Thank You Rob, I am glad you enjoyed the video, Thanks for watching

@@Okiescrapper Why on earth do I spend my days tearing things apart for the copper and aluminum only to then come in and sit and watch others do the same thing? My wife may be right, it's a stupid guy thing and an "excuse to buy more tools." :)

@@hobbitreet "excuse to buy more tools"- lol. That's the best part.

@@hobbitreet Hahahha! sounds like my ol' lady!

most are all copper and the payout is good I did another one that was all copper kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbKIiMl9pq2Ykps.html

nice to know about the 1 lb. per. horse power, I don't think that I ever paid any attention to the horse power rating

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I find either copper or luminum nit kixed on the staters w windings

Thank you

Glad I could help I have a few more that I will be doing soon, Thanks for stopping by

Hello Zagan a guy in the comments said he did 100's of these a day ranging from 3 to 15 lbs. each, think for this size I see about 6 lbs. on average, most of them are all copper, but as time go on I think will see more and more aluminum in them. Thanks for watching

That's what I did. Demo Saw....even with that I enjoyed making a video about it but didn't enjoy the work.

I’m on my second demo saw. They save me a ton of time. I cut the compressors just above the bottom and then slice it at the top hose area. Boom

aluminum need to go up for sure. the yard that I go to pays more then all the outer yards around they don't have a lot of space so they don't have short iron or prepared steel it all goes for one price but they are paying $125.00 a ton and the yard closest to me is paying $70.00 a ton so the prepared steel there may be $80.00 or $90.00 so I will take the extra 15 miles for the better price and I don't have to sort it. but yeah I should call it what it should be in the videos I will have to explain myself in a video. I put all my aluminum windings into a dog food bag. so no confusion as to what is copper and what is aluminum. Thanks for watching Gus

One US the others UK

Yes I thought about getting a bigger grinder a 7 inch and try that, but I do have a 14 inch cutoff saw that is probably what you are talking about the blade is kind of wide but I could put a shop vac. at the back of blade to catch the copper dust. and I have a chisel that I cut a v into it and it pulls the copper out real nice with the air chisel. Thanks for watching Michael

yeah I think it is in the blood, I almost got out of scrapping, I stopped bringing it in and after a year of so I was almost out of scrap to clean and I thought I am going to miss this and what will I do to fill my time, and I started to bring it in again, Thanks for watching

@@Okiescrapper the metal always comes back. Yep, Always comes back home.

Thank you, a 41/2-inch angle grinder will cut them open easy too, I use less than one disk per unit, and use the angle grinder to cut the copper, and now I use an air chisel to pull the copper out with a chisel shaped like a Y, I now use a plasma cutter, so only using electric for the cutter and air compressor, so I won't be cutting any in the summer between 3 pm and 7 pm as electric rates are higher during those hours. most units have all copper wire in them, about 4 to 6 lbs. so $12.00 to $22.00 depending on the price of #2 copper at the time and in your area. thanks for stopping by

last winter it was worse. think it was like $40.00 a ton. I stockpiled until the price went up to 80.00 aluminum has been down for a while and not showing much sign of coming back up, your batteries should have done better then that. a lawn mower battery should bring $3.00 and $5.00 for a car battery. about .20 to .25 a lb. thanks for watching

War time all metal goes up

I've been saving mine up for the future copper will go up as soon as the country opens back up

@@rickzacher1797 in my area scrap metals have jumped up price by almost double

@@rickzacher1797 actually that was a weekend special

You're welcome and thank you for watching

most are ok and full of copper but every now and then you get one with aluminum, I now use a cutting disk to cut them open faster and use less then 1 disk to open them, the disk cost me about .55 cents each and on a big compressor like this about 4 lbs. of copper. I am a hobby scrapper, I still work for a living. so scrapping is mad money it comes in handy for extras, I get a lot of good stuff from scrapping. and I enjoy it. take care

you are very welcome Kenneth, most are all copper, as luck would have it I picked one with aluminum for the video, about 4 lbs. of copper in a unit this size, Thanks for stopping by

Thanks for watching!

