I have watched hundreds of scrapping videos and in my opinion you are the "King of Scrap". Thank you for all your informative videos. I am 68 and started seriously scrapping about 6 months ago because of you. It's amazing the stuff that I never realized where free and of value that have now opened up my eyes to view the world in a totally different way as I drive about. Just today I went to pick up a single tv advertised for free and as a result that person said my cousin who lives several houses down also has one, and then that person saying that their uncle also had 2 and so and so forth and within less than an hour I got 6 tvs and a monitor. One of the tvs was a HUGE rear projection type that took 3 men to get on my pick up truck flat bed. Two of the tvs I scrapped on the spot in less than 10 minutes. Keep them coming.

Excellent! Scraper Bonus time!! Everyone wants a bonus on their main job. This is Scrapper Bonus tip. I watch Moosescrapper, Mike the Scraper, and eWaste Ben. Down time is your bonus time. During good weather, scrappers speed through CRTS and many other electronics to make most efficient use of their time. Just toss those small spools of copper in a bucket. Only takes a second, then when you have down time, such as Blizzards we have here in Colorado, or if you live where there are cyclones, hurricanes, or just stuck inside, grab that bucket and unwind that copper. My 5 gallon bucket of spare copper spools took about 3 hours to unwind, but I earned an extra $60 just for sitting around out of the weather! Thanks for a thorough training session!

Man...having a beer outside on a nice day while pulling apart a TV for scrap. Sounds like a great day.

Thanks again Ben for another great video. My nerves were shot in the beginning of the video, I was really worried that you were gonna spill that beer mate!

I live in the high desert in southern California. There's a lot of empty space here and a lot of assholes go out and dump their old tvs, computers, vacuum cleaners, stereos, etc out in the middle of nowhere. But whatever, their trash is my treasure. Thanks so much for this video. Really helps me make the most of the stuff I find.

This is a GREAT VIDEO!!! Especially for those who never open a TV!! It gives them almost all of the knowledge that they need. Great job Ben!!!

loving your videos Ben. keep up the good work my friend

Gosh Ben, I so needed your video before I scrapped out multiple CRT TV'S, I threw away some things. Now I know that the transitors are irony copper and will check with board sort what they pay. Thanks for sharing

That's a lot of copper that a tv has. Than you Ben for the video.

The deflection coil (called "Yoke" in USA) is designed for allowing high frequency for both horizontal and vertical. These modern CRT had a menu option with rotation adjustment. This imply injecting a fraction of the horizontal signal at 15 KHz in the vertical. The rotation and trapezoid adjustment also imply adding low frequency at 60 Hz to the horizontal, which is not a challenge of course. It is amazing that the high voltage transformer, where the 25 kv (twenty five thousand volt) is generated don't have much copper anymore. In the past, like 1969 with our first color TV using a few vacuum tubes, that transformer had thousands of turns of very fine copper wire. The last few decades of CRT, the high voltage transformer use the same amount of turn (3 times less because of the voltage tripler), but using photolithograpic method, photographing fine line on a flexible PCB. It is a shame that the scrap metal places don't offer higher price for a nice bloc of copper as you show in many of your videos. The rationale is probably that they will need to melt the copper anyway.

The Trinitron CRT was an Australian engineer's design. Sony took it for their own. It was a barrel segment, but with a flattened screen dimension vertically, while in the horizontal direction it had to be curved, a later development in CRTs enabled the glass edges of the screen to be made much stronger and tubes could be made flat both vertically and horizontally while still maintaining glass strength under high vacuum and Sony's Trinitron CRT advantage evaporated. Sony's electronics were always a pile of tangled electronics, while JVC easily had the best electronics, the best yoke (precision wound) and the best linearity in the picture of all, but that could not be designed into TVs much bigger than 20" so they had a natural limit to their design. JVC was also the most reliable design of all the TVs. A typical 20" had some 30 transistors and 6 ICs, very minimal, but excellent picture and reliability. Sony's electronics easily had double JVC's and with a lower-grade image linearity, purity and convergence.

I could listen to you say the word “copper” all day!

Beautiful vid, Very informative, I learned so much, Thank you for this!

great video Ben!

That was awesome. Thank you so much. That was a very helpful video.

For those small crystals, I calculate that in silver mass it is 31.25 milligrams, at today's value (today's Kitco price) that will be US$0.55 per gram (55 cents) which gives 1.71875 cents of silver value. In taking one minute to remove 2 crystals, that's 3.4c of labor value earned and that is only after the silver has been removed, refined and offered for sale as 99.99% pure silver bar on Kitco. At Kitco's price, if you removed 2 crystals per minute per hour (120 crystals in one hour) that earns 206.25 cents or 2 bucks and 6 cents per hour with the refining yet to be accounted for. And that does not include the cost of disposal of unwanted materials, collection of the original material, the TV, the disassembly time to get to the crystals, the tools required to disassemble the TV, the vehicle costs and finally, the cost of the space to provide a disassembly area.

Good video cant wait till i can drive

Gotta cut out the smokes. It will save you some money, health, and allow more for the vino!

Just smash the inductors("coils", "spools") with a big hammer! The ferrite and plastic is very brittle and will turn into tiny bits. The copper will stay in one piece and can be picked up. Done in seconds, remember to wear glasses because ferrite will fly everywere!

