How To Scrap A Microwave Safely

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Originally Posted by jake3340

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Okay, thanks for the info, but why keep your hand behind your back? Why not just use a screwdriver across the tabs to discharge the cap?

If you do it wrongly keeping your hand behind your back will not allow the voltage to pass thru your chest and can lessen the chance of killing you. You can use a screw driver, it does the same job, just make sure that the insulation in a screw driver can take large voltage.

Jake

Got to say I didn't get far in video due to that god awful music.... may just be me tho

M

Originally Posted by ScrapmetalMania

Got to say I didn't get far in video due to that god awful music.... may just be me tho

M

Haha im having difficulty in choosing what to put on as background music.

Don't worry as long as its unplugged you will not cause another chernobyl

I liked the music!

How to scrap a microwave safely: throw it off the truck into the shred pile.

You could throw it in with the shred but the transformer is worth 3 times what you would get from the price of the steel.

This what I don't like about youtube, so much bad info. All you have to do with the Cap is pull one wire at a time (pull the wires with a pair of pliers don't cut the wires) I've been doing this for over seven years and have never been shocked. If you do get shocked it wont kill you. Why not take the circuit board out while your at it?

Yes but if you touch the cap by accident it can sock you and if you have a bad heart it can kill you.

sledge - no microwaves in 20 years?

Pretty simple if you don't mind the occasional roach motel.

You're not missing out on too much sledge, but some days that's all I can find at the curb. 1 big transformer, 1 small, 1 IC chip, one fan motor, 2 snips of copper, some wire, and a couple small sheets of aluminum. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it, then I remember that it's all I have to break down..

The beryllium slug the only thing that is (or can be) the bad actor in the bunch. It's pretty stable as a slug but don't crush it into a powder where you can breathe it in 'cause its poisonous. Its not radioactive. There's quite a few threads in SMH talking about these slugs and the separation of copper from them.

There is NO radiation associated with a microwave without it being actually operating. There are no radioactive materials in the machine. A microwave will not set off a radiation detector. A microwave (when operating) emits electromagnetic radio waves, a completely different animal from radioactive material emissions.

The capacitor should be shorted out to ensure there is no electrical charge left in it, but even those will slowly lose their charge over time, so unless it has been plugged in within a day or so of your poking your fingers in it the charge is pretty much gone anyway. And be sure not to try discharging the capacitor with other pieces of your body!!

J.

Yeah, I couldn't resist keeping the "Hoss method" of shorting capacitors alive.

I wasn't sure if all Microwaves had the capacitor bleed resistor...if that is the case, then shorting out the capacitor is kind of a useless ritual...just an automatic safety action.

By the way, has anyone talked to Hoss in a while? I don't think he's been on here for some time.

Jon.