 1 oz each.Check it out.
Ventolen do you know what percentage of gold the gold foils gotten from cellphones are? Are they not relatively pure? So I don't know why people "refine" them further (into and out of solution).
Often wondered why breakers were so expensive, along with the boxes!?
What about"light switches"?
I'll likely never even do this, but you're very easy to watch & listen to! Lol
You never know, imagine a pandemic 2.0 hits and shuts down world mining, along with imports, so recycling metals becomes 10x more valuable. 🤷♂️
I’m a plumber in the states, youve made it a lot more easy to id copper and generally metals thank you for helping the environment!
Just Awesome! I typed in Recycling and I am so glad I came across your video. Our HOA doesn't have it's community residents on any type of recycling pickup at the curb. It bothers me that people think EARTH is a TRASH 😡 CAN. I am so glad I came across your video. But, this here is gold. It serves as a motivation to make $$$. We definitely need more people to recycle and nearby recycle centers. I am going to share your video. Thank you for making this video.
Flor, you will hate me for telling you this (Got to be a better answer to life than what we are doing to our planet) - th-cam.com/video/PJnJ8mK3Q3g/w-d-xo.html
Awesome video man, I've been stacking stuff like this for a long time thinking I'd like to sell it all someday but having trouble finding a local buyer that won't rip us off. So If I get a big enough load I'll take it to Vancouver.
Great information! Thank you for sharing. 🙂
I just started messing around with scrapping & this really helped me out.
wow so much info. i might have to watch this a few times for mt mpee brain to remember all the info.
17:40 Nickel - Cupronickel or copper-nickel (CuNi) is an alloy of copper that contains nickel and strengthening elements, such as iron and manganese. The copper content typically varies from 60 to 90 percent. (Monel metal is a nickel-copper alloy that contains a minimum of 52 percent nickel.)
Zinc - Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions that can be varied to achieve varying mechanical and electrical properties.[1] It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.
(Remember this by comparing ass to a sink, which rhymes with zinc.)
Tin - Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12-12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminum, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.
(Remember this by the fact that tin was one of the first elements to be "discovered", begetting the Bronze age, and tin is also the simplest to spell
I love your content and even more your humour thanks so very much looking forward to more
wow. incredibly informative
This was informative. Scrapping is a little trial and error. I started scrapping as a side gig from my full time job. 👍
Thank you for this video! Very well spoken and easy to comprehend. I look forward to seeing the rest of the videos you have!
Doing my best, haha! I’m sure I’ve got a few other good ones around here somewhere 😄
Brass is copper and zinc
Those little "motors" that are round are called capacitors and they are aluminum (ala aluminum electrolytic capacitor)
Look at laptop cases for magnesium - old apple, dell, HP and others. Newer ones are Al or plastic - it will be stamped on the underside of the top or bottom of the case (you will have to remove it to see it unfortunately - magnesium will bubble with vinegar if you scratch it, so you can test it by scratching with a knife and dropping a little vinegar)
you can make decent money removing the copper from the transformers - the larger the better. Get a wood chisel and hammer (or a parts press works well) and cut the copper. You can then use a punch to knock it out from between the plates. Resharpen the chisel as needed - grinder, file or sand paper.
What do you do with the little copper bearing motors that have the steel plates around them? Or the big ones that can't be cut? I got one from a speaker today and it's good copper, but it is a narrow casing, no bigger than the casing plates themselves really. This is my biggest problem as a scrapper, these metal copper bearing motors. Can you please let me know how you do it brother? Thank you
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Most of those little “Motors” that he pointed to and picked up were transformers not capacitors. To be more specific they were control transformers.
A beginners video?!! Hell yeah!! Back to the basics.
You do have a gift from above keep using it your are great
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That guy is the best.
Great INFO!! now i know this isn’t for me, and i thank you for that! Goodluck!
I just bought a truck for scrapping, I was actually using my pontiac vibe just like this guy and it worked fine, you don't need a truck to get into it!
A truck is definitely an upgrade though! My poor vibe really needs new struts, haha
Pontiac Vibe is the working man's Toyota Matrix.
I'm trying to learn. Thanks a million
You are a good teacher^^thanks thub-have a nice weekend!Greetings from Germany
great information. good luck to you!
Comprehensive guide mate. Appreciate it!
Thank you so much. I'm just getting started and this helped so much..
