Quote Originally Posted by happyscraper View Post
If you take it apart and sell the componets seperate then you don't need to go through all that.
that is funny, because the scrapyard i go to here in georgia, seems to say the opposite. If i bring a "whole unit" to the non ferrous side they will take it. but when i start trying to maximize my money and take out the copper fin and motor, they say i have have a license , etc. . THEY WILL TAKE the elbows from the fins, but not the copper pipes because the had lines, and could tell they came out of air conditioner. i find it a little hypocritical, but whatever. I still have a larger window unit, and the guts of a an outside home unit sitting in garage from last summer. (i took it apart and took just the steel ) I have been to mix in some of the copper tubes, from a window unit into my regular copper scrap. Wish it was easier to melt down copper, or put it through something like a wood chipper lol.