Aluminum Scrapping Hacks - Scrap Metal For Beginners - Tips And Tricks
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2024
- How to scrap metal! Continuing along the scrapping metal for beginners series, today we cover all of my best aluminum scrapping hacks so you can have all the scrap metal tips and tricks that the experts learn with practice and experience! If you're out to make money with scrap metal, you'll likely have a large pile of aluminium before you know it. Know the basics before wasting valuable time that could be spent making money! Scrap metal recycling. The art of knowing what's good.
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As a carpenter, I can tell you that if you ask your local door and window crews about taking apart the old doors and windows for the aluminum, they are often happy to provide a large volume for you. They are relatively easy to clean and usually pretty heavy. Plenty of large wires are also aluminum as well. They are only worth stripping if they are large though. Aluminum rims are better sold as spare parts than scrap.
That’s helpful thanks!
Would you get more by melting down the aluminum into ingots ?
some of those fosset heads are solid brass with a chrome coating so check it by scraping it real quick
On the blinds, try compressing them into an aligned stack and cut (grinder with a wheel) where the strings are.
Just recently learned that aluminum is essentially infinitely recyclable, unlike pretty much anything else (esp. plastics). New fave
It’s so good! The money adds up pretty quickly too 😉
Pot metal is the hot dog of scrap 😁
IT'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU..... That take the time to make these informative video's that help us newbies out, that really makes me happy I came across it. Sorry, the caps were just to grab your attention. I watched your copper video as well & it really helped me out. I'm learning a bunch from you so far & I just wanted to say Thank You!
Dirty Aluminium here in the UK is graded as 'Irony'. But 'Irony' grade now seems to include items of any non ferrous with other materials such as plastic.
I just ran into this today lol
How ironic.
Yessir. Same here in Tampa, Fl. At least at the yard I frequent most.
I felt like you were reading my mind on what questions I had…in order…thank you
Dude... The way that you convey information is perfect… Thank you for your instructional videos. You have legitimately helped me a lot in my ventures!
Happy to hear it man!
What do you think prices are going to do with this pandemic ? I owned a scrap yard and have so many different tricks of the trade . Please reach out if you have any questions .
Some stainless can have a slight pull with your magnate , not aluminum
Hayla Danae well the same as always right? Supply and demand? I can speculate just as well as you on how long it’ll take to get a vaccine and put everybody back to work, but the only things for sure are that prices will go down until that happens, and keep pace with inflation over the long term. It’s always going to be cheaper to recycle metal rather than pull new stuff out of the dirt, so they can only go so low.
Speculation is more fun though! Maybe smaller buyers will be crushed by the financial squeeze and less competition will keep the buy prices low?
@@thubprint lucky i kept my copper as i wait for copper price to recover which it did
👍 another excellent learning lesson for those of us not in the know! Thanks!!
Hi man I have used my fishing magnet to help with sorting my metals to separate the steel out from the aluminum it's a real help
I am so glad you have a channel.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 😊
Hi my nane is Cooper from Colorado. I also scrap and thanks to 99% of your videos i learn something new ...BLESSINGS
Even tho im full time scrappor after 7 yrs
Dam i would had liked to have that type of info when i started
I really love how you did last cople of videos lots of info
I appreciate you saying! Clearly this isn’t intended for the scrappers already in the know, but I think we often forget what learning something was like and take that for granted. I’m confident this miniseries has an audience 👌
Thanks agn for the info of how scrap things
Yup good vid , been scrapping for a long time myself .
Once again, thank you! Your scrapping lessons are very helpful! I learned ALOT from the copper one! 😁
Awesome directions 👍
Didn’t know All those grading
Thank you for all the great information I'm down here in the states I have started scrapping mainly through my hobby metal detecting but I am saving every piece of metal and sorting it now
Thub! Awesome video! This metal by metal serie will make your channel explode!
