He sells them too.

Gort Newton No, i think he's eating it.

I believe he has them for breakfast. Maybe we should call him Copper-Man.

Trueee

Hell yeah! I wanted magnets and copper... I can get both from microwaves!! Time to hit the free section of Craigslist and snag up people's garbage!!

Also copper salts are blue when they are hydrated, such as copper sulfate pentahydrate. Copper Chloride. Copper nitrate is greenish.

when labor is free

I just struggle o find enough of it in the uk

Dildos and pocket pussys?

Hey, DUDE! You're a BABE!

Cooper Becraft All that work for $7.60. maybe there's some other way of making a living.

He might just get more enjoyment out of keeping a valuable resource out of a landfill, than he does from the money value of three pounds of copper. I pick up aluminum cans that some douche-bag littered the roadside with, for the same reason. Keep them out of landfills.... Makes you feel good.

Mark Preece, Some like my Dad enjoy this kind of stuff. Gives him something to do and he can make a buck while staying out of trouble.

Cooper Becraft ok. But how much did the propane cost, you may end up actually going negative

Cooper Bee Good thing that you can find 52 old microwaves every year! rofl.

@Chris Moss - What are you scraping that makes you that extra grand a month?

@@truthersunite8658 looks like hes scrapping 37 microwaves a week, not to far fetched to be honest, thats just going off this guys video though

That's a lottah coppah coppah

best comment :P

coppah coppah transformah. microwaves in disguise.

jesondag but no alinumium..

jesondag I

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ya its not worth your time. He's working way below minimum wage. Now if you want to make an EMP gun... thats a fun thing to make with a microwave

You can, you just need a microwave kiln set.

John John LOL

You can, just get 2, maybe 3 microwaves go sell the scrap you get from 1, and go buy some really thick gauge wire, pop out the small coil in the transformer, replace it with the thick wire, hook it up to the mains and BAM, metal melter

John John exactly what I thought!

Vic Kanis Comment of the 2017.

😂😂😂 Class buddy😁👍

Vic Kanis - Hahaha ...good one dude!

That was freaking hilarious. Thanks for the laugh. 😂🤣😂

Coppa

Joel Cooper No it's not! It looks like shit! You haven't seen much of them i think!

True

I agree it's a nice cooper ingot

thats ok many thousand years later people can dig it up and reuse them

I'm gonna go sub and check out your channel. I've been really itching to getting into melting metals

hey ik you I’ve been a subscriber for a while

Got your own place yet?

I bent he never thought it would cause so many arguments in the 2,000's.

Mairkin English is so artless.

But being a Aussie - he's used to saying "Copp - ahh" - because when the Police arrive and knock at his door - his missus shouts out - "quick, make a run for it Dave, the bloody Copp-ahh's are here lookin fer ya!. ;o)

I have picked it up, I think it's more "fun" to call it that.

yeah it's over 60 years old, got it from a closed down motorcycle workshop in the late 80's

These vises from China suck. The old school vises made in USA get passed down through the generations. Put themselves out of business by making quality products. Maybe the Ozzies used to make good ones or still do..

Yep Dawn vises here downunder. I managed to find one of the rare early ones that has the spring loaded quick release/ fast adjust lever like their dawn wood work vices have, where you push the lever the the vice jaw slides in and out by hand and when you let go the spring loaded lever, you then wind the handle to tighten it!. They stopped making them on their cast iron steel work vices, and you have to wind the jaws all the way in and out to suit whatever your clamping now by hand which is a PIA. The spring loaded release lever saves a heap of time and winding handle effort. Dawn made a spherical graphite cast iron model they called the unbreakable model - they will last 100's of years of abuse and still keep kicking - they still make them in fact but they are over $1K to buy new now for a 4 inch and approaching $2K for a 6 inch.. www.dawntools.com.au/vices/Engineers-Offset-Vices-Cast/Engineer-Offset-Vices-Cast They been making them since 1917 so 100 year anniversary this year!. I used to buy them cheap second hand and strip & clean / repaint and restore them with new jaws inserts and straighten the handles if they were bent & wire wheel them etc. They would look as good or better than new... then re-sell them for near new prices for a while. That way I got to hunt down a pair of the early lever release quick adjust models for myself and a couple of the spherical graphite cast iron offsets etc for my own steel work bench. Machinists always trying to buy the quick release vises off me but i won't part with them - they are rare as hens teeth these days, and you'd always miss the convenience of the quick release/adjust feature once you have owned one. Spinning the handle with one finger to wind the jaws in and out fast gets old quick specially as you get older and get arthritis on your fingers - it can get painful in the cold weather!. Dawn engineers and wood work vises are an institution downunder among tradesmen. Everyone needs half dozen or so - one on your work ute & one for your fire-wooding trailer to hold the chainsaw while you sharpen the chain, couple of straight and offsets for the steel work bench and a couple of wood working ones on your timber bench. They are the sort of vice that are multi-generational if you look after them.

Where are the magnets I've probably overlooked them everytime

Theres 2 on the magnetron.

He skipped because risk of beryllium

Ha ha

Coppa*

what is aloominium?

aluminum. thats how they say it there in europe

Thats American.

Loved your video Homeboy!

soberhippie copper😂

I took a shot every time he said "Copp-ah". Woke up a day later.

