Cutting some transformers today

You should watch out overloading that trailer like that. Is tying down a tractor with string legal?



Also, I go through a lot of microwaves...even the really old ones have had aluminum in the transformers. Either all aluminum or half and half.

Originally Posted by ryanw

You should watch out overloading that trailer like that. Is tying down a tractor with string legal?

Also, I go through a lot of microwaves...even the really old ones have had aluminum in the transformers. Either all aluminum or half and half.

Thanks. That answered a question I was trying to figure out. I cut seven or so transformers today. Making it like an assembly line - cut one side of them all - sort by type and pound them all out another day. And there's more transformers in that cabin to process. About half were all copper and half all aluminum with this one being half-and-half. I had a few air coolers and portable air conditioners, too. So the all aluminum must have been the microwaves, the all copper were the coolers and this one a high-end microwave. Not that it really matters. They all wind up the same; either the copper pile or the aluminum pile, the electrical wire barrel and the rest goes on the Light Iron pile. No matter what they were in "life", they're equal in the recycle world.