After watching farm craft, I remembered why Big is the only melting channel I subscribe to. It's actually so much more entertaining NOT hearing someone talk, and then there's always the dogs, we love the boys!!
mid 70's my dad (an engineer) was working on a site next to an abandoned mill due for demolition, full of old machines and wiring, so he asked if he could take the wiring, and at the time no-one was bothered or seemed to know the potential value of it, so he brought home masses of it, spending night after night in the garage stripping it with a stanley knife. He made enough to take us all on holiday and buy us all new tracksuits amongst other things. I dont know if i could have been bothered myself knowing the time it took him, but he seemed to like doing it and got a kick out of 'free' money i suppose :)
My uncles got hired to haul old power cable's from the paper mill to the dump and ended up buying a new van with that they made (the cable was as thick as a mans wrist)
I'm from Poland but I work in France. House renovation and remodeling. I do electricity and plumbing on top of other works. I take all old pipes and wires from every house I renovate. I strip wires while watching movies. When I go to Poland to visit my family (and do some shopping), I take all the copper and sell it for scrap. It pays for the trip.
@@mr.boomguy LOL, heck wasn't doing anything but watching TV, might as well make a buck or two. Just make sure you have enuff buckets so as not to make a mess (wives don't like messes) 😁
Ah mate… when you said you were doing a video on Strippers, I got all excited. I grabbed a beer, some popcorn and my 3D googles. You can imagine how disappointed I was. Then I saw that gorgeous green flame and it was all worth it. Nice one mate!!!
VegOilGuy cheers big fella , yeah maybe a few real strippers would boost me channel but for now I’ll just use electric strippers much like my Asian followers probably do👍🏻. 🤔that’s not racist is it 🤔🤷🏻♂️
@@bigstackD I'm pretty sure your wife would go ape shit crazy if you invited real strippers to help Example: DION WHAT THE 🤬 ARE THESE NAKED WOMEN DOING IN THE HOUSE!?!? 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
I LOVE this video! You show us that anyone can melt copper and how to do it safely! I love the creative part of video with buying electric stripper and the boxes and planes, that was awesome. Again, thanks for sharing!
@@louistournas120 Because that's what they call feminists in Australia. "Hamburgers" They eat up men all the time in the divorce courts... Which is why men need to stop proposing to these land whales that call themselves feminists and to instead learn how to say no to feminists when they make demands
After binge-watching this channel the last few days, I think it's safe to say that watching the hot metal melting the block of ice is one of my favorite parts of these videos! Love this channel so much, and I'm so glad I found it!!
All elements have a varying level of electrons, the electrons are arranged in layers around the nucleus, the first layer contains 1 electron and so on. When exposed to extreme heat, copper has an electron that likes to jump up a level and remain stable for a while but will then jump back down to it's normal electron layer, this jump causes the bright green color we see as its burning, various other elements will do this, but violet and blue flames are the hardest to achieve because they require not only extreme heat but many electron layers, meaning a heavier element. The same applies to fireworks in this case, the same method of super heating an element will give off that bright color we see when it explodes. Just a little Chemistry knowledge to help understand the natural process. Hope your having a wonderful day!
Ever throw a string of Christmas lights on a fire? Oooooh, pretty. And of course there will be someone who argues it's because they are Christmas lights and not the effect of the thin copper wire.
My family owns a scrap yard and it gave me a little ptsd watching you strip that wire down. God they made me strip wire day after day for months before they let me have at it with the fun big machines. Thanks youtube algorithm now I'm gunna have nightmares all night haha
Man! I love that last gaze to your treasure...I don't have the infrastructure to melt all the wire that I have...but I don't want to drop it in the garbage.
Stack it up my friend 👍🏻copper cable will never rust and you never know when you might use it. Even if you never melt it just stack it up for a few years then take it to the scrapyard itll Make you some good money👍🏻
You dont have to melt it at all. Scrap yards buy by the pound/kg. They dont care if its in bar form or bucket of garbled mess. They'll buy it from you for the same price.
I worked for a company that did a lot of electrical work, We saved all the replacement and offcut wiring and stripped it in our spare time. That got turned into a nice Christmas bonus for all the workers.
FINALLY youtube recommends me one of your older videos where the DIRTY LITTLE STRIPPER made its first appearance!!!!!! And little Ingot is so tiny here! So cute. And we finally see the consequences of forgetting to put cardboard between the crucible and the firebrick hahahahaha.
I used to do this as a hobby back in 2014-2016 so much that when all said and done I made about $400 i lied to myself and said it was for money but really it was therapy stripping the wires and spooling them up. I could have done 100 other things to make more money but for me, it was satisfying to do and helped with my stress and medical conditions. Don't expect to get rich but as far as a hobby goes at least this one pays for itself as long as you keep your copper #1 and wait to sell when metal prices are higher.
Love your videos man! smelting therapy 😌 I don’t know if you know this or not but don’t be afraid to tap your mold while the metal is still liquid to avoid those crevices and bubbles on your ingots. sorry if someone already told you this. keep these videos up !!
I understand the satisfaction and artistic value of casting your own copper ingots. But if all you want to do is sell stripped copper for scrap value, why waste the time and the fuel costs by melting it? Scrap metal merchants will take it as a block or as wire, so melting it isn't necessary. In fact, if the wire is clean and free from any plastic or oxidized residues, they sometimes pay a higher price, since copper wire is guaranteed to be of the highest purity. Melting it down into blocks actually introduces impurities (not just on the surface), so your cast blocks won't be electrical grade any more. You could mitigate that by melting it in a ceramic (alumina or magnesia) lined induction furnace rather than a fuel-burning furnace, which would introduce fewer impurities. Or you could try electro-refining, which is how copper is purified into electrical grade industrially. This is easier than you might think: Make a solution of copper sulfate or copper nitrate to use as the electrolyte, use a sheet of pure, clean copper as the cathode and any lump of impure copper as the anode. Immerse both and pass a direct current through. The electrolyte acts as a transfer medium for copper ions, which are dissolved from the cathode and deposited on the anode as long as current flows. The electrolyte is not decomposed or consumed by this process, so can be re-used as much as you like. Most metals can be refined this way, if you can find a soluble salt of the metal to act as the electrolyte.
It makes sense to cast ingots and store them to sell in the future when prices go up. Can store more as ingots. But the only problem is the possibility of theft.
@@henrypereira1745 the main deterrent against theft is to not brag about what you have. Another method that works is to make the risk greater than the reward.
what he lost on the electrical grade he 100% made up on the ad revenue. In all honesty it was more interesting to see him do casting than just finish with stripped wire
@@aperturesignaturebandwidth Getting hold of metal salts isn't that hard. Copper sulfate is actually used as a fungicide, mixed with lime as "Bordeaux mixture", which you can still find in some garden centres. Separating the two is fairly straightforward, since copper sulfate has a much higher solubility in water than lime, so you can just dissolve the mixture then filter it. You can even make metal salts yourself from the base metal and a suitable acid. Most metals will dissolve in nitric acid to make the nitrate salts, which can then be crystallised to purify them. Some metals will dissolve in sulfuric acid (which is a bit easier to obtain than nitric), so you can make sulfate salts that way. Copper oxides dissolve in sulfuric acid, and copper metal will dissolve in hot sulfuric acid, albeit slowly. Or you can just buy the metal salts on ebay. Copper sulfate is cheaply and easily available that way, as are many other metal salts. It's perfectly legal and you won't be put on any kind of watch lists for buying something as innocuous as copper sulfate, since there aren't really any nefarious purposes for it.