I was wondering the same. As a tinkerer with the geothermal arts, I was quite curious about that myself 🤔🤗

Thank you! Will do! the ears are shot, but not as bad as some people I know. Thanks for stopping by

Glad you liked it! thanks for stopping by

yes, a good bit of copper in them, and not hard to get it out,

Thanks for watching Robert, this was a bad unit for this video, most units are all copper and yield about 4 lbs. of copper, about $14.00 and I now cut them open with a 4.5 inch cutting disk on an angle grinder. one disk will do one unit and a little bit of another, the cost of the disk is 54 cents.

Any time! Thanks for watching

Glad you liked it! and thanks for stopping by

Thank you, most are all copper about 4 lbs. about $14.00 at current prices. as luck would have it the one I picked for the video would have aluminum windings, I don't get many like that just once in a while, Thanks for stopping by

one guy told me about some numbers on plate, I still have the top with the plate on it. I think it would be hard to go by weigh of unit as there are so many styles, I will not buy them too much free stuff out there, so I will take what I get, Thanks for watching

Glad you liked it. here is a link to another one I did, I cut it open with a cutting disk and it was all copper kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbKIiMl9pq2Ykps.html

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Glad you enjoyed it!

thanks for the tip, I think angle grinder is the way to go on them, thanks for watching

I use an angle grinder for sure, also on the windings. Way faster. I do loose a little cooper but I bust one out in about 5 minutes total.

@@edwardfraker4043 that is working fast. good money if you get the copper one's so far most of them are

Just finished my oxy fuel cutting class and can confirm this. Anytime you're cutting thin metals, you want a hefty travel angle

@@Grayson203 Thanks for the tip. I never took a class, I think that maybe I should someday,

Glad you enjoyed it! the compressor was a free one. so a little more profit gas was about 50 cents, most of them are all copper about 6 lbs. Thanks for watching

yeah I decided not to buy any too much free stuff out there. I am glad that one was free, I still have about 8 condenser units to scrap out I don't think that I will get to them this year, but retirement is only 11 months away

I must have missed that one sure sounds like something they'd do! Which season?

Thank you, I have retired since I made this video, so now still a hobby, and it supplements the ssi. I plan to slow down some so I can get out and fish a little and play around in the boat

prices are good here $160.00 a ton the average riding mower is about 485 lbs. it would be nice if the price go's up some more

@@Okiescrapper I am ready for when they do.👍

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No it's really aluminum wire.... and tv coax is 99% of the time copper clad steel wire..... a file and a magnet 🧲 is your best friend scrapping.... I scrapped for 15 years and now I have worked at a scrap yard for 8 years..... I've operated every machine (and repaired them also) the only things on the yard I haven't operated is the cash register and credit card machine... There is a machine that makes recycling compressors profitable but for $12k it's not every man's tool...

thank you I may try to remake this video and hopefully it will have all copper in it. I never did buy any, but I may from an ac shop here in town. see if I can do any good

Thanks for the tip, I just bought a 7 inch grinder gonna try it and see how it works, I use the 4.5 inch angle grinder on the tall thin one's that come out of ac window units, the torch get's too hot and melts the plastic sleeves and almost glues them in. makes it hard to get the copper out

I hope it works out for you. Let me know Stay warm brother it's cold out there.

to track the oxygen and acetylene I think I would want to start with full tanks and see how many I could cut open with one tank of oxy. I use almost 2 oxygen to 1 acetylene. think the Oxygen is about $15.00 and the acetylene is around $30.00 to fill. and last for quite awhile

....and then factor in fuel savings from burning the scrap oil for heating.

Awesome

where in Oklahoma are you, I may have some boards for you

I haven't run into any that have aluminum shell. I will have to try to figure out how to tell the aluminum one's from the copper with out opening them up, Thanks for watching John

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching

that compressor was free, so made a few bucks, most of them are all copper about 6 lbs. some say angle grinder is cheaper, I think a plasma cutter would be the cheapest, or maybe a carbide sawzall blade. Thanks for watching

Glad you liked it. that compressor was free so no up front cost and the cost to cut around .50 cents. would have paid good if all copper thanks for watching

@@Okiescrapper I have about 20 to scrap. Will try using my plasma cutter. Hopefully might get a bit of copper. But as you know some times not the case . Much like microwaves . Have a great day

Thank you, I hope your Thanksgiving was great.

