How to Scrap Copper Armatures Easily
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2024
- In this video I show how to scrap armatures to recover the copper for money. I will show you 3 different methods as to how I scrap them.
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Hi, my name is James and I'm a hobby scrapper who loves taking things apart to separate the various metal to make some extra money!
In my video I hope to show you how to scrap things, I also hope to show you the fun in scrapping different items that we all can find easily.
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Thanks again!
Excellent video. Clear instruction, clean shop, sound and editing on the mark. Best I've seen on this subject.
@@gaildeckant267 wow, thank you so much for your wonderful comment, I really appreciate that!
Don’t set your grinder down untill the blade stops!
I've been hoarding armatures for years trying to figure out efficient way of removing copper, so I thank you for this video.
You’re welcome, I hope this video helped you.
Thank you for watching.
Some people will say $1.00 extra isn't worth the time. But as a hobby scrapper and collecting material for long periods of time, at the end of the day time doesn't matter. Quality and informative video, well done sir!
I absolutely agree with you!
Thank you for watching.
Yep I agree!
Facts
I scrap part time, I'm a microscrapper, not a macroscrapper . If I average $8-10/hr while I'm at home, great. I'm not spending my time driving my truck and gas driving around, I'm home with tbe fam, spend 15 minutes on teardown, then see them. Make $50 extra n not use my time and vehicle and maintenance otherwise
Agreed sirs. I do all my scrapping as a hobby that pays me… i do lots on my coffee breaks or lunch breaks at work in the shop. I do lots of my collecting at work as well. Im a maintenance repair person for a rental management company. We own and manage over 2500 individual dwellings, some houses, duplexes, attached townhouses or apartments and I care for the entire north side which amounts to approximately 500 units. Its a fun hobby to have cuz you never know what you’re going to find or when… sometimes its from repair work or sometimes you just get lucky and find stuff
The total breakdown of each armature was verry calculated and perfect, including the 3 differences in scrap value prices witch I really appreciate you taking your time to show us fellow scrappers,scrap happy buddy 👍
Thank you so much! I have fun doing all that and I’m glad you and others enjoy it.
Have a great rest of your day and may the peace of God be with you!
@@scrapitall200 am glad buddy ,maybe one day I'll be sitting with you on your scrapping couch and scrapping offcourse, god bless buddy
That would be fun. God bless.
That tip with the side cutters will save me a lot of time . Thanks for sharing .
Awesome, I’m so happy my video helped.
Thank you for watching.
Absolutely great video , I used to hate doing these , with watching your techniques think I’m going to find them easier to do now , thank you
I sure hope it will help you!
Thank you for watching buddy, I appreciate it.
One more metric you could possibly add is a scrap per hour of item. For example, there might be three different times for the different size motors. take your fastest time in seconds for clamping cutting and punching/cleaning. Then how many you could fit into an hour by that method. It would tell people which items are the priority highest per hour items to do first in a time pinch and can do the lower per hour items later or sell them as is. I thank God for your encouraging and educational videos.
Thank you for the suggestion I appreciate that.
God bless you!
I scrapped an armature a few weeks ago. I sure wish I had seen your video before. Thanks!
Oh dang! I hope my video will help you for the next one you do.
Thank you for watching.
I'm just starting to recycle scrap here in Germany as a hobby and part-time job. These videos help a beginner like me tremendously! Thank you. I look forward to further informative articles with tips and tricks on the subject of scrap processing and scrap trading.😊

That’s awesome! I think you’ll really enjoy scrapping.
@@scrapitall200 Indeed I do! I like the idea of urban mining.
@@frame-un7um heck yeah buddy, I love it too
Do these often but learned so much more with your video.
From Niagara Falls Canada, Thx so much!
That’s awesome! Thank you for watching from Canada 🇨🇦
I always throw them into my shred because i can’t never get the copper out of them. Now if I ever run into another one I will give a try thanks for showing how to do it! Great video my friend!
Oh buddy, don’t toss them in the shred, they can at the very least go as copper motors.
Thank you my friend, I appreciate that.
Don't throw them in shred. Sell then as electric motors of you can't pull the copper out.
@@scrapitall200 I won’t next time buddy hope you have a great day buddy
@@Kreacher1974 will do that next time buddy!
@@ScrapMan69 thank you, you too!
Thanks for sharing your work with us. I appreciate the dollar value breakdown - and the prayer, too :)
You’re welcome!
Thank you for watching, I appreciate it.
God bless you!
Ohhh! The hours I have spent extracting copper from small armatures and you make it look easy! Thanks.
