How to Scrap Copper Armatures Easily
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- In this video I show how to scrap armatures to recover the copper for money. I will show you 3 different methods as to how I scrap them.
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Hi, my name is James and I'm a hobby scrapper who loves taking things apart to separate the various metal to make some extra money!
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Thanks again!
Excellent video. Clear instruction, clean shop, sound and editing on the mark. Best I've seen on this subject.
@@gaildeckant267 wow, thank you so much for your wonderful comment, I really appreciate that!
Don’t set your grinder down untill the blade stops!
Some people will say $1.00 extra isn't worth the time. But as a hobby scrapper and collecting material for long periods of time, at the end of the day time doesn't matter. Quality and informative video, well done sir!
I absolutely agree with you!
Thank you for watching.
Yep I agree!
Facts
I scrap part time, I'm a microscrapper, not a macroscrapper . If I average $8-10/hr while I'm at home, great. I'm not spending my time driving my truck and gas driving around, I'm home with tbe fam, spend 15 minutes on teardown, then see them. Make $50 extra n not use my time and vehicle and maintenance otherwise
Agreed sirs. I do all my scrapping as a hobby that pays me… i do lots on my coffee breaks or lunch breaks at work in the shop. I do lots of my collecting at work as well. Im a maintenance repair person for a rental management company. We own and manage over 2500 individual dwellings, some houses, duplexes, attached townhouses or apartments and I care for the entire north side which amounts to approximately 500 units. Its a fun hobby to have cuz you never know what you’re going to find or when… sometimes its from repair work or sometimes you just get lucky and find stuff
I've been hoarding armatures for years trying to figure out efficient way of removing copper, so I thank you for this video.
You’re welcome, I hope this video helped you.
Thank you for watching.
The total breakdown of each armature was verry calculated and perfect, including the 3 differences in scrap value prices witch I really appreciate you taking your time to show us fellow scrappers,scrap happy buddy 👍
Thank you so much! I have fun doing all that and I’m glad you and others enjoy it.
Have a great rest of your day and may the peace of God be with you!
@@scrapitall200 am glad buddy ,maybe one day I'll be sitting with you on your scrapping couch and scrapping offcourse, god bless buddy
That would be fun. God bless.
That tip with the side cutters will save me a lot of time . Thanks for sharing .
Awesome, I’m so happy my video helped.
Thank you for watching.
Absolutely great video , I used to hate doing these , with watching your techniques think I’m going to find them easier to do now , thank you
I sure hope it will help you!
Thank you for watching buddy, I appreciate it.
Ohhh! The hours I have spent extracting copper from small armatures and you make it look easy! Thanks.
I sure do hope some of these methods will help you.
Thank you for watching.
I scrapped an armature a few weeks ago. I sure wish I had seen your video before. Thanks!
Oh dang! I hope my video will help you for the next one you do.
Thank you for watching.
Really enjoyed this.. Different options yet all realists and not time wasters.
God Bless!
Awesome! Thank you for watching.
Have a great day and God bless you.
Do these often but learned so much more with your video.
From Niagara Falls Canada, Thx so much!
That’s awesome! Thank you for watching from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing your work with us. I appreciate the dollar value breakdown - and the prayer, too :)
You’re welcome!
Thank you for watching, I appreciate it.
God bless you!
One more metric you could possibly add is a scrap per hour of item. For example, there might be three different times for the different size motors. take your fastest time in seconds for clamping cutting and punching/cleaning. Then how many you could fit into an hour by that method. It would tell people which items are the priority highest per hour items to do first in a time pinch and can do the lower per hour items later or sell them as is. I thank God for your encouraging and educational videos.
Thank you for the suggestion I appreciate that.
God bless you!
I'm just starting to recycle scrap here in Germany as a hobby and part-time job. These videos help a beginner like me tremendously! Thank you. I look forward to further informative articles with tips and tricks on the subject of scrap processing and scrap trading.😊

That’s awesome! I think you’ll really enjoy scrapping.
@@scrapitall200 Indeed I do! I like the idea of urban mining.