Awesome man! I just did a scrap run yesterday, $596.23, I try and clean and separate it as much as possible but some of it is just so much work, I’ll definitely be looking into the electric stripper you got there. It all adds up, I just keep my eyes open for anything of value while I’m at work, my wife thinks my scrap piles look awful but when I bring home $600 she doesn’t mind the look of cold hard cash! Lol. Great channel, I subscribed instantly, love it!
Thank you my friend I’m glad you enjoy the night shots I’m just about to do a quick copper melt outside in ten mins as it’s 8:15pm here now 😉. Yes the sound of molten copper is quite weird like you said sounds like oil in a pan 😉I love it 🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
Sweet bar! I’m sure that new stripping machine is much better than the old one 👍🏻 trying to knock off the fire brick reminds me of something stupid I would try and do 😂😂 good job bro! 🍺🍺😄
Cheers matey yeah when I put crucible down the first time I didn’t even know the brick was bloody there 😲luckily it was right in the middle or we could’ve had a complete different video 😑
I've been a "scrapper" for years and have actually made a living at it from time to time, and "depending" on the type of wire, yes it pays to strip wire. Smaller stranded is not advantageous, like regular retention chords, lamp wires, speaker wire, vacuum cleaner chord, etc) too time consuming to be profitable (just scrap it as insulated). Also, melting it to make ingots is not advantageous either. The cost of materials to melt it would ear you profits.
Yeah most places won't even accept a bar. If they do they cut it, into 4 pieces to inspect it, and even then you'll only get the least amount price per copper. 👎 Kinda sucks but it's fun to make an ingot.👍
I had a great gig back in 2011 with a small local scrap yard to strip their wire with my equipment. Even after paying a helper(12/hr) I made really good money. They had been hoarding wire for years I wasn't even close to finished when I moved on to something else. If I remember right copper was at an all time high
You can buy one really cheap prices on that machine. I'd rather buy one than attempt to hand strip, figure average fifty pounds of unclean wire at 52cents a pound or 150. For clean number two, clean one about 180 a pound, any wire under a 1/6 is number two clean regardless
My dad and I stayed in a Caravan while digging a new storm drain on Boston dock England..the wasteland we parked on was where an old factory had stood and we came across the 2inch supply cable still buried in the ground. Every evening after work dad would dig out the cable with the JCB and I would cut into 1 meter length.. Every weekend we would go home with the van full and almost popping wheelies from the weight of wire 😂we spent a 6 weeks on the job..my dad had an old fella boil and strip the wire..god knows what they made from it but dad wouldn't tell me and I only got £50 for my trouble..but it was one of the best times I ever had just me and the old man..and I wouldn't have had it any other way. 😊so glad I have that memory now he's gone.. P.S. I'm a plumber by trade now and still keep every piece of scrap. I must invest in a smelter and start my own bar shelve..love it 😎
Hi Ash how are you mate ? this is just a hobby I do mate to chill out and relax in the garage with a hot furnace and some cold beers👌🏻😁. That’s why I have such a big stack on the shelf because I don’t sell anything as you would lose all profit in time and gas.
Damn good idea! My husband and I recycle all the time ( scrap ). We buy unstripped copper #1 and clean it then sell it back to them for clean price! Doing it for extra income for years! We make 400$ on a good week ($300) profit. $200 profit on a bad week. Never really any less than that. We have had some rough weeks! We use our profit to buy more un-clean copper. Strip it sell it back for a profit.
This is a waste of resources. His stripping and keeping is all fine, but melting it down costs a lot of energy. When the copper is being sold to a refinery, they’ll melt it again. So it’s dispensable and unecological and costly to do it in the first place.
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Every time I realize that setting up a forge in my apartment setup is a terrible idea, another of your vids pop up! That copper bullion is worth so much more than its weight.
This guy had so much fun with crafting systems in games. He does it in real life. I don't know if the value of that shelf is crazy high but it's value is probably more stable than any countries currency. Well done.
"When Melting during the day you can't see the nice green" Yes copper burns such a pretty green flame. FUN FACT: copper powder is added to make green fireworks
Just the huge shelves of ingots gets me satisfied. I would do this not for profit but for pleasure. I mean realistically he isn't making much money of it, but those glorious ingots/bars would make me drool. See how shiny the copper one he made looked.
I ran a 3 row shaft furnace for a copper rod casting mill (Freeport McMoRan) and seeing the green flames brought back memories.I was going to attempt to build a mini version of the shaft furnace which was 2 stories tall.. But that little furnace looks awesome too. Can you control the gas/air mixture? Molten copper loves to absorb O2. The higher the O2 the more bubbles will be in the copper. On startup day when the copper flow first starts, upon taking the first sample, there'd be so much oxygen in the copper it bubbled like pepsi. I dont know much about casting single bars, but what would happen if you had a neutral or slightly reducing flame impinging on the the copper while pouring and until solid? We kept the O2 content of the copper between 150-300 ppm. Fascinating stuff.
I heard that in America, stripping is easier. BTW: for those that are new to this, that green flame is copper oxide and is toxic to breathe. It's pretty as hell, just vent it away. (Copper is commonly used in fireworks to give it the green color... Or Colour, if you prefer.)
As one is speaking(typing)the English language one would assume colour to be the appropriate choice of spelling rather than a preferred choice . If you like .
@@irish-medi-weed-grower5240 American English, while not the original, is in fact a standard, and thus color is also appropriate. So yes, it comes down to which standard you prefer. ;)
@@leathernluv Well consider the fact you are speaking to an Australian. Who all though they live on a completely different continent, speak English, not Australian or american English. when you say american english is standard, that would only be to americans. Which means it's not standard, it's only applicable to lazy americans
@@irish-medi-weed-grower5240 Yes, a standard to one is still standard. Like NTFS is only standard to Windows and so few aircraft have heat shields for re-entry. Are you calling me lazy over my ancestors deciding not to use the letter "U"? I never would have conceived such sensitivity over a difference in spelling. This was a gentle ribbing under the assumption all those that would read it know that American English is pretty well NOT the Queen's English. I guess self deprecating humor isn't for everyone.
@@irish-medi-weed-grower5240 point of fact, you're on an American website, so the lazy ones are you who refuse to acknowledge American spelling on the American website.
very awesome to watch. I was wondering if you can melt copper without stripping the plastic of off it. wouldn't the hot temp just melt and burn away the plastic? would it make the copper bar different? was wondering because i have 2 or 3, 5 gal buckets of stripped wire to melt my self and 3 or 4, 55 gal bags of un stripped wire. i want to do 1 crucible of unstripped wire melt to see if it would ruin the copper bar, but i figured i would ask first as you might have already done the test your self.
