Hey guys it’s finally here, my biggest motor melt down yet. I apologise for the extended video as there’s a heap of melting and pouring involved but it was definitely worth doing for sure , thanks again to everyone who help me get to the 1 million now let’s see if I can get to 2🤔🤞🏻. I hope everyone has a great weekend BSafe and I’ll see you all soon, and thanks again👋🏻😀
@Júlio Carlo I'm in the US and with our economy right now is Insanely bizarre right now. Even so I wouldn't take the time nor spend the $. If the return is less then the output. Unless he has unlimited funds, and just does it as a hobby. That must be nice.
I'm a blacksmith myself and I just love molten metal. Remarkable how much you got out of this motor. I also like the idea that nothing is wasted, even the resin is recycled. 😊
I know it's amazing and imagine how many bolsters you could make out of it that's the reason why I started getting into metal melting, I've melted down 2 miles worth at my estimate of copper for knife making and about a 1/4 of brass ahha
I work in places that use similar sized and bigger motors. The labor to repair them is prohibitive compared to the labor to build a new one in a mostly automated factory. The only non recyclable part of these is the plastic anyway.
Absolutely love watching these video with my dad who has dementia, old school construction worker, this helps him calm down and focus.. keeps him grounded for awhile.
Let’s all hear it for bigstackD. Think about all the time he spends on breaking these old motors down. Not just this big one, he spends time on all motors he disassembles. All for the enjoyment of us. So that we loyal viewers can watch this metal melting god do his work. So big hands for bigstackD. Congrats on the one million subs
@@goober-ll1wx Obviously that's what is happening on a molecular level, but people generally don't think about things as frozen unless they fall below the freezing temperature of water. Hence my comment acknowledging that bias. Don't be such a douchebag.
No not in this motor, this motor has a squirrel cage rotor, and made up of silica iron, same material as the stator, and aluminum bars that are casted inside of the iron of the rotor.
Hey BigStack! I used to work in a motor repair shop. The way we pulled the windings out of a motor that size was to use an air chisel to cut one of the ends off the winding, then use a flame wand to burn off all the varnish. The coils would just pull out of the other end. Lot less messy.
@@yaykruser You use a bigger torch if the little one does not work. you just have to get enough heat in there to decompose the varnish, it does not need to be red hot, just around 400C for the varnish and epoxy to vanish completely.
This video brought back a lot of memories. I worked for my brother as an Electrician's helper and I collected all scrap coppers for 2 years and I saved around 1.5k lbs, and copper was $2.75/lb. when I sold them and made $4,065. BTW, I don't burn the insulation, I meticulously and patiently stripped them by hand using nothing but, my handy knife.
There's different grades of copper too.. Grades 3, 2, and 1.. The scale is based on how clean your copper is.. The last time I took copper back here in Detroit, it was $2.55/lb (pound) for grade #1... You got the most for grade #1... Grade #3 you got the least .. This was about 2 years ago.. & yes, I have heard that scrape prices have gone up
@@cricketthebeardie325 I get it, because iron(atomic number 26, also known as Fe) is a metal. And irony is the concept of utilizing language, that signifies the opposite, as a humorous device. By combining these two, you make use of word play, which is the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words, especially in puns. The result is a clever ‘pun’. Thank you for posting this comment on the TH-cam media platform for everyone to enjoy. Sincerely, John
@@cricketthebeardie325 My apologies, in my rush to get my point across, I forgot to elaborate why - or perhaps how - I found it witty. It all began when I was five years of age. My mother and I - henceforth “we” - would always think up new ways to transfigure everyday words into peculiar variations of said words. Results were often ridiculous in nature and we’d resort to laughter upon the realisation that our concoction of words bore no meaning. Though, through trial and error, I slowly began to comprehend the concept of irony and chucklesome nature behind it. Hopefully my explanation could reinforce the concepts I inferred in my previous comment. Sincerely, John
@@cricketthebeardie325 Excuse the brisk follow-up. I made no effort to explain what a comment is. A comment - in our context - is a linguistic device employed to spark interest and build dialogue in social interactions. The lack of comments often results in bland conversation and awkward undertones. This isn’t to be confused with comments employed in computer science, however. Those are a different story. Sincerely, John
@@cricketthebeardie325 I realize that, by now, you must be aching to know how I ended up on this particular comment on Australia based TH-cam Channel ‘bigstackD’. It showed up on my feed; I clicked on it; and saw your comment. Sincerely, John
Hi everyone. That was just awesome. I’m sitting down in my front room in jolly ole London U.K. and just got taken away from where I am for 34 minutes. Just loved watching this film. Well I love copper, it’s everywhere round here In scrap electrical cable and motors. Thanks again. Best wishes to you all.
I worked in a foundry melting scrap aluminium to make small Aluminium castings. Corrosion and feeding the cold scrap too quickly into the molten metal would often cause explosions. This was in the days before Safety PPE so it was every man for himself as we scattered before the flying molten metal could land on us.
You deserve all of your success. I'm blown away by this content. It is described by 'TvTropes' as "simple", however I think this is far from true. The formula for the videos is simple - Get something, chop it up, melt it down... But then when you really watch the content, it's carefully made to provide an entertaining yet informative experience. The inside jokes: the pups; the beers; the weird socks; the hidden food; Mr whippy and the random activities/props, all prove that these videos are thought out and purpose built for entertainment. Not to mention the awesome treasure room. You're a modern day pirate. Excellent work. I'm glad I found this channel.
If you ever take on a beast like this again, try cutting out front "crown", one where blue leads were and burning stator with your flamethrowers. Varnish and paper burn out and copper should come out very easily from the back. Should work on smaller motors too,down to about 3kW.
