Copper Recovery from Fine Copper Wires Experiment
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Copper recovery from fine copper wires. In this experiment, I'm using a DF-40S hammer mill to pulverize fine copper wires and then using a blue bowl to separate copper from junk.
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Nice job. It would be a great idea to try a large coffee grinder or waste food processor to shred copper wire next time!
You might try making a crude water sluice. There's plenty of homemade ones on the Tube. I'd bet the hammer mill wouldn't object to a certain amount of grams per run. No one would bother weighing each handful but your hands will automatically get use to this weight. The blue bowl is pretty cool.
Edit if you had a pump under the blue bowl and a stream of water washing iut your jar id speed things up if its worth your time.
Thanks for the video.
Where do you buy those i am really intrested
Shaker table. But gravity and carefully controlled air or water flow could easily be used to float a large portion of the lighter plastic and rubber materials away, this would reduce the volume across the shaker table. I am assuming you will only be doing hard to strip fine wire.
Not just fine wire, but the power cords and all the different wires, I do just for as an experiment just in case if I don't feel like stripping the wire might as well throw everything into the hammer Mill with fine wire
You are on yo something Keep up yjr great work!
I got maybe a good idea. You could team up with a RUclipsr that makes copper bars. I'm sure they'd love to have powder to melt down. Of course you should get paid for it.
Where did you get that ball Mill from and how much did it cost in fact where did you get all your tools at?
Amazon, the mill cost me about under one thousand. All the links are in the description, but do your own research because they might change products over time.
@@MetalScrapLab have you tried using the hammer mill on the boards itself to see what it would do because a lot of those boards have copper and gold on the boards itself
@@ViperRecycling I don't think it's worth going after the copper on the board itself, as electricity and labor would eat up most of your profits. I plan to get high grade boards from eBay or locally and process components only for gold recovery. Most of the copper from those components will be recovered through electrolysis.
@MetalScrapLab it's worth the same as doing small wires that I've seen you do in the past videos. But I'm actually really talking about the boards that have the gold fingers on them. If you take off the green mask you will notice that there's gold all over the board not just the fingers. The best boards are the boards from the satellite dishes
@@ViperRecycling Interesting. I will look into that.
have you tried running it through a course screen first and then the fine one?
it came with 3 screen sizes, I'm using the most course one. You can see them in my unboxing video. There is one with like 3 millimeters holes back plate but its too course for wire, but you can run on that one alone. I might play around with just that one of the future videos.
Fire is cheaper
Burnt copper is unsellable at scrap yards. You'd have to be melting it down and selling it privately
@@johnfillups4484 Far more efficient to melt and cast bars yourself than get paid nothing after wasting all that equipment and electricity. Look up forced air drip feed waste oil burners and you'll get it done.
Why do you sift. What do you gain from that procedure?
I was trying to separate very fine particles to run separately on the blue bowl. Running everything at high speed on the blue bowl will lose a lot of small copper particles with the junk. But I think it's not efficient with time. It's best to do it as one batch fast on a blue bowl without sifting to make it at least a little bit efficient for your time.
@@MetalScrapLab thanks for response. Just trying to figure it out. Do you think purchase price will pay off?
@mackelby1 I don't know. I did get it mostly to pulverized PCB components for gold recovery, I also kept in mind future ads revenue from this channel when it gets monetized, it is a risky investment, but in my case, it definitely will pay off in the future many folds if it will not break. After watching my videos it is easy to get hyped up and buy the machine but later realize that it was a mistake. I would think about it for a while before spending about $900.
@@MetalScrapLab very interesting. Will you have a vid on PCB recovery?
@@mackelby1 yes
Gold and silver copper $for 1
This is micro scrapping to the extreme. I assume you really enjoy doing this as the copper recovery wouldn't even pay for the electricity, much less the $1k you spend on all that equipment.
Partially true, in this video used about 15 cents of electricity total. Cost about 1 cent per minute to run that machine based on my calculations.
@@MetalScrapLab I'm guessing you recovered about $0.25 of copper...maybe. I'm sure you get more out of this in fun than you do as a money making venture is all I'm saying. There are a lot of viewers that see this as a way to make money...and they should identify the strategies that will and won't make money.
@@JohnDoe-fd6wflook in the description of the channel. You will have an idea why he’s doing it. Hint is in the name of the channel.