So today my wife and I went out to Harbor Freight and picked up some tools that I have been wanting to purchase, one of those being a 4.5" grinder. I have had some transformers laying around that I have been dying to get into, not real large but big enough to be worth the effort to break down, with the right tools. So we get home and I go to work trying out the techniques I have learned from reading the posts on this forum. Specifically, cutting the copper windings and punching them out. This is something I would have never thought of prior to joining this forum, then again neither was getting into scrapping. In order to punch the copper out of the motor I used one of the many metal rods I have collected from printers that I have broken down. This too was a tip I learned from reading this forum, so to all of you posters out there I say thank you and I hope all SMF members have a happy and healthy new year.
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