Scrapping, another one of my many interests.

Well I'm not much on this intro sort of thing but maybe it might be wise to give some background for those that might care to look when they think How strange I am!



I have been into running my car on Veg oil for 10 years now and that has lead to another oily Proclivity.
I play around with and have started a YT Channel, Oil burner, which is what I do. Build waste oil burners for different applications. Space/ shed heating, water heating, cooking and.... Metal melting.
The burners seem to be real popular with the metal casting guys and that's sort of thrown me in this direction of scrapping, That and the great pile I crap I have accumulated at home and need to get rid of.

I have done a few vids on using these burners for scrapping purposes, mainly my thought has been metal seperation. Seems That a lot of stuff I want to take to the scrap yard has a lot of valuable alluminium and copper mixed with steel but if it's more than a tiny bit of steel, that's all they will pay you for. Because the burners I build put out ridicilous amounts of what constitutes free heat, It's not hard for me to melt just about anything. I just upsized my latest efforts with a view to melting car engines and gearboxes. The heat to do the job isn't a concern, Had that covered ages back. Did take a bit to work out the physical layout and materials handling though but I think I have it now.

I have directed a 300Kw+ burner into a metal drum laid on it's side. That will allow fairly easy loading of engines and gearboxes into the thing and I can just run off the ally and copper and then scrape out the steel leftovers and load the thing up and go again. The engines will be worth about 5-6 times more as ally and steel than they are whole and in batch mode, I'll be able to process a lot more engines a lot quicker with melting them than I can with dissembly.

Anyway, I'm keen to learn more about scrapping and how to make the most of it as I have a ready supply of materials I can make some bucks from.

Hopefully I can contribute something with my Burner engineering knowledge to those in this game and make things a bit easier for people.

Cheers!