Read 12 hours on here over the weekend and spent some time checking youtube vids as well for ewaste info.
It seems a lot of people are wasting time breaking stuff down for little to no reward?!
Time is money, right?
Everybody seems to agree that stripping wire is a waste of time. making maybe 2 bucks an hour vs just selling the insulated stuff as well.
An example I saw was breaking down transformer and motors for the copper.
It seems the numbers don't make sense.
Take a motor that weighs say 10 lbs. How much copper is in it?
I get 15 cents for electric motors. And around $1,50 for clean copper.
So even if it takes me 10 minutes and I get 2 (?) lbs of copper I barely made any extra money.
I would get $1.50 for the motor as is.
Now I get $3.00 for the copper, assuming it is 2 lbs, and my metal just dropped to shred which is 2.5 cents = $0.20
So I made an extra $1.70 for 10 minutes of work. Best case scenario. Now that does equal $10.20 an hour and that might be a lot in some parts of the country. Unless your local prices are way different that seems to make no sense to me, especially if I could hit the road for that hour and pick up WAYYYYY more stuff I can make money on by simply flipping it.
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