What was your record number of appliances in a week?

What was your record number of appliances done in a week (including microwaves, dishwashers, refrigerators) and what was the newest appliance you've gotten as scrap? I figured this would be an interesting thread to start for those part-time and full-time scrappers that get a lot of appliances.


A few months ago I had a very busy week for my small operation. In the stretch of 3 days I accumulated and scrapped 32 dishwashers and 10 microwaves. For me, this meant testing and parting out each of the appliances to sell the usable parts. One of my local suppliers typically gets several newer dishwashers each week. Up until last night the newest dishwasher I got was from 2017. However, last night I got a samsung dishwasher with a board that I had never seen before (I have done over 150 dishwashers since I started less than a year ago). The manufacturing date on the dishwasher was 02.2018. I was absolutely stunned. Why would someone get rid of a dishwasher that is less than 6 months old?!

I never kept track for a week, but i have had 3 dishwashers in one day, 3 washing machines in one day, one house had a washer, 2 dryers and a waterheater

Originally Posted by auminer

Curious: what do you scrap in a dishwasher? My yard won't take them whole, and it seems every motor I find is wound with copper-coated-aluminum. The only thing I can do with a DW is take the copper line off if it wasn't hooked up with a braided hose, which seems to be the new standard.

Everything but the plastic tub. Most of the motors are copper but if alum, it goes as a motor. I strip the copper ones.Some may have a small red colored copper transformer. Brass water connection, lots of #2 wire behind the door. The door can be steel, alum, and sometimes stainless. Stainless water sprayer spinning thing on the bottom along with the small tabs to hold down the heating element. Also a steel band around it with the washing racks.

Yes, i do alot of these.

Originally Posted by auminer

Curious: what do you scrap in a dishwasher? My yard won't take them whole, and it seems every motor I find is wound with copper-coated-aluminum. The only thing I can do with a DW is take the copper line off if it wasn't hooked up with a braided hose, which seems to be the new standard.

There is one yard locally that takes the plastic tub dishwashers ($65-70/ton). I am in the reselling business so I find that there is more money to be made parting them out for resale than scrapping them.

I've avoided a lot of appliances in a week does that count?

I hate washers, dryers an dish washers.

Grr.



Always end up with an annoying cut on my hand.

Curse you appliances!

(I like fridges though)

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32 in a day from an apartment complex renovation. They were listed on Craigslist. Got lucky as it was a rainy day and apparently I was the only scrapper out working. It was also a "first come first served" ad so that keeps a lot of people from showing up but I was right around the corner.

I would say my best was the 22 AC compressors that I got in a week from work due to compressor replacements. It was great money at $0.13 a lbs a few years back.