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    Pool pump thefts

    Look at these winners! Tucson police link trio to pool pump thefts



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    I would have to say they are the winners alright, all expenses paid in the gray bar hotel, lol, but on serious tone, those idiots really make it hard for people who are legit or try or are making a living doing scrap metal.

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    I still have not found out if they were taking just the brass pumps or motors and stainless steel covers (when you can find them)

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    nice...you work your arse off to have a pool for your family. Then these 3 pieces of $%#@ come and ruin it for ya! Can some one tell me how much a scrapped pool pump is worth please. I,m sure it could not have been worth all the misery these %$#@tards caused their victims.

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    It's great they caught them, and I hope they will be punished to the full extent of the law, but did you read the last line in the article?
    Most places I have any knowledge of won't even make a police report on any crime under $5-10K! and even then not in person, you need either do it through an automated phone call, in person at the station, or online. But.... in Tuscon they are advertising in a well published news article to call 911 to file a police report about your stolen pool pump! Wasn't 911 intended for only life or death situations? and how many life or death calls will be left "on hold" while these pool pump theft reports are being filed??

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    We have an 88 crime number people should use that before 911!

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    Youvare looking at $5.00-10.00 in scrap value if you take them in whole. You will not find many brass ones left in service now days most of them have been replaced. You are looking at a cost of $700-1,100 for replacement of one tho.
    We buy electronic scrap, Gold Karat scrap, gold filled, refined gold, silver and many other item's.

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    pool pumps at NAMCO are 250 to 350 in price . I researched because I had a chance at a used pool with no pump but passed . an entire 18' pool cost under a 1000 right now!
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    I have a 24 x4foot above ground pool and I replaced my pump with a Hayward 1 horse for 170$.Stripped old one and there wasn't more than 2 pounds of copper.Have stripped several 4 horse jacuzzi pumps and they would yield just under 4 pounds of copper.I have found that around 25% of the pool motors I get have alm. windings.(out of a 100 motors)

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