This is yesterday's copper cleaned up enough for show n tell.
Anyone care to guess how many pounds of copper in that tub, for weighing purposes i'll transfer the copper into an ice cream pail.
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This is yesterday's copper cleaned up enough for show n tell.
Anyone care to guess how many pounds of copper in that tub, for weighing purposes i'll transfer the copper into an ice cream pail.
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Last edited by alloy2; 08-26-2020 at 07:31 PM.
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Jeez ... i may be creating a monster here ... but look at what else you might be able to do with a hammermill.
The videos from mbmmllc put all kinds of crazy ideas in my head.
The ice cream pail holds 16.88 pounds of copper, next up I have some silver soldered copper that I want to try out in the hammer mill.
The Case tractor is down for maintenance.
My first implement, just purchased this sweet Allied Snow Blower.
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I kind of love that I will never need one of those then every now and then I do miss the snow. 73, Mike
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
Tomorrows project, make a few 10 pound copper briquettes.
I like your machine. I think I’ll get one. Did you cut all the brass ends off the cords? And did you just wash all the insulation off with water?
I like your machine. I think I’ll get one. Did you cut all the brass ends off the cords? And did you just wash all the insulation off with water?
Awe I fat fingered the question and asked twice, sorry. Hence the name oddball
Hmm, the stuff in the pan appears to have a few percent of impurity’s do you think you could sell that as 1 or 2 copper? Ps I used to be ibscrappin but couldn’t remember my password. And after seeing this post I had to sign up again and ask you some questions. Thanks
Three briquettes, 5 pounds.
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The small case tractor not enough power to efficiently run the hammer mill with full loads of copper wire, the last couple of days been out treasure hunting.
Found this Case 930 diesel on a vacant farm, this afternoon while leaving a bottle of rum at the farm where they let me use the shop one of the guys there is a cousin to the owner of this tractor.
Should know in a couple of days if the owner is willing to accept an offer, from the serial number this tractor was built in 1961. Has 80 PTO horse power which is 50 more than the little tractor.
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Gold in the pan is from bonding wires inside of the chips, casting the copper into an abode for electro-refining will recover the plated gold.
Circuit boards have multiple layers of copper traces embedded within the board, some gold plating is through the holes where an IC or chip socket has legs.
Shaker table is an easy do it yourself project, 1/4 or 1/3 hp electric 1725 rpm is plenty of power, the stroke to agitate the table is 3/4".
For smaller batches of a few hundreds pounds of hammer mill product a simple centrifuge would do the same recovery as the shaker table.
Centrifuge can handle a pulp containing 60% solids, much faster at recovery than the table, uses less water and has a smaller footprint.
Last edited by alloy2; 12-04-2020 at 12:50 AM.
I like your feed mill for grinding copper. A good feature on those mills is the nice bar magnet imbedded in the intake chute. I've caught several pieces of barbed wire, fence posts, and peanut picker fingers on my magnet.
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