I sure do hope some of these methods will help you.
Thank you for watching.
Like the side cutters hack as well. I just smash the commutator up but I will be trying your method next time
Awesome brother!
I knew they were called commutator because I’ve heard you call them that multiple times but my brain went blank making the video 🤣
Thank you for watching.
@@scrapitall200 mine does that all the time with armatures 🤣
@@ScrappingScotland 😂😂
I've only tried the last method and then just started stockpiling because it didn't seem worth doing one at a time. I might just keep holding onto them for when I have a press and do the first method. It will save my shoulders for sure. Nice to see so many ways to do it.
Another thing you can do and I’m also going to do it. Put them in a crucible and melt the copper away.
Happy you enjoyed the video!
Really enjoyed this.. Different options yet all realists and not time wasters.
God Bless!
Awesome! Thank you for watching.
Have a great day and God bless you.
Very very informative and such a great tip how to clamp them in the vice
Thank you so much my friend!
@@scrapitall200 your welcome
Hope you have a great day
I see what you meant with the dust flying. Definitely a job for an open, ventilated space if you can.
Right?!
Absolutely, definitely don’t want to breathe that in, nor have it get all over everything lol.
Thank you for watching my friend.
Could also use a Sawzall to eliminate some of the dust
Great breakdown procedure too
@@aaronedmunds4829 you definitely could. I never even thought of using that in this video. I personally don’t like the sawzall (too much vibration) but it will definitely cut down on the dust.
Thank you very much, I appreciate you watching
Good tips. All a matter of wehat you value your time at, of course. I used to leave the copper bits that you peeled off the shaft...if I was still scrapping lots of motors I'd use that tip. Generally, the heavily varnished ones I scrapped as they were.
I’m very happy I can just do this as a hobby otherwise there’s lots that just wouldn’t make sense time wise. Thank you for watching buddy.
I used to throw this stuff away from me 😁 now I'm selling it in my scrapyard without scrapping (price: 0.76$/kg) good job 🎉🎉🎉
Right on brother! I appreciate you watching.
I’ve got 2 pairs of wire cutters and I always use the Made In China ones (cheap) for the rough stuff. I can certainly relate to that.✌️
Absolutely! My older pair is a Doyle brand from harbor freight, they have a lifetime warranty which is nice. They cost around $10 a few years ago. Probably double the price now lol. But they’ve been really good! But I’ll never misuse the Knipex, especially since they were a gift.
When I am Curbside Scavenging and find items to recycle, I disassemble the item completely. From the brass in the plugs to the screws holding the item together. The plastic pieces is the only discarded. ♻️💲♻️💲♻️💲♻️
Sounds like you scrap it all lol. That’s awesome. Thank you for watching my friend.
Thanks for sharing this, I’m actually going to put these tips to practice
That’s awesome!
Thank you my friend.
Thank you, Sir. I never thought to cut them in half.
Thank you! I’m happy my video was helpful.
Thank you for watching
@@scrapitall200 I always enjoy watching your videos!
Thank you, I really appreciate that!
Hey SIA! Thanks for this tutorial. once i have set up my workshop, ill pull back this armatures out of the "little motors bin" i have and try to seperate them! 👍 have a great time till the next video!
Hi Sascha my friend. Sounds great, thank you for watching.
Have a great week my friend!
Pretty cool break down on a hard subject, you clearly found a easy way brother ✌️
Thank you so much, I appreciate you stopping by and watching!
Thank you sir for showing us this process to enhance the profit I'm going to use this on my next amount of armature six stars brother
Heck yeah brother, that’s awesome. I’m happy to have helped!
Thank you for watching.
Great tips. Subbed
Thx
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.
i always threw these out, thank you Scrapitall. I have a tip 4 U, on your angle grinder, screw the handle on the opposite side, fix the cover guard upward and your sparks will fly away from you but you probably already no this. Godbless.
Very happy my video has helped.
That’s a good tip and I appreciate it. I actually wanted them to go where they did because I’m using a shelter logic tent as my shop and I didn’t want any sparks or hot copper dust to hit the tent. Normally I do all my cutting at my outside workbench but it just wouldn’t stop raining lol. I do appreciate the useful tip.
Thank you for watching and God bless you!
🤙🤙👍 definately a labor of love,good thing to do when its to cold or raining ✌️
Lots of those types of days where I live lol.
Thanks for watching buddy.
👍
Hi bro. Again thanks for sharing a very informative video. Respect to you and God bless you.
Thank you brother!
