These are some big 220 volt plugs
I found these in a
bin at the scrap dealers and you can see all the brass ends
copper wire underneath there
and these are all junk they actually,
lower the value of the wire if you leave the plug on
these have all been cut off to increase the value
but there is still a lot of metal in these plugs
here is a female one, we are going to bust that open
big honking plug, so we are going to run all this through the hammer mill see if we can blow up
all this rubber and plastic on here
and get all the copper and the brass on them
than you can recover the value out of these plugs that would otherwise be
thrown away or
you would get penalized for leaving them on your wire
I ran a couple, 3 or 4 plugs through there
You can see here, there is the rubber part
after the brass and the copper has been busted up this had a little
steel fitting on the bottom
here is all the wire we got out of it
here is a piece that still has the brass prong on it
and here is the
brass prongs out of all of those
all of those plugs
these ones have a little copper fitting, you just unscrew that
and get hte copper out
this is at 2" bar spacing
out the bottom of the hammer mill and I think it was too big
it took a couple of times of running these through to get the copper knocked out
I'm going to save these smaller plugs
and make a video, and redo the bar spacing on the hammer mill
down to about 1"
so that we only haft to run these through one time
it just slips through the 2" bar spacing its just not
the bars aren't tight enough together to
get it all liberated, I'm going to make another video in here in a little while
redo the bars to about 1" and see if
that gives us better liberation on these plugs
You can still see the idea, I think the idea is still sound
Get your clean brass, copper wire and your junk
Quite a bit of weight in these brass prongs and copper wire
these things really don't weigh that much
Lots of non ferrous metals in those plugs
if you can get a bunch of them
liberate all the metals in them I think its really worth while
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