Yeah part of my job I do everyday is overhauling huge motors like this to extract all the copper. Cutting off the crown and throwing the stators into a fire pit and just letting them burn is definitely the way to go. One everything burns off of the copper, the copper will just slide out of the stator pretty easily
Yeah, was gonna say, wouldnt it be much easier to just cut that in half lengthwise and just split it apart to pluck out the wire instead of layer by layer?
@@KanriXD you can actually hear him speak in his earliest videos! He does have a pleasant voice but I'm not sure what @blindolakase means as he doesn't speak on this video or any of the recent ones. Their username makes me wonder if they are blind? so perhaps they have TH-cam set up to read outloud the subtitles BigstackedD uses?
The roar of the furnace, the sheen of liquid metal, the cooling sound of the ice, all these things have a special meaning for me. Thank you for what you do, congrats on the milestone, and wishing you and yours all the best. On a side note, my new job has me dealing with steel all day, so seeing 60 pounds of finished product and imagining moving it inside is something I know a lot about.
All I can say is WOW. Awesome work. I bet this type of work is a great stress reliever. I once dated a girl that would find gold and do the same thing with the same tools. Many thanks for sharing with the community.
That trick where you put bolts inside where you were chiseling the housing apart was crucial. Don't want that to spring back and bite your fingers off!
Honestly i am extremly happy that you've surpassed your 1m subs goal, its been an honour to watch you grow since i started watching when you only had 2 shelves full😊 and it will continue to be an honour to watch you creep towards the 1tonn mark😋 keep doing you BigstackD🤙🏼❤
A company I worked for used to buy these used motors all the time, they are super heavy-duty and most of the time can be still used or repaired for a lot cheaper than the cost of a new one. Some of the companies near me, especially Procter and Gamble, used to tear down entire process lines and just "junk" everything, so the resellers that bought up the entire line used to have all these motors and tanks and other stuff we'd buy used. Saved so much money.
You don't realize how primitive the electric motor is - until you take apart one of this size! Practically pre-historic in shape and proportion. A great melt-down job - as usual! Thanks for the ride-along!
I agree we care about you and your health idk where that pizza came from even though it looked so god dang delicious even I would have done the same stay awesome and healthy 😊
I've been gone for a year. I see you have a second devil forge. Congrats! Thank you for doing your part cleaning up the environment and entertaining the masses. You still teach to this day, impressive.
that thing looked solid as hell. Imagine my surprise when he took the air hammer to it and I learn that it's nothing by sheets of metal around those wires!
@@kransurfing not really. that thing would go into a shredder and be separated after the fact on the other side in bits. Maybe in india or somewhere the labour is cheap but not a professional recycler.
I worked in a recycling yard when I left school and loved doing this sort of stuff and playing with the big machines, it was a great outlet for my adhd
Here was me thinking the 461kg motor was going to get you pretty close to the 1 tonne goal, clearly I didn't think it would only be the copper coming from it 😆 thank you for the big effort of the breakdown, melting and editing it truly was worth the effort and was a pleasure to watch 😋
No worries at all my friend, my name is Dion 👋🏻. I just finished today’s videos upload so should be out in five hours and I’m just about to open the beer fridge and start enjoying my weekend. Have a great day.
The consistency of thickness on those ingots, Very impressive. Could feel the flow... pours kept getting more consistent, Most of those were almost identical.
Why were you making them so small? Not that I am judging, but you have a lot of metal to do, why not do multiple larger ingots to go through what you melted faster? Is it just a preference because it melts faster than it freezes?
@@kevinclarke8795 The mold was getting too hot. I’m assuming he only has one. It doesn’t melt faster than it freezes but while it’s freezing in the mold it’s also freezing in the crucible.
I'm a mechanic for a motor shop and last time we sold out scrap motors it was about $0.15 a pound, almost an entire shipping container is worth about $6k-$8k when we sold it. Price used to be about $0.40 a pound. Tons of work to process and refine that all, pretty sure it's just sent overseas
It is by sheer dumb luck that I found your channel, whether it’s TH-cam algorithm, recommended views or Karma, I’m so glad I did. I can’t wait to watch this video tonight while enjoying my own frosty beverage. My laser temperature reader is on order!!
Yes I definitely did do it the hard way but the whole time I had the headphones in listening to some awesome music I had the beers running freely nice and cold and it was a good little workout and the end result was pretty good. I’m happy with the way it all worked out at the end of the day👊🏻😁
Автор, спасибо за интересное видео! Несколько замечаний (от человека, который в СССР, будучи ребенком, сдавал медь в 1993-1995 г., и даже купил себе на вырученные деньги мотоцикл): 1. При обрезке медного провода болгаркой (AEG) , вы теряете много меди (copper dust - это лишь малая часть что вы компенсировали от потерь ). 2. Достаточно острым (или заточенным) зубилом сбить (срезать) одну из "корон" кабеля мотора (при этом пыли и потерь меди почти не будет). 3. Потом с другой стороны мотора, с помощью монтировки или домкрата, вытягиваем "П" образные фрагменты медной проводки (это практически 0% потери меди). Попробуйте пожалуйста этот метод. Это быстро и без потери металла.
@@ПоПриколу-ч7я представь: ты ниндзя, проник на заводской склад. там куча моторов, но тебе не обязательно (и не возможно) выносить их на горбу...для ценного достаточно рюкзака. Какими были вводные условия, такими и варианты решения. Тут автору просто по кайфу кромсать моторы. Вводные немного другие 😀
Мы тоже также делали. В мет комбинате нерабочие двигатели разбирали на медь 90+ года,зубило, молоток и монтировкой норм так можно разобрать на перекуре) только текстолит трудно было выбивать из канавок, потом собирали корпуса движков обратно и как бы ничего не случилось на место ставили, всё равно их потом пускали в печь на плавку. Бывало вагонами даже привозили таких движков на металлолом.
