I scored a pool heater - Page 2

The top of the heater is all copper and the fins on it is also copper

Here is part of the gas line that was connected to it

Here is some of the internal components, this is only a start of the tear down

Here is only a small portion of the break down

I am going to break everything down first thing tomorrow morning, on this thing I found out that it has a lot of small brass parts, it's not red brass, but yellow brass.

This is only the beginning of my break down, I know that there is a lot of small yellow brass parts and the rest of it is copper and sheet metal, I just hope I can get close to one hundred dollars, I'm going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

Show me the money!(Read that as copper) Edit: What do those suckers weigh? Just out of curiosity, if anyone has weighed one before removing the goodies.



thanks for the pictures! Oddly I got pools all around me, an never see the suckers. I think I need to pay a visit to a couple pool installers.

Sirscrapalot - Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

I know that this that I picked up, weighted more than me and my weight is 156lb and I man handled this thing onto my truck( it wasn't easy)

Well you should me ok with that, I get much larger pool heaters here in south Florida every bobby has a large pool and larger heater than that. But it ain't that bad.

Wow, I would love to break down a large pool heater, see I like going after large loads of scrap metal, because I know that the pay off is really good.

Here some the items during my break down

Aluminum plates that was holding the copper coils

Here is the ticket

And here the other one

Here is the real kicker, there was no stainless what so ever that came out of the heater, most of it was copper and a handful of yellow brass, but anyway I was proven to my favor.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

And they must have called those alum. plates "mixed" as they only paid .12 lb. instead of .50-60 lb.

I think that is what they did, but my question is that why would he put stainless and there was no stainless in my bucket, all was in the bucket was cast aluminum and just a handful of yellow brass

Originally Posted by thekeith

This is my latest. The end plates are non-mag stainless. And looky at that heavy copper! I think I will try punching out the pipes instead of cutting?
Help! Help me understand the little copper pipe lookin thingy threaded into the manifold? Thermostat? It shows in previous pics posted by xz. Nice work btw. Can't wait for the next!

The plates that hold in the copper coils, you can take a hammer and hit the plates and they should come right off.