I heard,"cuppa". Kept thinking of coffee.

nah man ALUMINIUM is the new cool

I'm still struggling with al-loo-minny-yum

The BeO insulator turns out to really just be a myth, if they are pink you can be sure it's alumina, not BeO. BeO is really just used for multiple kW magnetrons for continuous wave radars. The pink actually comes from additives and impurities such as titanium, which is to improve mechanical properties, indicate it's alumina and indicate the grade (pink is usually 88% Al2O3) Always thought it's BeO too, but apparently not...

Thank you, good to know! because of that info, just done a little reading, hot caustic soda will eat alumna, but ignore Berrylia, so wash em in caustic soda, if the dielectric dissolves, you're good to go.

Testing it chemically is a great idea! Not sure if NaOH solution will do it since it is sintered and apparently that stuff is hard to dissolve, but maybe the 12% additives will and it will fall apart? Don't know, I've never tried but it's a great idea!

Honestly, I doubt there's even a Kilo of copper in a Magnetron. Perhaps only 2 ounces at the most (54 grams). Its mostly steel with a couple magnets.

the few I've played have been rather heavy, but yeah, less then a kilo, but a lot more then 50 odd grams, but hey, if you say there is steel in them, that probably the weight then.. the ones I've had hold of, the main chamber is all copper. after i've stripped the casing and magnets off them.

i want the magnets too.

Well use them in a home windmill then.

apard7 5 times... Wow. So your the type that doesnt learñ from your mistakes huh. No wonder your scraping so much lol loser

DrJones Hey, I have enough money to buy large neodymium magnets, I don't need to scrap, I do it because its a fun hobby. 5 times in about 200 odd microwaves sounds pretty good to me. Also, Its Scrapping, not Scraping. Surprisingly enough, I don't remember doing it, or even seeing your channel before, But I'm one of your subscribers..?

tallwill38 Probably should remember! I do it accidentally, A couple microwaves I've scrapped have the turn table attached to the frame with something durable, Always forget that rotating it to break the stuff while my hands is on the contacts is a bad idea lmao

apard7 it takes less than 3 seconds to short the capacitor with a jumper wire. Have you been hit by a live MOT? I will never forget that moment.

Frog Slough don't those have a bleed resistor though? As long as it hasn't been run in the last few hours it should be fine

I don't touch the capacitors at all

Frog Slough Discharge it with an insulated screwdriver to be safe.

Agreed, but I'm not sure about the older microwaves, which is what this video references for copper. A mention about the capacitor would have been good since many third-world countries watch these videos and want to get on with eWaste as a second or primary income. Great video nevertheless, eWaste Ben. Thanks for sharing!

you touched the cabels on the magnetron and they are connected to the capacitor same with the transformer

Yeeeesssss. Show us your horde. And give us your address. And show us the locking mechanisms on your doors.

@Toby Wilson - Just tell him to hide a key under the mat or fake rock instead.

Its both major parties

LOVE MY WIFE Boy Typ it again this time without the blindfold please.

it can work sometimes but when you scratch it you short out the coil

I was going to say you are kind of dumb but i wont be mean. If you saw the whole video you would know that he is making huge bars of copper to sell to the bank. They buy it then make coins from it.

did you watch the whole video because he said that if it was aluminium he would resell it and when he scratch to see if it is aluminuim or copper he destroys the coil. if its copper it doesnt matter because he melts it but if its aluminuim then the coil is ruined and then he tries to sell a broken transformer

Well this guy is in Australia and they dont do everything normal sometimes.

a couple scratches on the windings don't ruin it. they are light not huge gouge

William Iannucci but it’s fun

12kv diodes... What a fuck?

Saxutin ! Their the standard in microwaves. Although I have some 28kv, 35kv and 44kv ones from ebay...

Oh yeah ur right... i think i did read "resistors" accidently and wondered how u measure resistance in volts... my bad.

I had to toss my microwave and forgot to get the copper from it. Week later I seen 2 by a dumpster, and passed on it, they looked bad, it was the middle of summer and every little creature had to have made it's way in.

Yeah, I brought one home once when I lived in a condominium in Hawaii. Made an easy repair, heated a cuppa water and bugs started abandoning ship. Put it back outside.

That sounds like the skanks on Dog the Bounty Hunter!

Roaches enjoy the environment inside of microwaves.

The roaches will burn right off. No worries. LOL!

true, but its not to make a living...

He stipulated it is a hobby.

Or a drug habit

makes no sense to me..can make up to $30 from the transformer in its original state!!

Well hey..What ever tickles your fancy mate!! let him make his bares and be happy!!

Meh 😆

we are idiots... xD

Andrew Merts there is always a resistor to short out residual voltage ...but just to be safe short across the terminals with a HV screwdriver

It might just be old wives tales but I've heard stories of people opening up microwaves and getting an arc off the capacitor even after it was unused for an hour. In any case that resistor is often a discrete component inside the can so better safe than sorry with any high voltage capacitor.

I'm pretty sure he said he doesn't mess with magnetrons for that reason, silly. Comprehension problems?

Nice job mate!

Then try messing with an old CRT TV without shorting it out, and see how far you can fly across the room! I can charge up an ignition condensor (capacitor) that will give out a good jolt, days after charging, so I believe you are wrong.