@@frame-un7um heck yeah buddy, I love it too
Thanks for the information. Can't wait to get back to the garage and scrap a big pile of motors. 😀
@@franksanchezjr240 you’re welcome!
Thank you for watching. Happy scrapping 😁
When I am Curbside Scavenging and find items to recycle, I disassemble the item completely. From the brass in the plugs to the screws holding the item together. The plastic pieces is the only discarded. ♻️💲♻️💲♻️💲♻️
Sounds like you scrap it all lol. That’s awesome. Thank you for watching my friend.
Thanks for teaching me something new today. I was taking the windings out go a motor but not the armature thanks for that. 👍👍👍. Every little bit help
You’re welcome.
It definitely adds up. Thank you for watching.
Thanks for teaching me something new today. I was taking the windings out go a motor but not the armature thanks for that. 👍👍👍
You’re welcome.
It definitely adds up. Thank you for watching.
God bless you, Scrapitall.
Thank you!
God bless you too.
I always throw them into my shred because i can’t never get the copper out of them. Now if I ever run into another one I will give a try thanks for showing how to do it! Great video my friend!
Oh buddy, don’t toss them in the shred, they can at the very least go as copper motors.
Thank you my friend, I appreciate that.
Don't throw them in shred. Sell then as electric motors of you can't pull the copper out.
@@scrapitall200 I won’t next time buddy hope you have a great day buddy
@@Kreacher1974 will do that next time buddy!
@@ScrapMan69 thank you, you too!
Really great guides, thanks for sharing these quality techniques! It’s good to have a few different ways to do these things, sometimes one works when another doesn’t 👍
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you watching.
Been a big fan of your videos for the last 3 years.
Another great video I been scrapping since I was a kid I usually just cut the ring around the brush fingers then place them in a wood fire then tap the shaft on a block copper falls out of the bottom then do the copper fingers on top copper is cleaned no coating and the steel here is #2 prepared thanks for the prayer at the end of the video our father God and our lord Jesus is awesome
Thank you!
I prefer not to burn that stuff, just my personal preference but I get it with well.
Amen to that.
God bless you abd thank you for watching.
I've only tried the last method and then just started stockpiling because it didn't seem worth doing one at a time. I might just keep holding onto them for when I have a press and do the first method. It will save my shoulders for sure. Nice to see so many ways to do it.
Another thing you can do and I’m also going to do it. Put them in a crucible and melt the copper away.
Happy you enjoyed the video!
I'm so grateful to you! I have a whole box full in the basement and never really knew how to work with them, the machete and vise method works great for me, just tried it out right after watching the video, you're the best, thank you!
That is really awesome, I’m so happy my video helped you, thank you for sharing that with me.
Very very informative and such a great tip how to clamp them in the vice
Thank you so much my friend!
@@scrapitall200 your welcome
Hope you have a great day
Hey SIA! Thanks for this tutorial. once i have set up my workshop, ill pull back this armatures out of the "little motors bin" i have and try to seperate them! 👍 have a great time till the next video!
Hi Sascha my friend. Sounds great, thank you for watching.
Have a great week my friend!
love the breakdowns on prices ..great value added !!!
Thank you!
I appreciate you watching.
I honestly had no idea! You just changed my entire disposition on life!
😂
Well I’m happy my videos are helpful brother! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this, I’m actually going to put these tips to practice
That’s awesome!
Thank you my friend.
ohh man great tutorial and a good prayer thrown in for free. Greetings to you scrapitall from New Zealand
Thank you!
God bless you and New Zealand.
I like watching you scrap and speak about what you are dong. Thanks for the details...keep it up!
@@CuBarron635 thank you so much!
Of course I liked your content. I'm always learning something new when watching your videos. Right off the bat I found out that RUclips unsubscribed me from your channel; something that has been happening alot. Not your problem. Thx for the prayers at the end!
@@manayunk770 yeah I’ve experienced that myself, very frustrating.
Thank you so much for your support.
God bless you!
Glad i watched this. I just took apart a kirby and needed to get out the copper. Thanks for the video.