Nice vid, I need to make a video about scrap metal. I’ll be loading up a 30 Yd load of scrap tomorrow
I got the same pair dude. they really are great Pliers.
Much appreciated.
I did trip when you said that your dream-tool would be a band-saw, since I had just had a conversation with my brother about cleaning a bunch of transformers that ended with "but who's got a bandsaw?
And then TH-cam did some kind of "enhancement upgrade" thing and I had to reload the page..
Good stuff.
Not scrapping, "they" won't let me drive (even though I haven't had a wreck that was my fault since '79 or '80) Making art. Wire, and the transformer's from the microwaves off the street are going into a Lichtenberg burner.
Like you attitude, bro.
Namaste
Thanks for the advice. Saved to watch later to go over again when I get some stuff together.
great video, well spoken and to the point,
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You're ignorant of the business and the trade and just wrong.
Nice and informative, Thub! Scrapping as a hobby, but me and the boys still make extra money from it. The Netherlands is different as well, at least in my area. All insulated wire is just insulated wire, at a good price. All aluminium except for rims are the same. I just keep the extruded heatsinks for making molds.
Best strategy.. get a collection of empty barrels and start sorting everything you're collecting. And get heavy duty tin snips a 4lb sledge and a cordless power screwdriver with multiple every kind of attachment imaginable take it apart when you find it save time and energy. Use milk crates in your car or barrels in your truck or in your backyard. Make it easy and satisfying.
Very clear and concise with his explanations.
cast iron tubs are worth way more in resell value than for scrap. people want them and they are willing to drive to you to pick them up.
ejradrenalin good point. this is something that a lot of new scrappers don’t think about. They just see metal. But u also need a place to store while u sell.
@@beardedscrapper538 been scraping for over 30 years amd sold many cast iron tubs. Would never think of scraping one. People willing to pay 300 plus for one
I used to scrap up until 2009; until the bottom fell out of prices. I still hoard scrap in hopes of a better market. Anyway, there is a beautiful art to scraping. It looks as though you have discovered this art!
That's about where I am too. When the price of scrap fell of a cliff, I stopped bringing it in. Now my backyard is separated into giant piles of different metals. Even at today's prices I've probably got $2,500 or more back there. It's at least 20 truck loads.
I agree it's a art and passion
@@christophchamberlain8025 AGREED! And you never get too old to enjoy it!
Thanks bud, great information to help me get organized.
Thank you for the introduction
Thank you for the vid, lots of good valuable info. I appreciate ur time I'm a newbie and in this field info is equivalent to $$$ and scrap yards are not going to educate or advise you of the best ways to clean scrap because then they have to pay you more for it. Who wants to pay more for anything? Or to anyone? The more you learn about scraping the more you can make! IMO thats my 2 cents...lol
Been a scrapper for years , its nice for extra gas money or you can do it as a full time job . Ive always recycled in upstate ny , I always go for the good metals like copper , brass and aluminum and insulated wire . Nowadays metal prices are really low. Great video Thub , very informative and helpful for people who are just starting out.
Awesome video..great advice. I work in an auto repair shop. Pleanty of shops on my block. Many shops just leave all metal outside, I didn't realize it was worth this much ..
Well done video, I use to scrap and that's how I use to take my vacation to Vegas, but dont have time to do it now
Great content! Even though I’m not a scraper, you put a lot of great information for everyone! If we don’t start taking better care of the environment it’s going to disappear and we really won’t have to worry about it!!! Plus now if I see a scraper, I’ll know what to give them to help them out.
lmvicente1 I always think of the Indian with a tear in his eye, because of all the garbage...
This video isn't about scraping, its about scrapping.
So you fall directly into the emotional trap the advertisers lay out for you. Oh, not that I am Pro-litter, not at all! I Hate seeing so much trash on the streets. But it is nothing to do with the Indians, it is to do with poor environmental conscientiousness. I see it most in poorer neighborhoods where people are renters, not 'invested' in their neighborhoods. Just a fact of life, I've worked in and observed such for over 20 years.
The biggest service scrappers are doing for the world is keeping metals like copper out of landfills. Everyone seems to be pushing Electric Cars... between them and charging stations, any idea how much Copper That will require?Literally TONS! When copper hits a landfill, it will Never be recovered, recycled or reused.
