Ceiling Fan - Sell Motor or Scrap for Copper?

g'day scrappers today we've got ourselves a ceiling fan I promise from the last video so we're going super high-tech here I get a lot of comments about ceiling fans especially related to copper you know if you've got a few videos you know saying oh you know we get our copper from microwave ovens and we get our copper from old TVs yeah and a lot of people say well you get a quite a lot of copper out of a ceiling fan so I thought I'd do a ceiling fan since I've got one that I ripped off my wall off my ceiling all I wanted to do really because a lot of scrappers usually just throw these into motors and sell it at the scrap yard as a electrical motor and so all I'm going to do is I'm gonna want to weigh this up and see how much I could sell this as an electrical motor and then how much I can actually how much copper I can get out of it and whether it's actually worthwhile stripping it out for the copper or selling it just as a motor so once we get the copper out we can also sell the steel as scrap steel so I'll weigh up those prices and see the difference if there's much difference in price but still if if you're looking for copper then yeah sure these are a pretty good source of copper if if you're not really looking at the just the value of your time that you take to scrap one out and so on if you just want actual scrap copper for things like making copper ingots and things like that I'll just get rid of the actual blade I've got a little bit of other construction work going on inside the house got plasterers here changing one of the ceilings it was just about to cave in so I had to get rid of the ceiling fan and funnily enough the the plaster in the kitchen is it's made of horsehair that was pretty unusual okay [Music] [Music] alright so just as it is just like that this will sell as a motor so we don't have to take anything else off and we can get motor price for this so I will just have a look so I think we're getting 55 cents a kilo at the moment so let's just go go buy that okay so at 55 cents a kilo it weighs three point three eight kilos so all we're getting for this motor if we were just to sell it at the scrap yard is one dollar and 86 cents okay so three point three kilos for anyone else wondering is about seven pounds so I'm getting a dollar eighty six you follows just to throw this in with electrical motors and sell it like that so now we'll strip it out we'll get the copper and see how much we can sell both the steel and the copper for and see if there's actually any extra value [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right um she say it's been been a while since I've actually busted open a ceiling fan can't remember the last time I've done done one actually um okay so we've got a little bit of brass here all right [Music] [Music] [Music] okay I'm just gonna have to put these down on the ground and pop this out I think there we go yeah there's a little bit of aluminium sort of seams around the inside there but it's all pretty much scrap steel okay pop these out [Music] okay I'll just take this into the workshop and device and I'll pop this thing out okay so here we have it so there we go we've got our copper windings running around through there other side and so I suppose all that's left is just to take it all out so I think I'll I'll cut from this side and yeah we'll get this copper out we'll weigh it up and see what value if we get any better value while doing it this way okay so all we need to do is just cut each of these little loops [Music] here we have it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's actually quite a small one you know you see some of the older style ceiling fans and they can be almost like eight inches across and so this is obviously not a very expensive ceiling fans just the cheaper version so probably a bit more representative of what you'd you know normally find anyway all right so we've done the outside coils so it's just the inside ones now same bill so it's really not a overly time-consuming scrap out this one unlike other copper motors and things like compressors out of fridges and stuff it's a lot more heavier work and yeah it just takes a lot longer I mean this you know if it turns out to be a little bit better value in the copper and the steel compared to just selling it as a motor and they're probably worth doing because they're they just don't take much time at all really and so generally in curbside picking I do find you know the odd ceiling fan or you usually just the motor itself and so if it turns out good in future I'll old probably scrap them out like this because it's just because it's it's pretty easy and it's just something different it's different to what we're processing normally in scrap and they waste and as I said compared to other motors this is about as simple as you can get and it's quite fun actually so hopefully we get some good value out of it so there we go we've cut all the ends on this side so now all we have to do is just pull them out from this side [Music] should get a bit of screwdriver probably a lot easier to do this in our vise or something but just for the video sake so there we have it it's the it's a bit of an odd color looks kind of like almost like brassy but it's actually copper you can see the nice orange copper in there but yeah well it's a little bit will just keep going it definitely needs advice just say you can get a bit of a grip on stuff and two hands is kind of not enough yeah I just don't have any leverage here I'll go and do this on the voice but no doubt it's probably seen a fan motors being scrapped out on YouTube anyway just want to get all the copper out and just weigh it up and just compare the value so far over halfway there okay so we're done here we've got a little bit of wire sticking out but a little coil is done so let's just gather this up and take it back out the onto the table and let's weigh up what copper we did get remember the motor was a dollar eighty-six justice sellers is so let's do the scrap steel currently fifteen cents a kilo did get a little bit of brass but so so we've got still got over three kilos of scrap steel at 15 cents sets 46 cents [Music] and the copper 580 a kilo it's probably yeah it should be about that 580 so there's exactly 300 grams so that's three quarters of a pound 580 a kilo so that's a dollar 74 so that gives us exactly so originally we had the motor a dollar 86 just to sell it as is scrapping it out we got 46 cents for the steel and a dollar 74 for the copper total two dollars 20 so you know you know 34 cents better value now the copper price might be a touch out but it's not going to make much difference in the sense so really not a lot in value so this is where you know this is why most scrappers just throw it into motors and it's the same case with a lot of motors and even transformers apart from your microwave transformers if they're copper copper but obviously if you're looking for scrap copper - you know melt down and turn into ingots well it you know this is you know it's good little copper it's already sort of compressed it's in small pieces so it's easy to melt just throw that just you know keep throwing this into the crucible but as far as value for time you know together extra 34 cents you know I suppose if you had ten of them that well then that's three dollars 40 so that might make a difference to some but you know even though it was quite it was pretty fun to do and it was pretty quick but you know a lot of scrappers you know their opinions are well you know if I'm going to spend time doing that you know I'd rather go out and pick up more scrap and find better stuff um but so yeah whether it's worth scrapping out well that's for each individual to determine themselves you know if you think that that's worth it for you fine most people that would these would be the ones that actually just want some free copper like this so if you're just looking for copper to melt down then yeah it's great 300 grams of copper out of that small transformer motor but there are a lot bigger ones we you know you do get half a kilo maybe even a you know probably a pound and a half of copper out of them so but this one here it was a smaller fan a little bit cheaper well yeah it was okay I'm happy with the copper no worries about that I'd rather having this copper to turn into an ingot then getting dollar 86 but and if I had nothing better to do I'd probably still scrap it out just to get the copper but otherwise you know when I'm doing hard rubbish out the street and stuff and picking up all kinds of stuff there's just you know things like this don't really want to waste too much time on because you know I'd rather be out there and scrapping picking up more stuff so yeah that was the interesting interesting comparison anyway either way you're not going to really lose you know you're not going to lose on selling as a motor and you know sometimes the motor prices can go up a little bit too so getting closer to $2 for that but you know I personally I wouldn't be doing this just to get the extra little bit of money I'd only be scrapping them out just to get the extra copper to melt down into ingots but that's my opinion anyway all right well hope that was a little bit of interest and it just it satisfied my curiosity anyway just to solace now I know that you know I'm not getting much more value even though I kind of already knew that but it is a good and easy source of copper if that's what you're looking for or a guys will keep scrapping have fun and I'll catch you next time

Channel: eWaste Ben

Views: 97,482

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Keywords: ceiling fan copper, scrapping a ceiling fan motor, ewaste ben, recycling e-waste, free copper, electric motor copper

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Length: 22min 8sec (1328 seconds)

Published: Tue May 15 2018