Aluminum electrical wiring requires larger gauge sizes than copper to achieve the same electrical capacity—for example, 10-gauge aluminum wire is needed to safely carry 20 amps, whereas 12-gauge copper wire can handle the same load. This difference occurs because aluminum has higher electrical resistance than copper, necessitating a larger cross-sectional area to maintain equivalent current-carrying capacity.
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UNSEEN SATURDAY #recycle #recycling #metal #scrap #scraplife #aluminum #steel #copperAdded:
If it's might not be any I don't know sometimes. You know what I'm saying?
Depend on how strong you feel on that day.
>> Yeah. Yeah, I hear you. No, you're fine.
Hey, if it's a hundred bucks, it's 100 bucks more than what you had.
>> Oh, for sure.
>> And it's And I freaking finally went through that damn van and clean all this [ __ ] I had a bunch of [ __ ] scrap wire stuck underneath [ __ ] So, I went through the van and cleaned it out and got all my damn strap wire to where I could actually get to it.
>> Hey, look. There's there's 20 12t.
>> We'll just put that in that one.
You didn't want to strip that stuff, huh?
>> [ __ ] dude. I didn't want to I spent like two and a half hours.
>> Well, hey, 200 bucks.
>> I know.
>> That's worth it.
>> Well, it's it's a pain in the ass to strip all this.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Some people are just like, "Oh, they strip everything all tangled up and it's all tangled up and shit." That's the worst part. And this goes.
>> What's this called?
>> That's called MC.
>> MC cable. Okay.
>> Yeah.
Stands for metal flat. It's aluminum sheeting on the outside with copper wire on the inside.
>> 287 bucks. You'll make sure you >> have you seen uh that they're starting to build homes with aluminum wire now.
>> It's well copper clad aluminum.
>> Yeah.
>> And I I think that's a disaster.
>> I know >> cuz your first surge of power is just going to fry it.
>> Yeah. There's a there's a period of like the late60s everything used to be copper.
>> Yeah.
>> And then there every time there's a war >> there's a copper a scarce copper you know scarce of copper goes to aluminum.
Yeah.
>> wired a lot of houses from like mid60s to like 74 >> with aluminum.
>> Aluminum. Yeah.
>> That's so bad.
>> And the thing with aluminum is is like 12 gauge wire. Yeah.
>> But copper is good for 20 amps.
>> Okay.
>> You have to use 10 gauge aluminum >> to get the 20 amps goes up. Yeah. The size goes up.
>> I I've even seen that this morning a kid brought in your main feed into your house.
>> Yeah.
>> That was aluminum.
>> Yeah. That usually that usually is >> okay.
>> But what I try to always do is cuz like the utility company always ties to the top.
>> Y >> like I'll bring aluminum down but it's it's called X HHW into the meter. Okay. From there I try to do everything.
>> Copper. Yeah.
>> Yep.
>> Cuz that's easily easily replaceable.
>> Yep. Well, thank you that way.
Yeah.
Heat.
Pretty sure that's aluminum. Heat.
Heat.
I think it's good. Good.
Oh, this one this one has enough >> not enough.
Let me see.
>> I don't have it. If they had it right up here, >> maybe. Yeah.
Grab the whole basket.
Grab the whole basket.
Hey, I got four of those. And then that little one. That's other two, right?
>> Yeah. One and a half.
>> Two and a half. Yep.
Heat. Heat.
in the back.
You're good.
Oh, hold on.
These feel like metal. It is aluminum.
>> Yeah, these are those are metal.
>> The metal.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, it is aluminum.
>> We got to get the This is probably This cast, right?
>> What?
>> That's cast.
>> Ironing.
>> Heavy ironing. Remember those were steel?
>> Yeah.
I know this is uh for right >> a form. Yes.
>> Form.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hey, you want to grab the door?
>> Yeah.
>> And put the And then put this over there.
This is going to go in here.
>> This is just straight metal.
>> No, it's aluminum. It's just too >> I don't know. Might be.
>> It might Sometimes it's metal, right?
>> No, that one's aluminum.
>> Okay. Hold this [ __ ] over here.
I want this for $1,000.
My baby I love this thing, man. Best friend.
It had this from the meat market when I used to work be a butcher.
>> Yeah.
>> I used to be a butcher.
>> Yeah, I know.
>> The meat market.
>> Yeah.
>> That's from the that chair. That's how I found out it was aluminum. Like >> out there in Mim.
>> Out there in Mims.
>> Huh?
>> Out there in M.
>> Yeah. Yeah. 46.
>> Yeah.
