I Never Scrap These 9 Items!

If i don't have alot of a material, or it's just not worth sorting, I just throw it all in with Iron/Steel shred. You add to the weight with all that misc stuff and they can sort it haha

On plug ends, hold the base with large plyers, grip the brass with side cuts down low, pry sideways. The brass pulls out, 90% of the time it brings out the copper with it. 5 seconds per plug.

I found that the older power supplies are worth it

You need machine to crush/cut non metal build or buy

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Small transformers should burn. From fastest way to get copper.

You should avoid chinese appliances😅😅 they're using aluminium in Motor of washing machine at ref at Aircon and electric fan. That's why chinese appliances are low low quality. They're want all appliances being disposable

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I like e scraping it fun

Thanks god bless

Lead is .45/lb. Now in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia.

For the plug ends use a bench vise to save your wrists

Those transformer plugs have brass plug ends?

@thubprint - a little tip for you regarding the plug sockets, place them into your vice and simply ply the brass pieces out using pliars and you will find it very easy and also the existing copper wire comes out attached to them aswell. It’s very easy and very quick to do 👍🏻👌

time:reward is limited massively by scrap yards'/middleman/wholesale buyers margins - the greatest scam that ever lived is "grades". 90% of the work/effort/access/discovery is done by the scrapper and he get's 10% of the money.
join with other ground level ppl to generate/store enough volume to jump as many middlemen as possible on the way to the final source or re-use, there's so much value available in that so be creative because together with others your material is worth more than alone

Laptops have a 2gram platinum pin in the flux capasitor

Most of the stuff you don't want to recycle, I throw it into a car body and get tin price.

Most landfills pull out the scrap. Especially big stuff. Last time I went to the dump their scrap pile was bigger than the one at my local scrap yard.

I'd have to agree with you on your list. I'm sure I could make more money, but my time is worth more. Also, propane isn't cheap.

sell the laptops in bulk as not tested

For me personally I said screw it at the transformers and the plugs because I have a lot of wires and I have a bunch of those and I said why not scrap them o tried the method you did in the video with the plugs and it works and I have to admit it is saved me a bunch of time

There people that will take the donation for computers but I don't think that it's worth it. In fact I think I just really really bad that people do that. Because it's a lot of rare computers out there that are being cannibalized for stupid s shit like copper wire when there really isn't a lot in it you'll never get what you want and a lot of times the computers worth more than the copper.

I dont make plug soup to soften them. I hold them in vice grips the pull the prongs out. I don't always get the copper strands out but I get the brass.

I dont keep the iron because I don't have enough room to keep it to make enough. My yard is too far away to just bring small loads. Right now, I only keep copper, brass stainless, and cast aluminum.

I just tear the brass out of them
Don't waste the propane trying to soften them

I'm just starting out. helpful hints, thanks. I'm in the Vancouver BC area.

Plug ends: get one regular set of pliers, and one pair of electrician pliers, grab the whole plug with regular pliers, twist off the flat and ground prongs..... done. Why all the fuss about softening the c rubber? The prongs pop (twist) right off.

I don't think some would be happy of someone throwing out a serviceable SNES.

I make lots of money per year on power supplies and laptops, lol.

I keep and use old laptop for old cars' ECU and some old games. Some Software are not compatible or not fully compatible with Windows release for XP or 98 due to the hardware access.

You can get a lot of money for potentiometers get sterios

easiest way to remove the brass from plugs is a pair of needlenose pliers

he said trash panda! "he is my people!"

These are the damn guys who destroy the good electronics that others would like to use.

My scrap yard buys the plug ends as refinery brass @ .27 lb last time I turned them in. Thanks for the upload

Dude I am forever dumber after watching your video thank you.

Like you said, it depends what your scrapyard pays. My yard specializes in escrap. I get the same for laptops complete as I do for #2 copper. They're gold (well, copper) to me. Part of this is a different method of collecting and sorting scrap. I've got containers that don't get a lot in them. They can sit there for a year before I bring them into the yard. I bring brass once a year. Something else I get good money for is batteries. Lead acid or lithium ion get the same money for me. I also do this stuff for fun and my trip to the scrapyard is always in combination with something else that I have to drive by the scrapyard to get to anyways. So I'm not wasting a trip.

Definitely agree with you about the laptops. I only get paid about $0.05 per pound of laptop.

I see the hard drive magnets on the shelf behind you...I raid computer repair places for old hard drives just for the magnets!

You dont soften up plugs or wires. You put them into barrel with used motor oil for instance, then get it hot enough so PVC just melts off the wires and the plugs, then scoop them out. You can then siphon oil to another barrel, drain the PVC out to get oil off and if you do this with colors, some places are interested to buy the PVC it self to make recycled PVC to mix in with virgin material, so that could be potential way to do it. Just need to make sure there is no contamination from other plastics and depending who you sell it to they might want you to clean it, but that is just soap and water.

what if i melt the aluminum in to ingots i want to start scraping

I’m surprised your scrap yard takes insulated wire ours doesn’t

laptops are terrible even for those of us who can fix computers. too much integration and few standard components. even the processors are not worth very much if they are more than a few years old. with an older chip you would be hard pressed finding a still working mobo that works with it. at some point it is cheaper to buy a newer mobo/chip than to get something old to work again. even desktops get problematic when they are more than a few years old. of course if its really old, you are in vintage territory and value goes up again.

The way to make money from the laptops is not to do with any of the physical components. It's by salvaging the Windows License Keys on the COA stickers. Those keys will work for Windows 10 & 11, so you sell them for 10 bucks each.

And cardboard

Western countries are fucked in regards to recycling. Asian countries pay money for plastics.

failed you fool video games bring the most money specially retro nintendo playstation sega etc

Glad you didn't say aluminum cans, I take roughly 500 lbs of them to the scrap yard every month and the extra $240 helps...if I was in a deposit state or Cali it would pay even more

Dont agree with your suggestions..YOURE SELLING TO THE WRONG PLACE! Scrap yards dont pay!!