Originally Posted by
Dbone
My job asked me if I knew anyone who would take all of these old light fixtures from the 70's and 80's so I said I was interested. I am not sure what I am getting myself into, but up for the challenge. I searched through the forum and found 2 other similar posts, but they were a bit different and I signed up to the site to get some pointers from you pros. I plan on bringing home around 20 at a time, disassembling them, and separating the metals. Does anyone have experience with these? Maybe 30 of them have a glass layer under the aluminum reflector, so I will have to deal with that. I have never scrapped anything in my life and if someone could give me some pointers to help out, it would be much appreciated.<br><br>I can not upload photos, likely because I'm new, but here are two pics from my google photos.
Edit: Apparently I can not post links either. Not sure how to show you all what I have?
Upload a photo to imgur.com and just post in the link
Transformers you have 2 options, scrap whole ($0.08/lb) by me, or get a cutoff wheel so you can cut them in half and get the copper out and then sell the copper ($2/lb by me) and the steel carcass of the transformer ($0.04/lb by me as light iron.
Since you probably won't be making this a frequent thing I would just take the transformers, as many as you can at a time, and drive em straight to the scrap yard. Ask what they pay for them. Yards by me put them in the same category as electric motors... I've heard of some yards having their own transformer category/price... And some crappy yards will just pay shred/light iron price for them.
The lights, take apart, take out the aluminum, any cords/wires, and anything else that is easy to get off/out that is different than just normal steel. I would then throw the rest (glass and all) into my shred pile and my yard would take the carcass, glass included, and pay light iron price on the whole thing. Key is making sure the glass does not break and is still attached/inside.
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