Thanks. and thanks for stopping by, I know you are busy You do have a lot going on

I drain what I can through the hole in the side into a 5 gallon bucket with expanded metal on top of it, and the barrel catches the rest

I will have to check into propane gauges. Your welcome Billy Thanks for watching

Propane is cheaper. But to get the same efficiency as acetylene propane uses like 3 times more oxygen. So in the long run you'll be wasting more on oxy

the unit was free so a few more buck in pocket, it's a hobby so no loss for the time and this video has done well, so very much worth the time

not sure, hard to tell. I try to do it in a well ventilated area. the doors in this room are at the north and south. summer the wind is out of the south, cold fronts wind from the north. try to keep the wind to my back. Thanks for watching

yeah the good thing is most of them are all copper, as luck would have it the one I pick for the video would be aluminum. lol. as they say you win some and you lose some, but the video has been doing real good, Thanks for stopping by

it is not totally closed. there are 2 spots that the copper tubbing goes into. and oil has to get very hot to burn

Lol. Wow

Which gas do you turn off first? Harris Products Group "Which gas do you turn off first?" We get this question a lot out in the field, and it's a good one. This blog entry outlines our recommendations for proper shut down of an oxy-fuel torch. OXY-ACETYLENE We recommend closing the oxygen valve first whenever turning off an oxy-fuel torch system especially when Acetylene is fuel. This is only part, but a very important part, of the complete safe operating procedure recommended for torches by Harris. When shut down properly, this procedure can help detect even a minute leak in either the fuel or oxygen valve. It will also help keep the system free of carbon deposits that can overtime accumulate and eventually cause the torch to become inoperable and/or unsafe. This procedure should always be used on oxy-acetylene equipment to keep it in a safe operating condition. As a general rule the same procedure is also recommended when using oxy-alternate fuels at the initial light-up after the equipment has been shut down for a period of time or disconnected and reconnected to the gas supply system and when empty cylinders are exchanged for full cylinders.

kind of do you have the time? if you do I think you can make some good money, most have about 4 lbs. of copper, around $14.00 you can cut one open with less than a 4.5 inch cutting disk. a plasma cutter would be cheaper, in a few other videos I use an air chisel with a Y shaped bit to pull the windings out after the first end is cut. fast and easy

Glad you enjoyed it!. the tag on top sad made in the USA. I will try to do another latter, hopefully it will be copper inside. Thanks for watching

Always watching. You are one of my favorite, "go to" scrapping channels!

glad you like it Jeff, hopefully the next one will be all copper, most are, this one had to have aluminum because I was making a video. lol Thanks for watching

I am sure that came out of an AC unit. the tag on top said made in the USA it was a free one so all profit. if I were to buy them like that I would still make a few bucks.

it's hard to believe all 14 of them were aluminum, the yard may have gotten to you or they were all from the same kind of unit, Thanks for watching

@@Okiescrapper I think they f'd me. I should've never told him it was my first time scrapping. I normally would give all my metal to a "friend of mine"(so-called). And I would ask him how much he was getting. And I was in his vehicle.. I found a receipt for almost $800 So I figured my last load, would do it myself. He would always tell me he was only getting around $30. And I have loaded his truck and trailer. (I have a construction business, I get lots of scrap). And he isn't getting another piece from me I had 1 truck load of nothing and I got $199,70

yep and we will most likely see more and more aluminum as time go by. Thanks for watching

@@Okiescrapper Any time fella.

yeah I do that when I can, sure makes it faster, on some motors they have so much shellack that it glues the string to the wire, and then some string is just rotten

No.... unless you have a yard full of them and it's still not worth the bs of all the tare down

@@TheBrandini76248 I agree but it saved me me a big mess and a nice bit of work !

