This is Jason Gaber with Mt. Baker Mining and Metals
and I have become really interested
in the recycling side of things
I went down to my local scrap yesterday to see what I could find
that I may be able to run down through the hammer mill
and upgrade
and these are
brass radiator tops out of old cars
and what they do at the scrap yard is they take a saw zaw and cut the radiator off
and its a copper brass radiator
and this top part is plastic
but they leave all this brass and copper in here
that they sell as
a dirty brass price i'm assuming
this one is all plastic
This one has some
steel clips running down the base and still has its steel cap
This one here is completely brass
this one here again is a brass and copper
piece under there and a plastic top still on there
What i'm going to try and do is
run them through this hammer mill
you see the hammers down there
I ran one as a test already an dhere is kinda what happened
The plastic and steal clips all exploded and poped right off
and chewed the remaining brass into these nice big pieces
that can then be separated out
using a eddie current or just by picking them out by hand
underneath the hammer mill this is looking up from the bottom
those bars are spaced at 2 inches
were not trying to grind anything up
were just trying to
bust it all and separate the brass and the plastic
Here is the final discharge out of our hammer mill
You can see the brass pieces are all
coming out chewed up and clean
here is all the steel clips we saw earlier
and what i'm hoping to do here
is just generate some
ideas from you guys on
what you would like to see run down a hammer mill
for recycling
If you can leave a comment
below about what you have had a hard time cleaning
or something you would like to see run down these hammer mills
I would appreciate it and I will run down and grab some
material formthe scrap yard and see what we get
here is your clean brass
here is all of your junk
plastic and steel and stuff
if your going to do it on production you would wanna
a conveyor coming out the bottom of the hammer mill with a discharge hopper
probably a magnet belt
either a guy hand picking the brass out or a eddie current would work
because there is some failry small pieces in there
I appreciate you watching
please let me know what you would like to see
run down a hammer and see if we can liberate it for you
Thanks!