The Copper Coil Burning

[planejet42]

Having fun killing the environment?

[yomommabinslobin1]

you think those kids will live long enough to see the toys if your filling the sky with poisons?

[T2ENT]

@Solarmike does it make you angry when volcanoes erupt?

[DRIVER50L]

hey fellahs this method is illegal in australia I wouldnt advice doing it this way unless you can afford the fee involved for the firies to come and put it out ...A callout is around $4000 .... the fine from the EPA will most likely be upwards of $20,000 ... if your out bush ya may get away with it for a while but if your an urban scrapper be careful is all I can say ....

Happy scrapping

[scvs2]

Hi,

I was stripping some wires then I notice there were two type of wires, one is the color of copper and the other was like red copper. Are they the same?

[Aussie50]

@scvs2 some aluminum wire gets a red varnish on it and can be deceptive. if you attack it with a file is the core of the wire copper color?

it could just be cable that's had a lot of current go through it and has discolored because of heat. I have seen that first hand in industrial power cable like 3 phase.

[atomrocketcar]

@scvs2 woha u are an scv, thats totally cool, hows the mining going? they're not making u work over time are they, anyways, the red is a paint taht protects copper, it is copper, u need to burn that off

but if u burn it, recycle place wont take it..... so u have to ask your commander what he wants u to do with it

if its still in whatever it came in, you can sell it as it for 50c per lb.....i know its alot less, but it weights alot more with watever is in the core

[anime90s]

@scvs2 the red copper wire is worth lot more hope help you

[steelayer]

Thanks for the Tip burn on!

[steelayer]

Do you think somthing like this would work for car wireing harnesses? I gota get the plastic coating off them some how.

[Aussie50]

@steelayer I don't advise burning large amounts of PVC coated stuff since its far more toxic than motor varnish, but if need be it can help clean it to a upgraded value.

normally I just cut the connectors off and chuck it in with the other cable scrap, the weight of the plastic and tape makes it just as valuable as the mess of burnt copper you will get.

[arkansastrash320]

I am guessing from your reaction that the fine copper in the motor was too burnedup to sale no value?

[Aussie50]

@arkansastrash320 the small motor was not worth anything, I just tossed it in there for the hell of it.

need far less heat to keep them viable. just enough to break down the varnish.

[jdat747]

@Aussie50 for sure ... your flame thrower was a bit overkill. I think its better to have more of a camp fire. then you can pull the smaller pieces out sooner, and leave the big ones in. Also, if anything gets hot enough to glow red ... you're burning the copper and it will come out brittle and mostly you will lose it. Keep a water hose there to give a squirt to anything that is getting too hot.

[TheSolarmike]

If I run into you I will make you breathe those fumes until you had your fill of dioxins you bastard. All for the money and fuck the environment. You better hope you never meet up with me

[Aussie50]

@TheSolarmike LMFAO, good one keyboard warrior.



[LoveandEqualityToAll]

They will give you less money and damages the environment so its not recommended.

[Aussie50]

@LoveandEqualityToAll less money?. I get nothing for laminations or whole transformers.

I made $250 out of this short run so it was well worth it. and approximately $15,000 a year out of scrap in general (air cons, motors, copper extraction etc)

[TheTorkerman]

Hi mate, is yourmate selling that 1500SS in your other video??

Cheers.

[Aussie50]

@TheTorkerman I don't know what you are talking about? can you link the video?

[TheTorkerman]

@Aussie50 ...message sent, couldn't link the vid, sorry mate.

[ARR016a]

so, this is your campfire? sweet!!

[chena3]

you should be sent to jail for pollution

there is dioxin in them coils...



[Aussie50]

@chena3 LMFAO, enviro nazi's may try some day.

a burning car or house fire makes more nasty shit than I do, and it happens all the time.

[TheTorkerman]

Doesn't the Styro-foam stink??

