My Christmas Bonus

Well the plant that I scrapped last week was pleased with the job, so they decided to let me scrap old refridgeration units that were on the roof. The pictures don't have a scale but these were 5' tall.
*Disclaimer: All breaking down, disconnecting and disposing of any and all components of refridgeration systems that may contain or have come in contact with any chemicals that are considered hazardous in any way are professionally and properly treated and/or disposed of by qualified, licensed profesionals in accordance with all local, state and federal laws and regulations. These procedures are conducted prior to all official involvement regarding these systems, it is the sole responsibility of the owners/operators of these systems to have any neccesary procedures performed to ensure that all guidelines are satisfied.

Before

Scrapped!

The Guts: There was alot of copper 2, and copper/aluminum radiators.


About this much #2 in each one:




All in all, it was fairly simple, except climbing around the units on the roof like a monkey in freezing 30mph winds. But at the end of the day, it was definately all worth it.

Nice work!

Do you cut the loops off and take the rest as copper/alum fins?

Congratulations man.

good job!!

Nice score, hope your saving all those silver soldered elbows and joints to run in a copper cell to reclaim the silver. Your scrap yard will buy the cathode copper as number 2. Considering the value of the silver reclaimed this is a small loss.

Besides with the silver joints your copper is going as number 2 anyhow, if I was better fixed financially I would make an offer to purchase the joints and elbows.

Originally Posted by CMHN

Dhoooo! My first thought at this was preceded by this post!

I got a little over a ton of the "clean" stuff. The yard did the right thing by me, I do have one complaint..I'm dissapointed they wouldn't give me anything above light iron for all the "strips" I cut off the units. I guess all for a reason though, I would have settled on .25/lb for the strips after an exhausting day yesterday, but now that I rethought the situation, I'll get all the copper loops out of it and sell the rest as "dirty aluminum" at my normal yard.

what can I do witht he leftover strips that would yield better than seperating the copper loops from them? I thought I did pretty well breaking them down, theres not much left. I'll take some pics tomorrow,,

Now that i reread everything, maybe I wasn't clear as to what I meant by "strips". I didn't mean the acual units, I meant the "ends" of the units that conatin the steel mounts to mount the units.