Here is the weight of the copper and metal together. Now you have to cut off one side of the copper looped wire with either a metal cut of disk or sawsall.
Here you can see the end when its been cut off. Now use a punch and hammer and push the strands threw the motor housing or pry them out threw the other side. I pryed this one out using a screw driver and channel locks.
Here is all the copper removed from the housing. Total weight of copper is 3.5 pounds the metal popcorn tin the copper is in weighed 1.1 pounds.
So it started out at 27.8 LBS at $.41/lb = $11.40
Broke down we had 3.5 lbs of copper at $3.50/lb = $12.25
.25 lbs of cast alliminum at $.52 = $.13
24 lbs of steel at $.10/lbs = $2.40
Total after tear down is $14.78 for a difference of $3.38
Now this motor took me about an hour to tear down because I was taking pictures. This one really was a pain in the but to get the copper out because I didnt have a small enuff punch to just punch the copper out so I had to pry it out with screw driver and channel locks. So all though there wasnt much money gained from it I hope this will help the rest of you on how to tear a motor apart for the copper.
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