Quote Originally Posted by jghilino View Post
I always completely tear down my electric motors. The yards screw you by paying 50 cents a pound for them. Even if you only get 1 pound of copper out of a 5 pound motor your still better off. Dont forget the rotors usually have either copper or aluminum on them. Worst case your looking at dirty aluminum for the rotor.

Yes put it in a vise. Use a metabo 6" angle grinder. The thing that really slowed you down was getting the copper out of the steel. For that use a punch and a hammer. A chop saw would speed up the process even more. Im thinking 3 min to remove the ends/rotor and 2 min to remove the copper from the steel. So 5min total.



watch this video from 2min-4min


wow. 50 cents per pound for electric motors? i called today they said 25 cents a pound for copper electric motors and i think 11 cents a pound for aluminum. is that how much its dropped since the original post?