hey guys my name is jason with not baker mining and metals and on today's video
we're going to be trying to recycle and clean up some of these shotgun shells
and our first goal here is going to be to try and separate the brass from the plastic so we're
going to run them through one of our larger hd hammer mills with a half inch slotted screen
and we're going to try and bash that brass and that plastic apart so we can further separate them
so we're going to be running through this machine behind me this is a 24 by 16 hd hammer mill
it's going to come out the bottom here through that slotted screen onto the conveyor belt
it's going to discharge up into those garbage cans over there at the end of the belt
and it'll pull under this magnetic cross belt if there's any steel contamination
all right so here's our ground up shelf and through that half inch screen they
separated really well the plastic and the brass broke off from each other
but now we're kind of screwing around trying to figure out how to separate these and i
just have a bucket of water here but watch what happens when i dump them in this bucket of water
all the plastic floats and all the brass
sinks i'm going to take that good little stir around
all that plastic
pour the water off and
there's all your clean brass there's a little bit of aluminum and stuff in there from contamination
but there's all your nice clean brass there's a little bit of aluminum contamination and stuff
from other runs but that actually worked really well came out nice and clean and you don't even
need any more machines you just need a water tank tank and you can get your metals plastic separated
real easy and upgrade your scrap all right guys well it's been a couple of days since we shot
that video running these shotgun shells and i've been thinking about it a lot and this brass here
is about half the weight of the total uh shell here and it is so
easy to process these things i envisioned a 16 inch by 12 inch one of our smaller hammer mills
with a screen and you could literally just dump this stuff into a horse trough full of water
and you can separate the brass and the plastic and so for really hardly any money or startup cost
you can take shells like this and i know shooting ranges and places sometimes have tons and tons
and tons of these shells they're just thrown away because they don't have a good way of
recycling them and you can process these through one of our machines into a tank of water skin the
plastic off get the brass and then a ton of shells you're getting about a thousand pounds of brass
and so that makes a lot of economic sense if you can process a couple tons of shells
and get a ton of brass or so and take it to the scrap yard and sell it you can pay
off the machine pay off all the stuff real quick and then you can just process shells
and and make some money back so um thanks for watching our video i appreciate it if you have
any questions or comments you can find our contact information in the description below
and uh find more information on our website so thanks again and we'll see on the next video