Processing refrigerator compressors (pics)

Originally Posted by CFoote

Freon Joe;



Thanks for the tutorial. Pics truly are worth a thousand words. I would like to ask you a couple of questions....
How do you recover the Freon?

Do you use the same saw and cutoff wheel to crack open the cases as you do for cutting off the copper?

I have hundreds of pounds of transformers laying around, and have been trying to decide if I could cut the copper off with a chopsaw and then poke the rest through. you have given me some great ideas!!!

I use a metal blade on an old 10" miter saw, and a cutoff wheel on a 4" grinder. The smaller wheels are also much thinner, the big wheels leave quite a kerf, but anything that gets the job done(when it gets done haha ) works for me ; )