How To Clean Scrap Copper Wire. (Experiment). Part #1
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Published 2019-09-12
I've recently did some demolition with a friend of mine and we pulled all of the wire out of a burnt down garage, of course it was dirty, so I researched on YouTube how to clean burnt copper wire, and came up with these two experiments.
See how they turned out, and stay tuned to part 2 where I take everything to the scrap yard and receive money for it.
All Comments (21)
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Awesome! Commenting before watching but already know its gonna be awesome! Cant wait!
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Great video brother. Salt and white vinegar is a really good system. I use salt, white vinegar and lemon juice. It takes about 20 minutes also. I subbed to your channel. Thanks for sharing. ππββπ₯π₯
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Wow really amazing video!!! :D
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I appreciate your experiments and by watching your video Iβm going to try the same but will leave the wire in the bucket for one day then transfer it to a fresh solution to see if it helps. Wish me luck. Thanks for sharing π
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Fun experiment. Might be affordable if you buy up a bunch of vinegar when it's on sale and keep it in one of those plastic sealable drums so you could keep reusing it. Thanks for sharing and take care.
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Success. ish lol. Job well done. ππ»
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did you recover the copper that got dissolved in the vinegar solution?
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On the vinegar and salt do you need lemon juice in there pure lemon juice and all three of them make a nice little acid cleans it really good I clean Copper all the time and if you warm up to Copper and dip it in it if you have any burnt copper with any burnt parts on it that just falls off
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The salt and vinegar cleans it up pretty good. I would think that you could use electrolysis in the green solution to plate the wire to a bright new color π
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I need to get back at this.
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Nice!!
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Awsome video thanks later
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It should be working, ( the Vinegar ) you may have ti rinse it and shake it around in clear water to clean it up. The blue is actually copper dissolving into solution, The blue dusty wire was probably from the vinegar bath, the remaining acid on the wire caused it to continue oxidizing. Great experiment! The ketchup should actually work if you place it directly on the wire without water, but probably to costly to make it worth doing.
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HOLY COW. Rick gee without gloves on on video. Thatβs a firstπππππ. Yer scrap yard is really that picky with clean wire?? O and βrick gee sent meβ πππ
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when they mean dirty copper couldn't be only because of the dark color. did you show him the copper in the first stage and they said that it was dirty and will pay less?
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I think the green one was the vinegar and maybe you need to neutralize the acid with baking soda to stop corrosion is my thoughts
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Clean coppahπ
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Nice experiment. Good results and satisfactory payment. ππΎ awesome job Rick. With your ketchup aggregate Iβd maybe use smaller rocks. They would scrub better in small areas. But overall, awesome job. π thanks for sharing.
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you should put the wire in just Ketchup. it cleans it better.
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You better keep that index finger out of the vinegar!!π±βοΈ