Keep up the good work, scrappers!
Would you consider melting down the metals to save room and also more consistent product or do you think it would be more work than you get paid for?
@@daveridge1852 a lot of yards won't take melted ingots because they can't tell purity or whether it's got contaminants in it
I dig up a lot of farm junk when metal detecting
Thanks for the video, I work at a recycling centre in the UK, I’m trying to understand how to pick the best electrical items off the belt. Fascinating. I might not get to do any at home, but might increase my hours/pay. Have a great week!
Thanks for video. Spent 2 hours stripping cAble wire and I had no idea its not true copper wire lol. Well I'm new to it. Also had some welding wire I found in trash pile at work. Found out its not any good either. Cheers
Very very good! And very informative! Thank you very much! Just FYI, I'm in the states, Michigan. My yard pays $10 a pound for computer RAM sticks.
OK so for me the thing is scrapping isn't always a "great thing" because there are people like myself that could USE bed frames for example to make other things!! After all most steel bed frames use angle iron which can be welded to make light weight frames for things like saw stands (for miter saws and table saws) and you could even weld the angle iron together to make a truck bed or even make a homemade trailer out of it!!! BUT most scrappers forget there are "makers" out there like myself that would actually PAY THEM MORE THAN THE SCRAP YARD, if we had access to some of your "treasures" first, BEFORE you took them to the scrap yard!! Like for myself I am a HUGE DIY PERSON!!! I love to take old junk and make tools for myself or repurpose things!! I am STILL looking for many parts that scrappers make NO MONEY ON AT ALL but they scrap these items EVERY DAY for pennies when I would give them money for parts I need!! FOR EXAMPLE, I would pay a scrapper $20 (US) for a fuse box (from under the hood) from a Jeep or other make or model truck with a few feet of wire attached to it!! The SCRAP YARD does NOT care if the fuse box is gone or not, and Bleepin' Jeep (on TH-cam) shows how these fuse boxes can be re-purposed as an auxiliary fuse box for added wiring in an off road truck or could be used in other applications like (for me) use in a 12 volt solar array or wind turbine power source!! Another item I could seriously use are old lawn tractors, I am older now, and mainly disabled, so a couple of tractors I would be willing to mix and match parts from to make ONE RUNNING tractor WOULD help me out greatly!! I don't have $300 to buy a used running tractor, and I certainly DO NOT HAVE $4000 or more for a decent brand new one, BUT I do have experience with repairing them so a couple $50 or $100 are well within my spending range if there is enough parts on both to make ONE WORKING tractor!! And face it a scrap yard might only give you at times $50 for two tractors.......together, if the price of "mixed tin" is down......I know I have scrapped totally stripped out tractors that didn't have enough parts on them to say they were "tractors" to start with!! ALSO guys that scrap ARE AT TIMES STUPID!!!!! And I say that with the logic of they think "why part something out what they can make $10 NOW immediately?"
Consider this, a few years ago my son in law was scrapping and he got a contract to haul off a bunch of furnaces!! The first load he took to the scrap yard and ONLY GOT $35 for the first load, and I TOLD HIM "You are retarded!" and when he asked me why I would say such a thing I told him "the guns (the part that makes the heat) are valuable, and they are worth a lot of money!!!!" He told me I didn't know what I was talking about!! So when he got the second load I asked him for the gun assembly out of one of them!! He agreed, and I took the gun to a heating repair company and had them "tune it"! It cost me $35 for the gun he gave me!! The thing is a furnace gun assemble CAN BE USED to convert an old furnace to another fuel source (so you can use a gas gun in most oil furnaces or vise versa) and brand new these guns start at around $600 each to make the conversion. After I had this gun tuned I posted an ad on Craig's List for the used gun and with my receipt in hand to show it had just been tuned up, I charged $150 for the used gun!!! I had 20 people contact me on this furnace gun, and the guy who bought it drove three hours to my house to buy it, because he wanted to install a gas gun in an old oil furnace, which with the gun assembly is a snap!! The thing is had my son in law listened to me, he could have made $1700 ($2400 less the $35 to test and tune each one) from selling those used gun assemblies, but instead chose to ignore me as he thought I was stupid, and only made around $200 from them as scrap metal!! So in the end had I gotten the contract to haul off the furnaces I could have TRIPLED MY MONEY from those same furnaces just by salvaging the gun assemblies out of them!! But he thinks like a lot of scrappers do in the "instant cash pay out" instead of looking at the larger "market value" of certain items!! And with Letgo and Craig's List, if you post just one ad to sell certain things you can make far more money off of "junk" then what you might get just by scrapping stuff as well!!! So in some cases some scrappers are extremely STUPID for giving away metal that could be used elsewhere AS IT IS!!! In one case (with the same son in law) he scrapped over $6000 worth of tools then laughed that he made only $45 at the scrap yard for them!! And I am NOT LYING ABOUT THIS, because I was with him and watched he toss box after box of used wrenches, sockets and other tools into the scrap pile at the yard!! But he NEVER TOLD ME what he had on his load, and later when I showed him what those tools sold for online he said "But I needed the money NOW!!!" Sorry but I would rather have $200 in my pocket then $45 from scrapping things other people might be able to use!!!