@@oldchunkofcoal2774 that metal was worth more before he “processed it” if you any metals like copper wire or piping bring it to recyclers in that condition don’t melt it down.
This isn't even a big motor-maybe 250 HP. I'm a motor winder and these are at the small end of motors I do. It was sad to see such pretty windings get torn up.
Man, your buddy's going to be shocked when he sees the load of iron and steel you've got for him this time! Once in a while, I wonder what your neighbors must think? Like when they see the flames of your forge glowing brightly in the night, or when you got that giant motor delivered? And then I remember that I don't care what they think; I just think you're awesome and love your channel~
* Neighbor after reading some Roman mythology * Welp, looks like my neighbor is actually **Vulcan and he's hard at work. ** the god, not the pointy-eared folks from Star Trek.
It's money, dude. I imagine it's a hobby he enjoys. Only the hippies with absolutely no understanding of economics or this world in general think it's about rEcYcLiNg. When recycling becomes non profitable, they stop recycling. "Sustainability" is centered around myths like climate change and green energy to scare you into compliance to their slavery based "utopia" which is really a dystopian nightmare for the common man. Nothing like an existential crisis to whip people into obedience. Blind by fear to the hypocrisy and contradictory edicts of the beast .
@@иваниванов-ж8л5д я так ради интереса пролистал комменты. В основном крики найс джоб и амазинг!!!! Кароч нравится им. Потому и мильен. На рутубе он столько не насобирал бы. Бомжи ему фору в 100 очков дадут. А тут "контентъ". Извращение.
I'm glad I found this. I've never seen this done before. I like the brickwork on your driveway. I'm thinking I'd like to try something like this to cover my oily mess.
I've been anticipating this for a while now and it did not disappoint! The amount of work 🤯 but it is so cool to see the finished bars! Thanks for doing this!
That is a great project, fun to watch, really! On the next of those big ones you could see if you can get one of the sealing strips out, that might save a lot of work. Every slot in the stator is being closed with one of them, usually plastic, pertinax, sometimes wood. They slide in last during manufacturing, compress the windings in the slot and seal it towards the rotor. The two winding heads need to go first of course. We did that with a sharp chisel in the past. Less dirt.
This is so far the biggest & best melting I've ever seen. 😍 Loved the liquid copper in sunlight, it looked fantastic ❤️ Thanks bigstackD for spending so much time & energy for us subscribers. 🥰 #BigstackDArmy
Love the channel Bigstackd. Some suggestions I have for future melts - use borax or some other flux, as this will prevent oxygen from reaching the metal and will reduce how much metal converts to slag. This is especially helpful for powder melting. If you have a ball mill, crushing up slag and mixing it with powdered carbon (ex, charcoal) will help reduce the oxides back into the metal, making slag melts more efficient.
My eyes... Такого извращения я давно не видел. Спилил с одной стороны обмотку, с другой срезал стяжки, нагрел статор до температуры плавления лака и выдергивай пока горячее.
Hey big stack, a low quality / compact cement mixer with gravel in it works great for knocking the scale off castings. Much less hands on time and an attractive finish. Add water to the mix to keep dust down during the process. CHEERS
that entire process of stripping that motor down seemed so therapeutic to me, might try out our scrappy and have a go just to help with my PTSD 🥰🥰🥰 Amazing video 👍
Congrats on 1 mil of us! I don't even know how long I've subbed for you!? All I remember was when I first started you were doing the "Melt the wife's stuff" routine! Here's to 2 mil!
How good are Drooley's pizzas. I once snuck an entire pizza into Grand Cinemas. 5mins into the movie I heard someone call out "Did someone smuggle in a Pizza? Great work on the new haul mate.
@@neko_nixxy No. It was bad enough I had to share with the friend sitting next to me. We hid it in a target bag between two Lego sets. Back then the staff checked everything for "outside food".
AEG ? I see ... i see a man of culture and style. Honestly now.... that HUGE Motor is a beast ! And i loved every second of your breakdown and melting session :)
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Hey guys it’s finally here, my biggest motor melt down yet. I apologise for the extended video as there’s a heap of melting and pouring involved but it was definitely worth doing for sure , thanks again to everyone who help me get to the 1 million now let’s see if I can get to 2🤔🤞🏻.
I hope everyone has a great weekend BSafe and I’ll see you all soon, and thanks again👋🏻😀
Ok
Ok love your vids
I'll be right here when you hit 2 mil.
Don’t apologize for the long vid! I for one truly love longer videos! Cheers mate!
Love your stuff mate keeper up!
I really like how he had the value measured in so many different currencies
the unicorn book got me
@@CruiseCrew hey this is the best melting channel on youtube what you expecting
@@dominikjakubcik6352 Honestly what do they expect. The unicorn book is a MUST.
$266 US?? How much did you pay for the motor if you don't mind. I live in Philadelphia and these fools shoot at each other over a 5' 1/2" pipe. Lol
@Júlio Carlo I'm in the US and with our economy right now is Insanely bizarre right now. Even so I wouldn't take the time nor spend the $. If the return is less then the output. Unless he has unlimited funds, and just does it as a hobby. That must be nice.
I'm a blacksmith myself and I just love molten metal. Remarkable how much you got out of this motor.