God bless you too!
That was a very good video. I will try this on mine. That was great information
Thank you so much brother, I appreciate that.
Thank you sir for showing how to scrap and praising the Lord.
Thank you so much!
God is great!
God bless you.
Really great guides, thanks for sharing these quality techniques! It’s good to have a few different ways to do these things, sometimes one works when another doesn’t 👍
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you watching.
Been a big fan of your videos for the last 3 years.
Nicely explained Scrapper
Thanks buddy!
I appreciate you stopping by and watching.
Very nice breakdown and helpful for new and old scrappers alike. #teamSHTF
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this video I have several of these I kept now I learned how to scrap them.😅
That’s great, I’m so happy my video was helpful. Thank you for watching
One of the items I’ve either managed to remove the copper or just thrown away. Don’t want to waste all day on 2cents worth of copper. ✌️
It’s all fun to me but I just hobby scrap and don’t mind the amount of time things take.
Hatchet method takes less than 5 minutes. Thank you for watching.
That was awesome it go's for shore that in worth spending a bit of time these increase the money 💰
Absolutely! Thank you for watching, I appreciate it.
New to scrapping here. Broke up my first vacuum this weekend, a Kirby 100th edition. All copper fortunately. Once I get a stack of armatures I will try your techniques. Thanks!
Awesome, I’m always happy to meet new scrappers. Thank you for watching!
Great video
Thank you buddy!
Good day scrapitall Boy i interesting video Thanks
Thank you brother!
I appreciate you watching.
Awesome my friend, God Bless 🙌
Thank you brother!
God bless you too!
The cylinder you pealed the individual stripes of copper off is called the, commutator. Thanks for demonstrating how to remove the copper from those difficult armatures coated shellac.
Right on, thank you!
You’re welcome.
God bless you, Scrapitall.
Thank you!
God bless you too.
Another great video I been scrapping since I was a kid I usually just cut the ring around the brush fingers then place them in a wood fire then tap the shaft on a block copper falls out of the bottom then do the copper fingers on top copper is cleaned no coating and the steel here is #2 prepared thanks for the prayer at the end of the video our father God and our lord Jesus is awesome
Thank you!
I prefer not to burn that stuff, just my personal preference but I get it with well.
Amen to that.
God bless you abd thank you for watching.
Thanks For the video, and the blessings.
Thank you so much!
God bless you.
That was just perfect from the get go 👌, great video James
Thank you so much, I appreciate the kind words buddy!
@@scrapitall200 anytime my friend 👍
How’s it going? Family doing good?
@@scrapitall200 am not to good mentally, family are good buddy thank you for asking
@@nightscrapperuk13 sorry to hear! I’ll be praying for your mental health.
Thanks for the how to James! Great video keep it up. God bless
Thank you so much!
Sorry I didn’t finish answering your question last night during the livestream.
God bless you!
Truth is I have no idea why the prices are so low here but it’s ok, I just love scrapping lol
@@scrapitall200 all good lol. We had a good time and that’s what mattered
@@lljairsoft1201 awesome! I had a good time too.
Thanks for some new ideas, I tend to scrap the, too, some of the price is offset by electricity and using up some of your cutoff blade. I still think its better to separate.
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
I think it’s worth it.
Thank you for watching.
What a lot of people don't get is that some people enjoy taking stuff apart so the time it takes is irrelevant.
I 100% agree! It’s a lot of fun for me.
Thank you for watching.
Love your number crunching...your awesome bro✌❤🙏🇬🇧
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that
Great video! Take Care.
Thank you brother!
Great video mate. Cheers Graham
Hi Graham, hope you’re doing well buddy.
Thank you for watching!
@@scrapitall200 I am mate, thx 🙏 for asking
@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 awesome! You’re welcome!
Great video and breakdown, God bless you
Thank you brother!
God bless you.
How have you been doing?
@@scrapitall200 Doing ok, just been way busy lately. Trying to keep my mind occupied.
@@dalemills8052 that’s good brother.
You’re in my prayers.
Great video my friend. Enjoyed it
Thank you, I appreciate that!
I'm so grateful to you! I have a whole box full in the basement and never really knew how to work with them, the machete and vise method works great for me, just tried it out right after watching the video, you're the best, thank you!
That is really awesome, I’m so happy my video helped you, thank you for sharing that with me.
I just started learning how to do it yesterday and now you taught me how to actually do it thank you way cool sir👍🤓
Awesome, I’m very happy my video is helpful.
Thank you for watching.
Really great video!
Thank you so much buddy!
