A good couple of days

**parrothead** · 02-12-2011, 04:59 PM

I was at work yesterday and the maintenence manager was on a kick to get rid of stuff that had been laying around forever. He was really glad to find out that I scrap.

2 air conditioner/heaters (think hotel room type, I work at a nursing home), 2 TVs, a chainsaw, a steel bed table and a pile of aluminum walkers that all had one problem or another with them. And then there was a whole mess of hospital type plug in type of stuff. Alert units, breathing devices, you name it.

Last night I completely broke down all the small breathing units and the like. Everything had a heavy transformer and most everything had a motor of one sort or another. 2 of them had a small motor in a case that says maxon DC motor on the top and swiss made on the side. I checked and these things can go for a good buck on E-bay if they are the right motor. I guess they are used in model airplanes.

Today I was garage saleing and found a radiator in someone's garbage. When I got home I ripped into the AC units. The compressors were gone on both and had been setting there for a long time. Plenty of copper, aluminum and motors in each.

I had never scrapped TVs before, but took these to try. They were very quick to get the good stuff out of, but I am still stuck with this big behemoth shell afterwards I have to mess with. I will not actively seek TVs to scrap based on this experience.

After all of this I have a mess of wire, some gold bearing circuit boards, two potentially good DC motors (they will get listed tomorrow night on E-bay). A 5 gallon bucket half full or so with motors and transformers that wighs a ton and the pile of walkers as well as a mess of aluminum and steel. Scrap yard gets hit next Saturday.

Oh and there is a steel hospital bed I am grabbing Monday because my truck was too full. It is heavy steel with 2 good sized motors on them. I guess I will check those motors value before scrapping them as well.

**Mick** · 02-12-2011, 06:03 PM

Nursing homes are great for scrapping. I've got one I've done for a couple years. Always getting the stuff you mention. It's next to a hospital and get their stuff, too. Got a street light & pole once that I sold for $100. Another time got two big old storm drain covers.

Let me know about how those hosp bed motors go. I've got a bed like that on my pile.

**Scrap man** · 02-12-2011, 06:10 PM

Nice! Definitely sell the bed monitors separate. Try contacting local hospitals and offer to sell them for less than they'd cost new. They're probably a few G's brand new so you might be looking at $500-1k each.

**parrothead** · 02-12-2011, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Scrap man

Nice! Definitely sell the bed monitors separate. Try contacting local hospitals and offer to sell them for less than they'd cost new. They're probably a few G's brand new so you might be looking at $500-1k each.

Really? You think they are worth that much? I was hoping that they were just worth double scrap value. I will look into it for sure.

**parrothead** · 02-12-2011, 08:22 PM

h. They are pretty similar to this one Link

didn't sell at $49.

**Scrap man** · 02-12-2011, 08:55 PM

My bad. I thought you were talking about something completely different. But $50 is still a good amount.

Edit: I thought you said monitors, not motors.

**parrothead** · 02-13-2011, 07:46 PM

I got those two small motors (not the hospital bed ones, don't have them yet) listed on E-bay tonight. I checked back an hour later and I already had a $20 bid on them. (total weight of these is less than 2 pounds in case anyone was wondering). I also threw a Pfaff sewing machine that I got for $10 a few months back. It is froze up and does not have a cord or foot petal. That thing was hit witha $50 bid right off the bat as well.

Here is the link to the motors if you want to see what they look like. There is a tape measure in the picture to show size.
Motors link
If you have not seen a Pfaff sewing machine, you may want to eyeball that in case you ever run across one in a scrap heap or a sale.

Sorry in advance if I am not supposed to link to my e-bay sales. Will happily remove if asked to.