7 hours of motors is brutal. I try not to let them build up for that exact reason. We appreciate your effort

A friend just sent me a video this morning where they used that same tool but split the whole stator right in half then pulled the windings out. No grinding!

NJ - USA

I'll give you a tip to speed things up.. I used to scrap for many years.. Do it like an assembly line, do all of one thing, then to the next then next.. IE.. First remove all the screws, nuts & bolts; Then do all the slicing the covers off; always making separate piles of same scrap; cut (copper/aluminum) ends off of all; pull remaining copper/aluminum out; further clean cast aluminum housings.. If you just do one motor at a time you are wasting your time.. I used huge 55 gal barrels and had like 5 or more full when I started my cleaning process, when you do just one part at a time, you get faster as you go, you get a rhythm going.. It took me a few years to figure that out.. I fully cleaned everything till I had barrels full of just clean copper, aluminum, brass, steel & so on also had each separated like copper, from no.1, no. 2, all bright & coated; Aluminum in cast, plate, extruded & cans.. I never took in unclean metals, you don't make money that way.. I thank you for sharing. I don't want to sound critical, I just wanted to share how I done it and made a very good living doing it.. Also never sell when prices are low, just hoard it till they come up...

I recommend using a large chop saw for the first side clean cut with no bashing 😊

Thank you man! But what i want to thank you for the most is for remaining yourself and walking the walk my friend you're an inspiration.

a. use the grinder plus hammer drill b. lay a tarp down to catch dust also secure that vice to something, it will help SO much, i could tell you were losing lots of time and the hammer drill has less effect if all it does is move the vice ;) great video though!

Rotary hammer is the shiznet!!

I love all the videos man!!! And scraping motors is always awesome 😎

4.50 nice! good work Sir.

M8 you're a true junkie with power tools . You make life look so easy , hence I enjoy watching you at work and break into a sweat , while you're working . Keep up the good work. God bless y'all.

My brother and I just started scraping and yesterday we got 30 free computer monitors. Took 6 hours to strip. Will find out today what all that work was worth. Here's to hoping it was worth it. We just love ur videos. We learn so much.

If you take the smaller chisel but and make a 2 pronged fork out of it, it will work a bit better for driving out the windings. Also if you can secure your vice down so you can work at bench level your back will thank you.

Bert from Scrap Farm videos on You Tube does a lot of motors in a fashion similar to you. Now that you have done a bunch there might be merit in watching him to see if there is anything you want to steal for your process. Also, now that I know you have a good process, I will be setting my motor aside and coming to visit when I have a bunch. hahaha.

Sweet! Love seeing progressive technique improvements you're discovering and sharing. Fyi, the vibration from the e hammer can cause some carpel tunnel problems in the medium to long run, don't forget to always be watching your grip and listen to your body when things start hurting or feeling numb. Thanks for the channel brother!

During the video I was screaming omg, secure the vice. Omg cut one side with the grinder first. Omg wrench and impact first. But I watched all the way and you redeemed yourself. LOL. It is some work no doubt but with the right tools and techniques it's worth it. You've proven that. Next time it will be easier. Thanks for sharing the video!

Grind the profile down on the first flat blade I think 2 1/4 inch wide one! That’s what I did and I chisel right through transformers that are sheeted

Someone needs a huge flat stump to bolt that vice to, I wonder if they have any in Canada??????? 😉😉😉

I did the same thing for our shop and we have verytrong electric wire sheers and Also an angle grinder and Dremel will help go a long way. I took about 1 hour and I got about 5xs the amount done.

Deano here from Napa Valley, CA, USA. I have watched hundreds of copper scrapping videos and there are hundreds of ways to do it!! LOL!!

Maybe use an impact (nut) driver and breakdown the motors as you get them, then the cores are ready and waiting for you without having to use the grinder so much.