>> I'm 46. Yeah.
This is something always Dirty brass. Yeah, this is a stainless.
>> No, no. Right. And hit this >> just right there on the back.
>> Now take it away. Now you want to do your wire.
97.
>> No vet ci.
>> Okay.
>> Hey, >> see you later.
>> Yep. You have a good one.
>> We got to try and get this out of here.
It's out of here. We've got to get this piece of galvanized goes all the way heck down in here.
What? No, I'm talking to them.
>> I know who you're talking to.
>> He's like, I know who you're talking to.
You're talking to yourself. Well, I mean, you kind of have to explain a little bit what's going on. We're just looking at a big piece of aluminum.
>> This is actually a meteorite.
>> It's a meteorite.
>> We found this in a field.
>> I think it bounced off of the swamp gas of Venus.
>> Yeah. And Pluto. And it was a weather balloon.
>> Yes. Was that that from Men in Black like the first one?
>> That's right.
>> That's right. That's right. So, I don't know. How far do you think we should go in here?
All the way.
How deep should we go?
I was just about to say, should I spit on it first?
If you guys only knew the stuff that we said to each other here, it is Yeah.
Something like that. Something like that. Let's see.
Please don't tell me that goes all um How far does that go?
Look at that. That's a steel bar.
Holy crap.
I don't know how I'm going to get that out of there.
There's a whole corner. There's like a Hey, can you dump my heavy irony? It's full.
like right by your mailer like the back corner you'll see it's full.
Oh my god, look at that. We're going to have to take off like this whole this whole corner is going to have to come off that if you want to ship to the smelter this stuff has to be clean. So they allow 10% is what the boss said I guess. So it's got to be 90% clean.
But aluminum sucks to cut. Not cut, but melt through, splatters back at you. And at least with steel, you can uh aim the spark where you want them to go. But with this negative negatory to go like this, I wouldn't say this is micro crafting.
This is major crappy.
It's the other one that's that's the big the big issue when you think you're a boy and you're not.
Hey, you want to check that for me?
>> That's aluminum.
>> Huh?
>> That's aluminum. See how it's cast?
>> How do you know they didn't do a crappy job with the >> I'll bet you a Gatorade.
>> Okay, >> it's more than likely pot metal, not aluminum, but aluminum in color.
Yep.
I'd like a red, please.
>> If you like if if you see that casting you see the casting mark, you know it's not brass cuz the br the brass would be smooth.
Look at you.
Always thought those were so neat.
>> Huh?
>> Oh, that for coffee.
>> Yeah. Put that in the truck. We'll use it for when we go camping.
>> Spiders.
>> There's spiders in it.
>> I need snips to cut the motor off.
>> Catch snips, Jesse.
Woo.
>> That goes. Yeah, that'll go.
>> You might need this Jesse in one day.
Do you like these bins?
>> Yeah, but I need to pull them out so I can get everything on the bottom clear.
>> Oh, that's >> See if there's any light in that bin behind you.
>> This one?
>> Yeah.
Hey Mike, I know you got >> heavy.
Well, since we didn't get Nacho today, we got Jacob.
Right.
>> Matt, didn't he come in today?
>> No, his son's at uh state weightlifting champion in Lakeland. So So he's like He wasn't What? Are you going to break those down?
>> Yeah, they got copper in them.
>> Don't throw it. It's full.
>> You see? Yeah.
>> Well, we hold on motors cuz I think I'm going to trade you something.
>> That's a motor.
>> Yeah. Motors in there, but don't put them in the system. I want to see how much they weigh.
>> Why?
>> Because I may grab >> I don't want that. That's not heavy.
>> Heavy the way they are.
>> No, you got to get the sec. You got to get the batteries out.
>> I never rode one of those.
>> I rode anything in your garage.
>> Is that all the light? Huh? All right.
We're on 58 and four.
>> Go.
>> Would that pressure wash heavy?
>> Yeah. I was if you're able to get up there.
You don't get pick up this stuff.
I don't want I I want to stay away from Jacob in a bin.
>> That was well >> bad throw.
>> Not a bad throw.
>> No. Negative.
>> Is this on >> the truck?
I don't think so.
>> That might be my fan.
>> What else we got, sir?
>> Okay.
trying to take one of the pins that hold the magnet on there.
>> That's in the furthest.
Hey, if it doesn't if it hits the ground is mine, right?
He's like, I don't heard that before.
>> I've said that before.
That it for extrusion.
And I'm going to call it that because I'm not going to make you guys wait to see what he is going to do. If you if you want to go to his page and and watch it at scrap
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