Miller and Lincoln welders, transmission and rotor cores, appliances like nice frost free refrigerators, washer and dryer combo's.
The miller welders are a tricky buy they have a habit of splitting one of the stator rings if this happened you may not have much in the way of scrap copper as the Millers used aluminium windings, but if the stator rings are in good shape then I dive into the welder further most of the time I'll find a broken wire on one of the two rectifier diode package making this a cheap fix.
Older Lincoln welders after sitting idle for years may loose their residule magnesium and will not produce a welding current, this is an easy fix all you need to do is flash the exciter field with a 12 volt battery. If the engine is seized from rain water making its way into the engine through the exhaust system and the engine has not been frozen and cracked I'll often rebuild the little Continental engine.
Frost free fridges most often quit cooling in the lower compartment because of a defrost timer failure, these used to cost me less than $30.00 but these new electronic times could run you a hundred bucks or more so its always best to search ebay for new old stock. I have changed out the odd compressor but with the new regulations on freon will not encourage you do to this.
Cloths dryers a favourite, usually just a broken belt needs replacing, a funky lid switch can render a washing machine inoperable or perhaps a sock or a pair of panties made it over the top of the wash tub finding its way into the water pump. All easy cheap fixes.
I was always on the hunt and my list to watch out for, the larger rental yards always had a bone yard from which they're willing to sell from.
I do not have any particular item I favour over another, it's the people who I deal with that can make or break my day.
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