hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and metals and on today's video we're
going to be recycling some of this shredded up coax cable here's a little bit closer look
at this stuff and I'm going to need your help on this because all this copper you see here
is actually copper clad steel wire it's all magnetic now there is some stuff that's this
little silvery kind of coating on it it's not magnetic I don't know if that's tinned
copper or silverplated copper but what we're going to do today is we're going
to try and shred this up and separate all the magnetics all the steel out of it and get all
the plastic and all the silver stuff out under the magnet and into a separate bin we're going
to be processing our sample through one of our little scrap systems here this is a 24x
16 standard Hammer Mill we've got a couple different screens we're going to be running
today stuff's going to run down this orange chot down through the haml onto this conveyor
belt here it's going to come up the conveyor the steel is going to get pulled out by the
cross belt magnet everything that's not magnetic is going to come out the end of this conveyor
here and the magnetic stuff is going to come out
under the cross belt magnet down that aluminum shoot and into that green PB
there
want to do a quick little screen change on our hammill here so I'll show you how that goes
here's one of our three mm screens and that's what's in the mill now and what's happening is
even with these 3mm slots you can still get some of this stuff passing through these screens and
it's not liberating this here is a 1.2 mm plaz cut slot and even the smallest one with the plastic
won't go through those slots so in theory it's going to stay in the mill until it comes clean
and then that little steel wire will be able to pass through the slots here's a look with the top
half of the case off got a rotor in here these are manganese steel hammers which work great for scrap
work Harden over time we've got our side plates here that hold in the pins the Hammers sit on down
below we have the screen this is a 1-in slotted screen so we're going to change this one out for
a smaller one for our wire to do that you pull the armor off there's four bolts on the armor hold the
screen in the screen rolls out and then you can roll the new one in and put the armor back in and
you're back going there's the old screen pulled it out now we'll get the new screen in installed
there we'll run some wire here's the new screen it's a little bit hard to see but there's about a
3 mm slot that's plas cut in that screen so that's what we're going to be trying to strip that wire
with
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and here's our results after the 1.2 mm screen I'm really surprised how much
insulation was able to make it through a lot of it came clean I don't know what percentage
by weight is metal versus insulation it's probably pretty high but there's definitely
still some insulation in there here's the stuff that went under the magnet and I've
been trying to do a little research there's a lot of that I don't know if that's tin coated
copper sometimes they put silver coated copper on there so I don't know exactly
what that fine fine hair wire is it's obviously not magnetic but I'm wondering if that's where
the value might be in this stuff well thanks everybody for watching if you want any more
information on the equipment you saw us run today you can find our contact information in
the description below so thanks everybody for watching and we'll see you on the next video