G'Day Scrappers, Just wanted to talk about Copper Stackers
Uhm,
The Copper ingots we get out of Alluminium heat sinks
That are on top of motherboards out of computers
A lot of times the heat sinks actually can be just solid Alluminium
Sometimes they can just be solid Copper
A lot of the time , we get these Half and Half
Where you have got extruded Alluminium on the outside
And you've got a Copper ingot inside
They come in all different shapes and sizes
They're usually, these ones,
Are the solid ones
The first ones I showed you here, The goblet ones I call them Goblets
Because they're like a little goblet
As they are, we can sell these as Copper Alluminium radiator
And you get an okay price for them,
But we can add value to these by removing the Copper ingot
And turning the regular Alluminium into extruded Alluminium
Because when you sell this as a Copper Alluminium radiator
They just consider it as regular Alluminum, and regular Copper
When we remove the Alluminium, we are actually improving the value. Because it is actually extruded alluminium
It should be the highest priced Alluminium
The way I used to do it, if you're only doing a small amount of PCs
And you only get a few of these every so often
You know, you might get one every so often, the way that I used to do these
Used to go through the vice
And i'd get my Heat Sink and put it in my vice
And then I'd get a bloody hammer
This is one of the printer rods, a nice thick one
And I would just put the rod there and I'd
*hammer sounds*
I'd belt it down like that, with the hammer
A lot of times the Copper can be really stuck in there really tight
Sometimes you end up smashing it and smashing it and they won't come out
It's a lot of work to do
So, another way I decided to do it
Just by using a cutter, a lot of people might use
An angle grinder or a *unintelligible Aussie mumbling* Or whatever they call'em
I've got something like that. So I just pop them into the vice
Tighten them up
All I want to do is cut the ring of the Copper out of the Alluminium
So All I want to do is just cut through this thick part
And then we should be able to separate it, and get the copper out
I use one of these, sort of like a sawzall, sort of like an angle grinder
Kind of thing
It's got a round blade
You can use anything you like, angle grinder, the flat ones (sawzall)
So what I do
Is just to get into the round thing, I just open up the fins a little bit
You've probably already seen that
Get myself some glasses *IMPORTANT*
Okay, so, I'm just going to cut through this little piece of Alluminium here so we can get through and get that Copper
*Loud sawing noises*
Okay
So it's only a little cut
As you can see, I've got a whole pile of them here so I usually wait until I've got a few of them that I need to get rid of and then I'll do them all in one go
Using this cutter
So we take it out of the vice
And we can
We can just get a screwdriver if you like, I probably cut into this a little too much
So we can just
Pop out the Copper!
And so now we've got
Straight, extruded Alluminium
Which is here in Australia at the moment about a dollar thirty a Kilo
So that's top grade Alluminium now
And now we've got a straight handy Copper
Some call it 'Number Two' Copper
Some call it 'Number One' just depending on the different grading It's basically candy Copper
Where I cut it as you can see it's got a little bit of a groove where I cut a bit of copper off
A little bit too much, but that's just how it goes
So that was a round one
We got square ones
We've got these goblet ones
This is steel this really downgrades the Heat Sinks because it's Irony Alluminium or Irony Copper
In this case when we cut this piece of Alluminium to remove this Steel bracket, this is the only way
These ones are very hard to pop out with these bars
But they also come out, and you'll end up pushing out this whole through the plate
So in this case we're just going to cut through the steel plate and get out Copper out
They're a little bit more hard
To do, so put them nice and tight
Open up at the center
Nice hole
*Loud sawing noises*
*More loud sawing noises*
Okay!
Alright, so now we've loosened off this Steel plate, and it's just going to come out with the Copper
So now we've got our
Extruded Alluminium
Same deal
We've got a bit of Steel
We can throw this in Steel
And we've got our Copper Stacker
Now these ones as I said I call them Goblets because they're like little drinking goblets
These are really nice, if you don't cut into them too much they're really nice to collect
These are what I mean by true stackers, as you can see they have solid ends and are completely solid Copper
So you can stack them up
And they stack, and that's why I call them stackers, cuz if you stack Copper, if you like copper
This is probably the best stuff to collect because it's solid you get the most weight for your size
I've finished scrapping out these Heat Sinks and getting out the Copper stackers
Yeah got a, nice little pile
To add to the collection
I did hack into a few of them but uh,
Can't do much about it
And a nice Goblet
They're nice too
It's all the same Copper, all candy Copper, these stackers here are really nice to stack
Some people like to stack Copper just like bulion
Because they are solid and round little round things
They stack quite nicely
So, uh, yeah, that's why we call them Copper stackers
That's from PC Heat Sinks that go to the CPU
Get into'em
You know, scrap them out like this and you're gonna
Add a bit extra value to, uh
To the Heat Sink rather than just selling them as Alluminium Copper radiators
Now you've got some good Copper to sell!
Anyways, keep scrapping guys
Have fun and I'll catch you next time