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    Scraping A/C's is one of the most high profit items a scraper should look for,its funny to me how different regions in the country respond to the scraping of a/c's.Being in South Florida where a/c;s are on 10 months we see plenty of them ,the values of a/c units depend on the size and unit ton of each system.The avg centeral a c system for a house is a four ton unit.It does not weigh four tons four tons is the size of the system,We are epa certified to recover freeon not hard to get certified they have online courses for that ok first we recover the gas from the system i will get about 8 lbs out of this system we are reselling the freeon for 7 dollars a pound=56.00 the motor with the fan weighs12-15 lbs @.35 a pond=5.00 the compressor or sealed unit weighs 70 pounds@.32=22.00the copper lines weigh 6 lbs @ 2.90 #2 copper 17.50the copper aluminum coil weighs 35 lbs@1.50=52.00 the wire #2 2 lbs @ 1.00 = 2.00 the tin/shread 100 lbs@ .09=9.00 so roughly $163.00 these prices are for 6/1/2013 today we pay for these units ten dollars a unit ton so thats 40.00 so when scrap out you will make 120.00 profit this is a rough estamate but its pretty close to the true value.the air handler that goes with this system will scrap out at roughly 70.00 so go get those a/c's


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