@@lindabradford9591 perfect timing.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you sir for showing us this process to enhance the profit I'm going to use this on my next amount of armature six stars brother
Heck yeah brother, that’s awesome. I’m happy to have helped!
Thank you for watching.
Like the side cutters hack as well. I just smash the commutator up but I will be trying your method next time
Awesome brother!
I knew they were called commutator because I’ve heard you call them that multiple times but my brain went blank making the video 🤣
Thank you for watching.
@@scrapitall200 mine does that all the time with armatures 🤣
@@ScrappingScotland 😂😂
I just started learning how to do it yesterday and now you taught me how to actually do it thank you way cool sir👍🤓
Awesome, I’m very happy my video is helpful.
Thank you for watching.
Good tips. All a matter of wehat you value your time at, of course. I used to leave the copper bits that you peeled off the shaft...if I was still scrapping lots of motors I'd use that tip. Generally, the heavily varnished ones I scrapped as they were.
I’m very happy I can just do this as a hobby otherwise there’s lots that just wouldn’t make sense time wise. Thank you for watching buddy.
Thanks for the tips, I currently have some armatures sitting around
@@Ken-ei8xf you’re welcome!
Awesome, I hope it goes well for you.
🤙🤙👍 definately a labor of love,good thing to do when its to cold or raining ✌️
Lots of those types of days where I live lol.
Thanks for watching buddy.
👍
I used to throw this stuff away from me 😁 now I'm selling it in my scrapyard without scrapping (price: 0.76$/kg) good job 🎉🎉🎉
Right on brother! I appreciate you watching.
Pretty cool break down on a hard subject, you clearly found a easy way brother ✌️
Thank you so much, I appreciate you stopping by and watching!
Great video! Wish I saw this before. Just took in about 3 brute buckets of these from treadmill motors that was saved up, because they looked difficult to deal with...
@@HagstromF20 oh bummer. Yeah the treadmill ones are pretty easy to do in my experience.
Thank you for watching.
Great video
Thank you buddy!
Very nice breakdown and helpful for new and old scrappers alike. #teamSHTF
Thank you so much!
Thank you sir for showing how to scrap and praising the Lord.
Thank you so much!
God is great!
God bless you.
Great video, thanks for sharing the tips . God Bless
@@Kidd-b7v thank you!
You are welcome and God bless you too 😁
That was a very good video. I will try this on mine. That was great information
Thank you so much brother, I appreciate that.
Thank you for an awesome break down of the ways that you have found that work for you. I have buckets of these to do and now I will try your methods. Please keep up the amazing work that you do.
Thank you so much, I appreciate that.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you, Sir. I never thought to cut them in half.
Thank you! I’m happy my video was helpful.
Thank you for watching
@@scrapitall200 I always enjoy watching your videos!
Thank you, I really appreciate that!
I’ve got 2 pairs of wire cutters and I always use the Made In China ones (cheap) for the rough stuff. I can certainly relate to that.✌️
Absolutely! My older pair is a Doyle brand from harbor freight, they have a lifetime warranty which is nice. They cost around $10 a few years ago. Probably double the price now lol. But they’ve been really good! But I’ll never misuse the Knipex, especially since they were a gift.
thanks for your insight and may God bless you as well!!
Thank you and God bless you too
Hi bro. Again thanks for sharing a very informative video. Respect to you and God bless you.
Thank you brother!
God bless you too!
Nice and informative video, the time it took to gain a dollar, either hobby or side income is always a plus. Thanks for providing this information. Stay safe and may God's blessings surround you and your family. See you on the next video.
Thank you so much, I always appreciate your kind and encouraging comments.
See you then and God bless you!
Thanks for the how to James! Great video keep it up. God bless
Thank you so much!
Sorry I didn’t finish answering your question last night during the livestream.
God bless you!
Truth is I have no idea why the prices are so low here but it’s ok, I just love scrapping lol
@@scrapitall200 all good lol. We had a good time and that’s what mattered
@@lljairsoft1201 awesome! I had a good time too.
Great video and breakdown, God bless you
Thank you brother!
God bless you.
How have you been doing?
@@scrapitall200 Doing ok, just been way busy lately. Trying to keep my mind occupied.