You're welcome
Thanks I really needed to see what you did.
You’re welcome. I’m so happy my video is helpful.
Thank you for watching.
Great video my friend
Thank you my friend!
@@scrapitall200 ur welcome
@@bigcountryscrapper6885 hope you’ve had a good day, James!
Nice methods, many thanks for helpful thoughts. :)
Thank you, I appreciate you watching.
Awesome video.
Thank you so much buddy!
Thank you for an awesome break down of the ways that you have found that work for you. I have buckets of these to do and now I will try your methods. Please keep up the amazing work that you do.
Thank you so much, I appreciate that.
Thank you for watching!
Nice and informative video, the time it took to gain a dollar, either hobby or side income is always a plus. Thanks for providing this information. Stay safe and may God's blessings surround you and your family. See you on the next video.
Thank you so much, I always appreciate your kind and encouraging comments.
See you then and God bless you!
Ich habe Solche als Deko in unserer Küche.
Jedem, der zu uns zu Beuch kommt gefallen sie.
Daher nenne ich sie: ,,DIE LIEBLINGE😍 ALLER“!😊
[Ich gehöre auch zu Jenen, die gerne Sachen (behutsam) auseinandernimmt.]☺️😘
Oh cool! They are cool looking.
That’s awesome, I’m the same way.
Thank you for watching.
Perfect timing
Oh yeah! You’ve got some to scrap?
@scrapitall200 Yes, I have a few. I'm just getting back into scraping. I used to just get motor prices. Now I'm micro scraping everything because I get so little. There is a free area at my town transfer station. I try not to take things that can be used, but people put incomplete things. There is also outdated electronics. I find therapeutic to micro scrap and I enjoy your ending prayers.
@@KPaul7 that’s awesome. I really enjoy micro scrapping as well.
Thank you so much and God bless you!
Amen Thank you! Great lessons!
Thank you so much!
God bless you!
Great video! My plan was to chuck them in the furnace and melt the copper away from the steel but you made chopping them in half look easy!!
That’s my plan as well, I’m wanting to get into sand casting art!
Thank you for watching!
@@scrapitall200 Brilliant! That's why I don't turn in my copper or brass, I'm stacking it all for casting 🙂
@@SollersSrappingandDiving that’s awesome! You have a channel about the art you make?
Salut super boulot, merci pour votre vidéo 🙏👍
Thank you, you’re welcome!
I appreciate you watching.
Bonjour de France, Alsace, merci beaucoup avant je coupait a la meuleuse les rotor et sa me plaît pas car les Perte en poussière sont conséquent, je ferai les prochains selon Votre méthode avec pince et hache , grand Merci Mr 👍
@@ricilgrosjean675 excellent!
Again, thank you for watching.
Thanks for the prayer. God bless your.
Thank you and God bless you too!
Great video! Thanks for the tip about letting the weight of the angle grinder do the cutting in order to lengthen the life of the blades.
Thank you!
It takes a little longer to cut things, but it really does help a lot.
Fantastic video as ever. Thank you! 👍
Thank you so much!
great video and info
Thank you for watching buddy!
I am from Austria and I jsut found your channel! I really love it and your work! Keep up the good work! I am intrested it separating more boards
Hello, glad to have you here.
I’m definitely going to do more ewaste videos.
Thank you for watching.
great video very informative and consice
Thank you so much!
Another great video brother. I always get at least one new tip from your videos. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless my friend.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Thank you so much brother, I greatly appreciate that.
God bless you too!
Amen
I loved your video and even more your message at the end keep it up and I wish you all the best 👍👍
Thank you!
I appreciate you watching and God bless you. Have a wonderful day!
Awesome !
Thank you so much!
Great video!!!
Thank you so much!
Have @Wonderful New Year's !//thanks
Thank you, you too!
This is very helpfull. Going to try this. I saved some up with lots of lack on it... 👍🏻
Excellent. I hope it goes well for you and thank you for watching, I appreciate it.
Wow how simple, Thank You So Much!! Love the hammer work :-)
You’re welcome!
Thank you so much for watching.
super 👍
Thank you.
I see you have a channel so I hit that subscribe button for ya.
That’s Totally Awesome Video Brother 😊
Thank you so much brother, I appreciate that.
I’d be jamming out and drinking beer and breaking down scrap
👍
Aesome bro
👍👍☘️👍👍☘️☘️👍
Thank you so much, I appreciate that!
Your awesome! Thanks
Thank you, that’s so kind of you.
Thank you for watching.
NICE
Thank you, I appreciate you watching.
