Originally Posted by
parttimescrapperMD
I say break em down. You could do it while reading the forum or researching
ewaste scrapping on youtube. That's what I do.
When you leave motors intact, your steel bushing and housings are worth 0.12/lb which make up the bulk of the weight. You are going to spend time to make you ferrous metal worth 0.03-0.05/Lb. Not sure why you would do that when it would be more profitable to just find more motors. In a time like this when prices are down, people are less interested in scrapping and in theory less competition out there. Motors are a nice dense item, good for hoarding. Consider motors like investing in silver. If you buy motors at 0.10/Lb and they go up to 0.15/Lb, you just made 50% on your investment. Now imagine if you didn't have to pay for them
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