Motors, Worth the effort?

My "real job" is working in an electric motor factory in Juarez Mexico. Here at the plant, we press the stators (the part with the copper wire) out of the motor shell and then we have build a maching that cuts the end coils off one end of the winding. The rest is pulled out of the slots from the other end.

We recover about 3,000 lbs. of copper each month from the defective motors and received #2 copper price for the laquerred wire. If it's worth doing to a corparation, it should be for an individual scrapper as well.