10 Best Places to Find Scrap Copper

Wondering where to find scrap copper? Here's my list of the 10 best places where I find all of mine!

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[chrishicks]

I'm not ever worried about how much time it takes to scrap anything. It's just fun to do.

[michaelcastillo]

U know you’re an old man when this is the type of content u watch because it’s what u like to do with your spare time.

[johnthompson]

My addition to your list is "AUCTIONS"! I have picked up a lot of scrap at farm auctions and the occasional HVAC/Plumbing auction. I once paid $2, 000 for a rack of type L piping. I was told I was nuts and must hate money. I sold it for $3, 500!

[PRR]

When harvesting copper, be exceptionally careful of capacitors! Capacitors carry an electrical wallop!

[floydsadler]

A buddy and I were scoping out an old abandoned stretch of train track and pulled several hundred feet of solid copper that was cut from the old power poles and thrown to the ground and left for many years, the wire was covered over with grass and weeds. That track kept us busy for days.

[PitsuMiwus]

What i like about Microwaves is that there is no dead weight - we end up with copper and perfect container for scrap metal, unlike CRTs we end up with large mass of glass and plastic.

[allfather]

I second the plumbing tip. I drive a residential recycling route and every time I see a sink or tub or shower in a dumpster in front of a house I know I'm stopping back there after work. Stripping down the faucets is a quick way to a hunch of clean and chromed brass too.

[offwithhishead]

Thub is spot on about extension cords. I weighed 1Kg of (UK) 3-core extension cable then stripped the outer it and re-weighed it as singles. Even with good singles prices the cable was worth 2.5% more unstripped, so the time & effort would have cost me money!

[flambokuma]

I went to the HVAC guys that replaced my AC unit a few years ago. Told them what I'm doing and so now whenever I get a couple of Fridges together I call him up and one of their guys will come out and drain all my compressors for me so I can scrap them. I have a moderate sized side yard and try to get like 6-7 of them in the stall before I call my guy and it takes him about 30 mins to drain 6-7 and they leave. They get the chems, I get the scrap.

[SunnyRain]

Hello, I wanted to say thank you for making this video. I appreciated your kind thoughts tonight and wanted to just say, thank you! Have a wonderful evening, and you rock!

[Goldsilvercopperbullion]

I found 4 of those huge 100 pound transformers in one dumpster near my house was insane!

[scrappingadventures]

As always, very interesting and extremely entertaining 👍👍👍😊

[DHendo]

I feel like this guy could be a science/art/music teacher that moonlights as a radio host.

[ericprater]

Great Vid thub! I love the content and motivation to git more!

[westreadwell]

Love the “set” here and your lighting is perfect. Feels like grandpas shop on fraggle rock 😊

[ichangedmyname]

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Keep up the good hard honest work! 👍👍

[cherylmarshall]

Thank you for shared information that helps me out I do a lot of scraping

[JairoHicks]

Another great video brother. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[TheUltimateRecycler]

Nice work Dr. Thub! 👏 And I fully support your community message about the sketchy activity of releasing refrigerant gas! Don't do it peeps!

[CandSMINING]

Another great video brother. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