Electrical Steel

[IdahoScrapper]

Electrical steel is the core part (brick looking thing) of an electric motor.

Does this get a different price at the scrap yards? Or does it go as regular steel/iron? I asked the guy at my yard and he thought it goes as regular, but I also contend he's a moron.

"Electrical steel, also called lamination steel, silicon electrical steel, silicon steel or transformer steel, is specialty steel tailored to produce certain magnetic properties, such as a small hysteresis area (small energy dissipation per cycle, or low core loss) and high permeability."



Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_steel

[TJMETALRECYCLERS]

Unless you are selling it back to someone in that field, I would imagine that MOST scrap yards are only going to give you "steel prices".

[wayne1956]

Good question. It would be nice if a yard paid more for them, since I cut open compressors and remove the windings, I get quite a few of the "laminated steel" bricks. At this time I just throw them in with the rest of the steel.