I also like the idea that nothing is wasted, even the resin is recycled. 😊
I know it's amazing and imagine how many bolsters you could make out of it that's the reason why I started getting into metal melting, I've melted down 2 miles worth at my estimate of copper for knife making and about a 1/4 of brass ahha
The motor was wasted it could have been repaired
@@fudomyoo9762 Maybe the motor wasn't needed anymore because the stator and bearings were nice and in pristine condition
@@fudomyoo9762 Considering the giant punch hole in the case that was there before he started dismantling, that motor was not worth saving.
I work in places that use similar sized and bigger motors. The labor to repair them is prohibitive compared to the labor to build a new one in a mostly automated factory. The only non recyclable part of these is the plastic anyway.
We all know the truth, BigstackD: everything up to this point was just a means to justify buying that giant air hammer.
Buds that's just a mid size hammer drill. You should really see some of the big boy kit
Thats electric
@@jamescameron6819 dont they have vehicles with big versions of that for tearing planes and ships apart
@@jamescameron6819 As someone who as used a 90 lb chopping gun I hope I never see another one in my life.
I can second that it's electric and it's a junk off brand of tools... you can pick this up for under $200 anywhere.. it's some chinese company..
Absolutely love watching these video with my dad who has dementia, old school construction worker, this helps him calm down and focus.. keeps him grounded for awhile.
Let’s all hear it for bigstackD. Think about all the time he spends on breaking these old motors down. Not just this big one, he spends time on all motors he disassembles. All for the enjoyment of us. So that we loyal viewers can watch this metal melting god do his work. So big hands for bigstackD. Congrats on the one million subs
👊🏻😁
@@bigstackD 👊🏻 keep it up
Hear hear!
@@bigstackD you not worried about getting robbed
@@spankthemonkey3437 who’s gonna rob him? You don’t even know what he looks like?
The inside of that thing looked remarkably good for the condition it was in. The rotor was spinning freely and everything. Well constructed.
It probably still worked. I'd bet it came off an old machine that was decommissioned and wasn't worth salvaging parts from
WEG makes the best electric motors
Honestly, I felt like shedding a few tears watching him savage what was obviously a perfectly good motor.
Mr. Gone.
I had assumed one of the windings was shorted to the chassis?
I love how you can see the true copper color in the sunlight even as it pours. It's quite beautiful.
I was thinking the same!
your mind wants to drink it
@@pedropedrohan102 Truly a forbidden drink.
@@GamerLoggos very hot orange juice
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I had honestly never considered a hardening liquid metal as freezing, but now I don't know how I ever thought differently.
Imagine the complexities of life across the universe. There could be a lifeform that could litterally evaporate from the heat in front of us.
that is actually what it is doing lol. never thought of that myself
Any liquid to a solid state is called freezing, did you go to school?
@@goober-ll1wx Obviously that's what is happening on a molecular level, but people generally don't think about things as frozen unless they fall below the freezing temperature of water. Hence my comment acknowledging that bias. Don't be such a douchebag.
@@goober-ll1wxNo it's not it's called solidification or being solidified😂
Mr. Whippy doesn't take "no" for an answer! I really enjoyed the long breakdown here, lots of bits to this motor.
This was the stator.
Isn't there copper still to be processed from the armature?
No not in this motor, this motor has a squirrel cage rotor, and made up of silica iron, same material as the stator, and aluminum bars that are casted inside of the iron of the rotor.
@@caymanplantz8643 thank you for explaining.
Hey BigStack! I used to work in a motor repair shop. The way we pulled the windings out of a motor that size was to use an air chisel to cut one of the ends off the winding, then use a flame wand to burn off all the varnish. The coils would just pull out of the other end. Lot less messy.
Yeah, but does a blow tourch even heat up the metall so much that the plastic melts ?
Nice tip. Would you heat the copper directly from the inside? Or heat the stator from the outside?
@@yaykruser You use a bigger torch if the little one does not work. you just have to get enough heat in there to decompose the varnish, it does not need to be red hot, just around 400C for the varnish and epoxy to vanish completely.
@@SeanBZA DQ as
@@frankmurphy5 Iwould go from the inside so the heat and hot air gets trapped...
This video brought back a lot of memories. I worked for my brother as an Electrician's helper and I collected all scrap coppers for 2 years and I saved around 1.5k lbs, and copper was $2.75/lb. when I sold them and made $4,065. BTW, I don't burn the insulation, I meticulously and patiently stripped them by hand using nothing but, my handy knife.
Thats surprisingly cheap. I though copper was expensive.
@@NarutoSSj6 it's currently around $4.50 USD!
Clean copper was $10/kg a few weeks ago!!!!! Crazy high. I was getting $8.50 for burnt copper
Currency is AUD
There's different grades of copper too.. Grades 3, 2, and 1.. The scale is based on how clean your copper is.. The last time I took copper back here in Detroit, it was $2.55/lb (pound) for grade #1... You got the most for grade #1... Grade #3 you got the least .. This was about 2 years ago.. & yes, I have heard that scrape prices have gone up
Работа металлургов всегда вызывала уважение. Интересное видео, однозначно - лайк👍
только вот это работа падальщика 🤣
Thank you for giving your dogs a moment in the spotlight, they deserve it
No they don't
The irony of working in a foundry and then I come home and watch these all night... Lol.
It's literally irony
@@cricketthebeardie325 I get it, because iron(atomic number 26, also known as Fe) is a metal. And irony is the concept of utilizing language, that signifies the opposite, as a humorous device. By combining these two, you make use of word play, which is the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words, especially in puns.
The result is a clever ‘pun’.
Thank you for posting this comment on the TH-cam media platform for everyone to enjoy.
