How To Make Money Scrapping Metal For Beginners - Scrap Metal Tips, What To Look For

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  @hllow777 · 7 years ago

  Don’t usually comment on videos but this dude is amazing, very charismatic and fun to watch

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  @bobmartinsen8238 · 4 years ago

  I had plans to write a glowing review,  based on my over 50 years as professional mechanic and machinist. But your legions of fans beat me to it, and more articulate than . So I'll just say, fantastic job! I would watch your videos always!

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  @alwaysoutsider.c5007 · 6 years ago

  I live in Ontario and I’m a scrap collector myself I am only 10 years old and I want to buy a Jetske when I’m older so I need to start saving up that’s why I collect scrap metal as is brass copper and aluminum.

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  @unknown-co3hu · 6 years ago (edited)

  i get my first car in a few months (nissan 240sx hatch) although it’s a small car i wanna start doing this, all over detroit i see tires, washing machines, bumpers, junk everywhere, i wanna start cleaning up my city and make a profit out of it as well to invest back into my car

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  @LordPadriac · 6 years ago

  If you&apos;re selling copper and aluminum to a scrap yard you&apos;re shooting yourself in the foot. You get a LOT more ( like three to five times more depending on your area) if you strip all that copper (with a $150.00 power wire stripper ) and melt all that copper and aluminum down into ingots and sell those to a foundry or refinery. Yes you have several in your area ( within a half hour of wherever you live ) even though you&apos;ve never noticed them. Just google for them in your area. I actually go to two separate ones because one gives me a higher value for aluminum ingots than the other will and vice versa for the copper ingots. <br><br>You also need to look into all those beautiful circuit boards. The silicon chips, the copper and aluminum heat sinks, all of those lovely connection points and almost half of the capacitors you&apos;ll see. The tantalum capacitors. Whether it&apos;s SMD components or throughhole the tantalum capacitors are money. First the tantalum inside of them sells for good change on it&apos;s own and some of the tantalum capacitors have silver in them as well. Recovering the gold, silver and platinum from silicon chips, capacitor housings and board connectors requires very simple and cheaply available chemistry components and is very easy to do. Especially if you&apos;re already picking up a given thing anyway you might as well get all you can out of it instead of throwing money in the trash. The tiny nuggets to bars 1&quot; x 3&quot; you can get of gold, silver and platinum will sell for a LOT of money compared to their size to almost any jeweler. <br><br>I have become a junk yard for every friend and relative and coworker for all their tech junk and old appliances. I barely even bother to go dumpster diving anymore although I do still keep an eye out for the curb when driving around and stop in to tag sales. I spent ten bucks on two large crates of what the seller called &quot;junk&quot;. It was old mainframe computer components from a very large collection of DIGITAL components as well as a shit load of random boards. I made $635.00 off of the gold, silver and platinum I got out of those. So $635.00 - $10.00 - another $10.00 in chemistry supplies = $605.00 profit. It took about two hours worth of work spread over several days ( it takes time for the chemicals to do their thing ) means I made about $300.00 an hour off of that load.

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  @bowsboss1 · 6 years ago

  You impressed me, I used to be a plumber and I scrapped lots of copper tubing &amp; hot water coils back when number copper was about a dollar a pound but even at that I made about 400 a month. I learned a lot from your video I do have 1 tip though to help strip wire lay it in the sun to warm up a bit it becomes easier. Be well and keep scrapping.

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  @stephenbradshaw7772 · 8 years ago

  I just happened to stumble upon this and i&apos;m not usually one to comment but I loved the vid,man. So much great info and presented by a guy with such a laid back disposition. It was like hanging with a buddy . Thanks,man. Great job.

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  @exoZelia · 2 years ago

  You have the best scrapping channel on this entire site, hands down. I&apos;m just getting going and you have so much wisdom in these videos.

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  @magnum8264 · 7 years ago

  Your audience is very lucky on your educating them about this! It took me 30 years to learn what you&apos;re teaching of me going back and forth to the scrap yard!

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  @RickyPisano · 6 years ago (edited)

  Dude..... when I was 15 my Grandfather and I got the salvage rights to a huge rowhouse of apartments. 300 in total. Every one of them had the old claw cast bathtubs. TONS of cast.... the tubs....sewer pipes (with lead joints) and TONS of copper, brass and composites. We made a killing!! Really wish we kept those tubs now....instead of smashing them with sledgehammers....LOL. People pay A LOT for them. &nbsp;Anyway.... have my own place now and thinking about getting back into it. THANKS!!

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  @ryanreisig1841 · 8 years ago

  Great video. Little trick to check for non magnetic stainless. &nbsp;Get a neodymium magnet. &nbsp;If it sticks hard- steel, barley stick- valuable stainless, &nbsp;does not stick - aluminum. &nbsp;Best place to find neodymium magnets for free are inside hard drives. <br><br>Also 1 thing most scrappers miss is simply selling found items. Some people throw out good stuff, if you can resell it as is you will make more then you ever will scrapping.

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  @officiallucifer · 6 years ago

  Most of those “copper bearing motors” you had in that pile against the wall are actually control transformers and depending on the size have a Shit ton of clean copper in them. They work because of the copper windings in them. If you just crack them open you can cut the windings off easily because they are just pure copper. Same thing can be done with automotive starters, alternators, and regular electric motors. Open them up and cut off the copper windings and separate the steel cases and the hardened chrome steel shafts and you will get the most money out of them.

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