Commercial Printers?

Ok well resale is out of the question. The business tried to sell this printing press before they were evicted so if they can't sell it being in the business I am sure as hell not going to try and sell it. 2-3 truck loads they said...I guess I should have asked if they meant semi truck loads?!?! There is at least 5 loads to take to the yard in my trailer besides these huge printing presses. I might be stuck breaking these things down on site...FML. Oh well at least the pay check will be good and my wife isn't going to give me **** about storing printing presses in our new shed!

Any advise on what kind of metal I might find in these? Worth it to break them down or hire a semi truck to take them 1 mile to the scrap yard?

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Holly Sh@T! Would your scrap yard have a trailer or truck to come get these? Breaking them down is goanna suck! I had a neighbor who's uncle worked for a restoration business and he could borrow the big trailer but he moved and has not called me back yet.

Wow awesome score.........Have you had experience breaking down large industrial equipment?........If there is no time frame then it won't be an issue.......If there is I would bring in some experienced guys and split some of the profit........Those old machines might be a beast to tear down........Either way NICE THREAD as I enjoy stuff like this!!!

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

Holly Sh@T! Would your scrap yard have a trailer or truck to come get these? Breaking them down is goanna suck! I had a neighbor who's uncle worked for a restoration business and he could borrow the big trailer but he moved and has not called me back yet.

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Even with a trailer and truck they will have to be at least separated into individual units. If you know someone with a trailer that could haul these there is a forklift on location. Time is somewhat of an issue so I won’t be able to break them all down. I have a 75-25 percent split with the building owner so I should be able to broker a deal on these with a scrap yard or whoever I can get to haul these away. Each unit probably weights 4000 lbs with the bigger units pushing 10k. Best thing about this job is it’s only one mile from a scrap yard.

To clarify I am getting 75 percent and the building owner gets 25. Pleanty of meat on the bone to pay someone to haul these to the yard only a mile away. Hmm but now I am wondering the capacity of the forklift? Good thing is there are loading docks and a ramp to drive into the warehouse.

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Originally Posted by mikeinreco

Wow awesome score.........Have you had experience breaking down large industrial equipment?........If there is no time frame then it won't be an issue.......If there is I would bring in some experienced guys and split some of the profit........Those old machines might be a beast to tear down........Either way NICE THREAD as I enjoy stuff like this!!!

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I have all the tools I need and have done all sorts of mechanical work but have zero experience with industrial equipment like this. The machines won’t take much to separate the individual units but to break them down to the point where I could fit them in my trailer would take me too long.

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I have all the tools I need and have done all sorts of mechanical work but have zero experience with industrial equipment like this. The machines won’t take much to separate the individual units but to break them down to the point where I could fit them in my trailer would take me too long.

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Might want to haul some if not most of the electrical system somewhere to break it down even just a little more.
Does it have hydraulics?

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Even with a trailer and truck they will have to be at least separated into individual units. If you know someone with a trailer that could haul these there is a forklift on location. Time is somewhat of an issue so I won’t be able to break them all down. I have a 75-25 percent split with the building owner so I should be able to broker a deal on these with a scrap yard or whoever I can get to haul these away. Each unit probably weights 4000 lbs with the bigger units pushing 10k. Best thing about this job is it’s only one mile from a scrap yard.

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Chances are the forklift won't be big enough for the larger units if they are 10k pounds. I have an older toyota forklift that is rated for 4000 pounds at a 24" center. Anything larger than an 8k pound lift is big.

This is a nice score. Anything that rolls/presses ink should be stainless steel on there. Should be extensive heavy gauge wiring in there along with a few dozen motors. How long do you have to move it? If you have two weeks I strongly strongly strongly strongly recommend the first week be spent waiting to see if it sells on ebay while you map out the disassembly. There are folks who would buy it as is for far greater than scrap price. If you got a good set of tools (likely including air tools for some of the bolts and a pulley/hoist for lowering the heavy plates) you should be able to do it by yourself within a week.

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Originally Posted by JJinLV

This is a nice score. Anything that rolls/presses ink should be stainless steel on there. Should be extensive heavy gauge wiring in there along with a few dozen motors. How long do you have to move it? If you have two weeks I strongly strongly strongly strongly recommend the first week be spent waiting to see if it sells on ebay while you map out the disassembly. There are folks who would buy it as is for far greater than scrap price. If you got a good set of tools (likely including air tools for some of the bolts and a pulley/hoist for lowering the heavy plates) you should be able to do it by yourself within a week.

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Sh!t...I just changed pages and deleted my reply to you in the process. Long story short is the printing press was already for sale at one point and never sold. There was an appraiser on the property today that deals in commercial printers and printing presses. While he wasn't there to look at this particular press I was able to talk with hiim about it and he confirmed it is in no condition for resale.