I want to know the cost of the gas used to heat it to melting. Just curious as to how much gas is used to do that in the first place. Thinking of building a forge as well but want to understand the cost I should expect in gas.
That's true but let's not forget that if you use the material you might be able to turn it into something worth more than the costs. It depends on what you're making
@@group555_ Trust me, As a hobby there is no way you can turn a profit on anything you do unless you steal and rip people off. You would have to spend so much money on good equipment by then you start off in the hole, that's why this is mainly a hobby.
@@Ericdawg420 i'd planned on making aluminum replicas of vintage space guns and various toys. like in any business there are start-up costs and ongoing materials. obviously i have to do a cost analysis of my time and materials and, once proficient, learn to budget time more effectively which includes upgrading equipment to cut down on labour. that's why owning a small business isn't for everyone, though. some ppl aren't willing to sacrifice. most don't even have a reasonable plan or simply an idea of what they want to accomplish financially with a venture. too many want instant gratification and money, just make a youtube video, get a million likes and subs, and rake in adsense $$$ for being a 'social media influencer.' to be honest, you can't trust most people to be able to answer the phone and run a cash register let alone do any real work on top of that. i would agree that if all you did was melt down metal and put it into a bar that's probably a waste of money, however that's not a viable business plan.
@@ryanbarker5217 ryan I agree with you on the entrepreneur mentality is not in everyone, It definately takes a certain mindset to do that and maintain. Like you said you have to weigh the pros vs cons of what you want to accomplish with any task. As for melting, It is one side of the story as Learning and buying in is one step. Molding is a completely different animal my friend. I have done both professionally working with steel and can tell you firsthand, It will take allot of time and money to get it going, then allot more time and money to perfect it. If you enjoy doing it and have the money to invest by all means go for it my friend. If you have zero knowledge of molding and melting with not much drive to do it other then a hobby, I would recommend finding a different hobby, Or at least finding a business partner to help take some of the financial burden.
Actual., it takes les then 1.5hrs to find 25kg in copper scrap and 1hr to strip it., add an hour to smelt and devide that by todays vallue of $146.37 for 25kg usd and 3.5hr... that averages $42.375 per hour...so preaty fricken good.
@@TWOSU_NEWS The only way you are going to find that much copper in 1.5 hours is to illegally go into an old Warehouse or building and to illegally strip all the copper plumbing and wire out of the building.
@Rob M simple., i live in the united states, were anyone can go dig through a construction sites trash bin and collect a hundred lbs of copper scrap as long as it isnt fenced or says no trespassing. Further more, you can even walk down the road on a daily basis and collect 200lbs of aluminum cans on any given day... yes, us yanks are a bunch of waistful bunch., o" and if your heart contends, you can go to ANY landfil, sign a waiver and go scap digging... How do i know this... because i used to make $350.00 a day doing itfrom the time i was 18 to 23.... To answer your quistion., not many people are willing or have the resources to turn scrap metals into non scrap metals as this guy is doing., hence why the price sky rockets when he refines and smelts these metals.
What is the value difference between clean stripped copper wire and the ingot that you produced? Is there a monetary reason for making the copper bar? ....or is it just cool?
I can’t be the only one that was watching this thinking my word man I’m always looking for scrap piece of wire and you have a shed full and you melt it down
You know when you ask the question is it worth it I'm thinking he'll know and then I saw how f****** clean it was inside your Berner you can see the bottom incredible I've never seen that hell of a job
Cable copper is much cleaner (99.9%) than other copper from wather and heat lines (sometimes under 80% copper)... Make sure you sell it as high grade copper...
People Always miss the critical step of smashing a block of water ice with the finished ingot. It confirms the correct mass, density, and increases thermal and electrical conductivity by ten to the power of minus 15 percent. Great job Bruh, err, Mate!
I installed alarm and fire alarm systems and it was a small company but they were just leaving the excess copper wiring behind and i made so much extra money. i would strip solid wire with a homemade stripper and just trade in braided wire un-stripped since it always meant that there would be one to many layers on plastic to mess with(unless it was some thick Grounding wire). The one day a week i would spend 3-5 hours on the wire would add up to cover almost all my monthly rent and utility bills. I would have worked there for ever if the business didn't go under after 8 years( the fact that they weren't smart enough to save the extra wire should let you know why they only lasted 8 years). Even if your lazy about it turning in copper wire with plastic still on it can add up to a nice free vacation or 2 each year. Also recycle places have a rule about not being able to just burn off the plastic in the U.S. and they could normally tell because copper would be "dirty" but a trick i found out from an old timer was to save the wire that wasn't easy to strip and wait till winter and make a fire burn the plastic off and wait like 30 seconds out of the fire and throw the plastic fee wire into the snow rub it around a bit and it would come out clean enough. I don't know if it had to be snow and cold , but i tired it with just water before and didn't work so idk why snow made the diffidence.
My mate used to be an apprentice sparky, the boss would make him strip cable with a Stanley knife if there was nothing to do. Took hours to do one roll but the price they were getting from the recyclers was worth it
Used to do the same many hours spent driving from one job to the next stripping everything from 6 to 16mm cable great fun. Especially the copper splinters.
Pretty similar price in this area right now. And it IS worth it to me. I don't cast bricks from it, or use a machine, but it's DEFINITELY worth my time. I do employ pulleys and a similar stripping method. And I've had ideas for making my own machine out of scrap material using a drill motor for the pulling. I don't like buying anything if I can fashion it myself. Re-purposing is always on my mind. Keep up your videos man. Always enjoy them.
Back in the late 50’s my electrician father worked as a general foreman on some large jobs. My job was to scour the job site for scrap, and maybe not so scrap copper wire. He saves it up and every year he would cram it all in a 55 gallon drum with some holes poked around the base. Poured a quart or so of kerosine followed by a match. That wire burned off clean enough to suit the scrap dealers. Probably not very environmentally sound but very effective.
Save the 10 minutes, heres the short answer: if stripping can be done by machine, yes its worth it. If done by hand it needs to be big wire to be worth the time, injuries, and sweat. Even then, not really worth it.
It took him one hour with the machine to strip these, for a claimed benefit of about 7€, not counting wear on the machine and electricity. That step does not sound worth it to me, at all.
@@ccreutzig yeah, when you put it that way I must agree. I didnt watch the video. I took my own advice. But I agree, no 7€ teturn would get me off my ass. But if thats what happened in this video it is not representative of what is possible with a good machine. My comment is based on my experience and in an hour I can double the value of 50 pounds of copper. Im also an electrician and will have 3/0 or bigger a lot of times. My point is that both what you have said, and what I have said, are both true at the same time. Dont let what he made out with make you think you cant earn some money with a machine.
@David Meads well not everyone gets to make enough money to thrive. Money from things like this, and other little side deals can make the difference. It allows me to pay all the bills, feed, clothe, edjucate, and develop the kids, spoil the wife, have some toys and a wicked cocaine habit (that Ive recently taken the plunge and decided to make into a wicked cocaine/bath salts/krocodil habit) all while maintaining a career and two side bitches. So, there's that.
