Anyone in awe of how clean his garage is 🤣🤣🤣

I love harvesting the brass ends .

Other people have probably said it but cut the plug off the cord. Then pull your prongs using the head of the pliers as leverage against the plug. You’ll put it out with the copper throw then in a bin then snip the inch of coooer wire off after . Get 100% of brass and copper out

Excellent video, thank you for actually taking the time to explain things!!

Every little bit counts!! Awesome video my friend!

I really like this video, your camera is up close to the vice and we can see everything you are doing up close and clearly. As well as the information about removing the Brass is very informational. Good Job !!!!! My yard doesn't care if the plug terminals are nickel plated they give me yellow brass for it all, He said the nickel floats to the top when melting and they just skim it off the top of the molted metal before pouring.

Alot of really helpful tips here !!🎉 I agree, you would need to separate them before getting to the scarp yard. Thats great how you help out so many scrappers with how to maximize their profits. Thanks for sharing with us, hope you had a wonderful day my friend 🌈 🎉

I strip the stove and dryer cords to get all that copper out its good and quick copper

My trick is to cut the cord as close to the plug as possible, hold the plug in a pair of pliers/channel locks in one hand, then take in the other hand your dull side cutters at the base of the prong and “roll” the plug out. Almost always the entire brass comes out with a little tail of copper. A little harder for the large appliance ones, but make sure the rubber is not cold. A little practice to find that rhythm, but it’s efficient.

great video, helped answer a number of questions I had. thanks

Great vid. I can’t believe that a lot of people just skip over those brass prongs. I know I like them because I can melt them but in the scrap sense, it’s still a profit on an easy task

I'm going to get started on my 2 pails of plugs,perfect idea for indoor winter scrapping.

For the large appliance cords i use a small pair of pruning shears to cut the plastic away from the brass and copper wires. A ""multmaster"" would be faster than a hand saw!

Funny thing is as I'm sitting here watching the Tin Man pulling brass pins from cord ends this video comes up next 😅😂✌

Awesome Channel I love the content you produce.👌

Nice video! That is the same way i do mine.

I always cut the ends off and throw them in a bucket to prosses on my down time in winter

Great info.

I love this channel, I get all the info I need.

Thanks for the info

Your A W E S O M E dude !!!!

My scrap yard is pretty cool I can put all my brass in one bin and they don’t care they give me clean

for the large 240 v plugs , i just put the base of the head in the bench vice with connectors exposed , then with vice grips locked on the brass, a quick twist ( using the leverage of the vise grip of course :) and out they pop. worth a try, cheers thanks for the posts

Love the tin man.

i keep finding this stuff out too late, not thinking there's any money in chord ends, oh well, still learning.

ewaste ben says, he melts copper into ingots and sells them on ebay for more, much more, than the copper value. Give that a try, maybe works. He is in Melbourne, Australia.

Thub did a video where he boiled all his plug ends and the brass came out really easily when they where still hot. Jusst ussing pliers he got the whole buried bit

I am so glad UK plugs are held together by a screw makes it a lot less time consuming getting the brass pins out for melting

great video ;) i just did an live in 5 h there i just process plugs ;) while we chated ;)

Good day Yea I use hand grinder, but ; like you said it melts. I like hand saw idea. Thanks

Thank you

I used boltcutters to take apart a stove plug, then used needle nose pliers to remove brass plugs & short wires. Boltcutters I found for free in wire company metal bin.

Although you don't make much money doing things like this i justify it by the fact that i'm getting exercise that I normally wouldn't get!

When removing your ends, if you use the plug as a fulcrum, move your pliers three to four times, keeping them close to the plug as you bend them , you will be able to pull the whole piece out including the copper wire. Only takes 5 Seconds. ...BTW..I'm in Hamilton, and today is January 11/22. Yellow Brass =$3.11/Lb & and Bare bright =$5.00/Lb.👍 Also my scrapyard told me I don't need to separate my ends, they're all considered yellow.

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I too hate the smell of burning plastic tin man scrapper

Great video and very clearly explained. Have you watched the video on boiling plugs and then harvesting the brass and copper . Im from New Brunswick Canada and was wondering if you knew of any place like they have in the U.S. like board sort here in Canada ? P.S. just subed and rang the bell .

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I sometimes feel like your outro is so in contention with your personality! You should try "Tin man gone" :P with a fun intonation

It maybe 1yr old vid but thanks for the tip. Now knowing that some has nickel wouldn't it have a higher value? Probably not that the buyers won't do that...

I do only because I don't get a lot. But in the future I get a lot I would just throw them in the shred. It takes 3 plugs to even make an ounce.

I saw on another channel someone heating up the brass plug ends in a pot of hot water. I tried it and they came right out with the extra piece of copper.

Me Too... 🤭😆😂

Tip: try to tip it over, and drill in from det back side. You shuld knock Them loose.

What about the fuses in plugs? Are they worth scraping?

I pull all of them and save them up

I cut the plug off the wire . This means when I use the same pliers I get the whole pin plus a little no 2 copper.

Scrapping is great because everybody has their own ways of doing things but this is definitely not worth it. Making only $3/hr or so taking them out and it’s so tedious

Spoiler alert .. when the title says is it worth it to remove the brass ends off appliance cords and in the first minute the guy shows you a tub full of brass cords ends .. you pretty much know hes been doing it for a long time and just didnt start doing this... so apparently the answer must be YES .. only gonna watch the end to see his technique for remove ends on dryer plugs

Lmao. I scrap in similar ways. Leave nothing for the landfill. 👍

You can leave a small amount of copper on your brass. But you can't leave brass on your copper.

Are all Canadians left handed ? My wife who I traveled 1000s of miles for in Canada is also left handed 🇨🇦

I quit..

Nah man. Your removal on the small cords is wrong. Cut the wire at the base. Then grab the base with a pair of channel locks and pull out the brass with pliers or anything similar.

Too much labor for a few cents..

Honestly this dosent seem worth it.

Its not worth it time is money and your wasting alot of time

I always pull the brass out of every plug I find

I’m hanging on every word 🦻.🐎🌻