This is something I've wanted to try for a long time
This is what the scrapper call dirty brass
it's brass with plastic or
steel attached
that is worth
way less than clean brass, probably less than half
and what I would like to do is take this stuff and
old faucets
run it through this hammer mill
and try to knock some of that steel off
or all of the steel off actually
and get clean brass price
for all this stuff that
was thrown in the dirty brass bin
This is all clean brass
there is no more steel or plastic or anything on it
The materail got beat up
all the stuff you don't want on there was beaten off
here is a separate pile
these still have
pieces of steel or plastic on them
so it did not come 100% clean
I'm going to re-run this back through the hammer mill see if we can clean it up a little bit more
This may be where you experiment with the bar grate spacing
You may
get it a little cleaner with smaller bar grate spacing, right now it's based at 2 inches
this is something I didn't expect
but was kinda nice surprise, this is all clean copper
That you can get a higher price than the brass for
It's nice that we've actually liberated some copper in there
that you wouldn't have otherwise got the copper price for
here is some of the junk that came off, theres a chunk of steel
I think that's a stainless steel
ball from one of the faucets
some steel, some rubber
plastic handles and things
We will run this batch back through the hammer mill
this is the stuff we re-ran through the hammer mill
This had steel contamination on it after it's first pass through
and so I re-ran it
two more times actually to clean it up some more
and most of it came pretty clean, there is a few pieces here
that still have some, you can see here a little plastic
washer
A little plastic in this one as well and a little steel sleeve.
I think one of the problems were having now is the
the bars are palced to far apart and these just fall right through
they are spaced at 2 inch
probably if we reduced that to 1 inch bar spacing
a lot of this would beat up
and the steel would be liberated
I started with 28 pounds of brass
here lets go over here
This is all my clean brass now
little bit of clean copper here
and this is the waste that I got out
a lot of these springs, I think they may be stainless steel springs, I'm not sure
but it was surprising to me
how little
waste there was, this doesn't weigh very much
maybe only a couple pounds of steel here
So it really makes a lot of sense to take dirty brass and clean it in a hammer mill
because
the price is more than double the dirty brass price
but there is only a little weight in contamination
and I think some of this is stainless
so its even worth some as well
I think these are some of the stainless pieces
i think it makes sense to do this
let me know in the comments below what you guys think about it
and if this is something worth doing
give me a call and we can discuss some options for you
different size hammer mills, different power options
and i'm interested to hear from you guys so leave comments below and send me an email
and we will see what we can do. Thanks for watching!