Perfect video for CZcamsr “BigStacked” 😎 5:58
I’m a big fan of his. He makes really awesome videos!
I just found something new about the commutator while scrapping a blender today. The solid pieces of copper on the end are now being made of brass with a thin sheet of copper bonded to it. Please mention this as it will mess up a lot of people's loads. I'll try to upload a picture. Thank you for your show and especially your prayers.
Oh wow! Thank you for letting me know that. I really appreciate it.
Awesome!
Thank you for watching and God bless you.
Any way to send you a couple of photos of the pieces I found?
@@wadechadwick4323 you can email me at scrapitall878@gmail.com
Amen brother!
God bless you and thank you for watching!
Thank you
Thank you for watching!
Tha ls for the prayer ive been going thru a lot of hard times lately and i appericate that you not only were thankful butbthat you are mimdfull enough to know a lot of people are having very hard time and are not so blessed with gids goid grace so far this year ive lost everything i had and the love of my life is missing and i lost work and money and anything else that ive needed its been the worst year of my life and i have been becoming resentfull and seeing that someone that has a good life that isnt taking it completely for granted d actually recognized that many are going thru hardship is refreshing so tha ks for that hopefully the lord hears your prayer the only thing i really need is for my wife brittany to be ok and to find her soon i cant even 🙏 i just need her thats it really thanks forbthe prayer
Oh wow!
I will be praying for you often.
Keep holding onto your faith and remember that we as believers walk by faith not by sight. I know how hard that can be, trust me when I say that. I’m truly sorry for everything you’re going through. I’ll also be praying for your wife.
Don’t hesitate to email me if you need to talk more!
God bless you!
@scrapitall200 thanks man i appreciate 🙏 and I have been doing my best to hold onto faith as i have been so lucky to have my prayers answered even the small arbitrary selfish and even slightly sinfull ones answered and bestowed onto me like i had prayed many times to find a suitcase full of money someday that day came and i found about 500 in Small change i should have been more specific i suppose but nonetheless i found my suitcase of money lol i really just hope i find her safe and well somewhere somehow soon please god let me find her and hold her in my arms again i miss her so much and need her so badly that it physically hurts me to sleep knowing that if i dream of her when i wake she wont be there i have to get her back somehow anyways enough of my problems i thank you for the well wishes amd prayers i do appericate them as i believe maybe not in god as a typical sence but i do believe sometimes im not aure what i believe but i dont believe there is nothing thats just insaine to think that all of this came from plankton cells and some how a fish walked out of the water and turned into a dog that became a monkey that decided to become man at somepoint something made choices and did things to make all that happen if not then wow that is some insaine chance and life is way more precious then i ever thought anyways im rambling stupid tv trying to sell me on evolution theory but it just seems like it is to unlikely that there isn't any intelligent influences on life
@@Evie-pw6rk I’ll be praying!
Pray to God and ask Him to show you how real He is and how much He loves you.
Hang in there, things are going to get better for you.
Super.🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Thank you so much!
top tip if you put a bowl or bucket under the end of the vice if you do hit the copper throuhgh your not spending 10 mins picking it up
That’s right! 👍👍
Was NOT expecting that prayer at the end, and usually I'm turned off by religious stuff but this time it made me feel warm. I'm desperately in need of answers, unfortunately I don't think God can give them to me, there are people who can they just don't seem to want to.
If you would like, you can email me at scrapitall878@gmail.com
I’ll be praying for you. I know what it feels like to need and want answers. You’re not alone my friend.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
tyvm
Thank you very much for watching.
Are those all found? I rarely get those. Great info!
Yeah they all came out of stuff I’ve scrapped. Blenders will have them and other appliances that have small copper motors.
Thank you my friend.
@Nachostuff, you would be surprised if you had more time to open up scrap goodies instead of scrap it. 😆
If you're comparing electric motor prices to clean copper and shred steel prices, compare a whole motor- not just the armature. Most of the weight is in the stator/ outer casing etc. Most of my larger armatures with good copper amounts are much longer and wont budge trying to punch. Some even have a twist in the slots. I'll try your chop in half method and the heat gun together. Others burn the lacquer off first but I dont wanna downgrade my copper.
All these armatures came out of stuff like blenders, electric chainsaw, other stuff that can’t just be sold as motors.
Once I find a larger armature I’ll make a video on them.
I definitely do not recommend burning the copper, but I too have seen others do that. My yard won’t even buy the copper.
Thank you for watching.
Thanks
You’re welcome!
Thank you for watching.