HOW TO SCRAP A TV TO GET THE COPPER

[jazzy4me4eva]

you dont need to smash the tube to get the copper yoke off the back of it ... they have clamps that hold them on

[ryman1075]

When you are taking the yoke out of the TV don't break the glass. Just loosen a few screws and give it a twist, they slide right off. I say this because an unbroken CRT is universal waste, if it breaks it is then considered hazzardous waste. Try not to break the class. Just take the extra few seconds to slip it off.

[jazzy4me4eva]

@ryman1075 well said dont brake them they just create alot more mess ..granted a nice thud when they go tho minus the implosion band lol :) most people who dump them out the front of their house for clean up dont mind if you neatly pull it to bits and take what you want instead of scattering glass and broken plastic over their lawn

[LOSLOKAJO]

who ever breaks out a t.v for scrap is a wortless crap

[LongBean420]

.99 a pound for aluminium

[brandonGCHACHU]

Reycling is good for our depleted earth. Its amazing how fast little bits of copper add up. I just cashed in $90 worth just wire and pipe ive gathered here and there. Not much but it pays a bill and buys lunch.

[SeekingForTheTruth1]

how do u tell the difference between metals? also, how do u protect urself from the poisonous gases, and has it affected u so far?

[MeelJeel]

you forgot the deguissling cable u dick head FAGGOT.....:)

[purpherder]

this dumbass just made 1$ for about 3 hours of work

[wakko151]

@purpherder except in the past hour you have spent more money then you have made.

[BLO383]

@purpherder Shut the fuck up you stupid retard clean copper sells for around $7.00

a kilo i get heaps of it from tv's $1.00 my ass.

[purpherder]

australians are sooo poor america fuck yeah

[JPMorganSuckBalls]

i don't fuck with TVs/Monitors

so many volts that can knock you out. -_-

[Khamila1]

In regards to the vacuum in the CRTs, just thought Id add to those who might benefit, but um.. <-<, just remember, when air rushes in, glass rushes out ;)

[Yogamartial]

What do you with the wire you don't strip plus the power cable from the tv's

[ryman1075]

@Yogamartial sell them as insulated wire scrap. They are still worth saving.

[peacock80000]

All you need to do is unscrew the screws at the neck of the tube. Then, slide the cone off.

[iansuderman]

likely you could make more off the parts on the circuit board. Those little relays are quite expensive ($15-$20) new.

figuring that your time is worth $100 a day I am not sure you could lift a weeks worth.

[viewfromadistance]

There was a relay there which has a copper coil inside as well. You missed it.

[BLO383]

How much is cast aluminium worth?

[LostTreasureComAU]

@BLO383 Around $1.20 a kilogram here in WESTERN Australia

[thetittymonster7]

there are no gases in a tv... the inside of a tube is a vacuum, the air just rushes in.

[bodziobran]

You are wasting precious electronic components ! For example transformers can be reused when re-winded. I'm building now small inverter for my purposes using transformer from old TV.

[RogueCrockett]

awesome vid dude but man a day in the aussie sun at a scrap yard for about 50-100 dollars XD it is worth it i see that but dude i don't think i could do it all day XD

[MrSYSTEM20]

I have never had to break the glass tube in a television or computer CRT monitor.

so LostTreasureComAU is inccorrect in telling you to break the tube.

[F14TomcatLover]

@MrSYSTEM20 In some models the deflection yoke is epoxied to the tube. In this case it's easier and not as dangerous to take out the neck and then just smash the copper off.

[MrSYSTEM20]

@F14TomcatLover Like to know which models...I've scrapped alot and haven't had to break a tube yet.

[F14TomcatLover]

@MrSYSTEM20 Most of the Thomson Consumer Electronics models made under the RCA and GE brands have the deflection coils epoxied onto the tube. It is possible to remove the coils from the tube without breaking it if you carefully take it a little bit at a time. The sets were still quite common a decade ago, and it wasn't uncommon for me to find combinations of bad yoke/good tube and bad tube/good yoke. I could carefully chisel off the bad yoke or chisel out the glass to keep the piece that I need.

[mouldytbags]

tramp.

[patrick258181]

The white powder on the screen is silver. A little nitric acid will get it out run the sme acid through a bunch of tv's till it can hold no more. Then look up the process for turning silver nitrate to elemental and you can save quite a bit of silver.