Sincerely,
John
@@cricketthebeardie325 My apologies, in my rush to get my point across, I forgot to elaborate why - or perhaps how - I found it witty.
It all began when I was five years of age. My mother and I - henceforth “we” - would always think up new ways to transfigure everyday words into peculiar variations of said words. Results were often ridiculous in nature and we’d resort to laughter upon the realisation that our concoction of words bore no meaning.
Though, through trial and error, I slowly began to comprehend the concept of irony and chucklesome nature behind it.
Hopefully my explanation could reinforce the concepts I inferred in my previous comment.
Sincerely,
John
@@cricketthebeardie325 Excuse the brisk follow-up. I made no effort to explain what a comment is.
A comment - in our context - is a linguistic device employed to spark interest and build dialogue in social interactions. The lack of comments often results in bland conversation and awkward undertones.
This isn’t to be confused with comments employed in computer science, however. Those are a different story.
Sincerely,
John
@@cricketthebeardie325 I realize that, by now, you must be aching to know how I ended up on this particular comment on Australia based TH-cam Channel ‘bigstackD’.
It showed up on my feed; I clicked on it; and saw your comment.
Sincerely,
John
This guy is definitely a dragon and we’re lucky enough to see his hoard.
Its a shame the caseing wasn't aluminum.
Yes
@@jessekearsley5519 I thought the exact same thing.
his hobby is definitely like dice goblin behavior
@@jessekearsley5519 That supprised me, too. Can you imagine what he coulda gotten out of that? 🤔
Hi everyone. That was just awesome. I’m sitting down in my front room in jolly ole London U.K. and just got taken away from where I am for 34 minutes. Just loved watching this film. Well I love copper, it’s everywhere round here In scrap electrical cable and motors. Thanks again. Best wishes to you all.
I enjoy the tear downs about as much as I like to admire the growth of that cache of metal , good work
Me too
Дв такой разборки я ещё не видел.Это неправильно большие потери
chemistry teachers: wear safety goggles when pouring a glass of water
this guy: casually kicks copper into a burning furnace
I worked in a foundry melting scrap aluminium to make small Aluminium castings. Corrosion and feeding the cold scrap too quickly into the molten metal would often cause explosions. This was in the days before Safety PPE so it was every man for himself as we scattered before the flying molten metal could land on us.
@@victorborg2174 That's cool.
@@victorborg2174 How are you and your friends still alive?
Aussieness at work
Props to the guy who invented fire. Without him, this channel wouldnt be the same :)
i think it was discovered homie
@@Unflushablepiss Naaa, he and the guy that invented drinkable water where genius
@@PrometheusV apologies good sir i am clearly no history buff...
@@Unflushablepiss No problem mate. Thats what the internet was discovered for: learning only real things that are absolutely true -
_Mahatma Ghandi_
I think his name is God.
You deserve all of your success. I'm blown away by this content. It is described by 'TvTropes' as "simple", however I think this is far from true. The formula for the videos is simple - Get something, chop it up, melt it down... But then when you really watch the content, it's carefully made to provide an entertaining yet informative experience. The inside jokes: the pups; the beers; the weird socks; the hidden food; Mr whippy and the random activities/props, all prove that these videos are thought out and purpose built for entertainment. Not to mention the awesome treasure room. You're a modern day pirate. Excellent work. I'm glad I found this channel.
If you ever take on a beast like this again, try cutting out front "crown", one where blue leads were and burning stator with your flamethrowers. Varnish and paper burn out and copper should come out very easily from the back. Should work on smaller motors too,down to about 3kW.
What would he gain by doing this?
@@nathank7006 It's a hell of a lot easier and faster to retrieve the copper from the motor. He gains time and energy.
@@ApprenticeGM and it would be cool to watch!
Yeah part of my job I do everyday is overhauling huge motors like this to extract all the copper. Cutting off the crown and throwing the stators into a fire pit and just letting them burn is definitely the way to go. One everything burns off of the copper, the copper will just slide out of the stator pretty easily
Yeah, was gonna say, wouldnt it be much easier to just cut that in half lengthwise and just split it apart to pluck out the wire instead of layer by layer?
I love his voice its so soft an relaxing perfect for an asmr
What Voice? I never hear him speak
yes
Yeah not even a a "FUCK!!!" Stacked gota have the patience of a saint haha
@@KanriXD you can actually hear him speak in his earliest videos! He does have a pleasant voice but I'm not sure what @blindolakase means as he doesn't speak on this video or any of the recent ones. Their username makes me wonder if they are blind? so perhaps they have TH-cam set up to read outloud the subtitles BigstackedD uses?
@@TH-kd1ju i was doing a joke at the fact that he never speaks xd but true in his old videos he used to speak
That pile at the end looks like pirate treasures, that's so cool, good job man
Thanks for editing this video upside down for your European and North American viewers bro. Super appreciate what you do
The roar of the furnace, the sheen of liquid metal, the cooling sound of the ice, all these things have a special meaning for me. Thank you for what you do, congrats on the milestone, and wishing you and yours all the best. On a side note, my new job has me dealing with steel all day, so seeing 60 pounds of finished product and imagining moving it inside is something I know a lot about.
I laughed entirely too hard when the white motor broke the ice blocks. It’s like something outta Monty Python. Congrats on the milli amigo!
I admire your patience and dedication. This is like meditation to me.
