Quote Originally Posted by brandon
Before i break a motor down i always try to get a strand of wire loose long enough to twist, if its copper coated ali the copper will flake off leaving the bare ali, if its ali it goes in the motor bucket
I will be doing this in the future, cheers



Quote Originally Posted by Mick
Yes, I've found that most appliances have copper-coated aluminum winding. When I started scrapping, I was unwinding wire from motors, alternators and anything else; then throwing them all together.
This is just what i had planned to do.
Oh well im going to have to rethink things for the rest of the stuff that was given to me and hopefully recoup some copper through them.
Ive started on the motors from the Lawnmowers and they are copper!
Cheers mate.