Copper Recovery from Small Transformers

Trying to recovery copper a different way from small transformers using small 110v hammer mill pulverizer to pulverize transformers then run it through blue bowl to separate copper from junk.
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[@tntmadness3138]

Thanks for sharing. I like the progression of the channel. Keep up the awesome content.

[@julianalcorso5703]

Yet another great experiment. Keep it up and well done

[@douglloyd3802]

You need to mag out the ferrite before you run in through the hammer mill each time. This way you’ll get a much cleaner copper product. I never saw you Mag out anything. Ferrite can go in your steel scrap bucket.

[@rixismetals]

Interesting method 👍😁

[@scrapping4shiba]

You call them non-ferrous transformers, however they are ferrous. It's a ceramic or manganese/steel, but it's definitely magnetic, and can be sold to the scrap yard for tin shred price.

[@MetalScrapLab]

I agree they are ferrous in that way, but I meant that its not a standard steel shell because it would be difficult or impossible for the machine to break it.

[@scrapping4shiba]

@@MetalScrapLab yes, it's not the usual "E and I" steel plates, true.

[@wszechmocnieuzdolniony]

Witam witam i pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱👍👍👍 Good job 👍👍👍

[@testeconta4415]

Hi, Great Video! Could you tell me the name the last machine, that uses water?

[@hobbyscrapper3576]

What kind of milk is that I have a lot of transformers from circuit boards and would like to get the copper out of them, but they’re very time-consuming to do by hand

[@NowInAus]

Lovely. What are your long term plans for this equipment and process?

[@MetalScrapLab]

Recovering gold from PCB components. Knowing what this machine can do, I will shop on eBay for high grade boards and components that difficult to process without this kind of machine is where I will have advantage.

[@judicare]

Can I ask what type of grinder that is? It's brilliant. Ps channel is really good thanks for posting these

[@MetalScrapLab]

Its a DF-40S hammer mill pulverizer. Mine is 110v, I thinks it's 2200 watt motor.

[@judicare]

Thank you very much for that. Its ideal for what I am looking for. Can you put cut sections of cable into it without a mesh to pre shred?

[@MetalScrapLab]

@judicare I tried to pre shred wires with wood chipper as fine as I can, because they can easily clog the tunnel. I don't know how long is your sections of cable, but if you can fit it through feeding tunnel then you can pre shred without screen. I got this machine for pulverizing pcb components mostly, I'm not really into wires copper recovery, it's that I had plenty of wires laying around so might as well as process them.

[@bearhardcorepicker]

Good video. Would be curious as to what sort of $ power was consumed.

[@MetalScrapLab]

As close as I can get I ran it for about 15-20 minutes in total so maybe 8-12 cents in electricity based on Florida rates.

[@awldune]

Electricity in most of the USA is essentially free for these purposes, less than $.20 / KWH

[@jensvolkmann5544]

Whats is this Machine? wher can i by it?

[@jasonpeters3228]

Seems like you could of cleaned it in 3 minutes by picking the trash out by hand after the first run for #2 copper.

[@MetalScrapLab]

yes, I could of but then I would miss out on playing with the blue bowl ))

[@jasonpeters3228]

I agree that is more fun and a better video. You might have added 20 cents value though going #2 to #1 copper.@@MetalScrapLab

[@johncooper4637]

Lets see, you ended up with about 1/3 the weight and increased the value by 3. Other than I thought it was neat and it beats the hell out of the hammer mill I made, you did not gain any advantage. I have a bunch of circuit boards to do so I will look closely at this method.

[@MetalScrapLab]

Thanks for pointing that out, I think my math was way off don't know why I said by 3. 1969 grams (4.34 lb) x 0.20 cents/lb = 86 cents. Maybe #2 copper 599 grams (1.32 lb) x $3.20/lb = $4.23. $4.23 - $0.86 = $3.37 added value. You can check my math but I think the weight was reduced by 3 like you said but increased the overall value by 4.9 times. My math could be way off again.

[@adamparks9037]

Damn bro that's a whole lot of unnecessary bulshit

[@javed1039]

Good try but the worst Technic I ever seen