Igual!!!! Saludos cordiales de 🇲🇽🥇👏👋🇲🇽
All I can say is WOW. Awesome work. I bet this type of work is a great stress reliever. I once dated a girl that would find gold and do the same thing with the same tools. Many thanks for sharing with the community.
he deserves 2 million subs for this hardwork
at this speed, he will get to 2 millions in less than a year
I screamed when the notification popped up 😂 love the melt of this motor and all ur videos❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️💞💞💞💞💞❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙💙
That trick where you put bolts inside where you were chiseling the housing apart was crucial. Don't want that to spring back and bite your fingers off!
deixa de ser ladrão cara.
I did like that trick!!
Im impressed by the tech that went into the building of the electric motor. Very intricate windings.
Can we all agree that speeded up sound of hammer is absolutely satisfying?
the color of the melted copper in day light is incredible! thank you for this fabulous video.
I totally agree...I will never not love the look of molten copper!
Ya that's no joke breaking that down
forbidden fruit punch lol
Yeah that one shot of the pour coming out of the crucible had a GORGEOUS color.
Honestly i am extremly happy that you've surpassed your 1m subs goal, its been an honour to watch you grow since i started watching when you only had 2 shelves full😊 and it will continue to be an honour to watch you creep towards the 1tonn mark😋 keep doing you BigstackD🤙🏼❤
so what will he do after he hits 1 ton?
@@pedropedrohan102 i often wonder the same thing I hope bsD will give us a tease as we get closer to it 🤙🏼
@@TheUnlikelyBaker369 I'm getting anxiety from thinking he'll quit after he reaches 1 ton
@@pedropedrohan102 he won't. It's an addiction at this point. All be it a fun and rewarding addiction
@@pedropedrohan102 i think that sometimes but i dont know, i have a feeling he might build a new shelf to fill or maybe even a little room😁😁
A company I worked for used to buy these used motors all the time, they are super heavy-duty and most of the time can be still used or repaired for a lot cheaper than the cost of a new one. Some of the companies near me, especially Procter and Gamble, used to tear down entire process lines and just "junk" everything, so the resellers that bought up the entire line used to have all these motors and tanks and other stuff we'd buy used. Saved so much money.
I love how he “finds” a hot cheesy pizza in a box under other stuff in his garage, or how he has a tote labeled burgers. 😂😂😂
You don't have a burger tote I thought they are as common as this comment
Surprisingly fresh for a tote burger, 😂
Its "borges" dont yall speak Australian? 🧐
I KNOW right??? Word of warning... Never come to his channel hungry!
I need some boxes like that hahaha
You don't realize how primitive the electric motor is - until you take apart one of this size! Practically pre-historic in shape and proportion.
A great melt-down job - as usual! Thanks for the ride-along!
What a fantastic job! Amazing that it took 7 days to tear apart, melt, clean up and edit. Really appreciate you sharing. 👍 Have a great weekend.
Dude… you got everything so organized and you’re so methodical but - for the sake of Pete ; you must find a better place for your pizza’s man!
I agree we care about you and your health idk where that pizza came from even though it looked so god dang delicious even I would have done the same stay awesome and healthy 😊
One time he dug a burger out a cliffside
I'm sure he would have stored it with the burgers but it was just to large to fit
This guy bleeds copper I think he'll be fine
Copper topping😋
I've been gone for a year. I see you have a second devil forge. Congrats! Thank you for doing your part cleaning up the environment and entertaining the masses. You still teach to this day, impressive.
Man, I never realised how much goes into making motors like these. The disassembling was very interesting!
that thing looked solid as hell. Imagine my surprise when he took the air hammer to it and I learn that it's nothing by sheets of metal around those wires!
and even more work that goes into recycling them!!!!!
Ah.........
It took the high IQ of Nick Tesla to invent it.
I agree, but why would you make such a mess on your pristine driveway?
@@kransurfing not really. that thing would go into a shredder and be separated after the fact on the other side in bits. Maybe in india or somewhere the labour is cheap but not a professional recycler.
I worked in a recycling yard when I left school and loved doing this sort of stuff and playing with the big machines, it was a great outlet for my adhd
My goodness. That was very labor intensive. Makes me proud that I subbed to you. Thanks for another great video
we love you bigstack! also how much was that motor?
The editing,recording would be as just has labour intensive as the actual work.
Here was me thinking the 461kg motor was going to get you pretty close to the 1 tonne goal, clearly I didn't think it would only be the copper coming from it 😆 thank you for the big effort of the breakdown, melting and editing it truly was worth the effort and was a pleasure to watch 😋
I've NEVER seen that much copper in my life. Guys.. he used a shovel.. FOR COPPER DUST. That's insane🤯
Duane, I just found your Playlist (finally) .really nice! Thanks for sharing with us. Have a great weekend, the next cold one is on me.😊
No worries at all my friend, my name is Dion 👋🏻. I just finished today’s videos upload so should be out in five hours and I’m just about to open the beer fridge and start enjoying my weekend. Have a great day.
The consistency of thickness on those ingots, Very impressive. Could feel the flow... pours kept getting more consistent,
Most of those were almost identical.
Why were you making them so small? Not that I am judging, but you have a lot of metal to do, why not do multiple larger ingots to go through what you melted faster? Is it just a preference because it melts faster than it freezes?
@@kevinclarke8795 The mold was getting too hot. I’m assuming he only has one. It doesn’t melt faster than it freezes but while it’s freezing in the mold it’s also freezing in the crucible.
When the world runs outta copper,he's gonna be a billionaire
that 28 kilo's does 170 euro's were i live, so not even worth the hassle.
@@3DPeter yeah but he no doubt makes thousands on the video
Don't know how he'll make the money from his grave but sure
I'm a mechanic for a motor shop and last time we sold out scrap motors it was about $0.15 a pound, almost an entire shipping container is worth about $6k-$8k when we sold it. Price used to be about $0.40 a pound.