it is worth it for some and not for others, verry few are aluminum windings, most are all copper about 4 + lbs. so you can figure the amount you can make from current prices, you can cut one open with a 4 1/2 cutting disk and still have some disk left, my disks cost me 54 cents each. a plasma cutter will cut them open easy too, I just got me a cheap one and plan to do a video soon cutting one open, I think a guy could do 2 in an hour easy, I use a air chisel to get the windings out now. I cut one end with the angle grinder cutting disk, Thanks for stopping by and Happy Thanksgiving

Yeah the small long one's from window ac units. I have learned to cut them open with the angle grinder, the torch get's too hot and melts the white plastic sleeves and glues the copper to the metal, I make two cut's around the compressor and then two long wise and then you have just the stator, or to do less cutting you cut in and look to see the copper and then adjust the cut up or down and then go all the way around. I have a video think it is called how to cut compressors where I show this method, Thanks for watching

yeah I have seen a few videos on that method. basically they are using gold processing equipment, short of the magnet to get the steel, then the rest is by weight, Thanks for watching Douglas

The yard that I use everything go's at tin, and they pay more than any other yard that's why I was calling it tin as it is or was tin for me, I have checked out another yard that is paying $200. for short iron and the tin yard is only paying $160 so I am separating them again. the yard paying the $200 for short is only paying $150 Thanks for watching

@@Okiescrapper I posted this as a reply to another comment. I'm not trying to be a wise A. The term "Tin" is a bit confusing in this case. It is not referring to tin, the metal, but the classification for pricing. It's the lower grade of mixed metals such as, these sealed units, car bodies, refrigerates, and that trailer load of crap you picked up around the yard. Easy to misunderstand.

yes I agree to shop around. the yard closest to me pay's low so I hardly even call them for a price quote

I use an angle grinder a lot too

good point, I try to have my copper looking as clean as possible. Thanks for watching Kevin

and another good idea. will do that thanks, that was one of the reasons that I wanted to put up this channel, was to learn from each other.

Thank You Daniel I wrote that down. I will try to look at tags and see if we get the same numbers here, Thanks for the info and for watching

Don't know where you're selling them but I get about $1.25 per kg for compressors

@@exogator @TheDanielelliott This is a huge difference... what's going on here

@@keeanmorishita8457 don't know but I just got $5 the other day for a fairly big compressor out of a large window/wall mount AC.

I don't remember what was said but that's ok. I picked up this compressor for free just my luck it had aluminum when making the video. and on the flammability of the oil I drain most of it into a 5 gallon bucket with expanded metal on top, I use the oil in an oil burner and I have to mix a quart of kerosene to one gallon of oil to get it to burn good on it's own. I have a play list for the oil burner. I melt lawn mower motors with it. If you notice how the oil will flame up when I turn the compressor and the oil that is left inside hits the red hot metal then it will flame up. I ware a tinted face shield when I cut these. Thanks for watching Phil have a great Thanks Giving

about 50 cents for the torch, who keeps track of time on a hobby? most units are all copper and have about 4 lbs. or a bout $14.00 in copper, this unit was free so it is all profit. a cutting disk will open one easy too, and use less then 1 disk

I cut the long thin one's from window units the torch get's them too hot and the plastic sleeve's melt and make it hard to pull the copper.I just bought a 50 blade pack on amazon for $25.00 and they seem to be a good cutting disk

the string can be a pain, some say their yard is ok with the string others are not, I think a propane torch over them lightly will make quick work of them

you are welcome Jeff Thanks for watching

I need to ask the guys at my yard, Thanks for watching Robert

It's more for fun, a hobby but the money does come in handy from time to time, I have videos of the loads that I take in and the payout from each load, I have a full time job and sometimes over time. I hope to retire in about14 months. that compressor was free. thanks for watching

yeah, I bet it would. I may need to start doing that. thanks for watching

some times they do and some times they pull the wire, a cutting disk works good and it's fast too, I am thinking about trying my 14 inch cutoff saw, Thanks for watching Jander

You waste material using a saw. Shaving are hard to recycle. If you cut/chisel, you are wasting the more expensive metals

yes most are all copper I saved the top of the unit the tag says made in U.S.A. so I will have to check the numbers and compare to others

Yeah I cut open a few hundred over the years, the aluminum is mostly in the big ones, don't think I have seen any in the smaller ones, and I looked at the top plate on that thing and it said made in the USA. but still make a few bucks cleaning it up, Thanks for watching Roe

I do these often. The extremely cheep mini fridges are often straight aluminum most AC’s are all copper on average 1 in 10 have aluminum wire either mixed with copper or straight aluminum.

