New to scraping

1) Rip it apart. Use a grinder or a SawzAll. You can also take it apart with a screw driver and sledge hammer. Get the motor and the wires. Save these bits aside. Now everything else metal is probably light iron or tin. Stuff that isn't metal is trash.

2) Your fans have motors, take these out and set aside. I break the crap open with a hammer. It's fun. No really, it is. The metal stands are light iron or tin, throw those in your dryer pile of metal crap. Vacuum cleaners are easy. Cut the cord on it. Cords have copper. Anything that plugs into the wall usually has a copper cord. That there is duckets. Duckets are good yo. Now get a big ass hammer and smash the flat brush base off the vacuum. Nice!!!! Now attached to that is the motor housed in plastic. Break off the plastic with hammer and cut out the motor. Set that aside. Right? Right. Now cut the cords off your DVD players. Set those cords aside with the other cords. Those are worth money. Throw the cordless dvd players in your tin metal pile with your fan crap and dryer crap. Now cut the cord off your microwave. Put that with the other cords. Yup, extra money again. WooHoo! You can cut open the microwave but all you get is 10 cents worth of a copper, a heat sink, and 2 big magnets. It's kinda lame less you're low on magnets. Throw the microwave in with your dryer/fan/light iron junk. Now your exercise equipment, throw it all into your light iron dryer crap pile, unless you have a treadmill. If you have a treadmill, break it open and take out the motor with a good socket set. Now sell the motor on ebay. Windmill hippies love them. Power tools have little electrical motors in them. Break them apart with a hammer and set the motors aside in your motor pile. Score!!!!

3)Call your local scrap yard and ask about batteries. It's a yard preference thing. I have a yard who takes car batteries, but would cry glass tears if I brought in so much as a laptop battery. Go figure.



4)Assuming you have a treadmill in your junk pile, we just made 150 bucks. No treadmill? Okay fine, we just made a good 60-75. I'm excited, aren't you?

Originally Posted by TheFatMan

1) Now cut the cord off your microwave. Put that with the other cords. Yup, extra money again. WooHoo! You can cut open the microwave but all you get is 10 cents worth of a copper, a heat sink, and 2 big magnets.

10 cents? Last microwave I did had a 2 lb brick of copper. I've only done one so far so maybe it was special...but I doubt it.

Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper

10 cents? Last microwave I did had a 2 lb brick of copper. I've only done one so far so maybe it was special...but I doubt it.

I've been butchering them for awhile now, most don't have squat. I've got 3 sitting in todays load.