@@thetroof5525 sounds like youve got everything real men need except a tiny yapping lapdog and a bitter ex Congrats on upping your addiction game, most people are just posers
An abundance of any metals has value. I have experience at scrap from fence polls to 22 awg stranded. Even found red brass lighting fixtures that paid well
So with the cost of the stripper and the melting pot plus fuel for the pot and the cost of going to get the wires to strip not counting the time it all took was it worth it ?
I was thinking along the same lines - if you are doing it on a large scale; then fair enough. If doing it on an occasional basis, the equipment and the gas used would pretty much negate the benefits. In my own un-informed opinion, of course.
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I have thought about burning unstripped wire in a gasifier (I make charcoal with a gasifier and have experimenting with reclaiming oil from plastic by pyrolysis ) It would only have to get hot enough to gasify the plastic coating then the copper could be melted in the furnace.
@@Jehty_ yes I know it is that the real reason that don't take melted copper but you can't legally say that to a theeth. So make you the pits stones any thing that it has no value.
So the 2.5kg ingot is worth around $150. How much of that would be cost to you ? It seems viable to this if you have a constant stream of product to melt. I love this idea. I should've looked into it a long time ago. I've given away plenty of scrap to scrap yards over the years when I could've quadrupled my take.
Hey bud. Congrats for the uber upgrade with the motorised wire stripper! I got the hand cranked one and it surely finishes the job fast. I was watching the 3kg copper ingot video yesterday. And noticed that the area where you pour in the mold gets those bubbles/cavities in them. So maybe pouring while moving the molten copper up and down the mold would solve the problem? Amazing edits with the packages from FedEx hahahaha love them
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@@bigstackD what is the use of powder
Burn cable
I have to ask what would it cost for the initial start up cost that's with Forge, Crucible, Tong's, molds and so on
After watching farm craft, I remembered why Big is the only melting channel I subscribe to. It's actually so much more entertaining NOT hearing someone talk, and then there's always the dogs, we love the boys!!
mid 70's my dad (an engineer) was working on a site next to an abandoned mill due for demolition, full of old machines and wiring, so he asked if he could take the wiring, and at the time no-one was bothered or seemed to know the potential value of it, so he brought home masses of it, spending night after night in the garage stripping it with a stanley knife. He made enough to take us all on holiday and buy us all new tracksuits amongst other things. I dont know if i could have been bothered myself knowing the time it took him, but he seemed to like doing it and got a kick out of 'free' money i suppose :)
Lol, I used to strip wire as I watched TV. Made lots of money doing so.
My uncles got hired to haul old power cable's from the paper mill to the dump and ended up buying a new van with that they made (the cable was as thick as a mans wrist)
I'm from Poland but I work in France. House renovation and remodeling. I do electricity and plumbing on top of other works. I take all old pipes and wires from every house I renovate. I strip wires while watching movies. When I go to Poland to visit my family (and do some shopping), I take all the copper and sell it for scrap. It pays for the trip.
@@maxxmaxwell9051 That's some amazing time management there 😄
@@mr.boomguy LOL, heck wasn't doing anything but watching TV, might as well make a buck or two. Just make sure you have enuff buckets so as not to make a mess (wives don't like messes) 😁
Ah mate… when you said you were doing a video on Strippers, I got all excited. I grabbed a beer, some popcorn and my 3D googles. You can imagine how disappointed I was.
Then I saw that gorgeous green flame and it was all worth it. Nice one mate!!!
VegOilGuy cheers big fella , yeah maybe a few real strippers would boost me channel but for now I’ll just use electric strippers much like my Asian followers probably do👍🏻.
🤔that’s not racist is it 🤔🤷🏻♂️
Disappointed?? Didn't you see all that sexy copper? 😅😁
😂😂😂😂
Lmao "3d goggles" 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣
@@bigstackD I'm pretty sure your wife would go ape shit crazy if you invited real strippers to help
Example: DION WHAT THE 🤬 ARE THESE NAKED WOMEN DOING IN THE HOUSE!?!? 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
"These holes will ad character" I say the same thing about the rust holes on my truck. Lol
Patina!
The first makers of Swiss cheese said the same.
No Will that's weight reduction to make it faster 😁
I say the same thing about my wife
It’s like Homer putting the “speed holes” in his hood 😂
I LOVE this video! You show us that anyone can melt copper and how to do it safely! I love the creative part of video with buying electric stripper and the boxes and planes, that was awesome. Again, thanks for sharing!
I watched it upside down to give it the real Australian look.
I have heard that in Australia, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.
I don’t get it
@@louistournas120
Because that's what they call feminists in Australia.
"Hamburgers"
They eat up men all the time in the divorce courts...
Which is why men need to stop proposing to these land whales that call themselves feminists and to instead learn how to say no to feminists when they make demands
Hamburgers are bad for your health
@@MikeTheMGTOWMonk
Hamburgers LOL
Laughed my ass off at the wire stripper being ordered mailed and shipped. Great editing!
We have plenty of police copper here in uk they send a the prisoner to Australia if you need our copper they are shining just take them
@@bobbypatel2770 What What is a police copper ?
@@jackyblue67same10 It's a special kind of copper only found in the UK.
@@iivoli Oh u just messin with me aint ya ?
@@bobbypatel2770 What ?
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Overcucumbered?
@Shut'it Downsberg Unless you went for pure stamina and health, then you're fucked
First time watching. The ingot wall at the end made my jaw drop
Same dude, I was like hey thats a huge amount of copper... and silVER, GOLD HOLY SHIT.
just imagine he put another bar there and the whole just collapse under the weight :D
My first time watching as well. Is this man secretly a dragon?
I think that is brass not gold
@@homechefadam3678 It's Brass & Aluminum guys. (Still worth a lot!)
After binge-watching this channel the last few days, I think it's safe to say that watching the hot metal melting the block of ice is one of my favorite parts of these videos! Love this channel so much, and I'm so glad I found it!!
All elements have a varying level of electrons, the electrons are arranged in layers around the nucleus, the first layer contains 1 electron and so on. When exposed to extreme heat, copper has an electron that likes to jump up a level and remain stable for a while but will then jump back down to it's normal electron layer, this jump causes the bright green color we see as its burning, various other elements will do this, but violet and blue flames are the hardest to achieve because they require not only extreme heat but many electron layers, meaning a heavier element. The same applies to fireworks in this case, the same method of super heating an element will give off that bright color we see when it explodes. Just a little Chemistry knowledge to help understand the natural process. Hope your having a wonderful day!
Good call
Ever throw a string of Christmas lights on a fire? Oooooh, pretty. And of course there will be someone who argues it's because they are Christmas lights and not the effect of the thin copper wire.
Valence shells.
@@scrocrates6380 Thanks. Now I know more.
And remember: The violet color you see coming from the welder may be pretty, but It'll burn your retinas out faster than staring at the sun.
