Nice episode Sollers! Those pins are all brass and not just plated (well, the "white" ones are nickel plated). The pins themselves are solid brass but when snapped the brass takes on a crystalline appearance. If you were to file across the snapped part, it should look like normal yellow brass 😊

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that is good to know because they look really odd inside! I've never seen that powdery looking brass before! See, that is why I love KZread! I'll be filing to see that nicer brass then 😁 Thank you!!!

@milky9306

Жыл бұрын

Just a quick question. Do you know what brass plated items get scrapped in as. Or would it just by light iron? Thank you.

@TheUltimateRecycler

Жыл бұрын

@@milky9306 Most yards take plated brass as clean brass. I put chromed brass taps and nickel plated brass all in with my normal brass and have never had a problem. 😊

@milky9306

Жыл бұрын

@@TheUltimateRecycler thank you for your reply! That'll be a right touch i have a fair amount of weight in brass plated wall lights not sure what the real metal is but they're magnetic. Was hoping i could get away with scrapping them as normal brass 😁

@TheUltimateRecycler

Жыл бұрын

@@milky9306 Sorry, I misunderstood your question! I was referring to solid brass plated with chrome or nickel. If you have a magnetic base metal which is only brass plated, that would have to go as light iron. The scrap yards certainly don't like anything magnetic in the brass bin!

I never thought I would see so much passion for scraping from a woman. Great job! Keep up! Subscribed!

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

😂 thank you! I know, it is probably fair to say I'm not the norm lol! Thank you for joining me, much appreciated 🙂

I really enjoy your scrapping style Everyday Sollers. :) No metal left behind! :)

Definitely helped me decide what to do going forward. Thank you

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Great, glad it helped!

Great video! Very informative on the plugs. Those 230V plugs with the 3 large brass pins are definitely worth the work. The little 2 prong 120v plugs here in the States take forever to add up to anything! New sub here.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks so much and welcome 🙂 we are very lucky here with the amount of brass we have in our plugs! Thanks for watching 👍

As always really looking forward to the show sollers 😁👍👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙂

You guys are so Lucky in the UK majority of the plugs in Oz are molded I love it when i find the UK style ones easy to do and heaps more brass as well

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

We really are, our plugs can be yummy! Thanks for watching 🙂

Yes! Plus soup is winter work for me as it's way too hot during summer but it is worth every minute of it. Keep up the good work Sollers.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bruce 🙂 (and I totally agree, that is not something I could do in summer either 🥵)

Thank you for your very informative video. I am a new lady scrapper. I have been adding boiling water to a crockpot to do my soup.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome, glad it helped 🙂

Ahhhhh the plug heap! Lol I’ve gotten into the habit of getting the brass off when I cut the cable, only because how fast they build up. Cool vid! Nice to see more female scrappers

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry my reply was removed, seems to be an annoying YT glitch! Thanks for watching 🙂

Oldschool 3-pins that you have to shatter with a hammer drive me nuts. Its easy, but I seem to be sweeping the stuff up ad-infinitum. Must confess, I take the £1 a kilo my yard offers for moulded plugs. They accept audio plugs, power plugs and computer stuff too, so it keeps the stuff out of my wheelie-bin. Enjoyed and subscribed.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, really appreciate you joining 🙂 It's great your yard has a category for them as loads don't👍

woow awsome, i ralhp maurik did the plug soup and now you so i realy must test it in summer great video Sollers thanks ;)

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Do it Johnny, it is so much easier 👍

@JohnnySwedishScrapper

2 жыл бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving i guess it when i have seen the the vids ;) the rubber is softer so yes its mus be easer ;) just gona make time this summer to do it thanks

A great use for an old coffee brewer. Very cool...or hot as the case may be. Distracted watching ewaste Ben - a common situation 🤣🤣

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Haha it is indeed!

One thing iv found with the pins in plugs is that the flat head little bolts holding the wire in are brass but the Philips/ cross head little bolts are mostly magnetic

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes makes sense as the flatheads are older and everything older is better 🙂👍

I cut the black plastic bands off aswell. I love when electronics come with a UK plug I can scrap, in addition to the schuko I need :)

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, bonus brassy goodness right 🙂

Nice information. Great video

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, enjoy plug soup 🙂

As always a great helpful video my friend

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Aww thanks Judy! 🙂

Good to see you plugging away

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

😂 indeed!! 🔌

I don't get a lot of plugs normally, but I have done a few batches of 'plug soup'. Basically the same as yourself, I put them in a large stock pot bring to a boil then leave on very low heat so they don't cool too much. I am still envious of your plugs in the UK. Those pins might be snapping because it seems to be a narrow point where it occurs. 👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

You're right, they snap on that narrow point, I've never seen that crystallised brass before and thought it was only brass plated but apparently that is all lovely brassy goodness 🙂

Sending my support my friend becuase I love what you are doing.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you🙂

The only thing I separate is the rubber coating of the copper wire, and steel screws.i throw the rest in as brass. I was given some plugs from the 50s I think they brass pins were round.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, bet the old ones were beautiful qualityl brass!!!