Is there an easy way to tell if the AV plugs on a tv are gold plated or just gold colored (brass etc)? Not just crt but on any electronics.

I wanted to see recovering copper for # 2 buckets full not damn IC chips

Hey Ben do you keep all your extra screws? They add up and can go as scrap metal!!

Use the copper wire from the yolk for dyanmo/transformer/inductor projects!!

I love these videos partly for the trippy dancing components and bendy circuit boards when you shake the board around on the camera haha. Is that a side effect of youtube's video stabilization? or something on the go pro end?

Out of curiosity, not criticism, are you concerned about lead getting into your bloodstream after messing with so many boards? I scrapped a lot back in the day, and that still worries me to this day. That gray on your fingers... some of that is from the lead flux used to put those boards together.

Copper prices have gone up recently here in the uk

Do you have a master list somewhere of what scrap contains 99.9% pure and less copper?

Why do all the worthless boards go into scrap steal? Aren't they mostly plastic?

If you were to buy boards, would you want all the chips & heat sinks on them or would it be ok for a seller to remove the heat sinks & copper, please?

Scrapped my first TV today. Micro-scrapped everything. Got 12oz of copper. Degaussing was al.

You don’t take apart those transformers? I do some of them some are super easy like 1 minute some take longer I don’t do those

You can sell those for more than scrap to retro gamers particular a flat tubed Sony Trinitron like that.

If you would use a wood type chisel (thin, wide and sharp, it cuts and fits under the IC without breaking it or without destroying all the other components

You're talking about chrysalis, what about the ones that look like the chrysalis but also have like a plastic coating on outside Are they worth keeping, ive been trying to scrap ou tv's both flat screen and tube ones and im learning alot from your videos cause alot of stuff ive been throwing in scrap is some thats worth keeping out

I also love coppa

Those green components are not resistors. They are inductors.

Can you tell me the proper size of the bolt or screw that holds the cone to the tube.

woah 4000 TV's impressive! 18:30 Jurassic Park beast ! Ben the electron gun cathode tube on top, is it worth taking out? special metals thanks for the vid

the wire in the yoke at 706 of video you have to be careful because there's time that wire is aluminum with a copper coating on it

好厉害啊

How can you take the IC chips off without damaging them

I just got 25 crt monitors from a local school. Is there anything else i can scrap from the boards other then the copper?

How delicate is the CRT itself? I mean, does it break easily? Is it pressurized or toxic or anything? THX

Anyone else noticing more and more copper-coated aluminum wire for the Degaussing cable? 5 of the last 6 CRT tvs I have scrapped have had this crappy wire in it, makes me not want to mess with them anymore - especially when 2 of the last 4 were held on by 1/2" bolts instead of screws, so they had to come home with me instead of "field scrapping" them. *sigh*

I don't think you have the same camera anymore you used back then. Because I almost got seasick watching this video. ;) If you look at it, it's having those 'waves' where there are movement in the picture.

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You need to adjust your camera angle. A lot of time all we see is your hands. Not the job your trying to complete. Good information, thanks you.

Never got a trinitron myself yet. Heard they are rich in copper

i thought all the degassing cable where bright copper i have found alot that arent bright copper they are different colors why is this? and is it still copper number 2?

Vise grips for most coils. And you are very hyper nervous when you work at your table. Maybe Adrenalin

Trouble with not scrapping on the spot is you are taking a lot of trash home that you will have to do something with.

Does the tube get recycled

I found a CRT that must’ve been 80 pounds the damn thing is huge found it on the side of the road somehow got it in my car to bring home I really regret that because I’m left with a bagel tube that weighs 80 pounds and just got the copper I wish I would’ve scrapped it on the street

What is the gray brittle material that is around the yoke?

do u think i could melt it down n make it into bars or shinny copper n sell for more?

Does anyone here keep cable ends for any sort of reclaiming?

copper on the speaker?

the speakers have copper coils you could add that up allso

A crt doesn't seem as much as a mircowave in terms of copper ?

Yokes ben. Degaussing cables ben

do you keep ferrites Ben? also, is there a market for, or people who i can donate my ABS and PP plastics too? i dont want it to just end up in landfill, would rather it all be recycled but apaprently in wantirna, i cant put ABS no 7 plastic in my recycling bin

u know there's metal inside the glass right Ben?

I came here for the kuppa

i love smoking weed and coronas with lemons is great

28 centimeter lol :) :)

Ever get shocked before? Trust me, it doesn’t feel good. It’s good to make sure the tv is unplugged for 2 or 3 days. The spark that hit me was 6 to 8 inches away from the tube and threw me back.

You call them "multi-grips", we call them "channel-locks" (though I think that's a brand name, which has become like Kleenex, or Band-Aids).

One day there won't be TVs, of any kind, people will go outside and play instead.

Corona

are you drinking Corona my friend?

I put my junk TVs in scrap cars

Now i know why i gave thumbs down. Your camera is way too close and cannot see anything. Plus wanted to see removing copper from yokes to fill a bucket, great to see a full bucket of #2 coppah!

burn that tiny wire on a burnt mattress spring . absolutely stupid not to burn it

You like to talk to much

Not cool