Here is another video of us running some scrap metal down through one of our hammer mills
and these are pistons
and they are almost all cast aluminum except for the
few little steal rings right here on the edge
there is also a little steal ring right down in here
The goal is to throw these down through the hammer mill
bust them all up and the steal rings
and than little steal pieces will all come out
and be liberated from the aluminum
and than with a magnet you can pull out all the steal and you will have clean aluminum left over
We took our aluminum pistons and spread them out on the floor here so you can see the results of the test
and with the right size screen
all the pistons break up even that little ring there
they all come clean and liberated, you can see some of the rings here
I'm just going to run as magnet over these and pull the rings out
and I will show you the separation afterwards
Okay we ran our magnet over this stuff
so we have all clean aluminum here
pile of clean aluminum, over here is our pile of
steal rings, we pulled all these out with a magnet
and a few of those pistons
and had these little tiny steal plates on them
those got busted off as well and those came out with the magnet
and this was kinda of a surprise
these little squiggly rings here
they are not magnetic, so I am assuming these are stainless
I'm sure some of you guys know what metal that is, let me know in a comment below.
if that's stainless or not
you get a little stainless as well, so you just hand pick those out, real easy
they stick out like a sore thumb
they stay whole even through the hammer mill
they stay as a whole ring, not like they shatter into a whole bunch of different pieces
so there is your three different separations
and I will take this in and we will look at the numbers and I'll let you know how it worked out
These are the results of our piston test through the hammer mill
and here are some prices for you, so this is
the price of of pistons with rings if I just took them in
without doing anything to them, they were paying 25 cents a pound
this the price of clean aluminum, 42 cents a pound
iron is 5 cents a pound and clean stainless is 40 cents a pound
Here is how many pounds I ran, I ran 55lbs of pistons
If I brought those in I would have made $13.75
but after the hammer mill I ended up with 50lbs of clean aluminum worth $21
4lbs of steal worth 20 cents
and 1lbs of stainless steal
worth 40 cents, so I ended up with $21.60
for 55lbs, so thats a difference
of $7.85
Made an extra $7.85 by running them through the hammer mill
To look st it another way, we will look at it by the ton
if you brought in pistons with rings it would by $500 a ton
if you process that same ton through the hammer mill
it would be worth $785.45
making an extra $285.45 per ton
by processing it through the hammer mill
and its fairly easy, it runs through the hammer mill and you mag out the steal
you can hand pick out eh stainless and your done
so anyway, thanks for watching
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