Industrial electrical panel salvage for hobbyists
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- I always get asked "whats a good source of xxxxx parts" for hobby use, and usually it comes down to control cabinets, and if you can get them cheap at a scrap yard or surplus store, its a great way to save thousands on parts for hobby use!.
Of course, watch out for burned terminals, wet or rusty parts, surge damage, and if in doubt, throw it in the trash or test it well at the very least!.
Using unknown parts in industry however has its own liabilities because its not just your ass on the line, always check with the boss before swapping out used parts. Likewise do not make entry to a working panel without permission/qualification!. this video is mainly aimed at hobbyists with prior knowledge of electrical engineering.
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Still can't believe you're gone man..!, You were a big inspiration to me as a fellow tinkerer that understood the unexplored, unknown gold mines of the local scrap yard. RIP Bro..!
He is missed more than he could ever realise. RIP
Indeed. I still rewatch his old videos from time to time. I wonder if he'd have still done it if he knew how much he meant to people?
Good on you mate hope you are at peace - you were one of a kind and your loss is sorely felt in the community -
That puppy is growing so fast, if it continues you will need a flat bed truck to transport him !
If i could find scrap yards near me with this kinda crap in it, i'd for starters go absolutely broke and probably develope a worse hoarding problem.
Matthew Poole yeah i would be the same
yeh I do find I get a bit over-stocked and need to toss some of the older crustier stuff out.
@@Aussie50 funny how you remind me of me...lol.. and yes scrap yard diving can be very addictive and if you are not careful this hobby can quickly turn you to a hoarder..lol..
The main person who inspired me to become an electrical engineer. Start school in Jan... Thank you Ed, I miss you and hope you RIP.
yay, the hand is back, and this time it talks, please tell us what to do hand ?
that modern unit is quite nice, and a very good score at that with all the expensive goodies in it. especially with festo pneumatics
An electrical scrapyard is my heaven! Unfortunately, there's nothing like this around my place, neat video!
Glad to see you're getting the videos out again!
Great score of interesting equipment. Good parts inside. Great vid.
Ah that is a nice looking Mitsubishi melsec PLC. I had one of those from my grandfather who used to teach a PLC course at TAFE and the only thing that killed it was a dead EEPROM battery, which took out the program and some how the firmware too?? Absolutely awesome PLCs for everything. Very versatile.
Bought a big pump control panel on an auction for under $10, used the BB relays on it for years to fix one machine, as this control box had over 30 relays on it, and they were obsolete and no longer stocked. Machine used them and still runs, even with relays that are over 40 years old and still original parts.
Yay, with sound!
I wish we have such scrapyards here in Austria. Alone this cabinet has so much stuff I really badly need!
Yep thats the best advice with buying junk off of scrap yards, always offer a couple of dollars over what its scrap price is. They like that alot!
Ha, such a friendly pup! XD Cool stuff, wish I knew a scrapyard near me that had such things! (not that I have the money for it, but it's fun to look!)
good video!
Puppy is trolling your shoots. Adorable.
I've been beating the hell outa my scrap yards. No vids and motors period.....man I'm jealous...hehee
Ayy, I guess you found a sound card in there.
That thing... Is a line reacator... ~Russ
If you add a cap to the third phase, you can trick it... Most of the time.... ~Russ
I bet you’d love to get inside my work, we will soon be scrapping a big Canon Jetstream 1400 continuous inkjet printer. They have a *lot* of good gear in them...
My local scrap yard has three sections, The pile where the local trash goes, Noones allowed in there, too many needles, etc.
the pile where the local scrap gets filtered into, Most stuff is free.
and the pile where some of the still functioning stuff builds up and you have to pay for it.
Yeah, I only live about 3 hours from HGR, I take a few tools with me and rummage around. That is ten acers of industrial candy store.
9:00 that's a 3 phase transformer
So much electrical fun stuff, it'd be nice to find stuff like that here, but elf & safe tea sez no, unless you know who to go to of course... :)
Good to see some content coming back again, Are you still working at the injection moulding company or did that end up driving you insane? Got the feeling you would soon become board working somewhere like that..
I am working for myself now, but I do make things for the plastics place as a part of that
HGR is hilarious, wanted $2500 for stripped out rusted shell of early 2000s Haas mini mill down to base casting, nothing left, we're asking $5k on their site!
oh yeh some of the assessors have no idea what they are looking at. you have to wait until they mark it down. same with control panels, they will start at $200, but within a month or so its down to $10 before it hits the scrap bin
Question: How do I find a scrap yard that has equipment like this? All I know of are junkyards like pull-a-part that only have cars, and if you're lucky lawnmowers!
Yeah some of those switches and indicators are candy. The thing is to remember that when the controls are good looking and they feel right and make sense for the application, what ever you are doing is far more fun to work with and it can change everything; especially if you are building and modifying the thing. Interacting in that control environment gets one to use their brain differently. A computer keyboard, mouse or touch screen or voice command will never ever get there in some cases. Maybe getting wired into the matrix and getting tricked into thinking your using controls like that is the only other way, but I don't trust that mere concept at all.
*it has sound*
Let there be sound.... There was sound.
Hi Ed
I've got some PDL 5.5kw drives that can be powered off 240V.
He Ed
Sorry, sent before I finished.
One's got your name on it if you are in the Bayswater North area.
aet.net.au
Thanks for the offer!, not sure when I will be up that way next but its worth a trip alone. I will work out some time next week perhaps?
No worries, I'll be on site Tuesday onwards. You can email me from my website.
Like you, I have got rid of single phase motors and I use these drives at home on a lathe and waldown drill.
no worries mate, I will let you know
More puppy please!! 😍
Salvage all you can, this stuffs hard to get and expensive, In taiwan you can buy these things nearly everywhere and cheap
I recently got a motor from a thrift shop ($3) and it's wires are Red, Yellow, and Green. Do you know what the pinout would be for that? I can not find anything online that helps. It's a westinghouse.
Thanks!
Adam Messmann any itentification plate ? because like that it could be anything.
color coding is a bit odd, is this in the US? . you could take a multi-meter on Ohms setting and measure between pairs of wires in all combonations and see if its 3 phase. the readings should all be the same unless its burnt out, or single phase. that will get closer to finding out how to power it.
In the UK you cant get near it. They sell to contractors who bid for the right to salvage anything of use for the whole year ,and if you ask they treat it like your buying gold .
aha sound
I am sure I have watched this before xD
Just a partsgasm
what happened to Aussie50?
trash and treasure fixs and sell
You pet that dog.
You sound about 50 but look 20. Good videos though.
Am I the only that dont understand any fuking things in the comment section..