SDS hammer drill

Originally Posted by greytruck

This guy dont even cut the ends off, he splits the stators with a press and uses hydraulics to pull the copper out. if he cant pull the windings, he does the "when in doubt, cook it out" method.

The perfect tool for the back yard scrapper.

It was a pretty good video. He posted his totals at the end. A bit over five grand for three or four days work was a nice score.

Originally Posted by hills

It was a pretty good video. He posted his totals at the end. A bit over five grand for three or four days work was a nice score.

He does a good job. His channel is inspiring. Watching him split those stators is why i was asking if mike cut any larger motors in half. I figured if its possible, i could pull windings from larger motors because those large motors are very hard to do. if half the size, maybe the windings will actually come out. i saw another video of a guy cutting copper ends off 15 and 30hp motors with a electric jackhammer with sharpened blade. cut threw pretty easy, but then he burnt the stator to pull the copper out. im not really into burning motors, especially here in the suburbs. Someone might complain of the smoke / smell. i mean thats alot to burn them, might as well sell as motor to avoid all that toxic smoke and such.

Right yea I don't really like burning it either. I figure you could try it with a thinner haer drill chisel bit if you can find one that's really wide or you can get a thin set one like mine I got mine off of temu lol. I sharpened mine though I had to move back and forth to get it to go took some time but did the job I'm now pulling copper off the strings I have 25lbs of copper with strings and plastic and some insulated wires on it left to do i got 32 lbs cleaned already so not bad I guess. Wish I could test it on a bigger motor though. You can use the chisel bit for all sorts of things it's crazy if goes through think tubes as well not sure if it would go through a copper house pipe though but maybe. I like it alot though good thing I got it money well spent id say. Same with the ocilator I went with corded tools though except my impact is battery and I also have a battery drill and another sawzall. Drill is mainly used for wire stripper haha.