Stoves (cooker) and dryer plugs here in the US got some good brass. The 3rd grounding pins on 120 volt plug Those commonly get broken off So it easy to pull out. Maybe i try The plug soup on 120 volt ones See how that works.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds fab! Oh yes I've seen those cooker plugs in Canada too, they look nice and chunky 🙂

With my moulded plugs I bolt crop the pins (to lazy to do soup),and the yard I use (Portsmouth area) takes the moulded bit in as irony/Ali refines and at the beginning of the month paid £250 per tonne (25p kilo)

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Fab, win/win👍🙂

Hurray thank you so much🙂

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

🙂

Great vid Sollers. I think i came to a similar conclusion to you. Its hard to say no to quality brass and copper when its right there. If its solder free even better. I plan to sell the plated brass when it accumulates. As irony ally though? I think those yards are making money hand over fist with that arrangement.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Yes; there's definitely lots of money being made somewhere 🙂

I pull them out of the molded plugs with vise grips, and leave a little copper on them and they run them as red brass.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Ah you get red brass for them, that makes sense, nice 👍

I do my plugs something like 50 to 100 times faster! Your method is fine for hobby scrappers; I did it that way 12 years ago. However, I'm a full time scrapper and metal refiner, so now I never process any material in batches less than 50 kg, solely by very effective methods. I never waste time cutting off plugs of electric wires. My processing method recovers not only virtually every single bit of metal, but all the plastic insulation too. I throw wires with the plugs still attached in the reaction vessel in one of my four pyrolysis units. The only sorting is: Thick(heavy), medium, and the thin/very thin ones from electronics, partly because of different processing time, partly because some have very valuable connector pins. The vast majority of the insulation material is PVC plastic. This (code #3) type of plastic contains 57% Chlorine, which is released during the pyrolysis process. This (poisonous) gas is either used for Precious Metal refining, or converted into Hydrochloric Acid for other hydrometallurgical processes (acid at no cost, that's what we all like, lol). The plastic is recovered as Raw Pyrolysis Oil, which is later purified and cracked into: Petrol/Gasoline for my car, Diesel for my truck, and Fuel Oil for my metal melting furnace/heating of my workshop. All at no cost (ooh, we sure like that). After pyrolysis, now that all plastic is gone, the bare wires can easily be pulled out of the pins, to be separated according to what metal/alloy they're made of. Most scrappers do that, I don't. All is simply melted into flat anodes, and run through one of my many electrorefining cells; powered with free electricity from my 55 solar panels. These old solar panels came in for scrapping, among many others, so I picked out some that's still in reasonable working order. Electrorefining purifies and thereby upgrades the copper to the highest value (99.9% purity). All other metal ends up as "bottom slime" in the cell. From this slime every single gram of metals is later hydrometallurgically recovered. It's mainly: Zinc, Nickel (worth almost 2½ times more than Copper), Tin (worth almost 4 times more than Copper), Silver (yes, some wires from High End WEEE (e-waste) are fully Silver plated), and of course the Gold from connector pins. As you can see, I'm into a bit more advanced scrapping. In my garden shed I make US$ 250.000/year recycling everything possible. I really enjoy your videos, despite the fact there's absolutely nothing in them that I don't already know. You have a calm pleasant voice, and indeed fine British humour. Perfect for watching in the morning while gearing up for a whole day with hard intense scrapping.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much for such a detailed comment, your set up sounds like the stuff of dreams, absolutely fantastic!!🙂

Great tips, thanks very much 😁👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Pleasure, thanks for watching 🙂

Hi, I appreciate I am resurrecting an old video, but I've only just come across your channel - What makes the fuses worth saving - aside from being able to reuse them?

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by! The fuses contain silver, how much I'm not sure so for now I just collect them up 😂

Plug Tea. It’s the future. Loved the wrist action showed the , errr efficiency of movement. A very nice Vid everyday sollers. Mythical white brass……. It’s real. Wow.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Nice one sollers,I will have to try to boil some plugs too♥️👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

17 күн бұрын

Oh yes, go strip those goodies bare 😜

@SCRAPASSASSIN

17 күн бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving definitely I will 👍

good call on the captive tnut in the plug top

I feel like these would be easier to harvest with some sort of pneumatic crusher... maybe a bottle jack in a jig or something...

