Originally Posted by
mike1
Right the steel pipe cutter thing is like 800$. That's crazy. Anyone do window ac units that have a big fan motor with 3 rivet things on it ? What would be the best way to do those?. A drill bit?.
I'm looking on
ebay right now. The 6" to 8" pipe cutters are about $ 300.00 new and $ 200.00 used. You take some of the money you make from scrapping and re-invest it back into the business by purchasing tools and equipment that help you work more productively. It's true what they say .... you have to spend money to make money.
There's another way of looking at it too. You might say to yourself .... gee .... i saw on the video that there's this man over there in Pakistan that's set up to do the job a whole lot better than i can. Maybe i will just sell my sealed unit at the scrap yard and farm the work out to him. It makes more sense for him to do that kind of work than for me to do that kind of work. That will free me up do do something more profitable than struggling with the sealed units.
Basically .... i'm just trying to say that you have different options. You just have to decide what approach works best for your own particular situation.
I usually use my angle grinder on rivets and screw heads that have stripped. Gt's hammer and hatchet sounds like another good way to do the job. I've recently started using a meat clever to split stators apart.
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