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    Second use of bolt cutters

    So I had a 5 gal bucket of transformer plugs and my yard will buy them this way but at a low grade board price. I hated smashing them with a hammer to crack them open to get the transformer out toi get nearly 3 times the low grad price. I happen to have been cleaning things up in the garage and moved my large bolt cutters and the idea just hit me to give this a shot and it made quick work of cracking the shells on these to get the transformers out.



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    Good idea.
    I took a picture of some that I have today. I was going to send the pics to my buyer for pricing.

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    I guess I'm just lucky. I leave them on the cords and they go with my #2 insulated. $0.65 per pound in December.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mthomasdev View Post
    I guess I'm just lucky. I leave them on the cords and they go with my #2 insulated. $0.65 per pound in December.
    That would be nice. My yard will buy my cords with regular plugs left on but not these transformer style.

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    Thanks for that video!!! Will save me a lot of smashing aggravation...lol

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    Good idea. I used to smash them open, but lately as elect motor price has dropped it made more cents for me to sell as is.

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    The price of transformers dropped so much i was throwing the small ones in with my shred. They're back up to 25 cents a pound now so I'm saving them again.

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    My yard has a category called "plug ends"...it currently pays .10c a pound. These go in that. Back when motors were higher I'd crack them open, but it's the same price for either so I don't waste time. Right now dirty motors are .05 a pound and shredder is .06, so dirty motors go as shredder...

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