Take a 2x8,10,12 w/e board and mount your vise, 2-by(2x) so you can recess the bottom nuts. Then temporary clamp or bolt it down to your bench. Great for when you have limited room. If you had a welder I'd tell you how to make a stand out of an old steel rim, angle iron, fence post, a trash bag and some concrete mix. All cheap or stuff you'd get for free.

Another good video my dude. I don't bother stripping them and my excuse is more time in doors stripping, less time street scrapping but I might also be a bit lazy 😁 Canadian treasure hunter has a great way of removing the copper with a modified claw hammer. Seems to work a treat ✌

An interesting learning experience for all. I am impressed by the knowledge shared by your followers. The many comments here are full of ideas from people who have actually done this work. Such is not always the case. : )

Im organizing wire while I watch this. Very peaceful

I picked up the Bosh 8.5 amp last week. Game changer. You will want to cut a notch (check mark), in the bit to help grab both rows of windings when hammering.

I liked seeing you try different tools and watch you modify the technique on the fly.

Nice!

Great video

Loved the video my friend. I've got 2-3 times that in motors to finish processing myself. Everything got put on hold this fall due to my foot surgery, Dad's hip surgery weather, Temps. But I got an air chisel and new hose for Christmas. lol. to do exactly what you did here. Been itching to finish mine up. Thanks for the inspiration my friend. As always you keep it simple and real. See you on the Scrapping Trail.

Breaking motors is hard work but man does it feel good when you cash out afterwards.

Hej hej pozdrawiam z Gór Świętokrzyskich w Polsce 😁🖐️

I rarely use grinder on motors..selection of bits and screwgun a more pleasant option. I do however use big grinder to open up fridge compresser chambers..extracting the compresser with screwgun..copper is often very accessible on compresser motors

Simply put. This was fun to watch and very informative. Thank you very much!

Melt the copper dust in a furnace to make copper bars.

Hi from Australia. 😁 Mate, you are wise beyond words in the ways of waste.

Amazing guy

Loved seeing you come up with a process for this. At my warehouse we just scrap the whole motor so It's cool to see you doing this.

Ooooh - electric hammer! Ooooooh! Makitaaaa. You lucky thing. Love it. And you get a gold star on your paper today for finally using hearing protection! Well done, Thub. There's something vaguely unnerving about watching those copper wigs exude out of the centers. Little skin crawly.

Thank you so much for walking us through this. Great job.

Amazing thanks, I can’t wait to get mine done

I have an air chisel and if you cut the one side of the moter and the drive the windins out its very easy. And you should secure your vise

Those who do have So two do do's is twice a many! Good for T shirt 👕 👍 great video!!!

I agree with other commenters about securing vice and putting a v cut in one of the bits

Fun video

Goodluck and see you on the next one!

another great video thanks for the help on getting copper out of a motor makesit easy for some of us too.take care

appreciate you sharing your ideas and information.

I like that power chisel, way less dust then using a cut off disc /cheers ScrapBongo

Great stuff as always, keep it up!

Love your videos keep them coming

It'll work 10 times better if you mount that Vice

Satisfying

Oooooh man! Oh dang I am drooling as in Homer Simpson drools over strawberry sprinkled donuts! A big CHA CHING, BUCU DENIROS!$$$$$

I appreciate that your sharing, interesting process

Great video as always 👍👍

Nice job my friend👍. I use a different method but the result is the same 😁. Well done👍👍👍

A lot of those bolts are 1/4 in heads and I found if u have a drill and a 1/4 socket take those screws out and smack the shaft with a hammer on both ends the aluminum plates come off the stator a lot easier

Love it 😍 love all the comments too, really helpful 👍 you do make it difficult for your self don't you

Good job and Thank you 👍

Glad to see you finally got some shelving thub ;) look at all the floorspace you freed up !

just a suggestion take the time to build a proper work bench just for motors and bolt down your vice. also try to have collection tub there so your not cleaning up dirt with your copper.