Tons of work to process and refine that all, pretty sure it's just sent overseas
A lot of scrappers have that much copper kicking arround. I had over 600 lbs recently. I cashed it in because the prices are up right now.
It is by sheer dumb luck that I found your channel, whether it’s TH-cam algorithm, recommended views or Karma, I’m so glad I did. I can’t wait to watch this video tonight while enjoying my own frosty beverage. My laser temperature reader is on order!!
He took it apart the hard way but then again never did one that huge
Yes I definitely did do it the hard way but the whole time I had the headphones in listening to some awesome music I had the beers running freely nice and cold and it was a good little workout and the end result was pretty good. I’m happy with the way it all worked out at the end of the day👊🏻😁
I'm wondering what he's going to do with all these ingots,
In Skyrim this would be a very nice loot!
Love your videos!
he should sell them to us on his channel 👍🏻
What the fuck does Skyrim have to do with this
@@Stellar-Cowboy ingots, skyrim, have you ever played?
@@Stellar-Cowboy whats skyrim???
@@martinedeards5424 it’s a game
Автор, спасибо за интересное видео!
Несколько замечаний (от человека, который в СССР, будучи ребенком, сдавал медь в 1993-1995 г., и даже купил себе на вырученные деньги мотоцикл):
1. При обрезке медного провода болгаркой (AEG) , вы теряете много меди (copper dust - это лишь малая часть что вы компенсировали от потерь ).
2. Достаточно острым (или заточенным) зубилом сбить (срезать) одну из "корон" кабеля мотора (при этом пыли и потерь меди почти не будет).
3. Потом с другой стороны мотора, с помощью монтировки или домкрата, вытягиваем "П" образные фрагменты медной проводки (это практически 0% потери меди).
Попробуйте пожалуйста этот метод.
Это быстро и без потери металла.
Только русские так делают 😂👍
@@ПоПриколу-ч7я представь: ты ниндзя, проник на заводской склад. там куча моторов, но тебе не обязательно (и не возможно) выносить их на горбу...для ценного достаточно рюкзака. Какими были вводные условия, такими и варианты решения.
Тут автору просто по кайфу кромсать моторы. Вводные немного другие 😀
@@slavick2597 That is ridiculous... I've never seen a moose that big, and I bet you haven't either!
@@martyfoster7053 no its good advice. This guy would be very good in a lab
Мы тоже также делали. В мет комбинате нерабочие двигатели разбирали на медь 90+ года,зубило, молоток и монтировкой норм так можно разобрать на перекуре) только текстолит трудно было выбивать из канавок, потом собирали корпуса движков обратно и как бы ничего не случилось на место ставили, всё равно их потом пускали в печь на плавку. Бывало вагонами даже привозили таких движков на металлолом.
Your neighbours must love you…😄🛠 Great to see stuff getting recycled!
This bogan should go live out on some land, not in a suburb lol
Actually it's just a bar that still needs to be refined and recycled appropriately. No metal refiner or processor would buy this stuff at full value.
@@adamjankowski7679 wtf are you talking about?
@@oldchunkofcoal2774 that metal was worth more before he “processed it” if you any metals like copper wire or piping bring it to recyclers in that condition don’t melt it down.
Super Video Thank you Happy Week for you Good Job Respect 😚🥰😍🤟👌👍👍💕💗💖💞💓
The process of melting and pouring is one thing, but the process of dismantling is also incredibly satisfying!
Came for the ingot forging, stayed for the sunbathing doggos 😂 this is epic! Hard to believe motors that big still exist!
Lol in brazil we can find things like that on our cities
Вы не видели БОЛЬШИХ электрических двигателей 😂
huh? Of course motors that big and even bigger still exist! In fact, this one was approaching the size that they will often get rewound if they fail.
This isn't even a big motor-maybe 250 HP. I'm a motor winder and these are at the small end of motors I do. It was sad to see such pretty windings get torn up.
Man, your buddy's going to be shocked when he sees the load of iron and steel you've got for him this time!
Once in a while, I wonder what your neighbors must think? Like when they see the flames of your forge glowing brightly in the night, or when you got that giant motor delivered? And then I remember that I don't care what they think; I just think you're awesome and love your channel~
whats his friends channel?
@@samiulluimas good question. I'd love to know too.
Need sauce please? I really want to see what steel guy and poxy lady does
* Neighbor after reading some Roman mythology *
Welp, looks like my neighbor is actually **Vulcan and he's hard at work.
** the god, not the pointy-eared folks from Star Trek.
I'd imagine they hate him for all the noise he makes
Love the focus on reusing and recycling. Our world needs much more of that!
It's money, dude. I imagine it's a hobby he enjoys.
Only the hippies with absolutely no understanding of economics or this world in general think it's about rEcYcLiNg.
When recycling becomes non profitable, they stop recycling.
"Sustainability" is centered around myths like climate change and green energy to scare you into compliance to their slavery based "utopia" which is really a dystopian nightmare for the common man.
Nothing like an existential crisis to whip people into obedience.
Blind by fear to the hypocrisy and contradictory edicts of the beast .
@7:22 Ok Big StackD. Now I'm hungry. See what you did? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That is a good looking burger or should I say it WAS a good looking burger!
Hats off to the dedication and patience to break, separate and melt down this giant motor. Always great to see mate 👍🏻
История успеха - собрать миллион подписчиков не сказав ни слова :-)
Exactly! 😂
Скажи это primitive technology)
А в чем успех? Я лично на это фуфло не подписался. Это даже ниже чем труд рабочих в Пакистане. Здесь нет примера для подражания. Это типичный идиот.