Fingers crossed 😉🤞
very interesting thanks for guiding us in the right direction.
thub man .. always a pleasure to watch your videos.. you mentioned electricians in another video... wanted to hint you a while back.. I've contacted all the major construction companies around ... ends up i have 5 companies funneling all of their scrap metal my way... plus adds on face book community (local) ofcourse.. for particulars... demolition, renovations, spring cleaning,,,
That’s some great work bud! I guess it’s just a waste product to them so you’re helping them out by hauling it away huh? I don’t want to go full-time on scrap but it might be nice to have some more people calling me for pickups 👌
that is the way I would do it, but my full time job is too valuable to give up. check electric and plumbing shops
Thank you
Another great video filled with valuable information!
Hello i watch the most of youre video,s. Im from the Nederlands. If learning a lot from you.. thank you
Thanks for saying hi!
Great video mate, thank you.
It’s always a pleasure watching your channel bro. 😎💯👍
Thank you ☺️ always aiming to improve!
You da man homie, Very insightful!!
Great tips.. thx
😂 u make learning fun. Ty.
Ok... More plz😀
Great video
Awesome
Hello Thub. Sweden here again and scrapping still rocks.
One yard has category aluminium wire, rims and then all other aluminium in the same bin. Another yard takes it all as aluminium, except wire, same bin.
I do get lots of household assistents if you know what it is?
I take off aluminium top and motor, the rest goes as RAFF, dirty aluminium in English with a few screws and other ferrous things in it. They accept up to 10% ferrous by wheigt with aluminium.
Stay safe and take care.
For window blinds.. with it loosely open (not bundled) cut the string at both ends of the steel bars on top and bottom. 4 cuts in total. once you do that you should be able to pull the string out of the center and then the latter like string off the sides. takes just under 2 min or less.
Not the ones I’ve played with, there’s the threads connecting both strings between each strip that prevents that. Unless I’m doing it wrong? I think I need to try things out again!
@@thubprint I worked out a process for that. got about 60lb clean fins in 2 hours. pull the main string through bottom to top, then the connecting webworks will pull off the ends.
Nice Thub - you have an excellent presentation style! :)
Thank you!
Great info
I watched a few videos on people melting down brass and aluminum and make shapes to take into the scrap yard , one guy I watched had shelves of the stuff
I’ve seen that guy! He’s the one out in Australia right? That shelf of his will be full before long!
@@thubprint Yes he is- he is aiming for 1 tonne i believe. In regards to melting things and bringing it into a scrap yard- most say DON'T. Most yards will reject any melted down metals because they have no proof as to what metals you may have included in there.
Oh, what if u had video proof of what you melted?
Identify you cast vs die cast aluminum by getting some root killer for septic tanks and mixing up a spray. Just mix the septic crystals up in some water and toss in a spray bottle. Then when you’re wanting to know for sure, spray the metal and if it turns dark/black it is an alloy “pot metal”. Aluminum stays it’s pretty white/silver color. Scrap on scrappers.
Question- Am I the only scrapper that melts his down to ingots and sells that way? I make a whole lot more money doing it that way.
Man I'm so glad I found your channel. I am kinda getting into scrapping things as a continuation of a metal foundry project I got into and your videos are super informative and well presented! keep up the good work, and Cheers from BC!
Nice, thank you! I’d like to do some melts sometime, but there’s a few projects in the way first.
U need to start a reading stories by the fire side channel... No Joke... (Fireplace)
Thank you!
A always try to clean my aluminum
I don’t know what to do when I get to the scrapyard so if you could do a vid on that I thank you
Saw a guy take a whole truck load of handicap devices. Yes he got paid breakage but he could have sat there with the grinder cut off the very little bit of steel used for adjustments and gotten paid. Aircraft aluminum is so damn strong you really don't want to get rid of it heck you could use that stuff for all kind of fun stuff building bike trailers for steaks in your garden.
My scrap yard is awesome. There's 3 grades of aluminum. Cans, clean (which includes cast), and dirty
Good information but for me time is my least valuable. I am disabled and use scrapping to supplement my income. Therefore taking the time to maximize what I get is a plus. But yeah if scrapping is your business and living by all means time is money don't waste it trying to get every penny.