@@dalemills8052 that’s good brother.
You’re in my prayers.
Nicely explained Scrapper
Thanks buddy!
I appreciate you stopping by and watching.
What a lot of people don't get is that some people enjoy taking stuff apart so the time it takes is irrelevant.
I 100% agree! It’s a lot of fun for me.
Thank you for watching.
I agree too, I love taking things apart, I mean it's the best way to learn its setup and functionality.
A cool video sir, thanks for that 🤩🙂
@@antitheist9976 I agree!
Thank you so much.
Thank you for saying that because it's not about anything but wanting personally to take something apart....extra $ helps tho...
@@BOMBPOP-n4i absolutely, I agree!
Great video! Thanks for the tip about letting the weight of the angle grinder do the cutting in order to lengthen the life of the blades.
Thank you!
It takes a little longer to cut things, but it really does help a lot.
Yes you do make it look like cake lol. But you are the only scrapping channel i have found that can actually give clear and easy to understand directions as you go. You must be a teacher lol but thank you keep them coming i learn so much! And the rain is am awesome bonus. I live in the 🏜️ so enough said lol
Thank you so much, I appreciate your kind words.
I love the rain and I’m very thankful for it.
Thank you for watching.
Great video, another handy how to. 👍🏻
Thank you, I’m happy you found it helpful.
Great video! Take Care.
Thank you brother!
This is very helpfull. Going to try this. I saved some up with lots of lack on it... 👍🏻
Excellent. I hope it goes well for you and thank you for watching, I appreciate it.
very helpful I have never scraped an aemature
Glad my video was helpful.
Thank you for watching.
Awesome video.
Thank you so much buddy!
Great video! My plan was to chuck them in the furnace and melt the copper away from the steel but you made chopping them in half look easy!!
That’s my plan as well, I’m wanting to get into sand casting art!
Thank you for watching!
@@scrapitall200 Brilliant! That's why I don't turn in my copper or brass, I'm stacking it all for casting 🙂
@@SollersScrappingandDiving that’s awesome! You have a channel about the art you make?
That was just perfect from the get go 👌, great video James
Thank you so much, I appreciate the kind words buddy!
@@scrapitall200 anytime my friend 👍
How’s it going? Family doing good?
@@scrapitall200 am not to good mentally, family are good buddy thank you for asking
@@nightscrapperuk13 sorry to hear! I’ll be praying for your mental health.
Great show
Thank you
Amen Thank you! Great lessons!
Thank you so much!
God bless you!
Another great video brother. I always get at least one new tip from your videos. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless my friend.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Thank you so much brother, I greatly appreciate that.
God bless you too!
Really great video!
Thank you so much buddy!
You're welcome
Good day scrapitall Boy i interesting video Thanks
Thank you brother!
I appreciate you watching.
Thanks for the heat gun trick and especially the blessing.
@@ZEPPELINATTACK you’re very welcome!
Thank you for watching.
I am from Austria and I jsut found your channel! I really love it and your work! Keep up the good work! I am intrested it separating more boards
Hello, glad to have you here.
I’m definitely going to do more ewaste videos.
Thank you for watching.
Great video my friend
Thank you my friend!
@@scrapitall200 ur welcome
@@bigcountryscrapper6885 hope you’ve had a good day, James!
Great video mate. Cheers Graham
Hi Graham, hope you’re doing well buddy.
Thank you for watching!
@@scrapitall200 I am mate, thx 🙏 for asking
@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 awesome! You’re welcome!
Great tips. Subbed
Thx
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.
THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO
@@liljoeii6091 you’re welcome!
Thank you for watching.
Спасибо, надо будет попробовать вашим методом 😁
Awesome!
Thank you for watching!
Nice methods, many thanks for helpful thoughts. :)
Thank you, I appreciate you watching.
Amen
I loved your video and even more your message at the end keep it up and I wish you all the best 👍👍
Thank you!
I appreciate you watching and God bless you. Have a wonderful day!
Wow how simple, Thank You So Much!! Love the hammer work :-)
You’re welcome!
Thank you so much for watching.
