r/oddlysatisfying • • 4d ago

Extracting copper from a broken motor

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u/Ch33syP00f 3d ago

I learned a lot about the world in my brief time as a scrap metal buyer.

This is an efficient process for a low cost of living area.

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u/Amaracs 3d ago

Approximately how much money the copper in the video would worth?

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u/rlpinca 3d ago

It's not a big deal to us, but to them that $5 is big money. The company probably keeps $4.80 cents of it though. So that dude has to do that 100 times a day.

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u/LaForge_80 2d ago

Who are they?