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that might pop the internal unit out, If only I had one 😂 I'd definitely use a press for transformers if I had one 👍

I love moulded plugs less than a min to pull the pins (tp tip deal with the earth pin first

Hi Sollers, can't wait for the refinery video. Do you still take off the gold band crystal oscillators even though you are going to be selling the boards? If you do, do you take even the tiny ones or do you have a size limit? Thanks :)

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

I do indeed, my only rule is, if I can get them off then I do lol! I tend to leave the really tiny ones but only because they are difficult to remove 🙃

@Wreck-Gar

2 жыл бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving Thanks 🙂

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

@@Wreck-Gar 👍

That's a nice tip to clean the plug. thank you

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 🙂👍

Can anyone advise, I remove the brass from screwed 3 pin uk plugs leaving me with the hard plastic cases and softer plastic cosmetic pin covers they are shipped with. Can this plastic be recycled either in the domestic recycle bins or at the tip as seems a shame for them to go to land fill. Thanks for any opinions 😁

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

If your recycling centre has a bulk plastics bin you can, otherwise it is tricky. I sometimes use mine for art as a weird way of repurposing🙃

What are you saving the fuses for?

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Ай бұрын

They can be good for silver recovery apparently, I've never checked and now it is just a habit 😂

I like doing all 3 types of plugs 🔌. I would say the tranformer plugs are a pain to do and time consuming but its all brassy goodness at the end of the day .enjoyed watching you do the plugs 🔌 😀 🍻👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙂 Actually, didn't you do a plugsoup video at some point?

@nightscrapperuk13

2 жыл бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving hi yes I did it was fun to do .when I seen your video on plugs .I was thinking I have to do all mine .they build up so fast don't they. Have a nice weekend and bank holiday 😀 😎 👍🍻🍻

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

@@nightscrapperuk13 they really so build up fast, have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend too 🙂

@nightscrapperuk13

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes they sure do .I've been very busy sorting out my very scrap iron and non ferrous. Hopefully I'll have a video out on Wednesday. Working and scrapping and trying to do a upload lately is hard 😪. It's nice an sunny today 😎. Time to get in the shed and get scrapping on 😜😇👍🍻🍻

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

@@nightscrapperuk13 sounds perfect!

Yes the brass plugs are worth scrapping. Do you have a easy way to do those plated copper diodes off circuit boards?

could u not take fuses out before u put them in water ?

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

For sure, it can still be a bit stiff but I did find it easier to do it afterwards in the end

Love to know how you arrange picks for your business

@SollersScrappingandDiving

3 ай бұрын

So far just through word of mouth but we'll be advertising when I have a proper workshop 🙂

I watched a scrappers video the other day and he done the boil and laid a few in the sun and the ones in the sun was a whole lot softer, just a suggestion

@SollersScrappingandDiving

10 ай бұрын

That's a great idea, but with the exception of this week, the sun isn't usually anywhere near hot enough to do that in England 😂

as for the moulded you have no need to boil them if you have a small vice put the earth pin in the vice thn roll the plug over the pin will be in the vce and the rest will come out easy

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Ай бұрын

I can do it that way but that motion kills my wrists, I've got osteoarthritis already at just 38 so need to look after them, so boiling makes it so much easier to do a lot of them👍

@simonjones7785

Ай бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving the other way to do thm without the boil is to hold the plug body in the vice and use a pair of gas pliers to pull the pins you grab the pins and use the curved top of the pliers to pull the pins the law of levers is the advantage here

I think its just more zinc in the mix on the silver plugs

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Ah ok, I love the comments section for this reason, great learning new info, thank you 👍🙂

Ain't got no time for that sollers lol but I still enjoy watching my friend

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I can believe it Evie, thanks though 😊

It’s alway worth doing

Nice bag!!!!

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

😄

Sweet

recaping a bit .my yard only gives 20p per kilo of plugs and watch out sollers sum screws on the wire clamping end arent brass and are actualy steel painted in brass colours .wave a magnet over a few and find out

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Oh definitely, I get loads of those annoying fass bits (fake brass) 😒

I think your extension lead with multiple plugs; heavy loads like looks a fire hazard particularly if no fully unwound. Enjoyed the video not sure I have the time or inclination. Just break the pins out cold.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

I did reply to this but the reply has gone. I just basically said don't worry it is totally unwound and has a breaker plus one at the house etc. Thanks for watching 🙂

Good video

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit🙂

I smelt it all in one crucible any contamination rises to the top as slag you just scrape off

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Ай бұрын

That's good to know! Thanks Simon👍

I don't bother too much. Will try to pull out some without heating them, will put what I will manage to get in to brass and the rest as Irony-Ally. Too little for too much work...