@@иваниванов-ж8л5д я так ради интереса пролистал комменты. В основном крики найс джоб и амазинг!!!! Кароч нравится им. Потому и мильен. На рутубе он столько не насобирал бы. Бомжи ему фору в 100 очков дадут. А тут "контентъ". Извращение.
@@pachkachaia4633 привет, а как эту медь проще извлечь, как делают ?
Now i know,how these parts looks.Thanks to you
I'm glad I found this. I've never seen this done before.
I like the brickwork on your driveway. I'm thinking I'd like to try something like this to cover my oily mess.
The dedication put into this is amazing...
dedication would be not wasting these extremely valuable motors which will work for literally hundreds of years unless trashed purposely
I've been anticipating this for a while now and it did not disappoint! The amount of work 🤯 but it is so cool to see the finished bars! Thanks for doing this!
1:07 A large truck for that small Motor, Amazing
That liquid copper was so gorgeous when you were pouring it with the sun hitting it. Amazing.
That is a great project, fun to watch, really! On the next of those big ones you could see if you can get one of the sealing strips out, that might save a lot of work. Every slot in the stator is being closed with one of them, usually plastic, pertinax, sometimes wood. They slide in last during manufacturing, compress the windings in the slot and seal it towards the rotor. The two winding heads need to go first of course. We did that with a sharp chisel in the past. Less dirt.
I'm a bit sad that the case on that monster wasn't aluminum.
That would have put a good size dent in your goal to a ton.
Liquid copper in daylight sure is a sight to behold. Beautiful metal
This is so far the biggest & best melting I've ever seen. 😍
Loved the liquid copper in sunlight, it looked fantastic ❤️
Thanks bigstackD for spending so much time & energy for us subscribers. 🥰
#BigstackDArmy
The longest video yet, super excited to watch!
Love the channel Bigstackd. Some suggestions I have for future melts - use borax or some other flux, as this will prevent oxygen from reaching the metal and will reduce how much metal converts to slag. This is especially helpful for powder melting. If you have a ball mill, crushing up slag and mixing it with powdered carbon (ex, charcoal) will help reduce the oxides back into the metal, making slag melts more efficient.
hi i'm brazilian and i really like your content your videos are very nice and satisfying congratulations for the great job of polishing these bars
My eyes... Такого извращения я давно не видел. Спилил с одной стороны обмотку, с другой срезал стяжки, нагрел статор до температуры плавления лака и выдергивай пока горячее.
Тож так подумал, но парень не тупой все ради контента думаю)
Мазохизм.
А насколько было бы выгодно или нет перемотать и продать? Или только в России таким мазохизмом занимаются?
@@pavel337 чтобы перемотать нужен специалист, а это уже расходы, а потом неизвестно сколько времени уйдёт на продажу.
Почему он с вала медь не снял. Там есть медная клетка
Just amazing and mesmerizing. You are definitely a master at this craft. Your pours are so precise. Excellent video. Thank you.
He’s been doing this for 16 years, he’d better be good
You have great patience to do this, AND IT IS OBVIOUS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. FASCINATING bigstackd!
Anyone else love standing/working/BEING inside their garage with the garage door open during a rain storm?
Double devil forge go “FWOOOOOOOMB” Great vid bigstackD! Respect to your constant commitment to cleanup and recycling.
When you were putting the melted copper into the bars, it looked so nice, just a nice touch
i love how my anxiety just DROPSS when i watch these XDDDD thx m8 :D
SAME!! These videos are always calming in a way.
@@RedHood001-KA they areee!! 😂
Former worker at precious metal refinery.. this brings back memories.
Hey big stack, a low quality / compact cement mixer with gravel in it works great for knocking the scale off castings. Much less hands on time and an attractive finish. Add water to the mix to keep dust down during the process. CHEERS
I like your thinking... thanks for sharing.
6:58 am i the only one who found this part the most satisfying
that entire process of stripping that motor down seemed so therapeutic to me, might try out our scrappy and have a go just to help with my PTSD 🥰🥰🥰 Amazing video 👍
Hmm I must say I'm impressed . 2 big thumbs up from me 👍 👍
I honestly expected you to grab two beers when you finally hit the fridge! Great video man, respect for the amount of work put into this video.
Congrats on 1 mil of us! I don't even know how long I've subbed for you!? All I remember was when I first started you were doing the "Melt the wife's stuff" routine! Here's to 2 mil!
hello i am from greece i like your work, is perfect well done
The project is interesting, the filming and editing are top-notch, but most of all, I like how you treat those two little babies.
Good man.
I love how you save every piece! I melt down a lot myself but I’m much more wasteful
impeccable attention to detail!! no talking = ASMR . great video. you've earned my like and sub
Liking your not missing a fiber of copper. Great clean-up!
great video. I like that you present a copper value and cost of gas in different currencies and I was surprise to see even PLN. Thank You
God everytime i see you've made a video i get filled with happiness thank you sincerely moose from the netherlands
How good are Drooley's pizzas. I once snuck an entire pizza into Grand Cinemas. 5mins into the movie I heard someone call out "Did someone smuggle in a Pizza?
Great work on the new haul mate.
But did you share with that person?
@@neko_nixxy No. It was bad enough I had to share with the friend sitting next to me. We hid it in a target bag between two Lego sets. Back then the staff checked everything for "outside food".
AEG ? I see ... i see a man of culture and style.
Honestly now.... that HUGE Motor is a beast !
And i loved every second of your breakdown and melting session :)
The best part about tearing something apart for scrap, is that you don't have to be nice with it!