My family owns a scrap yard and it gave me a little ptsd watching you strip that wire down. God they made me strip wire day after day for months before they let me have at it with the fun big machines. Thanks youtube algorithm now I'm gunna have nightmares all night haha
Man! I love that last gaze to your treasure...I don't have the infrastructure to melt all the wire that I have...but I don't want to drop it in the garbage.
Stack it up my friend 👍🏻copper cable will never rust and you never know when you might use it. Even if you never melt it just stack it up for a few years then take it to the scrapyard itll Make you some good money👍🏻
I like your attitude, waste not want not.
If you have room to store then stack. Just be mindful of possible future house moves :)
You dont have to melt it at all. Scrap yards buy by the pound/kg. They dont care if its in bar form or bucket of garbled mess. They'll buy it from you for the same price.
@@KewlCrayon thanks for the advice to all. 😉 for the melting team!
I worked for a company that did a lot of electrical work, We saved all the replacement and offcut wiring and stripped it in our spare time. That got turned into a nice Christmas bonus for all the workers.
FINALLY youtube recommends me one of your older videos where the DIRTY LITTLE STRIPPER made its first appearance!!!!!! And little Ingot is so tiny here! So cute.
And we finally see the consequences of forgetting to put cardboard between the crucible and the firebrick hahahahaha.
I used to do this as a hobby back in 2014-2016 so much that when all said and done I made about $400 i lied to myself and said it was for money but really it was therapy stripping the wires and spooling them up. I could have done 100 other things to make more money but for me, it was satisfying to do and helped with my stress and medical conditions. Don't expect to get rich but as far as a hobby goes at least this one pays for itself as long as you keep your copper #1 and wait to sell when metal prices are higher.
B A , yep. I won’t quit my day job, for sure! It’s fun and therapeutic too.
I thought you were gonna try melting it unstripped, lol. Probably would make you abandon the house from the smell of burning plastic.
Same 😂
Same here
Yeah I was excited to see the difference in dross
@@oldUmanUshea I thought he meant is it worth it because all the burnt plastic might make a lot more dross, and is it worth the metal lost
I was wondering, burning plastic is illegal right?!
You have inspired me to get into smelting. Your shelves are GORGEOUS.
😉👍🏻
They truly are! This video was awesome!
Learn smelting, then smithing friend!
That shelf full of blades, and assorted metal bars and coins you've made looks awesome.
I would prefer to see him go to art school and learn to cast sculptures, instead of piling up ingots and waste time and energy for useless purposes.
@@kulturfreund6631 I mean, does the skill to smelt transition into art? Might just be a fun hobby, and not artistic expression lol.
Love your videos man! smelting therapy 😌 I don’t know if you know this or not but don’t be afraid to tap your mold while the metal is still liquid to avoid those crevices and bubbles on your ingots. sorry if someone already told you this. keep these videos up !!
I understand the satisfaction and artistic value of casting your own copper ingots. But if all you want to do is sell stripped copper for scrap value, why waste the time and the fuel costs by melting it? Scrap metal merchants will take it as a block or as wire, so melting it isn't necessary. In fact, if the wire is clean and free from any plastic or oxidized residues, they sometimes pay a higher price, since copper wire is guaranteed to be of the highest purity. Melting it down into blocks actually introduces impurities (not just on the surface), so your cast blocks won't be electrical grade any more.
You could mitigate that by melting it in a ceramic (alumina or magnesia) lined induction furnace rather than a fuel-burning furnace, which would introduce fewer impurities. Or you could try electro-refining, which is how copper is purified into electrical grade industrially. This is easier than you might think: Make a solution of copper sulfate or copper nitrate to use as the electrolyte, use a sheet of pure, clean copper as the cathode and any lump of impure copper as the anode. Immerse both and pass a direct current through. The electrolyte acts as a transfer medium for copper ions, which are dissolved from the cathode and deposited on the anode as long as current flows. The electrolyte is not decomposed or consumed by this process, so can be re-used as much as you like. Most metals can be refined this way, if you can find a soluble salt of the metal to act as the electrolyte.
Where would you get the solutions you'd need for that?
It makes sense to cast ingots and store them to sell in the future when prices go up. Can store more as ingots. But the only problem is the possibility of theft.
@@henrypereira1745 the main deterrent against theft is to not brag about what you have. Another method that works is to make the risk greater than the reward.
what he lost on the electrical grade he 100% made up on the ad revenue. In all honesty it was more interesting to see him do casting than just finish with stripped wire
@@aperturesignaturebandwidth Getting hold of metal salts isn't that hard. Copper sulfate is actually used as a fungicide, mixed with lime as "Bordeaux mixture", which you can still find in some garden centres. Separating the two is fairly straightforward, since copper sulfate has a much higher solubility in water than lime, so you can just dissolve the mixture then filter it.
You can even make metal salts yourself from the base metal and a suitable acid. Most metals will dissolve in nitric acid to make the nitrate salts, which can then be crystallised to purify them. Some metals will dissolve in sulfuric acid (which is a bit easier to obtain than nitric), so you can make sulfate salts that way. Copper oxides dissolve in sulfuric acid, and copper metal will dissolve in hot sulfuric acid, albeit slowly.
Or you can just buy the metal salts on ebay. Copper sulfate is cheaply and easily available that way, as are many other metal salts. It's perfectly legal and you won't be put on any kind of watch lists for buying something as innocuous as copper sulfate, since there aren't really any nefarious purposes for it.
Awesome man! I just did a scrap run yesterday, $596.23, I try and clean and separate it as much as possible but some of it is just so much work, I’ll definitely be looking into the electric stripper you got there. It all adds up, I just keep my eyes open for anything of value while I’m at work, my wife thinks my scrap piles look awful but when I bring home $600 she doesn’t mind the look of cold hard cash! Lol. Great channel, I subscribed instantly, love it!
wow, I thought you were just having fun but after seeing your stash... I know you are making a backup plan lol
Just saw this for the first time, fantastic seeing the difference between then and now. You've....... Evolved !!
That's the fastest FedEx delivery I've ever seen in my life. 😁👍
I’ve never had the slightest interest of melting metals so why am I binge watching most of your videos?😂
So satisfying to watch👍
Mate. You're bloody Australian! We can never have too many bevys after a solid effort. Great job as always!
😉👍🏻you get me bro 🍻🍻🍻
Cheers🍺🍺🍺
Also, do you think you could do a trio cast of stubbies? Aluminium, copper and brass??
I think they'd look pretty sweet in the collection!
As a German I cannot avoid to emphasize the importance of drinking cold beer after work is done !
Loving the night time shots. So pretty also the sounds as well of the metal sounds like oil heating in a pan. I've not noticed that before in a video.
