Thanks, Tin Man! I don't like breaking down compressors (too much grinding, oily, messy, pain in the butt, etc), but I love watching the teardown process and seeing the $ tally up. Excellent work, keep it up.

@TinManScrapper

24 күн бұрын

Thank you for the comment. Yeah, they can be messy. There are certain things I don’t do as well, like strip power chords. it all depends on the scrapper

Final breakdown: 1) sealed compressors 132lbs 12oz. X $0.12 = $ 21.24. 2) opened for copper motors 49lbs 4oz x $0.52 = $25.61 + tin shells 83lbs 8oz x .$0.12 =$10.06. SO $35.67. However used 7 grinding discs (minus $3.50). So PROFIT $32.17 3) removing the copper; 13 lbs 9 oz x $ 5.39 = $73.01 + tin from shell and motors 83.3 lbs + 36 lbs x $0.12 = $14.38. So $85.31. MINUS $3.50 discs = PROFIT $81.81

Good video tin man thanks

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

G day James Boy make more money than teaching! lol Ths

You Rock Tin Man 😎 Thanks .

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.

Scrapped out my home AC which stopped working after 34 years. It was built in 1988 but had an all aluminum radiator and an aluminum motor. Kind of a bummer it was all aluminum but at the same time it lasted 3 decades so I have nothing to complain about.

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

You are right. Things are not made like they used to!

Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱 👍👍👍

I cut mine all open and remove the copper. People think i am crazy taking the time to do it but as you mentioned you made an extra $45 in 40 minutes. I do it a little faster because i use a plasma cutter to open the casing. I tell people that doubt me if it was costing me money why does the yard have a guy in the back cutting the compressors open and removing the copper? they are paying him a good wage. then they argue with me and say they don't but i tell them which yard and tell them which building to look into. he might be using a fancy piece of equipment that cost thousands of dollars but they are still pulling them apart and paying a guy to do it. same building, they have another machine they run their aluminum/copper radiators thru that looks like it crushes or planes them down and they can pull the copper tubes right out of them. everyone thinks when they go on a pallet or like the compressors in the tubs out front they get loaded up on a truck. maybe in the smaller yards but this yard they get taken to these separate areas to get taken apart farther. People think i only making a dollar or 2 or maybe $5 the most cutting stuff up, even my brother thinks that but once you figure out a good system you can make a good hourly rate. Always pay attention at the yards. not just the scrap pile but what the employees are doing in the background and how they are doing it. . the yard is making good money and wouldn't have employees pulling certain items apart if they weren't making more than their wages back on the stuff.

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Yup, I think that is where most of my time went…changing out the grinding discs. I think a torch would be good as well.

@steveherr450

25 күн бұрын

@@TinManScrapper Torch could be but wonder the price of oxy/ace in these days? I haven't filled my tanks since i got the plasma 30 some years ago. only thing i miss the torch for is heating stuff up to break the items loose. Back in my hayday when i scrapped as a living i could plasma cut them open in 10 seconds. i had a lazy susan thing on my outside bench(made from a bar stool), 1 hand on the plasma resting my arm against the bench to keep it still and i spun the compressor with my other hand. since i came back to scrapping i haven't found my turntable but i can still open them up in less than 30 seconds walking around it.. for someone that got old, out of shape and using his older tools and equipment, i think that is still good. Sounds like you are pretty fast with a grinder and found decent grinder discs to use that last longer than others i see online. i can see people not wanting to do it that hasn't figure out a good technique or they burn thru consumables too fast. keep up the good work. i just like watching how others do it now since i have come back to scrapping. it is amazing how much i forgot over the years when you just hang it up for a long time.

I live in a high rise apartment. I went to throw out the garbage (Shute) and someone had jammed the door open with a bunch of electrical cords. Naturally I pulled them all out. I will need to wash them before I can process them. Don’t really want to know what’s on them 😂. A lot are probably aluminum. I looked up copper here and it’s not worth selling unless you have a ton or more 👍.

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Nice find, even the aluminum ones here. They are 1S wire and going for $1.35lb clean. Amazing what is thrown out each day!

Just did about 30-35 of these. With some other copper I had, I cashed out $574 usd. Got half a dozen already starting to pile up again

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Nice. Yup great copper recovery for sure and great price for the effort as well.

I hate scrapping these along with electric motors. I’ve been scrapping them for years. I used to scrap them right when I got them. Now I wait until I get a dozen of them an I’ll spend an afternoon doing it. I feel like one day I no longer will. It’s just easier for me to get copper tubing and I still easily skin romex/lumex. All other wire goes in as insulated.. my hands start hurting after awhile now😂 even when I’m not scrapping.

@TinManScrapper

23 күн бұрын

Yeah, I too pile them up and do all at once. Although, when I am doing them I wonder why I waited so long to stockpile so many! I know the feeling about pain as well. I think I am going to be slowing down with the scrap…..don’t want to feel it too much when I am older.

I think you would get prepared steel price since this compressor casing is thicker than tin. Same with the inards that the copper came out if I know it's sheets compressed but together it's heavy steel. Well in Australia it is usually 3mm minimum not to sure

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Yeah, the inners for sure would give steel price, but only 2 cents more a pound and I already had a load going out of tin. I think it also depends on your yard, we get all tin/shred price at a few of a yards, regardless of the thickness.

@colonialcharlie8702

24 күн бұрын

I agree, casing but also the innards (stators - the steel plates, and the whole assembly if it's had aluminum cast around it.) All stators from transformers, my yard will take as #1HMS or prepared steel. I used to toss them in microwaves for light iron price, but now just 4 half full 5-gallon buckets pays same as small pickup truck of light iron 😂 The casing on the fridge compressors I have seen some plasma cut the pipe inlets out to get silver solder. But it seems to need a yards' worth of casings to be worth it. Edit: light iron is what we call tin/shred in my area

Great video my friend I enjoyed this video I'd like to see u scrap 1 out

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Thanks, I do have full breakdown videos on taking them apart. I put the link in my description.

Awesome video tinman. Does any of the metal from the compressors qualify as being prepared instead of tin?

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

The inside component is thick enough, but I just throw it all in my tin pile.

Markham metals in Ontario 40 cents a pound for compressors Now they are 35 cents And motors were over 50 no at 45 cents

@TinManScrapper

26 күн бұрын

Over 40 cents a pound is a good price! Amazing what different yards will pay for the same items!

Thankyou Tinman for being an earth lover and keeping things out of landfill. I live in Australia and find that people do not remove refrigerant from fridges before throwing them curbside. Do you have the same problem where you live?

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Yes, but thankfully our garbage man will not pick them up. Rather they put a sticker on them with an address to drop off or get someone to pick up. Sadly though, this is a reason I have found a few ax units in the ditch…people don’t know what to do with them or try to make them disappear by throwing them in the ditch.

@steveherr450

25 күн бұрын

I live in the country and i find fridge, a.c, dehumidifiers and other items that have freon in them just dumped. When i go someplace i like taking a different road home to see if i can find some of these items.

get a small self contained ( has its own air supply)plasma cutter

@TinManScrapper

22 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tip

Isnt the sealed unit and the motor case heavy melt ? Not tin price

@TinManScrapper

25 күн бұрын

Depemds on where you are and your scrapyard. Yes, the metal is thicker than 1/4, but the yard I go to in Sarnia gives all tin/shred price regardless of thickness. Steel price only about 2 cents more pound here.

No, don't use grinder. Use meat cleaver to not waste Cu & for safety. 😮😮😮

@TinManScrapper

15 күн бұрын

Meat cleaver eh, interesting.