Thank you for your great instruction video. You have saved me from wasting a lot of time and muscle had i not watched this.

@TinManScrapper

4 ай бұрын

Glad it helped. Thank you for the kind words and for watching! Stay well and happy scrapping.

Final breakdown: 10lbs plug whole 10 x 0.19lb = $1.90 separated 1.14lbs brass (3.05 lb) = $5.74, 5oz #2 copper ($4.37 lb) = $1.37, and now 7.12lbs waste. = so made $7.11 compared to $1.90. It took about an hour.

@allaround5846

6 ай бұрын

Your math is off on the brass

I do this all the time. Going to try my big yard.

Thanks for including my experience so others don’t get downgraded for plug ends on 60% wire. ✌️

@jamesfirth1280

10 ай бұрын

No problem. Thanks for the update. It really does depend sometimes on the day you go, prices, and who is working the scale a lot of times in my experience. There has actually been a few occasions where I have had to threaten or take some of my load back because I refused to be downgraded, etc.

@PaulieTheWog

10 ай бұрын

@@jamesfirth1280 I should have refused the downgrade but it was my first time selling appliances wire. I probably lost 30 or 40 dollars. I still got 217.50 for 145lbs (4 totes) and now I know for the future. Thanks again for sharing all your knowledge here on KZread. ✌️

Btw, the roasting pan was also found on garbage day.

Been scraping for a while and still learn from your videos. Thanks tinman!

@TinManScrapper

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the comment and compliment. Stay well and happy scrapping

Thanks tinman good info. I fill a bucket with those small uncoated thin gauge copper snips and save to melt. Number 2 price for 99% Cu does not make sense. * Those bigger plug blocks often will have silver contacts on the brass prongs, with a solenoid to open and close on things like the A/C plug or any with a reset/test function. Snip those contact ends off. May be worth checking the bucket if you have done alot of them. 👍

Awesome Video plug ends are a great way to build up the brass pile! I love making a batch of plug soup over the fire! CheeRs Scrap Family

Great video again. I have a container full of ends waiting for me. Will have to try the sun method this weekend

Note: when I have 40% appliance chords I leave the head on and just pull out the brass prongs so I still get the weight of the head and ZERO waste.

@BushDogScrapper

10 ай бұрын

Good Idea I'm going to do this and set a few aside and see if my yard will take them like that a lil extra weight always helps! haha

@darkshadow5730

10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the old hosing the seats down in the winter....😅

@BushDogScrapper

10 ай бұрын

@@darkshadow5730 haha age old trick in the auto scrapping field 🤣💦🤣👌🏻

@darkshadow5730

10 ай бұрын

@@BushDogScrapper ik a guy that used to fill appliances with water n let em freeze he got criminally trespassed and charĝed something about intent to comit fraud.... the piced the appliances off the trailer with the claw and out fell a ton of 🧊 ice lmao

@BushDogScrapper

10 ай бұрын

@@darkshadow5730 Geez 🤣🤣🤣

I use side cutters and pull and twist them. No problems.

Thank you for your content. I've learned a lot, and saved so much time. Keep it coming!!👍🏾👍🏾

@TinManScrapper

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. Stay well.

Awesome! Great info!

Us brits started the plug soup 🍲 method and there is 5 different graded plugs ,to me your type seem very easy to strip compared to my types of plug soap, but great outcome

Brilliant, thanks for the tips 👍

@TinManScrapper

9 ай бұрын

Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for the comment and support.

Thankyou very much tin man scrapper ,, i have been doing scrap metal recycling here in Australia for over 30 years and have only encountered this reduction in cost value due to the plug ends being on the chords and probly only around 3 years ago that they started doing this here. I am going to give this a go tomorrow and I'll get back to you to tell you how i went. Thanks again for you advice. Cheers from John in Australia

@TinManScrapper

10 ай бұрын

Thank you John for the comment. Keep me posted on your results. Stay well and happy scrapping.

Thanks for the video tin

@TinManScrapper

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Stay well

I use a pair of vice grips and side cutters.

I try and find podcasts and audiobooks I can listen to while I work on little bits of scrap like this since it's not exactly high dollar amounts per hour. I figure it's a good way to spend my time since normally when I listen to a podcast I'm not doing anything physically.

@TinManScrapper

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate you checking out my videos. Stay well.

I find everything in the trash. Go out four late nights a week. I beat the early morning scrappers. The only way to get first dibs.

PLUG SOUP! PLUG SOUP! WOOOOOO!

I get $.35 a pound for plug-ins in my yard in Southport North Carolina. I just turned them in the other day.

@TinManScrapper

9 ай бұрын

not bad price.

FYI most copper wire is shredded (In a granulator), and comes out as little pebbles(chops). The brass ends up contaminating the copper. That's why the plugs must be removed.

