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Tried that already and found it a bit dangerous...Of course a lot of tools are dangerous in my hands lol......Last time I smashed one with a hammer the ferrite went flying and it broke a window.....Originally Posted by rca987
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Tried that already and found it a bit dangerous...Of course a lot of tools are dangerous in my hands lol......Last time I smashed one with a hammer the ferrite went flying and it broke a window.....
Experienced Scrapper
I turn it upside down and hit it with a hammer from the bottom. It pushes it out and splits it open. And it doesn't take much force with a hammer to break the ferrite. Just a few taps and it pulls right apart. Still the issue with the glue though. I'll have to try some of that mineral spirits stuff.
Eat. Sleep. Scrap.
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Yea, but who's going to be swinging that sledge after a few hundred tv/monitors???Does an 8 or 12 lb sledge hammer not work the same
Better hire one of those weightlifters from the circus to do that.
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That's how you get buff so your women are more attracted to you, DUH
Garbage keyboards > spɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɐqǝ
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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The bottom line is ,it's pain staking work . To me having the yoke is the easy part . First open the set . whats the trick to open 100's of sets fast ? A log splitter No that wont do it .
Then the board , wires , AL . also don't get a shock. If you really want to get down & dirty metal in tube some pass as short It is what it is time consuming work with a end result that delivers product along with a lots of garbage .
Last edited by Copper Head; 08-12-2011 at 12:19 AM.
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I agree 100%with a end result that delivers product along with a lots of garbage .
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Why not just use a vice? We aren't talking the glass part also are we? Just the plastic?
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just the yoke...vise is too slow for mass production !!
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Oh I see!Myself, a sledge hammer is the most fun! Messy but fun!
I'm surprised the trash compactor didnt work, you'd think those would have enough 'power' to crush them.
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I figured you were air chiseling the crap out of those things!Oh I see!
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Certified Zip-Tie Mechanic
"Give them enough so they can do something with it, but not too much that they won't do nothing."
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*Stops dead in tracks*
I never even thought of air chiseling those!!! Heh, new experiment coming up on Sunday!!
You would think so, but they don't. I grabbed one off CL. Was an older one. I looked up the model/specs and it claimed 3,000 lbs of crush force. I tried it with pop cans. Was a total joke so I stripped/scrapped it.
Or mass destruction or mass deconstruction.
Experienced Scrapper
I just use the hammer method and it seems to work as well as anything else I could imagine, but I'm eager to hear more ideas for getting rid of glue, plastic, leftover bits of paper when you pull tape off the yoke. I would gladly smash all your yokes if you got rid of all my glue!!!
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if I had many yokes I'd go to an oxen sale...sorry...bad yoke..er...joke..ok, if I had hundreds to do I'd set them on a beam about waist high (so the "crusher" uses the fewest muscles) and crush them with a sledge, they fall off the beam into a trough full of lacquer thinner and soak. Collect them later, with rubber gloves on... and glue, plastic and copper will be separate...theoretically.
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How about wrapping them in a towel or blanket; put a 2x8 on top; hit with a sledge and pick out the copper? Shake the towel/blanket into a bucket.
This ought to do the trick: http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/...124/510014.jpg
all iron and 40 pounds
People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Does not really show how exactly it works, but it looks to me like they are fed through two rollers. Check out 3:30 mark in this movie
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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I was wondering as i never tried it but how about a deep fat frier maybe the scalding oil will naturalize the glue, maybe it would act like a solvent , I think the oil hits really high temps the flash point on the glue might be only 200 - 250 also the emissions might not be to bad . Water boils at 212 i don't think that will do it, Little salt pepper MMMM
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drop it in a potato gun and launch it straight up? ... Just a thought...
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Shoot em with a shotgun.
Put them in the dryer.
Place a load on the deck before Shamu jumps on it.
Get a part time job at a carnival and work the Bell and Hammer game and place one on the platform each time a contestant swings the hammer.
Hire Big Juicy from Lizard Lick Towing and Recovery.
Throw them.
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