[Aussie50]

@TheTorkerman oh yeah it smells wonderful :D

[Aussie50]

@HazzWold1993 I usually cash it in pretty regually but it is beutiful to see 40kg of bright copper sitting it a pile :D

or 2 tonns of it at the scrap yard :Drool:

[LHUPA]

Which method you use to open (unseal) sealedin compressors like this? When I create something with compressors, the project need sometimes the compressor modified internally. For it, I should saw the unit with a metal saw or a corse file with precision as possible (the welded metal only in order to reclose it after modifications). At this day, I have created about 6 projects with fridge compressors!

[Aussie50]

I use a 9" grinder and cut above the weld line on scrap units.

if I want to keep them clean inside I use a 2mm 4" slitting wheel and cut the weld line.

[LHUPA]

Thanks for the tip! I should try it in the next compressor project if necessary! In the past, unwelding a whole compressor, has taken about 30 days as cutting three or five centimeters of seal a day! - The saw trace that becomed dark gray and oily, indicated me to advance the cut far a centimeter and cut again until the entire compressor unwelded! - This is a wacky method to passtime and hold the pleasure!

[Aussie50]

wow man!, thats dedication!

try the 2mm cutting wheel trick on a junker till you get the hang of it.

theres 2 layers of steel on the weld line, just gotta cut the outer one as you know.

look up my vid "Compressor Scrap Day" to see the fast 9" method!~

[LHUPA]

Which transformers in this video? This shows three coil transformers like industrial lamp ballasts. Another transfo stands up at the right of them shown in parts with your motor stator and rotor. This material is really sturdy as well in flames! I remark the complex oil system in that compressor which brand was it?

[LHUPA]

Why you diden't open that compressor to unscrew the coil of it instead burning the whole compressor?

[Aussie50]

The motor stator was already out, it was just the lower half of the housing and pump body.

I put it in there to drain the oil and couldn't be bothered lifting it out before lighting up :D

[PutSome5tankOnIt]

Need beer money? Throw another motor on the barby!

[compwiz878]

@PutSome5tankOnIt barbyd motors anybody lol

[2009jimmy2009]

@PutSome5tankOnIt ha ha!!!

[mattyvt93]

Awesome vid and fire :D

[anthacdc]

lol i love fires

[pixuma]

all you tree huggers need to go to a tractor pull...

[Aussie50]

lol yeah, tractor pulls are far worse than anything I do

[V8Jagnut]

cool.

[diymania]

Cool ? I can feel the smell all way up here :( also i can feel the environmetal effects of it, too hot to sleep @ night :'(

[V8Jagnut]

that was a good fire, nothing wrong with it. its all the pointless new kids toys and crap that stuff the world.

[anthacdc]

i agree

[Aussie50]

Your not wrong!, Mass produced plastics and electronics are far worse.

A few blocks of styrofoam and lacquered transformer coils are like a drop in the ocean.

[Aussie50]

THat was your old fan motor at the end too :D

[V8Jagnut]

i figured, dose it still work. put power to it,lmfao

[Aussie50]

ROFL

[gavincurtis]

I have to burn all the styrofoam packing our equipment arrives in since nobody recycles it where I live. Better than having it buried.

Either way, it gets converted into carbon.

[diymania]

You polluter!!!

[Aussie50]

lol the smelters are no different ;)

all those gas-charged fridges, plastic TV's and computers getting munched up and fed into the crucible :D

[diymania]

Thats what you think. All appliances are stripped down so the various materials so only steel, copper, tin, gold, silver, aluminum, lead and other metals end up in a crucible. Plastics go to a plastics recycling plants to be made into new plastic products. Old fridges are degassed before stripdown.

[Aussie50]

lol maybe one or two facility do that, but its cost prohibitive.

The majority of scrap appliances get crushed into bales and sent to china. plastics and all.

heck, we used to add loads of rubbish/tyres to car bodies before crushing them. its in the furnace in china before they realize its there!

besides, evolution is warming the planet, hell, we just came out of an ice age!

[diymania]

In swe, its part of the law to separate and recycle every material individually.

No burning allowed unless its a material that doesent pollute, like wood. Some plastics can be burned with no harm, but it generally takes a accurately controlled furnace to do it, like a power and heat plant.

[gavincurtis]

So what is a volcano?