This is what I like to see, I been stripping motors and sealed units for about 6 months now I just do them all with a large flat head screw driver and angle grinder and got pretty good at it but I feel like an air hammer would definitely help me out quite a bit

i guessed that the grinder is better to cut, than the jack hammer is better to remove the copper ;) 31 kilo awsome great chash out great video

I tore a couple more electric motors down. Sharpened the hammer drill bit and it did not cut the copper windings any better, but still works great at pulling them, once cut. So experiment two, I grabbed a long pair of channel locks to hold the motor and put distance between my hand and the blade, and tried out the old miter saw. Fastest, clean cut I have found so far.

I was tearing apart electric motors yesterday just no where near as many as you got there 😂♻🌎👍

Great video mate

Reciprocating saw would probably save you time in changing cut off wheels.

Your the best bro I appreciate what you do and you have taught me a lot of stuff to learn keep doing the thing ✅

Yep gotta get me one of those.. great video. Definitely worth 30/hr. Keep doing the thing!

On your impactor, the tile bit. Suggestion, think about a fork, only wider teeth and blunted. Better bang per impact. Lastly, a hand held impactor drill with a bit. A lot quicker and less dust. I just took in 280 pounds of copper. Mostly from motors and such I have found on the street the last 6 months. Was very nice having something to do.

Mount that vice!!

I do motors, transformers etc. as I get them. After cutting one end off, I use the stanley knife to cut all the string bindings and remove them, coated wires and plastic strips. That end then in bucket totally clean. As yet don't have an air chisel so pin punches used with vise. Have an air compressor so WILL happen. Knock out rest evenly then cut all bindings, cleaning completely- no dealer will get to short change me! Bench kept clean so copper powder can be swept with bannister brush + dustpan for melting when I have a kg or so. So far have a 240 litre wheelie bin 4/5 full, compacted with the sledge hammer- probably 150+ kg easy. Along with the bright shiny stripped wire (90kg) and copper pipe (50?kg) it'll be a while before I cash in because I'm chasing a 1 tonne payday so I can buy a Rotovelo Carbon velomobile (AU$10,500). One hobby pays for the next!

Suggestion : mount the vise vertical (waist height) and use the perforator weight to help you drive the wire out the stator.

Love the videos I work at a scrap yard here in wv and just to save you time almost all of your motors that come out of washers and dryers are aluminum bound motor as are the transformers that come out of microwaves.

You da man.

I use my 7" angle grinder to cut the windings through then tap the windings through the other side. Sometimes I can yank the windings through.

try putting a long notch in the end of the chisel and flare it out where it can grab it to push it out cutting with angle grinder first is best smoother cut and easier to get out plus you might try using drill and take bolts out

Once we open the guts, file to check for cooper

I like to take a utility knife and cut the strings holding the windings then make one cut at the loop on the wire then grab the opposite end at the loop and pull it through. That way no junk in the wire and you don't waste so much wire Turning it to dust. In my opinion it's easier

Hey man, I really enjoy your scraping videos and seeing all of the valuable metals that you recover and prevent from entering the landfill. You are a very hard-working dude and I appreciate the tremendous effort you put into breaking scrap down into specific types of metal. If I may ask, what are some items that you need that would be helpful to your scraping operation? Any specific tools or equipment that you could use? Thank you for your work and thank you for the great videos!

Love the vid thub!! U the man!! Yeah I can see that electric hammer is way better than not!. And my vise sux too..hahaha

knowing some of your mistakes is well worth it listening to your closing remarks. Steel should be 15 cent pound

That was pretty cool. You made some money. You should also factor in your drive time

