Motors?

As far as the motors go, I just take grinder and slice the outer casing and then the windings on 1 side. I have a screw driver that I cut back a bit so that the tip was thicker and I punch it through each channel where the wire runs and it comes out fairly quick.

This was compliments of TJLOCK from the forum, just had to dig for it,,,

And this is compliments of injunjoe

Motors, Worth the effort?

I just stripped a condenser motor, (fan motor for outside ac unit).
Starting weight was 12 pounds. At my yard they give $0.20 a pound.
After about ten minutes I ended up with 2.25 pounds of #2 copper, thus leaving 9.75 pounds in steel scrap.



Motor as is would be worth $2.40
Cleaned the copper comes out to $7.31 at current yard prices.
Left over steel is worth $0.98
So in about ten minutes I now have $8.29 in total scrap worth.
That comes out to 5.89 profit for cleaning the motor.
So in an hour I will have made $35.34, not bad for standing in my work shop having coffee.