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We did a hospitals chillers this week and had a competition on who could guess
The weight of the copper inside the chillers barrels, these barrels are from
175 Ton Air Cooled Chillers having done these before I had a good idea on the copper weight,
Let's see how close you can get to the total copper weight from these two chiller barrels,
It's good knowledge to have for old timers and also the newbies. Good luck I will put the answer up
After 25 responses 1956.
1750#
200 lbs?
350 lbs?
345.5743826 lbs :)
You beat me by a minute Red! Haha
I'm going with 1 pound, Bob!
1 POUND might be a good guess lol
after a quick google search I'll stick with my 200lb guess
Google is way off on this
880lbs
752#
I say 645# What does the winner get?
Those look to be accumulators from a York chiller, correct?
I've only done stainless ones, but I'll guess 971 lbs.
3.25 pounds of copper. LOTS of other good stuff!
Yes they were York chillers
The winner gets to know he or she is very good at bidding a job like that in the future,
just for the record I payed $1,000.00
Each for these. And made a good pay day out of them
Refrigerant free?
The accumulators were sold to me by them selfs, the freon runs thru the coils and piping of the system not this part of the system.
We just cut the unit open with a plasma torch like a can of tuna, and then cut the copper lines into foot long lengths let them cool of and pull the copper out.
half ton
Sorry KZ but I'm dirty 1751Quote:
Originally Posted by KzScrapper
I was starting to get worried with all those low numbers coming in...at least now I know I will have company when he throws the anchor.Quote:
Originally Posted by corycouch
I'm going for broke and saying 2100 lbs.
Just because I'm totally clueless and that's about half of the gross weight of my puny S10.
1450
777 pounds
Not very knowledgeable, but nothing a good old magnet can't handle.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1956
Spare Time Scraper was the closest, we recovered 1472 Lbs of number two Copper, and 3600 lbs steel.
I hope it helped some one get some knowledge he/she will be able to use.
It did me. Thanks 56.
Just proof, you learn something new every day here if you try.
Sirscrapalot - The proof is in the pudding!
I saw the thread when you posted it.. but didn't want to ruin 1 guess with "no clue" I pondered it.. milled it over.. and STILL couldn't come up with a number that would even be logical. Thanks 1956 for posting. Good to know in case I EVER have a crack at one of these things!
Thats a nice job Id like to see what the copper looks like