There is a ceiling mounted hoist at the end of the row of presses. So between that and the forklift on site I won't have any problems loading parts once I disassemble the units.

I am talking with the property manager tomorrow to get a timeline on when he needs the equipment gone. If I have a couple weeks I will go ahead an take them apart. If not I'll need to figure out how to deal with them.

Besides the printing press and other equipment I am dealing with I did get a nice little tool haul from a small shop they had in the warehouse. Bench grinder, 12 ton press, craftsman 17 inch drill press, Irwin bench vise, pulley pullers, dremel and a few other odds and ends. Paid above scrap value for them...forked out a whole 40 bucks! Plus I cleared out the office. Mostly key boards, monitors and phones but there were these 2 huge heavy towers(servers???) Paid $5 for all the electronics.



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At least search for the model on ebay to see if there are individual parts you can salvage for resale. This should work out good for you no matter what but it has the potential to be a real whale. Nice on that computer equipment too. You should get ten times what you paid for all the electronics if you even just sell that iMac for parts. Really great job.

If I was to do this job and all was headed to the scrap yard here is what I would do. Get all the saws, sledges, and whatever tools you need together. Put a magnet to everything and make separate piles for each kind of metal. Bring each pile to the scrap yard when needed. This is for sure a time = money job. A forklift would be a major timesaver, if you have one. If you don't have a trailer, go buy one. And have fun. Cause job looks like a lot fun.. :)

Spent the morning talking with different yards about having them come pick up the printers. I guess the company that went out of business had already contacted a few of the yards and they had already been out to bid the job. But when these yards put in their bids on the job it was to clear the whole warehouse. But it looks like they are wanting to charge more than the scrap is worth. Talking about charging for the job and then rebating based on the scrap value. Waiting on written bids. Should have a few bids in before the weekend.

Talking with the management company it seems like they would be ok with me taking a while to break down and haul off the equipment as long as the rest of the warehouse is cleaned up so the realtor can start showing the property. I will probably work with one of the local yards who does roll offs. I will have access to the forklift so loading shouldn't be too hard.

I took in a few loads of these rollers today. I put aside all the new ones for possible resale and hauled off all the ones that were rusted or busted. Also set aside a few stainless rollers.
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see if CFS on President street can get you a roll off there prices on steel are normally very good

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At least search for the model on ebay to see if there are individual parts you can salvage for resale. This should work out good for you no matter what but it has the potential to be a real whale. Nice on that computer equipment too. You should get ten times what you paid for all the electronics if you even just sell that iMac for parts. Really great job.

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I just looked up iMacs on ebay and it made me sad. I have scrapped many iMacs. Poor me..

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

see if CFS on President street can get you a roll off there prices on steel are normally very good

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I really don't mind hauling what I can fit in my pickup and trailer because SA Recycling is only one mile from this job site. CFS is on my list of yards to contact about roll offs but I am hoping SA will give me a discounted rate since I am only a mile from their yard.

I got a quote from Tucson Iron today. $5,000 to disassemble and haul to their yard with a $100 per ton rebate. We agreed the equipment probably weights about 25 tons. So either property management forks out the remaining $2500 to have it hauled away or I haul it away for free. If I end up hauling it off I get 100% of the profit. No profit share on this big equipment.

Guess who just got himself a free scale! Well not free...I am paying scrap price for it. I don't know that I really have a use for this scale. I'll hold onto it for a while before I decide on what to do with it. (not a pic of actual scale but it is the same type of scale)


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Here is some of the stuff I hauled to the yard today. A couple feeders. Some motors(one 900lb motor) and I am not sure what the white thing in shrink wrap was. Probably a printer I guess. Really wish I could have opened it to check for boards. I just don't have the time. The other stuff I hauled isn't worth a picture. Lockers, desks, file cabinets and desks.


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it will take more time & effort but try to remove all the aluminium & s/steel from those printers & other machines that you plan to scrap.

its will be worth it in the end- of course, if you dont have much time left to remove it or the distance you travel daily to get to this place is far & it will cost more in fuel, then u can work out for yourself if its worth it.

what i did was i got a lift with my friend - the guy who works at the company where i was given those printers.
he lives near me so i traveled with him the entire week- got there early with the employees & clocked off only when they did- so that way i saved on fuel & put in a full days work for each day i was there

then on the last day i got another friend to come haul everything & i paid him something for that service.
it seemed the most profitable way to do it.

but those printers u have seem much bigger- i would try to completely dismantle at least one- just to see how much of non ferrous in in them altogether so u can judge if its worth the time & effort to strip the rest.