Refrigerator Compressor Break Down!

**nikaoman** · 09-29-2011, 02:01 PM

one hour to break them down gives you a copper winding, coated and glued in a steel casing of sheet metal, which needs to be burned, and then cut from it's casing.
still worth the work to get #1 copper. other wise you only get around 0.60 cents a lb.

**injunjoe** · 09-30-2011, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by nikaoman

one hour to break them down gives you a copper winding, coated and glued in a steel casing of sheet metal, which needs to be burned, and then cut from it's casing.
still worth the work to get #1 copper. other wise you only get around 0.60 cents a lb.

One hour seems to be a very long time! The copper is #2 and $0.60 for the motor must have been a while back. I don't know the current prices but I'm not selling my stash till things turn around, be it a month or a year.