Thank you my friend I’m glad you enjoy the night shots I’m just about to do a quick copper melt outside in ten mins as it’s 8:15pm here now 😉. Yes the sound of molten copper is quite weird like you said sounds like oil in a pan 😉I love it 🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
I agree with you completely
I love the editing very well made , no boring voices , just facts ,and statistics
The Dog Yawning and seeing the machine work was the best part
Sweet bar! I’m sure that new stripping machine is much better than the old one 👍🏻 trying to knock off the fire brick reminds me of something stupid I would try and do 😂😂 good job bro! 🍺🍺😄
Cheers matey yeah when I put crucible down the first time I didn’t even know the brick was bloody there 😲luckily it was right in the middle or we could’ve had a complete different video 😑
I've been a "scrapper" for years and have actually made a living at it from time to time, and "depending" on the type of wire, yes it pays to strip wire. Smaller stranded is not advantageous, like regular retention chords, lamp wires, speaker wire, vacuum cleaner chord, etc) too time consuming to be profitable (just scrap it as insulated).
Also, melting it to make ingots is not advantageous either. The cost of materials to melt it would ear you profits.
Yeah most places won't even accept a bar. If they do they cut it, into 4 pieces to inspect it, and even then you'll only get the least amount price per copper. 👎 Kinda sucks but it's fun to make an ingot.👍
Night shots look mint. The wire stripper parcel coming to you was funny too ! 🤣
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@@bigstackD do u work at fedex or something?
Every man goes through the blacksmith stage and I love it
I had a great gig back in 2011 with a small local scrap yard to strip their wire with my equipment. Even after paying a helper(12/hr) I made really good money. They had been hoarding wire for years I wasn't even close to finished when I moved on to something else. If I remember right copper was at an all time high
7:03 Inserts tab popping sound and holds up unopened can.
You've got one nice eye !
He owns electric stripping machine. That is the only answer I need.
Man of the north also people buy unscripted wire to strip it to profit the difference.
He owns electric stripping machine? No getting all excited... it's for wire.
You can buy one really cheap prices on that machine. I'd rather buy one than attempt to hand strip, figure average fifty pounds of unclean wire at 52cents a pound or 150. For clean number two, clean one about 180 a pound, any wire under a 1/6 is number two clean regardless
@@MrConformation how much for bj?
The spider was protecting your loot from thieving flys they exist I promise there out there
My dad and I stayed in a Caravan while digging a new storm drain on Boston dock England..the wasteland we parked on was where an old factory had stood and we came across the 2inch supply cable still buried in the ground. Every evening after work dad would dig out the cable with the JCB and I would cut into 1 meter length.. Every weekend we would go home with the van full and almost popping wheelies from the weight of wire 😂we spent a 6 weeks on the job..my dad had an old fella boil and strip the wire..god knows what they made from it but dad wouldn't tell me and I only got £50 for my trouble..but it was one of the best times I ever had just me and the old man..and I wouldn't have had it any other way. 😊so glad I have that memory now he's gone.. P.S. I'm a plumber by trade now and still keep every piece of scrap. I must invest in a smelter and start my own bar shelve..love it 😎
Just started watching these videos, does this guy do this for profit or is it just a hobby thing? Whatever it is it's hella satisfying to watch.
Hi Ash how are you mate ? this is just a hobby I do mate to chill out and relax in the garage with a hot furnace and some cold beers👌🏻😁. That’s why I have such a big stack on the shelf because I don’t sell anything as you would lose all profit in time and gas.
Damn good idea! My husband and I recycle all the time ( scrap ). We buy unstripped copper #1 and clean it then sell it back to them for clean price! Doing it for extra income for years! We make 400$ on a good week ($300) profit. $200 profit on a bad week. Never really any less than that. We have had some rough weeks! We use our profit to buy more un-clean copper. Strip it sell it back for a profit.
Great thinking 🤑🤑. Yeah people recon it’s a waste of time but if you have some time in your hands why not 🤔😁
Where do you buy unstripped wires from? I'm assuming it's all scrap wire. Ty
All I can hear is "Honey! That crazy neighbor is at it again!" being said off in the distance.
It's Australia, so replace "Honey" with "Oi"
Just found this dude on RUclips. Watches most of the videos and I loved it. Great content, and nice editing.
Cheers buddy I’m glad you enjoy my vids 😉. New videos every Friday 👍🏻
Love how you value our resources! Big thumbs up!
This is a waste of resources. His stripping and keeping is all fine, but melting it down costs a lot of energy. When the copper is being sold to a refinery, they’ll melt it again. So it’s dispensable and unecological and costly to do it in the first place.
How much gas do you use for a melt? Is propane as expensive in Australia as it is in the US?
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And your pug
Besides spiders and Australian flag, this is the most Australian thing I've ever seen...
You should make super smash Bros coins using molten metal
Yeah they look cool , I’ll put it on my list 😁👍🏻
What was the name and the model of the wire stripper's you used
You have to factor in the cost of all the meth required to want to strip wires.
Thats all put under 'expenses-snacks'
Not as expensive as you'd think
Lmao
Damn this i the perfect comment
Nailed it!
Every time I realize that setting up a forge in my apartment setup is a terrible idea, another of your vids pop up! That copper bullion is worth so much more than its weight.
Indeed it is my friend 👊🏻😁🍻🍻🍻🍻
The most cleanest pour i've ever seen in this channel
This guy had so much fun with crafting systems in games. He does it in real life.
I don't know if the value of that shelf is crazy high but it's value is probably more stable than any countries currency.
Well done.
"When Melting during the day you can't see the nice green"
Yes copper burns such a pretty green flame. FUN FACT: copper powder is added to make green fireworks
9:57, this dude stacked all the items he collected in his gameplay in a single location, most unwise
I bet he is well insured! No big issue...
Lol the crooks would need to bring a wheel barrow if they wanted to take even a sixth of that fine collection
@ Cum 😂
I totally forgot the weight of that stuff.
You're absolutely right
It does not burn well, no worries
How do you know thats all of his collection?
Is it worth it?, HELL YEAH you mold a dope ass plate armor with it!
I read that in Alex Jones' voice
Just the huge shelves of ingots gets me satisfied. I would do this not for profit but for pleasure. I mean realistically he isn't making much money of it, but those glorious ingots/bars would make me drool. See how shiny the copper one he made looked.
I ran a 3 row shaft furnace for a copper rod casting mill (Freeport McMoRan) and seeing the green flames brought back memories.I was going to attempt to build a mini version of the shaft furnace which was 2 stories tall.. But that little furnace looks awesome too. Can you control the gas/air mixture? Molten copper loves to absorb O2. The higher the O2 the more bubbles will be in the copper. On startup day when the copper flow first starts, upon taking the first sample, there'd be so much oxygen in the copper it bubbled like pepsi. I dont know much about casting single bars, but what would happen if you had a neutral or slightly reducing flame impinging on the the copper while pouring and until solid? We kept the O2 content of the copper between 150-300 ppm. Fascinating stuff.
Wooow...I like your'e shelf at the end with all the metals and stuff on it
Strip. Strip. Strip...
Oh wait, this isn't the tube channel I'm looking for.
...Carry on.
Heard those spiders in Australia are so tough they take your girl...lol
Joke’s on them
I heard that in America, stripping is easier. BTW: for those that are new to this, that green flame is copper oxide and is toxic to breathe. It's pretty as hell, just vent it away.
