Scrapping Microwave Transformers | Unbelievable Money & Fast!

in the alternative you could gang a bunch up & make a diy welder

What do you do with all those (empty??) cans??? I know you said you sell them on ebay? People buy empty cans on ebay?

# 2 copper? Does that mean it's shitty?

so, $3.50 or $7 per microwave in copper. I'd rather harvest the magnet.

Im betting the wrap them differently, just to make identifying which one is which easier.

360 an hour?? How you get it out of the microwave and stripped in a minute? Jazz

i hope you make more off the videos than scraping

Can you just sell the transformers for more than scrap n save yourself the work?

Wow, stumbled onto your video by accident. You solved (for me) a lifelong question. At 54 now and grew up in a housing project in Pennsylvania. Behind the place was a fairly large, wooded area that was once home to coal mines. During the first 10 years you couldn't walk anywhere without seeing lots of rusted E's of various sizes all over the place and nobody knew where they came from, or what their purpose was. So, seeing them as holding the copper together gave me an answer, I never thought I'd find.

This video does not address all the other time and effort that needs to be spent like removing the transformers from the old microwave ovens and hunting down the old microwave ovens in the first place.

Yeah, if you had an endless supply, you can make that much an hour, but no one‘s ever gonna be able to do that not even close to making that much money an hour, man!

I used to wind the larger transformers for use in marine chargers. 4 gauge square copper wire thick stuff. I bet i threw away hundreds in scrap a day. Against my will of course.

Is this a video on how to be a methhead

It only takes one minute when you have the transformer allready out of the microwave, the microwave out of the scrapyard, you need to add the time to get the microwaves, the time to extract the transformer, extract the copper, the time to clean all the garbage you made, the time to bring the copper to sell it and come back. Ah and you need to substract the gas you need to move arround. Here in my country copper scraps are bought 4 euro/kg . So you a faaaaaaaar from 360$/H very far. But if you do a video about it, I guess at a certain point you make 360/h

Wait you got $360.00 for 15 pounds of copper? Something does not add up. Maybe I’m missing something?

.. they seem like very “heavy” transformers to be finding in microwaves. Haha . Or your scales may need assessing 🤔 .

aaaand I guess by now, the first thing that disappear from trash fields or scrap yards are... yep... microwaves... or at least their magnetrons... xD Cheers!

Click bait POS.

there is not 10 oz to a pound

how is that anywhere near 360 an hour?

Add about 2 hours to take apart 18 microwaves

Can the shellac be removed using mineral spirits, lacquer thinner or carburetor cleaner?

well thats BS $360 per hour you dont add in the month and gas it will take driving around finding 120 microwaves and busting the transformer out of it, ALOT MORE time (money) but good info on removing coils

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If you stopped to pick up a nickle it takes about 3 seconds. Giving you A dollar a min or $60 per hr.

I stripped a bunch of them and as far as The Weald, a big hammer will break it.But if you had an unlimited supply I just don't see how you can make that much an hour.

Can u just burn off the cardboard?

$3 of copper when the transformer would have gone on eBay for $50 without all the effort..

Nice work explaining this, thanks!!

You gotta include the time that you spent removing the transformer from the unit.

15 x 5$ is only 75$

The extra insulation is due to it being a step-up transformer. The higher voltage winding has more insulation.

Where u get them?

Some poor turd that assembled these units watching this video of destruction

$360 is not realistic by a far stretch.
You left out the time extracting the transformer from the microwave and setting up to separate the copper out of the transformer.
Time spent retrieving the microwaves and the time to dispose of the remaining unused parts of the microwave.

How do u make 360 an hour,and,where do u get all the microwaves?

360 hr, b.s.

Is that like 45 bucks for all that

You spending how much in gas looking for them?

Now add in the time spent finding, mileage and time collecting, and time breaking down the microwaves to retrieve the transformers, and the danger of some uninformed person handling the highly charged capacitors that store way more than enough energy to stop a heartbeat, instantly.

this guys is a thoughtless obtuse waster ! there are so many better things one can do with these windings than pawn them for pennies !

If you get ChatGPT it'll answer all them questions and you'll have an electric engineer in your pocket

The scraper is not going to give you full value of the copper. Further where do you get hundreds of microwaves to sustain this?

So how does this earn you over $300 an hour??????

I’m seeing being able to scrap 100 lbs in an hour

What's the prices ta the time

More like $20 an hour at best.

I can’t see 360 dollars an hour !!!!

Let me know... do you strip out microwaves?