And replying to my reply above here, I forgot to mention that a scrap yard WILL NOT pay you anything for a fuse box to start with out of a car!! Because it is mostly plastic so to them it isn't even "weight" and they certainly will NOT miss the .00002 cents of weight the missing fuse box will give you!! And equally I am willing to pay $50 for a 100 amp house breaker box too if it is in decent shape. And to put this into perspective a typical 100 amp service box (the kind you find inside a house) at the scrap yard will only give you about $2 to $5 worth its weight even if you DO NOT strip the cooper out of it!! So which would you rather have? $2 to $5 for a house service breaker box or $50 for one??? Sorry but here again scrappers are some times the most stupid people going, because they want $5 instead of $50!! And I personally can think of about four different things I could use a 100 service box for including the use in a Wind Turbine and Solar Combiner Boxes to reusing these to make a safe place for AC connections in for a solar wind array situation!! There are people OUT THERE LIKE ME that could use these parts but scrappers only want the "$5 NOW" logic when they are killing themselves to make that $5 when they could be making a lot more as I already said!! Heck I was at my local scrap yard and watched a guy unload a motorcycle in parts, then he was "happy" when he was in the office ahead of me to get just $25 for the ENTIRE LOAD he dumped off!! In the parking lot I told him "If you have of read my post on Craig's List Wanted Section I would have given you $50 for that motorcycle you just dumped off!" And he told me to my face I was an asshole, just because he refused to look at the Craig's List post I mentioned!! And personally I could have used the coil over springs off the bike he scrapped which is why the bike was worth $50 to me!!! And keep in mind he would have had $25 more in his pocket had he just read my ad!!!! I since stopped posting to Craig's List, because apparently NOBODY FREAKIN' READS THEM!!! Heck I would LOVE to have about four motorcycle headlight assemblies too!! But I don't want to pay $100 from a brand new one EACH (totaling $400) when I can just as easily drive to a salvage yard and get them for $10 each all day long!! And if I had somebody contact me off my Craig's list posts life would have been so much easier for me and profitable for somebody else!!!
Greg Benwell Wow, thanks for sharing your perspective on the topic! Fascinating insight!
+Greg Benwell where are you located ?
I completely agree. I'm a diy enthusiast. I build stuff with used parts, mostly because I love building things. I got into scrapping because I found out I could get money from the empty tin shell after removing all the parts from a microwave, washing machine, or old pool heater.
Haha some people just can't think all the way when theirs a chance go get more value from it they don't realize it
This is actually very helpful and I think I found a hobby I like
New here looking for fun ways with my husband to make easy cash and this video is informative and great bonus he actually watched it with me
Yyyeeeeessssss more content from thub keep it coming pal
that intro was clever
Dude..... when I was 15 my Grandfather and I got the salvage rights to a huge rowhouse of apartments. 300 in total. Every one of them had the old claw cast bathtubs. TONS of cast.... the tubs....sewer pipes (with lead joints) and TONS of copper, brass and composites. We made a killing!! Really wish we kept those tubs now....instead of smashing them with sledgehammers....LOL. People pay A LOT for them. Anyway.... have my own place now and thinking about getting back into it. THANKS!!
Being a scrap seller is kinda fun and it’s actually good for the environment ( since things get recycled) It’s a great way to make money and you get to learn the different types of non ferrous metals/ even though there’s ferrous metals also.
I love being able to feel good about the way I make some money ☺️