I really love these infovids. If it's anodized but otherwise clean, is it dirty or clean?
That’s clean. I’m told that factory paint still counts as clean.
I don't know about your scrap yard but, but here you only get dirty aluminum for Venition blind leaves. So, rule of thumb, don't even bother cleaning them. You'll get more for the weight of the steel and string as dirty aluminum. On a side note, I've come up with a method of cleaning the blinds that doesn't take all that long. You just cut the center strings that basically hold up the bottom while the blind is retracted. If done right, you can grab all of the leaves on one side of the blind, then pull the actuator strands right off the other. They will slide right off while slightly separating the leaves temporarily. You then reorganize the side you pulled the strings off of and repeat the action on the other side. In the case of three or more string sets, the inside strings come off fairly easy as long as the center anchor strand is cut and removed first . ;-)
I’d always found them so fiddly, that’s a great tip! Shame it’s not worth putting to use 😆👍
Hello Panda I must say that you are hilarious bro you crack me up and yes when I watch scrapping videos I have to must say that I only watch hub because they're not boring and I also had become a master Ninja at getting cans on can day and your videos are absolutely perfect I like to know if you can show me a secret on how to strip major major big heavy duty copper and aluminum lines I guess you'd say wire but there is huge have a good one
Well hey thanks for saying hi! I never want to be boring lol. The giant thick cables are an interesting struggle with their super dense insulation, I haven’t had any to process myself but if I ever do I’ll certainly make a video of me struggling with it!
So do you consider yourself a freegan??? Great videos
I think it would be fair to say I’m a freegan, haha! At this point most of my possessions are reclaimed
That transmission??? Get your biggest hammer and go to town on the case and bell housing. Pick up the pieces of clean cast Al and put the rest with your shred Fe.
Damn! there are so many types of alluminum and to think I went to the Scrap yard with my dad and dropped off some "aluminum"
Even I was surprised when I started trying different yards. Then when doing extra research for this one, I REALLY started to see the variety!
@@thubprint No kidding, I appreciate the videos as always!
I be scrappin in the 4cyl ranger
that is what I use. 28mpg and handles a LOAD.
I enjoyed that informative video very well I have heard of people that have take their cigarette butts and put them out in aluminum cans and then crushed the can to increase the weight to get more money is that true?
I mean there are a lot of ways to try and cheat your scrapyard but I don’t think any of them are good ideas 😅
I'm scrapping an aluminium pool. The deck has carpet. I removed carpet and that was pain enough. Will scrap yard take with the glue all over deck
Can you not burn the strings from the blinds?
O...M...G... I never thought of that!! I’d better test it and do the math again, you might have just given me a raise 😉
Though a person might still be better just bringing them in as breakage. We’ll find out!
Hey Thub, quick question, i have gearboxes that are aluminum housing, do i have to get all the grease out for it to be considered clean?
.20 cents a lb for clean here in some parts of the states. I’m keeping mine lol.
Fair point man! Markets are real down rn.
@@thubprint here in Colorado 14cents lb on aluminum. No bottle recycling at all. Wish there was
the great thing is everybody passed it up while we collected and held.
@@wisconsinfarmer4742 prices are great now!
Gosh, over here in the UK they just have clean and dirty / steely Aluminium bins at scrap yards. They always try and says it’s dirty so you have to watch out.
Yeah, everybody wants to maximize their profit 😕
Which scrap yard plz provide full name and address if you plz
Hello Thub, greetings and best wishes from Australia, love all your content, but was wondering, where do you buy the black and red overalls that you wear in many of your videos?
Can I scrap a boat? The place in my city. They don’t even look what’s in your trailer. It just goes off weight. The place is sketchy.
What happens if you melt the mettle, clean off the junk on top, then let it hardin in somthing
Oh just pouring aluminium ingots? Well the weight isn’t worth more because it’s just a different shape, but it would be the highest grade because it’s clean
YOU'RE in the ad also???!!!! LMAO 🤣😂😅 jkjk
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Thub, I have shower door frames, seems they are aluminum and sometime stainless. thing is also seems custom expensive shower doors may be extruded and others may be folded sheet aluminum. is this your experience?
