Originally Posted by
vamped400
can you just bring the compressors back as electric motors...?
Yes they can be sold whole but my yard gives you $3.00 each for the big ones and $1.50 for the small compressors, (window unit size)
Now if you take a compressor that weighs 80 pounds and cut it open you get about 4 or 5 pounds of #2 copper.
When you are finished removing the copper you are left with 75 pounds of steel scrap. That comes out to $6.75 in steel @ $0.09 a pound. If you add up the steel $6.75 and add the copper say about $13.00 to $18.00 one can easily
see why it's worth the effort.
When you take those figures for one compressor and multiply it by 15 or 20 you are talking some good money.
With a cutting torch I can clean 20 in just a few hours!
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