Originally Posted by
Catfish Bob
I have taken several dishwashers that are mostly plastic to the scrap yard and they have never turned them down. I always take the motor off and pull the wiring out. Sometimes their will be a small piece of brass for the inlet pipe.
My buddy owns a appliance repair shop and we took a 18ft dual axle landscaping trailer loaded down with about 25 dishwashers. All but a few were all plastic tubs, still got full price for the load. Not a word said.
Nothing was said because the plastic has value when sold in volume, the large car shredders with two 3500 hp motors do more much more than shred, everything that goes through it is separated into the proper class of material for resale, plastic, oil, antifreeze, upholstery, aluminum, coper from rads and wiring cast iron and so forth.
Each have their own specific gravity, some are magnetic while others not, if you ever get a chance to tour the inside of a shredder don't pass it up.
Regards
Gustavus
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