(Copper is commonly used in fireworks to give it the green color... Or Colour, if you prefer.)
As one is speaking(typing)the English language one would assume colour to be the appropriate choice of spelling rather than a preferred choice . If you like .
@@irish-medi-weed-grower5240 American English, while not the original, is in fact a standard, and thus color is also appropriate. So yes, it comes down to which standard you prefer. ;)
@@leathernluv Well consider the fact you are speaking to an Australian. Who all though they live on a completely different continent, speak English, not Australian or american English. when you say american english is standard, that would only be to americans. Which means it's not standard, it's only applicable to lazy americans
@@irish-medi-weed-grower5240 Yes, a standard to one is still standard. Like NTFS is only standard to Windows and so few aircraft have heat shields for re-entry. Are you calling me lazy over my ancestors deciding not to use the letter "U"? I never would have conceived such sensitivity over a difference in spelling. This was a gentle ribbing under the assumption all those that would read it know that American English is pretty well NOT the Queen's English. I guess self deprecating humor isn't for everyone.
@@irish-medi-weed-grower5240 point of fact, you're on an American website, so the lazy ones are you who refuse to acknowledge American spelling on the American website.
Would your yard accept copper ingots though? How would they determine the quality / purity?
very awesome to watch. I was wondering if you can melt copper without stripping the plastic of off it. wouldn't the hot temp just melt and burn away the plastic? would it make the copper bar different? was wondering because i have 2 or 3, 5 gal buckets of stripped wire to melt my self and 3 or 4, 55 gal bags of un stripped wire. i want to do 1 crucible of unstripped wire melt to see if it would ruin the copper bar, but i figured i would ask first as you might have already done the test your self.
I want to know the cost of the gas used to heat it to melting.
Just curious as to how much gas is used to do that in the first place. Thinking of building a forge as well but want to understand the cost I should expect in gas.
Its definately a hobby. You are spending more money on gas or propane just to melt.
That's true but let's not forget that if you use the material you might be able to turn it into something worth more than the costs. It depends on what you're making
@@group555_ Trust me, As a hobby there is no way you can turn a profit on anything you do unless you steal and rip people off. You would have to spend so much money on good equipment by then you start off in the hole, that's why this is mainly a hobby.
@@Ericdawg420 i'd planned on making aluminum replicas of vintage space guns and various toys. like in any business there are start-up costs and ongoing materials. obviously i have to do a cost analysis of my time and materials and, once proficient, learn to budget time more effectively which includes upgrading equipment to cut down on labour.
that's why owning a small business isn't for everyone, though. some ppl aren't willing to sacrifice. most don't even have a reasonable plan or simply an idea of what they want to accomplish financially with a venture. too many want instant gratification and money, just make a youtube video, get a million likes and subs, and rake in adsense $$$ for being a 'social media influencer.' to be honest, you can't trust most people to be able to answer the phone and run a cash register let alone do any real work on top of that.
i would agree that if all you did was melt down metal and put it into a bar that's probably a waste of money, however that's not a viable business plan.
@@ryanbarker5217 ryan I agree with you on the entrepreneur mentality is not in everyone, It definately takes a certain mindset to do that and maintain. Like you said you have to weigh the pros vs cons of what you want to accomplish with any task.
As for melting, It is one side of the story as Learning and buying in is one step. Molding is a completely different animal my friend. I have done both professionally working with steel and can tell you firsthand, It will take allot of time and money to get it going, then allot more time and money to perfect it. If you enjoy doing it and have the money to invest by all means go for it my friend. If you have zero knowledge of molding and melting with not much drive to do it other then a hobby, I would recommend finding a different hobby, Or at least finding a business partner to help take some of the financial burden.
Yes if you make $2 an hour; no if you make $75 an hour. Easy....
I unironically had a job that paid about a euro per hour
Actual., it takes les then 1.5hrs to find 25kg in copper scrap and 1hr to strip it., add an hour to smelt and devide that by todays vallue of $146.37 for 25kg usd and 3.5hr... that averages $42.375 per hour...so preaty fricken good.
@@TWOSU_NEWS add fuel on there
@@TWOSU_NEWS
The only way you are going to find that much copper in 1.5 hours is to illegally go into an old Warehouse or building and to illegally strip all the copper plumbing and wire out of the building.
@Rob M simple., i live in the united states, were anyone can go dig through a construction sites trash bin and collect a hundred lbs of copper scrap as long as it isnt fenced or says no trespassing. Further more, you can even walk down the road on a daily basis and collect 200lbs of aluminum cans on any given day... yes, us yanks are a bunch of waistful bunch., o" and if your heart contends, you can go to ANY landfil, sign a waiver and go scap digging...
How do i know this... because i used to make $350.00 a day doing itfrom the time i was 18 to 23....
To answer your quistion., not many people are willing or have the resources to turn scrap metals into non scrap metals as this guy is doing., hence why the price sky rockets when he refines and smelts these metals.
Simply
Yes it is worth with the right techique
From hand I would say you have to decide if it's worth your time - AND GAS!
Or you can just sell stripped wire itself.
don't know how i got here but this is strangely relaxing to watch.
What is the value difference between clean stripped copper wire and the ingot that you produced? Is there a monetary reason for making the copper bar? ....or is it just cool?
I can’t be the only one that was watching this thinking my word man I’m always looking for scrap piece of wire and you have a shed full and you melt it down
You know when you ask the question is it worth it I'm thinking he'll know and then I saw how f****** clean it was inside your Berner you can see the bottom incredible I've never seen that hell of a job
👌🏻😁
Cable copper is much cleaner (99.9%) than other copper from wather and heat lines (sometimes under 80% copper)... Make sure you sell it as high grade copper...
People Always miss the critical step of smashing a block of water ice with the finished ingot. It confirms the correct mass, density, and increases thermal and electrical conductivity by ten to the power of minus 15 percent. Great job Bruh, err, Mate!
I installed alarm and fire alarm systems and it was a small company but they were just leaving the excess copper wiring behind and i made so much extra money. i would strip solid wire with a homemade stripper and just trade in braided wire un-stripped since it always meant that there would be one to many layers on plastic to mess with(unless it was some thick Grounding wire). The one day a week i would spend 3-5 hours on the wire would add up to cover almost all my monthly rent and utility bills. I would have worked there for ever if the business didn't go under after 8 years( the fact that they weren't smart enough to save the extra wire should let you know why they only lasted 8 years). Even if your lazy about it turning in copper wire with plastic still on it can add up to a nice free vacation or 2 each year.
Also recycle places have a rule about not being able to just burn off the plastic in the U.S. and they could normally tell because copper would be "dirty" but a trick i found out from an old timer was to save the wire that wasn't easy to strip and wait till winter and make a fire burn the plastic off and wait like 30 seconds out of the fire and throw the plastic fee wire into the snow rub it around a bit and it would come out clean enough. I don't know if it had to be snow and cold , but i tired it with just water before and didn't work so idk why snow made the diffidence.
