Breaking Down Electrical Plugs, Switches, Outlets For Brass

Hello this is my second entry thread to the scrap metal forum contest. Sledge has raised the bar with his breakdown, so time to try again . I will be breaking down small electrical things that you can find brass in.

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Commonly all these items are either left on wire, put into shred, or looked over. This isn't get rich fast but if you have nothing to do than you can break into these items and get some brass.

Here are the items we will be tearing up for brass. Decide for yourself if its worth it to break these down, here ill simply be showing what you will get out of them.



Item #1 is going to be switches. First ill show you what is in and how to break down the box, than I'll show you whats inside the switch itself.



Now there is going to be 2 screws holding in each switch. Unscrew each of those and than pull the outlet out. Than unscrew the wires on the side of each switch and pull all the wire out.



Shown here is everything you get out of it, the screws that were holding in the wiring to the switches were brass, so make sure to save those. The box itself was steel, and there was some wiring and a ground wire inside.



Now that we've pulled everything out of the box Ill show 2 methods of scrapping the switches. One is crushing, which ill demonstrate using outlets, but it works on switches also. You can use a vice, or a hammer on this but I prefer a vice. The one in the vice is how it starts, the one laying out is what it becomes. After that you can just pick the brass out.



Now here ill show how to take it apart without the mess, here is what I prefer to do with the switches. The stuff laying out on the vice is all brass, including the screws.





Here is doing a plug box:





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Ok so now we will be breaking down a plug duplicator which you plug into your wall and it turns 2 plugs into 6. This has a suprising amount of brass and all you need to break it down is a flathead screwdriver and 30 seconds. Here it is!






Now I will be showing you breaking down some of the audio/video plugs I clipped over the last few days. These are brass ends, even the silver ones are brass. Beware if you pull out the whole top because below the small rod some of it could be steel, thats why I just snap off the rod and put the rest into shred. I also did some older cable connectors that are easy to breakdown.



Here is all of those clipped off, and in the vice is car plugs. On those the only value is the tip which is brass, also if youd like you can grab the board thats in some, but I dont bother.




Now heres a quick breakdown to show you what youll get out of this dual charger/plug-in. A good amount of brass, and some other small goodies