I love plug ends. I enjoy removing the pieces. I saw someone put them in a vice and it was easy to remove using the channel lock. Does it really pay to remove the copper from the brass or just leave as is? Love the videos!

@jamesfirth1280

10 ай бұрын

It all adds up and very easy and quick to do.

@andrewbussell3224

10 ай бұрын

In my opinion, I will not work for an hour for five dollars

@anthonycolangeli4133

10 ай бұрын

@@andrewbussell3224 I can understand that.

I like to cut my prongs off with a grinder and throw the rest of my plugs in copper baring or copper content. I'm in northern Ontario I use Sudbury scrap yards for my non ferrous and such and manitoulin for my shred tin and appliances or white goods as that's where I am

@TinManScrapper

7 ай бұрын

Nice, clean cut with a grinder. Thanks for the comment. What are the prices around there?

I have a question I recently got some TV cable wire along with a couple of small cast aluminum boxes with TV connections and there are pins in them, are they gold??

@TinManScrapper

3 ай бұрын

There are a lot of those type of items that do have gold plated pins, so probably yes.

I have another question I've been micro scraping for a little over 2 years collecting gold are there places you can take it to in order to get money?? I live in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania

@TinManScrapper

3 ай бұрын

In the US I know there is a place you can send it to called boardsort.com. I have actually not sent there yet since I live in Canada an shipping costs need to be less than profit for me

Are all plug ends brass, even the white/silver ones?

@micahferrin1779

10 ай бұрын

I think you answered my question....

@endfedinctaxonindividuals7486

7 ай бұрын

I believe so!! Run a magnet on them!

I would like to know about Co axle is it worth it

@TinManScrapper

7 ай бұрын

I actually have a video on co axial cable. The nice thing is you can find tons of it in dumpsters and some of it can be copper wire in the middle and aluminum casing

I never do plug soup anymore

What about the female side o plugs

Is the non copper wire aluminum?

@TinManScrapper

3 ай бұрын

Yes, although some wire is metallic looking, but if scratched it dos reveal copper underneath and therefore woul be classified as #2 copper

dont need water if you place plugs in the sun, 30c and above works best

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Yup, agree. it just matters if you get those types of temperatures, but yes it too does work. Thanks for the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping.

@robwaterfiled6168

Ай бұрын

@@TinManScrapper down side is i dont allways want to do much when its hot out lol, cheers

why would you call those copper strands number 2? they should be number 1 right? pure copper no coating or anything....right? my yard gives me number 1 for all that

@UrbanMiningWithGearHead

10 ай бұрын

Because of the gauge of the wire. His yard wants a larger gauge to get number 1. I think he could negotiate that if he had a very large amount. I choose to melt mine into ingots

@whatarewedoing0

10 ай бұрын

idk if thats true, gauge usually only matter to get bare bright but its possible i guess@@UrbanMiningWithGearHead

@grijzekijker

10 ай бұрын

​@@UrbanMiningWithGearHeadsome yards refuse ingots because it's difficult to trust nothing has been mixed in (like iron/lead)

@UrbanMiningWithGearHead

10 ай бұрын

@@grijzekijker I know. I don't sell to them because I sell privately and get 5 to 6 times more as an ingot to casters.

Total waste of time. And energy just throw it in with your tin

@TinManScrapper

10 ай бұрын

in with your tin?

@thegrumpygerman

10 ай бұрын

@TinManScrapper yes. Just throw the cut off ends into your tin pile

@kevansization

10 ай бұрын

@@thegrumpygerman That's what I do too. No weight in the brass so not worth the effort.....

I can tell you like the sound of your own voice, a bit too much mate.

@TinManScrapper

10 ай бұрын

No, I actually like helping others with scrapping and therefore have to explain things in detail.

The pricing you get is insane compared to Vegas! Even Kommiephonia isn't much more. Copper and brass are less more than a dollar of what you are getting!

@supersneakydotcom

10 ай бұрын

Canada's dollar is around 35% less than usd .... most everything is pegged to usd

@UrbanMiningWithGearHead

10 ай бұрын

@@supersneakydotcom OK. And I suppose the fact that our admin is printing money as quickly as they can turn the press doesn't help either

I’ve got a big box full of wires from various appliances and I was planning to leave all the plugs on them, then I thought I better cut them all off, now I’m seeing you leave some on and take some off. I’m confused 🫠😂

@TinManScrapper

10 ай бұрын

If they are the 40% ones leave the heads on and just pull off the prongs. The weight from the heads is good for the weight. However, the 60% wires you need to take off anyway so it is good to get out as much #2 copper as possible.

Just wondering.... if you're getting basically free materials, why don't you melt it down, make cool stuff you could be selling .... alot better pay than scrap yard