Awesome my friend, God Bless 🙌
Thank you brother!
God bless you too!
New to scrapping here. Broke up my first vacuum this weekend, a Kirby 100th edition. All copper fortunately. Once I get a stack of armatures I will try your techniques. Thanks!
Awesome, I’m always happy to meet new scrappers. Thank you for watching!
The cylinder you pealed the individual stripes of copper off is called the, commutator. Thanks for demonstrating how to remove the copper from those difficult armatures coated shellac.
Right on, thank you!
You’re welcome.
Perfect timing
Oh yeah! You’ve got some to scrap?
@scrapitall200 Yes, I have a few. I'm just getting back into scraping. I used to just get motor prices. Now I'm micro scraping everything because I get so little. There is a free area at my town transfer station. I try not to take things that can be used, but people put incomplete things. There is also outdated electronics. I find therapeutic to micro scrap and I enjoy your ending prayers.
@@KPaul7 that’s awesome. I really enjoy micro scrapping as well.
Thank you so much and God bless you!
Salut super boulot, merci pour votre vidéo 🙏👍
Thank you, you’re welcome!
I appreciate you watching.
Bonjour de France, Alsace, merci beaucoup avant je coupait a la meuleuse les rotor et sa me plaît pas car les Perte en poussière sont conséquent, je ferai les prochains selon Votre méthode avec pince et hache , grand Merci Mr 👍
@@ricilgrosjean675 excellent!
Again, thank you for watching.
One of the items I’ve either managed to remove the copper or just thrown away. Don’t want to waste all day on 2cents worth of copper. ✌️
It’s all fun to me but I just hobby scrap and don’t mind the amount of time things take.
Hatchet method takes less than 5 minutes. Thank you for watching.
great video and info
Thank you for watching buddy!
That was awesome it go's for shore that in worth spending a bit of time these increase the money 💰
Absolutely! Thank you for watching, I appreciate it.
thanks for sharing
@@WilliamCrandell you’re welcome!
Thank you for watching.
Great video!!!
Thank you so much!
Your awesome! Thanks
Thank you, that’s so kind of you.
Thank you for watching.
great video very informative and consice
Thank you so much!
Have @Wonderful New Year's !//thanks
Thank you, you too!
Was NOT expecting that prayer at the end, and usually I'm turned off by religious stuff but this time it made me feel warm. I'm desperately in need of answers, unfortunately I don't think God can give them to me, there are people who can they just don't seem to want to.
If you would like, you can email me at scrapitall878@gmail.com
I’ll be praying for you. I know what it feels like to need and want answers. You’re not alone my friend.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
That’s Totally Awesome Video Brother 😊
Thank you so much brother, I appreciate that.
I’d be jamming out and drinking beer and breaking down scrap
👍
Thanks for this video I have several of these I kept now I learned how to scrap them.😅
That’s great, I’m so happy my video was helpful. Thank you for watching
Ich habe Solche als Deko in unserer Küche.
Jedem, der zu uns zu Beuch kommt gefallen sie.
Daher nenne ich sie: ,,DIE LIEBLINGE😍 ALLER“!😊
[Ich gehöre auch zu Jenen, die gerne Sachen (behutsam) auseinandernimmt.]☺️😘
Oh cool! They are cool looking.
That’s awesome, I’m the same way.
Thank you for watching.
In scrapping, I found an aluminum tray, or a pan. It can be made out of steel. And I put a 3/4”thick by 3” wide board on the bottom of the pan . I made it longer than the width of the pan and I fastened it too the front edge or the back edge that way, I can clamp it down to the table top and the pan will be underneath your vice. Whatever you knock out with your punch, it will fall in the pan and not into the floor. Then when you’re done with it you take the clamps off of eachside of your vice, and you put it up for next time that you need it.
Fantastic idea, thank you!
Wow if this isn’t perfect timing as I have around 35 of these and just tried to remove the copper out of 1 and it took about 2 hours and broke my vise lol.
Woah, your vide broke 😢
I hope my video can help you.
Thank you for watching.
Great video my friend. Enjoyed it
Thank you, I appreciate that!