Definitely! I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one that wasn’t extruded though, but I really like those pieces. Decent weight for sure!
How do you get tyres of wheels
I like using the reciprocating saw for the rubber and the angle grinder for the bead. If I’m trying to save both I just take them to a tire shop
My local yard takes two types, steely and clean
Well that’s nice and simple!
what are their prices?
@@wisconsinfarmer4742 They change all the time but the clean stuff is normally double or more the steely one
FWIW, doing a spark test on aluminum can be dangerous. Aluminum tends to mush up and collect in the pores of the grinding wheel. Later on, when the grinder is put into use and warms up, the air inside these pores expands, but cannot escape. With enough aluminum loading, thiscan cause the grinding wheel to explode. If you need to spark test aluminum, be sure to dress the wheel afterwards.
That’s a darn good tip and I had no idea that was why we aren’t supposed to grind aluminium. I knew it was a no-no, but nobody had explained why before!
and how will you dress your grinding wheel, never seen anyone do it, if you then grind some steel, would that do it? or do you need some dressing tool, curious how you going to take this advise
@granitestater1029 There is a special tool that removes a thin layer of the wheel. It also squares up the surface. czcams.com/video/BkyLua8t10M/video.html
Looks like bishop from legends of tomorrow
I looked it up and now I can’t unsee it 😂
I hope you know your the GOAT of scrapping.. 🙊💋💋💋💋
Aluminium is 13 on the periodic table and steel/iron is 26 so you know aluminium is half the weight of steel.
I keep finding either aluminium extrusion or zinc... Never a decent quantity of alu in one go lol
the periodic chart does not work that way.
How are you able to tell which type of aluminum you have if there are so many categories? Great series by the way 👌🏼
That’s why I keep it simple! Maybe if I had truckloads it would be worth getting into the nitty gritty
Sometimes it takes a few trips to the scrapyard for them to help if they aren’t rushed. Sometimes they combine stuff I’ve separated, sometimes they separate what I’ve combined. Get the basics though so they aren’t annoyed🙂
Hey thub u should get into smelting looks fun and makes money
Costs money to set up though
Do you mean refining metals from ore, or melting scrap into coins and ingots? Cuz I don’t think melting scrap makes it more valuable
It would just make it pure for sure and looks cool , think of the fun shapes and stuff u could make
@@jerryjennyc5352 for a hobby you are right. For money making the way thub does it's not cost effective. The setup just to be able to start melting down cans and pouring them into ingots would be hundreds of dollars.
I have my hd2500 duramax loaded up with about 600 lbs of stainless and another 5 or 600 lbs of #1 steel. As well as copper and aluminum but not much copper. Yet... still have two car dealerships to pick up from so I may have a decent load. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a cat or 3 lol.
Wow bud, that’s an excellent day! A cat would be a pretty nice cherry on top of all that 👌
@@thubprint indeed it would haha. The stainless is a grill hood from a restaurant. It's about 10 feet long 6.5' tall and 4' wide. Have to keep the tailgate open so it kind of sucks. I also missed the yard today lol. So now I have to wait until Monday and have this beastly thing strapped in the back of my truck. I still love it though. I have a stock pile of a.c. units and refrigerators I'm planning to clean and separate at some point. You're so right about relationships with the yard too. Which is another thing I deal with, they change help alot at my yard. So it's hit or miss with the scale tender. My scrapping doesnt usually bring me much unless I get good copper or brass ect. Cats of course. I'd say I make anywhere from 75 bucks to 400 or so. Every other week. Sometimes every 3 weeks. It's enough for diesel and to support my bad habits lol. Sorry for the novel I love scrapping metal!
@Marshall Davis personally I could care less, duramax, cummins, powerstroke... I've had fords my entire life. Time to try something else lol. I'm pretty impressed with the duramax so far. It's proven to be a tank.
@Marshall Davis you mean the duramax 6.6? Oh it's the lly duramax btw. 05. Actually might be 04.5 not sure.
