Dang Mark, all those loaded trailers and no truck to pull them!
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Dang Mark, all those loaded trailers and no truck to pull them!
Anytime Aph! If scrapdaddyj and idaho scrapper weren't so lazy, we would post a video on cutting them.
We cut them up while they are upright. With a plasma cutter, it is easy to run all the way around the shell without ever moving the compressor.
Thank you Patriot! Martin, I'm not sure what you mean by spill oil all over. There is a pan under the cutting table and the compressor doesn't get moved from the time that you set it on the table...
Hi Martin,
We cut them up with the oil in them. After the winding core is pulled, we dump out the oil in a bucket under the cutting table. The pan under the saw is to catch copper dust.
Rotary and scroll compressors need to be cut down the side to free up the winding. On piston compressors, the winding is held in by 4 bolts.
I use Ryobi 18v in the shop. With the 4ah battery in the sawzall, I can cut radiators for about an hour. The grinder lasts about half an hour.
What do you mean by compressor control modules? Do you mean inverter boards?
Do you buy refrigerator and freezer boards too?
The weight of the trailer is 1800 pounds and no, it doesn't have brakes.
Pewter is probably going to be a good source of tin. I think we had a member on here buying pewter a while back.
What part of Idaho are you located?
That's why I made a cheat sheet on which compressors have aluminum windings!
Where I live, I will get a 99.6% view of it from my back yard. They have been handing out free viewing glasses for it around here. I am looking forward to it!
The picture is a GE/Trane unit. There is no copper in the coil, just glued on copper stubs. They are pretty common.
I'll try this again. Now the contract is for all the appliances. I spent the day up here evacuating 100 refrigerators and getting their warehouse guy licensed to recover the refrigerant. This...
Brassbuster, you could always go this route.
https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/tls/6087989329.html
I get 50 cents a pound for 410, but I have to send 400 pounds of either R22 or R12 to get that. Those are some pretty big units to have that much 410 in them.
It really depends on what the refrigerant is. It can range from 0 to 17.00 a pound.
Don't worry Mark, I still have a list of things to bug you about!
There are a few of us in Idaho cutting up compressors.
Mark, I might just have to borrow that sometime! Did you ever replace the radiator in that GMC?
I did take it all in myself. My trailer holds 12 refrigerators and I shoot for 2 loads across the scales every day.
I set a goal of a million pounds this year, but I'm not going to make it. Right now I'm at 920,000 pounds and there's only two weeks left. I'm blaming my scrap yard though as they closed for 4 days...
I have given up on piercing pliers. I have spent a bunch of money on them over the years and have never been satified with them. I use the 3 screw piercing valves. I use a 3/8 drive hex bit on a...