After the propane, the waste, the equipment, and disposal for the plastic and the time is it profitable at all ?
It's more profitable than couch hugging and watching porn all day i guess. :-))
My mate used to be an apprentice sparky, the boss would make him strip cable with a Stanley knife if there was nothing to do. Took hours to do one roll but the price they were getting from the recyclers was worth it
Used to do the same many hours spent driving from one job to the next stripping everything from 6 to 16mm cable great fun. Especially the copper splinters.
His metal hoard is so satisfying to look at
Pretty similar price in this area right now. And it IS worth it to me. I don't cast bricks from it, or use a machine, but it's DEFINITELY worth my time. I do employ pulleys and a similar stripping method. And I've had ideas for making my own machine out of scrap material using a drill motor for the pulling. I don't like buying anything if I can fashion it myself. Re-purposing is always on my mind.
Keep up your videos man. Always enjoy them.
Back in the late 50’s my electrician father worked as a general foreman on some large jobs. My job was to scour the job site for scrap, and maybe not so scrap copper wire. He saves it up and every year he would cram it all in a 55 gallon drum with some holes poked
around the base. Poured a quart or so of kerosine followed by a match. That wire burned off clean enough to suit the scrap dealers. Probably not very environmentally sound but very effective.
The best mind-to-home amazon purchase I have seen. I love it!!!! Mimics how we buy things nowadays.
Save the 10 minutes, heres the short answer:
if stripping can be done by machine, yes its worth it. If done by hand it needs to be big wire to be worth the time, injuries, and sweat. Even then, not really worth it.
It took him one hour with the machine to strip these, for a claimed benefit of about 7€, not counting wear on the machine and electricity. That step does not sound worth it to me, at all.
@@ccreutzig yeah, when you put it that way I must agree. I didnt watch the video. I took my own advice. But I agree, no 7€ teturn would get me off my ass. But if thats what happened in this video it is not representative of what is possible with a good machine. My comment is based on my experience and in an hour I can double the value of 50 pounds of copper. Im also an electrician and will have 3/0 or bigger a lot of times.
My point is that both what you have said, and what I have said, are both true at the same time. Dont let what he made out with make you think you cant earn some money with a machine.
@David Meads well not everyone gets to make enough money to thrive. Money from things like this, and other little side deals can make the difference. It allows me to pay all the bills, feed, clothe, edjucate, and develop the kids, spoil the wife, have some toys and a wicked cocaine habit (that Ive recently taken the plunge and decided to make into a wicked cocaine/bath salts/krocodil habit) all while maintaining a career and two side bitches. So, there's that.
@@thetroof5525 sounds like youve got everything real men need except a tiny yapping lapdog and a bitter ex
Congrats on upping your addiction game, most people are just posers
@@tonyh1718 lol, thank you.
Just seeing that shelf with all the ingots got me motivated to start forging again lol. Thanks mate
An abundance of any metals has value. I have experience at scrap from fence polls to 22 awg stranded. Even found red brass lighting fixtures that paid well
So with the cost of the stripper and the melting pot plus fuel for the pot and the cost of going to get the wires to strip not counting the time it all took was it worth it ?
I was thinking along the same lines - if you are doing it on a large scale; then fair enough. If doing it on an occasional basis, the equipment and the gas used would pretty much negate the benefits. In my own un-informed opinion, of course.
You're just waiting for the world to end and back in the stone ages with all those bars 🤣🤣
angel najar 👌🏻🤫🤫🤫
Metal bars are sexy to look at, starting to understand how people went "gold crazy" back in the day
yeehaa, copper digger dance starting^^
another great video! look forward to next friday
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that 25 kg bar of copper markets for about $140 USD @ 2.59/lb at market close today? That is not a bad profit.
But is it worth it. Consider the gas and equipment? I dont have enough room to store my metals until I got enough to sell.
wife:"honey, our wifi is not working"
him:"yeah, i know. i needed some cables for my project"
wife:" and also our laundry mach..."
him:"does it have cable?"
Remember the one where he pulled the flyscreens off all the windows and melted them down while she was out?
him: "wifi not working? Is it because of the massive wall of metal between your phone and the router?"
@Last German they're saying he ripped the wiring out of household electronics.
I once had a huge pile of wire, all I did was build a fire and throw the wire on top, it took no time at all. :)
Thay don't take burnt wire no more
burnt wire is not considered clean copper rate
So what was the final verdict? Taking into account the time, fuel to melt it down and the cost of the stripping machine, was it worth it? Great video.
Yea. He never really answered his own question for the video. Kinda waste of time.
Nope. The cost of the machine plus the cost of the gas, Is a lot more than the scrap value of the copper.
I have thought about burning unstripped wire in a gasifier (I make charcoal with a gasifier and have experimenting with reclaiming oil from plastic by pyrolysis ) It would only have to get hot enough to gasify the plastic coating then the copper could be melted in the furnace.
Man the glow of the heat with the light off is crazy!!
gees is that your retirement fund at end?🍻
Exactly what I was thinking. Not a had idea if price is always increasing. But you never know what's gonna happen with the prices.
@skankhunt42 that look for gold cash pc no a bar of copper and below to much work
@@sunnydays4966 you know that copper cable theft is quite common.
@@Jehty_ yes I know it is that the real reason that don't take melted copper but you can't legally say that to a theeth. So make you the pits stones any thing that it has no value.
@@PRiMETECHAU or until we cart an asteroid into orbit and mine that 😅
It's a lot quieter during the night, I could hear that "Snap, Crackle, Pop" sound coming from the crucible as you poured.
Yeah it sounds awesome when you do it 👍🏻it’s a lot louder right next to it I love that sound😁
Mate, Im in Afghanistan we cant drink beer over here. That cracking sound of that beer can is the best!
Have you ever heard of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Alcoholics Anonymous is for quitters and I’m no quitter👌🏻
@@bigstackD We used to say that when I was sitting in jail and the guy who ran the AA program would come by to try and help us.
So the 2.5kg ingot is worth around $150. How much of that would be cost to you ? It seems viable to this if you have a constant stream of product to melt.
I love this idea. I should've looked into it a long time ago. I've given away plenty of scrap to scrap yards over the years when I could've quadrupled my take.
Great job! So cool and great hobby you got. That bar turned out great and shiny. Beautiful!!👍😁
Hey bud. Congrats for the uber upgrade with the motorised wire stripper! I got the hand cranked one and it surely finishes the job fast. I was watching the 3kg copper ingot video yesterday. And noticed that the area where you pour in the mold gets those bubbles/cavities in them. So maybe pouring while moving the molten copper up and down the mold would solve the problem? Amazing edits with the packages from FedEx hahahaha love them
Kamal AL-Hinai it’s because of the heat differences, should really preheat the mold for no holes and safety
Sells copper ingot...
Heads back down to tattoo parlor...
If you can find a scrap dealer to buy it ...if!!!
illegal to sell without proper paperwork.. and no one buy from you ,,
don't worry they still buy it. if it enough they'll even come open up at 3am 🤣
I will buy it
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this is a calm version fo how to basic in my eyes