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Hey guys. We're gonna take apart a TV because I have 3 of them that I need to take apart
and they are all huge. Let's get inside this TV. Screws are undone. Let's play that Zelda
chest opening music again. There's a breadboard up here. There's a breadboard down here. There's
the screen. There's this wire that goes around the entire TV which has copper in it, and
there's a bunch of other wires in here that you can scrap. Also there's some aluminum
stuff on there too, which I'll show y'all in just a minute. And then there's also this.
I think this is called, I've heard it been called the yolk, but it's got a bunch of copper
around it. These screws right here, these nails, screws, whatever right here are all
aluminum so you can get that. First thing you need to do it to take this off; just pull
it up. Just kind of comes off and sticks into there. Try not to break this. If you do break
it there like a, I don't know if a TV is pressurized or if there's a gas in there or what, but
if you crack it it makes like a pffffffffft, like a release of gas sound. So once you get
this off, start chopping off and pulling off all the wires like this right here. This one
right here is gonna come off. To where we can just do like that. This breadboard is
ready to go to the scrap yard, just like that. Got a lot of wire taken out of there. Good
chunk there. I haven't gotten this big on off yet. There's ... uh... it's kind of going
around the whole thing. Here's this ... this right here. You'll find this on your TV screen
usually draped across it somehow. This is aluminum right here, so you can put that with
some aluminum. Now to get this off you're gonna have those 2 aluminum screws, usually
one up top here. This juste slides right on up. That's aluminum, and then all this cr...
ohh... that all just came off as one. OK. Usually there's another screw on there. This
one only has one. But now basically you have to take a hammer to this to get all of that
copper off of there. I've got about 10 of those that I need to smash up. We can get
off our breadboard here. These usually just slide right up. Now taking a look at a breadboard
on a TV screen, you're going to find lots of little copper motors like this one right
here. There's probably copper underneath this. Aluminum, aluminum, aluminum. I see a couple
of wires, some small wiring here and there. There's usually a few more copper things.
See there's a copper spool way down in there. There's this one right here which is already
broken, so it's just a matter of clipping that off. So that's pretty much it, and then
you can scrap the whole breadboard. Ohh... this little thing right here is aluminum it
holds on this. I don't know what this is, but usually that's aluminum right there. But
that's the scrap of a TV. After you get this wire off ... uhh... there's a speaker you
can sell... I sell that with my steel. There's also some copper wire in there if you want
to take the time to get it out. It's not much. So whenever I go and put these into the trash
can, I usually have one or two or three of the TVs and I just kind of drop them in there,
and usually they break. So I've seen what's underneath this, and there's basically like
a big panel of metal right here. It's very very thin, not really worth that much, so
I wouldn't even bother taking that out because you'll have a more likely chance of hurting
yourself with all of the sharp objects, uhh, the sharp glass. And the metal, like I said,
is super thin, so it's really not worth it. Alright guys, I found this nut driver in my
new tool kit that my in-laws got me for Christmas. Fun fact about me, I used to sell tools. I
used to sell hardware, I worked in the hardware department at Sears. Alright guys, let's bring
this tube out and I'll throw it into the trash can so make you guys can hear the gas being
released from it. Let's see if I can do this one handed. Ready? Set. (sound of gas being
released). It barely broke, but that's the noise. You guys hang out right here? Can y'all
do that? No. Here we go. Hopefully y'all don't fall in. There you go. Come here guys. Let's
try it again. I'm gonna do screen down. There you go. (Laughter). Well didn't hear the gas
or the pressure, but there's your cut. Little stem thing fell off. Smashing TVs with LaneVids.
(Laughter). Y'all wanna do this breadboard with me? Show y'all a few things. First of
all, let's get this nice piece of aluminum here. Most of them have some screws in them,
so you gotta take the screws out. One thing, too, about working with breadboards, you probably
want to wear some gloves. I should probably go get might right now. Usually I cut myself
whenever I am working on breadboards. Then, kind of push up and see how it unstuck from
that. These usually do the trick, just kind of pops right up. Just like that. Nice chunk
of aluminum. Small one right here. Smaller ones are a lot easier to take off usually.
Like that. Aluminum. That probably has copper in it. That's just a little nub that fell
off. Basically it's like a tape that's on here. Boom-shacka-lacka. Copper. So there's
this too. You can usually tell the shape of things that have copper in it. They kind of
have this hourglass figure to it. See there's a lip on the top and a lip on the bottom.
As opposed to something like this, which, I don't know what these are, but they are
all over beard boards, but it's like, just ... it only has a little lip on the bottom;
there's no lip on the top. So, copper bearing, not copper bearing. This right here, put your
pliers in, wiggle it back and forth, you're gonna break your board. See this is whenever
I need gloves. Ohh, this thing. This just has a little bit of copper. Not much. Ohh
look, there's some copper right there. I didn't even see that. Spool of copper. That should
be fairly easy to get off. Small little wires. One there. Wire here. Wire there. Ohh look
this copper spool here needs to come up. Rip it out. There you go. Ahh... this right here.
These. These are always good because they're real easy to get the copper off of. You can
take off this piece that goes right there with a hammer and then you stick a screwdriver
in there because there's a hole that goes through there and then you just pull and it
just rolls right off. I've got a couple pieces of aluminum right here that we can get off.
Come on. See this is where I need gloves. See all this stuff down here? Can y'all see
that? Those are sharp; they kind of hurt. Solder. So I'm gonna go get some gloves before
I finish out that piece. You might think that it's not worth the time to take this apart;
I guess you have to judge, you know, the value of your time of course, but whenever you're
trying to get out of debt, I'm using everything that I can do to pay off some debt. We'll
do that one later too. Ohh yeah we got our little aluminum nugget here. RAWR! I think
that's about it on this thing. Do y'all see anything else? I don't see any more copper
or aluminum on there. This is steel right here if y'all are wondering why I'm not taking
that off. You kind of learn these things as you go. If you wanna undo that there's not
really much in there. I'm noticing on this one particular it says Sony on it and the
ones that say Song on them seem to have copper. See that says "Sony" on it. This thing over
here said "Sony" on it. This video is not sponsored by Sony, although that would be
nice! I'm sure they would love me just smashing apart their stuff, right? I believe that is
all the copper. That's it. That's a TV. Make sure to keep these. These were around the
TV. Got those off. This is the only wire that I strip, the wires that are around the screens
on the back. Cause this is just a very thin later of tape, I guess this is, and it's full
of copper. And on bigger TVs and computer monitors, this wire is a lot thicker. It could
be probably that big around. Definitely worth it. Down at the scrap yard, LA Scrap. Bring
your iron, steel, copper and aluminum. Weeee Hooo.... There's not a lot of people here
too, which is awesome. That means hopefully we will get in and out pretty quickly. (beep)
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