Window ac units

Originally Posted by hills

I can see how it would take awhile to break down 28 window air conditioners. Breaking down 80 + will keep your hands busy for awhile.

It's hard to say on the truck. It used to be that we called in the freon recovery company once we had accumulated 50 Freon units. They would be a mix of freezers, fridges, window AC's, and dehumidifiers. They would come down and haul it all off to their shop.

After awhile ... they figured out that it was a whole lot less time & trouble to send out a freon technician with a van full of equipment and remove the freon on-site.

It made quite a bit of extra work for me. Now ... i do the prep for their arrival and deal with the scrap metal after they are done.

I try to look on the bright side. All the extra work that got piled on my shoulders makes it so i have to put in overtime to get the job done. Cha-Ching !



That's where the real money in scrapping gets made.

Yea I did a quick count of the ones I couldn't see in the trailer stacked 5 high looks like 160 acs haha.

Whoo boy .... that's an awful lot like work Mike. I wish you the best of luck with it. You might make some money with that many rads & compressors.There's probably a bit in steel and electric fan motors too.

I know right haha. The rads are easy enough to pull out I did 10 at the work place on friday

Compressors after copper extraction is going to be 3,306lbs I have 6 central ac compressors to. 960 lbs of clean rads if they weigh 6lbs per ac, fan motors 166lbs of fan motor copper can't remember if the small fan motors were a lb or the two tiny motors since some have either one big motor or two small fan motors never figured out why. Either way it's going to be a lot probably close to 3k depending on price when I get them all done haha. I thought 28 took a while haha. 166lbs of loops I'm figuring 1 lb of loops per ac I might fill up a 5 gal bucket with loops haha.

Originally Posted by alloy2

According to Freon Joes proven numbers you're looking at less than 400 pounds of copper.

Ahh well ... we're all getting older and times do change. You kinda have to roll with it and adapt accordingly.

Joe's last post was in late 2018. The last time he logged in was 2020. You just don't know. Covid or something else might have gotten him. A lot of us have fallen by the wayside over the years.

I suppose the point of it all is that things have changed quite a bit over the last 4 - 6 years. Joe's numbers were probably based on copper wound compressors. He probably didn't get all that many aluminum wound clunkers back then. Nowadays ... the clunkers are far more common.

The copper yields would probably be even lower than what Joe's numbers indicated now that we are here in late 2024.

Don't mean to be the Debbie Downer it's just that you have to be practical minded and keep it real when you are scrapping. Sometimes the world around you changes. A thing that might have been worth doing years ago might not be worth doing today. I hate to see people needlessly chasing their tail in hopes of making a few bucks and a better life only to come up with the dirty end of the stick.