Same deal with transformers, those laminated sections on some motors? High-silicone iron, worth 10x as much as mild steel trash. You want a little bit of a fork on the blade (like on a nailbar), so that you're not using your wrists to try to steer and control the chisel, it'll self-center on the windings it's cutting. And, you want it shaaaaaarp for the cutting parts, especially in the groove. For the yanking parts, you want a fairly skinny, round 85-degree pin hook - maybe 1/2" on the folded tip, so that you're lazily inserting that and then just pulling away from the vice. Pulling is more controlled than pushing, uses less effort. Or, if you don't want to pull, then a skinny lizard-tongue pushing fork would be the best shape, really dull so it pushes and doesn't cut. Your hammer drill in general is a poor tool because of how absurdly long it is, it's unwieldly versus a normal air chisel would be like, 20% the length and give you tons of control and easy to switch angles and a lot less weigh to hold (but whatever, you go war with the army you've got). And, you already know the big answer... get a gaddam table and mount the vice to it. You're wasting at least 2/3 of your energy, and working on the floor you're hurting your back. If you had a coffee table height you could do this work seated on a rolling chair, else.. a little lower than kitchen table height would be easiest. It's gotta be worth your time.

It is like what I noted with an upload by Bondi Scrapper processing a compressor. By breaking the stuff down and separating on your own time you tighten the economy, increase the productivity of the economy. He only did the one item and got, by my conservative calculation, $ 10.00 to $ 20.00 [ Australian ] extra. Here I'll just go with the calculation provided, that being $ 208.00 [ Canadian ]. The thing being that it is off-the-books labor.

If you want to fix your vise waking around, get a front A-arm with wheel hub assembly weld the lower ball joint and spindle bolt or fabricate a mounting bracket to bolt the vice to the wheel hub. this will give you angled surface that will move. if you leave the brake caliper bracket and rotor on the hub you can use the threaded holes in the bracket to create a lock point by using a bolt.. if you can't understand what it looks like vist a u pick salvage yard and look at a suspension without a strut attached in all your creating a swivel table with a vise mounted to it and a locking position

Lol, I was was laughing watching you fight the vice the entire time. I would have had that thing secured after the 3rd time it fell over. But yeah, just separate the motors once you get them so you aren't having to do all that at once. 30 minutes here and there is much better than a day's work of beating your body up.

I know this video is a year old now, but i think just a chop saw with a big ass wheel and a tote on it's side behind it to catch the dust would go a lot better than an angle grinder and repositioning things every couple minutes. Then a vice mounted solidly on the table next to it to not wast the hammer punches moving it around might speed this way up

Motor time, great video Thub! I myself scored a mess of mx cable and aluminium cable today. Breaking it down tomorrow. Have an enjoyable weekend broham.

I'm pretty time poor at the moment - so the motors are straight off the the yard as they are!! The hourly rate is important - but so is the other stuff you could be doing with the same hours! Thanks for your perspective, as always Thub! 😊👍

Batches for sure is the way to. Also doing a batch of one thing such as getting the motors ready for the copper to be taken out. Often when I do the same job over and over I get faster and more efficient. Not for too long though or else it gets too boring haha. Have to find the balance that is right for you.

Bert at Scrap Farm cut a V in the end of hiis chisel and sharpened it

One tip, you should have a radio or music headset. makes things go faster. then you should weld together a small table and attach the vice it will make it easier. I think if you first saw off the copper and then squeeze out the copper with the percussion drill, it goes faster. But I have no idea I run on a rebar and hammer hehe

Another tip I do is take the metal and aluminium off before I stock pile them

You gotta do a live bud for q&a

Pan the dirt out in a gold pan

Your awesome! Maybe just take a file and check to see if aluminum before tou waste ur hard work only to find out is aluminum! I found some 50 year old tiny hand files that fit inside easily and a flashlite and magnifying glass to make sure the color of the wire inside either goes all thru or is shiney aluminum helps me save time;)

Loved the video as always...thinking of getting an air chisel....I have a 4.5" grinder, I've noticed it isn't big enough to do the majority of the motors or transformers I get, thinking of upgrading to a 6"...

This Vids great 👍 it’s so interesting watch a bloke fight with vice / rotary & the earth . How can one make this look so hard 🤔...