[senseblogger]

yeah lots of copper aluminum and steel in old TUBE sets only thing is in about 10 years these old TV;s pc monitors will all be gone replaced by digtal flat screens that have NO copper in them bawwwwwwwwwww!

[clony101]

there are no gasses in a tv......just a vacum

[savagenomore]

there are no "poisonous" gasses in a TV, the sound you here is air going in ...and you don't even need to break the glass, just loosen the clamps and the cone will come off very easily..

[weavers1acrefarm]

Hey, I thought that when you knocked the end off the TV tube and heard the sound of air that it was justr air being sucked into the vaccuum off the TV tube. I didnt know there was poisonous gas in there.

[Serostern]

@weavers1acrefarm There is none.

There IS phosphorous and lead in them tho, so try avoid fucking with them too much.

[sofasuperstar]

2.50 a pound for copper #2 here. 1.46 for insulated.

[fdlkfoo]

I was wondering what to do with them thought they were also good for making more profit from the other parts thanks for your quick response.

[fdlkfoo]

Billy Question what do you do with all the case's from the TV's or any plastic parts?

[LostTreasureComAU]

@fdlkfoo i throw them away, why mate?

[ryman1075]

@LostTreasureComAU You should try to see if there are any plastics recyclers around. Here in the US, recyclers will pay a few cents per pound. It adds up fast due to the large amounts of plastics in electronics.

Keep up the good work on the videos.

[tsplittorff]

Hey I am american and lmao when u say aluminum.......haha nice vid

[TheTorkerman]

Billy, very thorough vid mate. I do wonder though, that in todays mad scramble for scrap metal, that we/they may loose sight of a bigger earning potential!

I was big into this a year back, anything that was brass. copper. ally got destroed and scrapped. but then on day as I loaded up some old bikes and a vintage desk fan, a guy came over and offered my $50 for the 2 bikes and the fan. So choice A/. take the $50, choice B/. spend a full day and get $10 in scrap?

see the bigger picture!!

[senseblogger]

OK soon these old tube Tv's and puter monitors will be gone because of all flat screens used now so get it while YU can people in 10 years old tube tv's will be be memory just like the old tube circuits way back in 70's THEY are gone now because of solid state circuits !

[akgreve91stars]

this guy says aluminum weird.

[peacock80000]

A very good and informative video!  Keep up the good work and keep em coming!

[jcrispy1000]

i scrap a lot of motors and have found a lot of green copper. can anyone tell me why the copper is green. P.S ITS NOT OXIDATION.

[harrisvh]

@jcrispy1000 a long process but generlly it goes from Cu2O (pink) to CuO (black) then reacts with dissolved carbon dioxide and suplhur dioxie in moisture/rain to make 3 compounds

brochantite Cu4SO4(OH)6 -green

Malachite CuCO3(OH)3 -green

Azurite Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 -blue

in rural areas and indoor copper mostly malachite is formed

in cities copper ouside forms mainly Brochantite as there is more suplhur dioxide in the air in cities.



Hope this helps!

[kfor714]

Here are some of the best places to find copper: 1-Motors; 2-AC/DC Converters; 3-Large electronics (TV's, CPU's, Monitors, etc...).

Also, if you've just installed an outside unit to a central air conditioner, You can scrap the excess copper from the freon tubes and electric power cable. I got $40 (US) last time for 12+ pounds of it.

[TheJayhaich]

Hi Billy, Another great vid. The copper coil (yoke) on the back of the tube can easily be removed by loosening two screws on the yoke and giving it a sharp twist. It will help prevent problems with glass. Also all TV's have a degaussing coil surrounding the back of the screen, it is usually wrapped in black electrical tape containing 250g of copper.

[drew7473]

i put the stuff i don't want by the back alley. its go with in an hour.there are a lot of scrapers around my town.

[IrocOn2]

I'm going out the back yard tomorrow..get the 26" out of the trailer - and going to save all the metal I can - thanks Billy - and I have three more in the shed. Yea! Cheers mate and thanks for showing this great idea.

[mowerdog]

Great job Billy!

[realredrebel]

Wow... That's a good bit of change... Congrats.