This is kind of a interesting one
I do not know what these are called
but there
things that go on sail boats
They're big chunks of zinc
with a steel bar through them
and I guess they dissvole
over time in the salt water
and these dissolve first before the brass propeller
or the bronze propeller and the other
Non-ferrous metal on the boat, I think that's how it works, leave me a comment below
let me know what these things are called or if I'm on the right tract
I'm interested in getting the steel
and the zince separate
and I think the zinc is fairly brittle
We are going to run them down the hammer mill bash them up
They are really heavy, this one weighs around 15lbs
Going to bash them up and see if you can back the zinc off of those steel
pieces of flat bar and a clean zinc price
for the zinc, I don't if zinc is worth any money or not
I don't know if its like lead only worth 0.20$ a pound
it may not be worth doing but I saw these through them in a bucket
at the scrap yard and thought I would try them
We will shoot some down the mill and see what happens
The results of our zinc steel test
here is our steel bar
and all that beat up and the zinc beat off them
here is the clean zinc
you kinda got a neat, when you break it it's really cool looking
I don't know if you can see that our not but
here is all of our clean zinc
it weighs a lot
I don't know if its as much as lead
it's certainly really really heavy
and here are three stubborn pieces I could not, still hot
couldn't the steel off of
this piece of steel in here is loose
maybe the zinc was too thick on those peices and they didn't
bust in the hammer mill
that was maybe a little more exciting
than I like to see, it was pretty rough on the hammer mill
bouncing around and sparks flying out of the bottom
these are pretty massive pieces to be
putting down the hammer mill
It was fun to do and I though I would show you guys what happened
I wouldn't recommend putting big huge
chunky pieces down the hammer mill like that
so thanks for watching
I'll let you know in the description
how much this zinc was worth when I take it back
Thanks!