@Marshall Davis so you're saying the duramax has more power and is more efficient? I'm confused lol I'm not sure what the other engines you mentioned are?
When ever I get a stubborn piece of steel on aluminum I just take a Sawzall or grinder and cut around it !
I just hit it with a hammer till it comes apart 😂
@@thubprint that some times takes longer then needs to be but it let's out alot of frustration that's forsure haha
What about aluminum wire? It can be difficult to strip, but I've never tried to sell it with the coating still on.
I don’t strip that stuff, just doesn’t seem like a lot of $ per hour to me. It pays alright with the insulation on
What about copper plated lead? How do I seperate it?
I’m not a chemist, but I think the copper will dissolve in a muriatic acid + hydrogen peroxide solution and that should leave the lead if not left too long. It would have to be a big operation to justify the cost though.
Is colored aluminum considered dirty? Like brown aluminum from commercial doors!
Painted stuff yes, anodized stuff no. But it’s a different category than “irony” dirty
Is there a good way to get more out of radiators?
Not the aluminium ones, just crack the plastic off and that’s what ya get. I’ve always been happy with rads though, $5-10 in one piece always seems pretty decent to me?
aluminum is scrapper's silver.
Hi dude uk is still on lockdown how r u going
Oh it’s worse every day haha! Gonna be stuck inside for awhile yet. Not official lockdown though, just socially pressured self-isolation
Is there any value in melting aluminum into ingots or bars? I have a huge commercial satellite 📡 dish that is all aluminum and was thinking of melting it down into bars… love your channel.
hey, it was a very insightful video about alu scrap. I wanted to know what do you do after you have collected a substantial amount of aluminum scrap. do you sell it to scrap dealer, make something out of it or sell it to a recycler?
I always sell to a scrap dealer/scrapyard. I call around to see who is offering the best price and haul it in.
@@thubprint do you have an email? where i can reach out to you for business purposes?
Himank Goyal I do, if you want to contact any youtuber they’ll have contact info on the ‘about’ tab on their channel page. Mine is thubprint@gmail.com
I’m not sure what business we would do though, I’m in the video business more than the scrap business.
@@thubprint thank you for sharing your email with me. I will send you an email very shortly regarding my query.
oh i see, can you still help me with my query? if you don't mind?
Bunch up the blinds and cut the middle section put at least
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Blinds = lighter fluid,or old gas.
Where did you get your purple bags from?
Had them custom made 😁 thubstyle, representing!
@@thubprinthow much did they cost?
Without saying exactly, I think I could buy them in bulk and make them available as merch at a pretty reasonable price 😉👌
I've heard that taking the soda cans and cutting out the tops and bottoms pay more true or false
On rads watch out for Audi's and Benz's the trany cooler is a precious metal not Al. Should be 80$ pound. Take a large screw-driver and move those clips off the rads, some trany coolers are Al some are steel core Al.
Ooooo, hot tip!
Most scrap dealers will have a hand held scanner to read the metal type....if not take it else where.....and out of the closet it will come !
What did the green grape say to the purple grape?......... Breathe brother breathe.
😂🤣 I was soooo pleased with myself for rattling off all those categories without stopping, and then when I put it together with all the pictures overtop I realized I could’ve just cheated haha!
PANDA WTF
Stainless is shiny and aluminium is dull
True! It’s basically about becoming familiar enough with the materials that a person can see the difference
Do not eat aluminium or you will sheet metal 😅
Don't scrap stamped license plates bud. $5 minimum for most.
Did I see a license plate I collect the license plates
I’ve got a few of them! What province you in?
@@thubprint I'm in Ontario
Why are we pandas
Just a shortening of trash pandas, e.g. raccoons. I thought it was cute. No pressure to accept the name though, it’s entirely optional! Any sort of scrap enthusiast is welcome 💙
Mega Man 👂🤔😃😎
Total noob 😬
Price $$$$. Aluminum
In canada ????? In
Pennsylvania. $. 30. Cent
Pound. 😩😩😩😩
Great video