Thank you freonjoe. Thats me with the compressor quetion and i do believe you are who schooled me on this a couple years ago.i do appreciate you. I would love to come meet you and get a crash course.
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Thank you freonjoe. Thats me with the compressor quetion and i do believe you are who schooled me on this a couple years ago.i do appreciate you. I would love to come meet you and get a crash course.
Mrbrown, you're welcome to come down anytime. Mark (Idaho Scrapper) and I will show you how we process compressors.
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I bought a angle grinder and cut my first compressor in half the other day. The bottom half is still stuck on after some hammer pounding . That's where the copper is so I need to get that half of the shell off. Compressor scrapping is a learned skill obviously I need to get Better lol
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Finally got to the wire in the huge compressor I've been working on for a week with my hammer and Angle grinder. The wire is copper colored aluminum Inside Fml. Last time i waste hours on these things . They are going in the steel pile. Waste of time cutting them open in my first impression opinion. I've passed 6 compressors lately and didn't even want them lol. But I'm new to the scrap game.
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Good information. The big compressor I just finished working on kicked my butt. As of right now I don't plan on cutting them open anymore lots of hard work and my wire ended up being allimunim. 😡
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The bigger compressors, from Invertor heatpumps and maybe larger AC units, for me anyway, tend to be Aluminium or Ali/Copper windings, even then,they don't tend to have much more NonFerrous metal in them, and tend to take about twice or thrice the amount of work.
I sell them as 'Compressors' and save up time instead of wasting it.
Normal fridge and freezer compressors is where my $$ is. Same compressor as a window AC unit, shops drinks cooler (and find to be true) I expect.
Thanks for the use of the word " thrice". Don't get to hear it used outside of a few old movies. 73, Mike
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
That's why I made a cheat sheet on which compressors have aluminum windings!
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Any of you tried a metal cutting circular saw on these?
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Joe
do you drain them sum*****es first or do you cut them with oil inside?
It looks like you have a bucket under the table saw, is that for the oil when it spills?
Martin
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Hi Martin,
We cut them up with the oil in them. After the winding core is pulled, we dump out the oil in a bucket under the cutting table. The pan under the saw is to catch copper dust.
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I am confused .... don't you spill oil all over the place that way?
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Freonjoe,
Just wanted to thank you for all the knowledge and information that you have freely given to the forum over the years. Your strategies and techniques have proven to be valuable in other scrapping endeavors as well. Thanks.
Give back more to this world than we take.
Thank you Patriot! Martin, I'm not sure what you mean by spill oil all over. There is a pan under the cutting table and the compressor doesn't get moved from the time that you set it on the table until after the winding core is removed.
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I was under the impression that you put the compressor on the side when you cut it on the cutting table just moving it around as you go along the seam does that not make this oil spill out as soon as you have it cut going?
We cut them up while they are upright. With a plasma cutter, it is easy to run all the way around the shell without ever moving the compressor.
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I might just need to plan a road trip to Idaho. Lol. Would love to see your setup and operation.
Anytime Aph! If scrapdaddyj and idaho scrapper weren't so lazy, we would post a video on cutting them.
I might have to borrow that list. Didn't have any aluminum on the last batch but had a few aluminum/copper. Don't remember what they were out of but it's the first time I've come across them.Originally Posted by freonjoe
No can do Mr Joseph, I'm busy!
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