Quote Originally Posted by alloy2 View Post
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.