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With a little bit of patience I learn how to remove the copper of a tv yoke easily. No need to break the ferrite. Enjoy
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With a little bit of patience I learn how to remove the copper of a tv yoke easily. No need to break the ferrite. Enjoy
Why?
Good try. Throw a few into a pillow case smash with a 2 lb hammer. Done. No mess. No debris or metal clips flying at your eyes.
I zip tied the leg of an old pair of blue jeans and drop them in there and smash the hell out of it with the ole 3lb Estwing. Done in about 3 seconds. Shake it all out in a shallow bin, pick out the copper and ferrite. Easy breezy!! The blue jeans hold up better than a pillow case in my experience.
Some of you might ask "why" well I just do it to kill time when I don't have a lot of scrap to mess with. Plus just trying new things to take stuff apart.
Time is money in my world. I just cant see myself spending all that time on this.
Tell me you aren't wearing the old blue jeans when you smash the hell out of them, RVS.
I appreciate the time you spent putting the vid together G77...for me smashing shiznit with a hammer is therapeutic tho and I pay myself at the end of the session...win-win.
agreed, i try new things all the time, some work, some dont, you have to fail to succeed, nice video
Thank you guys for watching my videos. In the future I be putting more videos in here. Hopefully you learn something from them and sometimes you won't like the way I do things. Maybe you have a better idea. I would like to hear them just put a comment like some people did already. This forum is to learn and let others know how you take things apart. So far I got 200+ views and more to come. Again thank you guys :)
Question to the guys who smash the yokes - I smashed about 50 yokes recently and picked out the bulk of the copper, ferrite, and larger plastic pieces. The problem I now have is a tote full of plastic with quite a bit of copper left on it. What do you do with this left over material? I hate to throw it away, but as mentioned, time is money, and pick pick picking the remaining copper may not be the best use of my time.
Pull it out of bag and put it aside for when you can unwind it or ship it to me....lol
Gotcha Brasscatcher. Back to pick pick picking when I have the time.
How much copper is in a average TV. Less then a pound?
If a tv/monitor yoke took me this long I'd have no life, I already hate them and they consume my life. I pop the clip off hit it a few times lightly in the right spot and it barely makes a mess and comes out clean, way faster.
So if a TV has about a pound of copper in it your making 2.70$ a TV?
I watched that, but you ended the video with the copper still on the ferrite? I thought the point of the vid was to show how to remove it, without breaking the vid.
Personally, I take either a 5lb bucket or tote and place one in, then take a sledge, and smash them to pieces...remove the copper, and the rest into the trash. No more than 1 1/2 to 3 minutes.
I think in the other discussion we figured out that there's about $ 4.00 value in a TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by jacobco09
Yep it depends on the TV model and year it was made. Sometimes older TVs have more copper, wires, and low grade boards. Sell everything that your yard will take. I will say from 3 to 5 bucks. Not a lot of money but more TVs you pick up the more the money increases. I love scrapping everything even if it is little like a "aluminum can". Yesterday when I was driving I saw a little TV and 10 boxes. I decided to stop and pick up the TV. Since I was out I decided to check out the boxes. I was thinking is only empty boxes and to my surprise there were lots of computer wires, hard drives and other computer parts. I loaded all the boxes and when I got home I separated all the trash and all the good stuff. When I took the scrap from that pile to the scrap yard I made 60 bucks thanks to that little TV. :)
Ferrite can be scrapped? Why do you put it in the trash?Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeB
It can be? well crap, now you tell me KZ! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by KZBell
Who buys it? and for how much? Just the regular scrap yards?
Yes ferrite can be scrap. I scrap as much possible from items to gain the most profit. Ferrite has steel in it. Just take a magnet and find out by yourself. Happy Scrapping!!!!:)
hmm didn't know that...so then it goes for shred prices then I am assuming...in that case will scrap that as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeB
Some scrap yards buy them. You just have to check with them. And you should get pay as steel price. I'm lucky my scrap yard buys almost everything.
George,, George,,,, tsk,tsk,Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeB
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/disma...-question.html
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...g-monitor.html = This is one of the steps in this tutorial.Quote:
Sliding the yoke off the neck of the tube. I usually take the yoke after removal, and set it on some concrete and hit it with a hammer(use eye protection) and the ferrite the copper is wrapped around will break or shatter.
Throw the ferrite in the steel bucket. Copper goes as #2 clean.(the reason for it being #2 is because it's varnished)
It's an honest question. I dont know what it sold for, didn't even know it could be sold. Thought the only thing worth cash, was the #2 copper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
Now I will save it all.
although I didn't know the material was ferrite, i have always used it as weight for my "steel screws" bin and got .10/lb for it. now though its down to 8
Heck, I even keep the little round pieces of ferrite that are on some of the ends by the little circuit board in keyboards. It goes in my screw bucket.
It's funny, ever since I really started doing this my kids have wanted to help Daddy. So my son gets to take apart the CD/DVD/floppy drives and crush the aluminum cans. He gets to keep the aluminum can money. My daughter loves taking apart the keyboards. She can't wait until we have a full box of the plastic sheets with silver trace - she gets to keep that money. There's nothing like seeing the two of them on the living room floor, each with a little cordless drill, taking stuff apart. There's no arguing. I did have to buy a second little cordless screwgun.
Who do you sell the keyboard sheetz too? I have a whole box of them. Along with like 5 or 6 printers...so lazy sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by waredu
I remember when someone on here blasted someone for saying they scrapped the ferrite, saying "it's just padding your buckets, because it cant be melted down"
My metal worker on the other side of my shop and i had a slow day. He has a homemade furnace thing (dont ask). We took a couple hunks of ferrite, threw it in, and left it. Came back at the end of the day and they were melted, but only a little bit. Not all the way. We obviously didnt/couldnt create the normal amount of heat it takes to fully melt steel. But after some research i figured out that all those ferrite chunks we find are something along the lines of "powdered" steel. Maybe i read it wrong, but that's the impression i got.
Isn't it just priced as shred? I don't waste my time with it either it goes right in the trashQuote:
Originally Posted by KzScrapper
Gravy, you make money by not throwing recyclable stuff away. It all adds up.
The intention is good, no doubt. But when you consider how much you can make from one yolk, too much time is spent on it. You are loosing time and money that could be spent on other things. Thanks for the video though.Quote:
Originally Posted by geravega77
this video is useless, heed the words in post number 3 :D
Guys, no need to be harsh. Constructive criticism is good, but be respectful.Quote:
Originally Posted by happyisthealero
Opps, not trying to be mean, my bad.
Ironic = When a New Yorker tells someone else to be nice. ;)
I tease!
Sirscrapalot - Picking on the New Yorkers.
It's all good Sircrapalot. The had good intentions and we don't want to discourage him from future postings. He just might put something up we can use. You never know, he might have helped out a newby on how to remove copper from yoke who is not I to breaking a thing. Personally, I remove the copper much quicker without breaking stuff up from experience. But if I was new, it might have helped back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot
Oh, I didn't realize he was from New York... Makes sense now thanks Sirscrapalot :D
I'm a Floridian now. This has got nothing to do with New York. The part of New York where I use to live was 5 hours outside the city. So I'm not a city slicker, just a regular joe like the next guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by happyisthealero