tip for removing copper from steel layered transformers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa-Dd5IWeHs

That's some patience that I don't have

Nice

Unless you have a use for the wire like this guy I'd say not even close to being worth the trouble. Good video! I have to UPS's to take apart, now I know whats in them.

After you've taken a few hundred transformers apart you figure out easy ways of getting the copper out. You can make good money with little trouble with transformers.

I
Stand on transformer with my left foot and run 9inch angle grinder with cutoff disc down one side of the transformer, cutting off all of one end of the loops off.
Then I use a hammer and steel punch to punch out the rest if the coil.
I scopp up all the loose copper wire, then bash the bigger end flattish to loosen the plastic and the tape and pull out the rest of the copper coil in two goes.

That's it.

But, I get to sell all those I,s and E's whole as 'heavy metal insize'.

I put the smaller ones into the larger 1/2 of the fridge compressor cases and tack weld the two larger parts together into one large peice that you can still see inside of.
Same with the microwave transformer peices.

But, if I could pull out all the I's and E's that fast, i'd do it his way......

What is a mosfit?

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What is a mosfit?

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That is a style of transistor. This is compliments of encyclopedia.com;

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MOSFET (MOS transistor) Acronym for metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor. A type of field-effect transistor that has an insulating layer of oxide, usually silicon dioxide, separating the gate from the drain-source conduction channel in the semiconductor. In an NMOS the channel is formed between n-type source and drain by negative charge carriers (i.e. electrons). In a PMOS the channel is formed between p-type source and drain by positive charge carriers (i.e. holes).

MOSFETs require no gate input current, other than a pulse to charge or discharge their input capacitance. They can operate at higher switching speeds and lower currents than bipolar transistors.

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Just about to say that.........NOT!!

Thanks Mech...

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