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Totally fair, I really enjoy doing it, when I have the time!

Were the hell would you find so many plugs even to start with

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised just how quickly they add up when you process ewaste! 🙈

What if plug is solid an not bolted together

@SollersScrappingandDiving

8 ай бұрын

'Plug soup' is for the ones that are solid, the water softens the rubber and the pins pull out much easier 👍

How much do you get for scrap motherboards of old laptops

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Hi, well it would depend on what kind of CPU socket they have, the older solid shape plastic socket ones can be as much as £9per kg but the modern iseries (where the plastic CPU socket looks like 2 'L' shapes making a square can be as little as £2 something per kg, so it varies massively.

@UkDrama1

Жыл бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving thanks for letting me know

Great stuff .....I got a 55 gallon drum full of plugs

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Oooo nice!!! They sure do add up quickly!!!🙂

Might be little late, but yeah it's worth it. I scrap full time myself. 💪🏼♻️

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome, one day I'd like to have time to focus on it more!

@scraprodriguez

Жыл бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDivingIts a hustle! But you enjoy it.

I use a vice and a claw hammer. Never tried the soup technique.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

They do come out nice and easily when boiled 🙂

What yard do you go to?

@SollersScrappingandDiving

10 ай бұрын

Hockings in Sevenoaks, a lovely little family run yard🙂

send Mike his.... I'll pay postage.🤣

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

Lol, I'm sure I will get round to it sometime!!

I feel the preparation time is too long. But the coffee pot idea is good. I just lock them in the vice

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy with the 10mins boiling for such easy pin pulling though lol, saves my wrists, I'm obviously not as strong 😂

@scrapitjc

2 жыл бұрын

@@SollersScrappingandDiving your stronger then you know. Keep doing it, your doing great

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

@@scrapitjc I love that, thanks 🙂

Looks like quite a few plugs are in for a cooking ! 😁😁😁

@scb180

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing cruiser mac 😁👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Oooo yes!🙂

I use a pressure cooker I got in the trash it works great gets real hot I boil them

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect🙂👍

@Man-in-da-shed

2 жыл бұрын

What a great idea

good 👍👍👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙂

A lot of plugs :o Just wow

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

🙂👍

With my moulded plugs I twist them off with a pair of pliers and whatever is left on i chuck in a old microwave as scrap steel E Waste Ben style, my yard is happy enough with them

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Aww that's good they'll take the left overs like that, win/win!👍🙂

I do it when watching a movie,for me,its been wrth it.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

9 ай бұрын

Fab 🙂

Yes its brass. The pin are just snapping where the black plastic is. The brass is thinner there.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent news, thanks 🙂👍

I am already waiting again HaHa..

@CruiserMac

2 жыл бұрын

You are a bit early ! Good news though I joined your channel !

Brassy Boyz

Is it worth it,to you it is.Too someone else no,it´s all about your life situation,what you like to do There´s always something else to do in life that would make you more money no matter what you deside to do

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better👍

man us Americans get screwed on plug brass amount

Why would you boil them with uk plugs

@SollersScrappingandDiving

20 күн бұрын

To get all the copper and brass connections out, that all weighs up as I show, pulling only gives the pins and a little bit of copper, I want it all😂

The Dennis Nilsen of pluggage. Sorry... I'll fetch my coat.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

3 ай бұрын

😂

Chop plug 👍

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

🙂👍

All I see is gold, cash, gold, more cash and the smell of sweet sweet enjoyment!.... 😎👍💪👌🙏

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

🥰

All that faffing around heating the solid plugs. i get a big pair of pliers and pull them out

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

If I had big strong wrists and didn't want all the inners inside I'd do the same, I'm ok with a bit of faff! 😉

So.....E waste Mikes beard just needs to be a bit longer. I suggest glueing some hair on the end of his beard and hair....but take a wee bit off the top of his head. 😊

@SollersScrappingandDiving

Жыл бұрын

😂

wot a waste of time and electric just put them in a good vice and get a pair of nail pullers and in new plugs most of the screws are steel

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

I'm good with 10mins of electric to save my hands and wrists, doing it without heating is fine for a few plugs and nice strong people😂 but kills me after a couple of hundred! It's also hard to get the internal brass and copper connectors that way but that obviously works for you 👍

@Man-in-da-shed

2 жыл бұрын

Kevin. It’s been a year and she still hasn’t set up up new vise.

@SollersScrappingandDiving

2 жыл бұрын

@@Man-in-da-shed shhhhh Ian😂