@@jessewilson8676 I have found the same thing. I don't think I have found one window ac unit with aluminum in it. Some of the fridges have straight aluminum. even less have a mix. them big ones that come out of I don't really know what are hit and miss. Most of the ones I've done have been mixed to some degree. a lot have been copper and some have been straight aluminum.

yes there is some time and work involved, and I know a lot of scrappers don't have the time, as even I make more off of shred in a year then I make from copper, brass, and aluminum put together. and the guys scrapping for a living have to hustle to make it. this is more for the hobby scrapper

I was taught to do them with an air chisel, but I can see that it is fast and easy with the angle grinder and the Sawzall too, so just what ever the scrapper has available to use, or how he was taught

1st 3 air tools bro 1.Air Gun 2.Air Rachet 3.Air Chisel😀

no I need to try that, I have one on the bench grinder

that's nice to have a friend like that, I drain what I can through one of the holes and the barrel catches the rest. I guess I could drill a hole

@@Okiescrapper yea, he's semi retired about 80 but still catches a few calls a week, doesn't want to hassle with taking stuff to scrap yard. Once I cut in half I put in vice, then use a very sharp sazall blade and cut windings off one side, if not sharp it will just make a ragged mess, then take punch knock them through about inch and a half then take drift pen punch or lady's slipper and pry out other end.

what is worth scrapping? that depends on the scrapper, how much time do you have, how much scrap do you have. some micro scrap and take a computer down to almost nothing get all the little bits of copper, others will say it's not worth the time to break a motor down for 2 lbs. of copper, on the scrap yards, research what scrap yards are in your area and make a list of them with phone numbers and addresses, if you can take a trip out to one or all of them and watch how others have their scrap cleaned and sorted, like copper pipe most will go for #1 as long as you dont have any solder joints on it. if you do cut any solder joints off and they will go as #2 copper. many good scrapping videos on youtube just search out how to clean any item. but then call the scrap yard you plan to use and make sure they want it that way. the Iscrapapp has many good videos on cleaning items and check out the facebook group " scrapmetal talk"

Thanks for the tip 👍 I appreciate it

Thank you a lot for using that weird style air hammer for getting the windings out. I never thought of that.

another scrapper in his video he had a long rod with a v cut in it, I thought why not do that to a chisel so I took a wide chisel and cut a V into the end, It works good. faster then prying it out. as you know most for the units are all copper. but I think we will see more and more aluminum as time goes by. Thanks for stopping by

I can pull it out in a minute with my air chisel I use that method in a few other videos. thanks for stopping by

just more work and charcoal is not cheap, my air chisel takes it right out. I use it in other videos

Whut happens when you find the wet spot!!?? Do you also go no further!!??

now Ice cream does sound good

@@Okiescrapper Ice Cream -Great minds scrap alike. As for today, I clean more of my prize possessions....(Any sane person looking over the fence would ask " Why on earth does he keep that?...and that?...and those? ) Have a super weekend!

no I made a little money the unit was free, as far as gas I picked it up with a truck load of other scrap, Electric is cheap here in Oklahoma, and I have had the tools for years so they paid for themselves a long time ago. had that one been all copper as most are, it would have had about 4 lbs. of copper so about $14.00, but as luck would have it I grabbed an aluminum one from the pile. a cutting disk will open them up fast and cheap too.

Yes I like to use them on the strings, straight blades go dull to fast

I use a pair of diagonal side cutters - way easier

most units are all copper, about 4 lbs. but you do get some that are mixed, about 1 in 10