Central ac compressor with sawzall

Originally Posted by mike1

Thanks also do you get at least 1 lb of copper from a ac compressor or does it vary ?.

Honestly i never weighed copper from a window unit compressor mike.... next time you do one, post your results and let us know

I will. So is there a cool down time for the sawzall can I do more than one tank if one tank takes me 1 hr to cut open will the saw over heat if I try and do another one?. Since I don't wanna burn up the saw motor and have it become scrap to. Considering I just bought it yesterday.

Originally Posted by greytruck

Honestly i never weighed copper from a window unit compressor mike.... next time you do one, post your results and let us know

I did one today after I cut open another central one I had to cut the top of the window ac one near the lid should I have cut it farther down? I couldn't get the motor out I had to snip the wires and pull the strands some at a time I'd like to get the whole thing out like I can the central ones ideas?. Oh I forgot I got 2lb 10oz so are they going to be consistent ? If so I'll have 70lbs or so. What about the central ones?.

Originally Posted by mike1

I did one today after I cut open another central one I had to cut the top of the window ac one near the lid should I have cut it farther down? I couldn't get the motor out I had to snip the wires and pull the strands some at a time I'd like to get the whole thing out like I can the central ones ideas?. Oh I forgot I got 2lb 10oz so are they going to be consistent ? If so I'll have 70lbs or so. What about the central ones?.

There are some kinds that you have to cut the top off ... and then make one or two cuts straight up and down. They are like a circulator pump motor that way.

Watch this youtube video. Go in to about 5.33 and it shows one way of getting the motor out of the sealed unit that's giving you a problem. (Hope this helps.)

This is another way that the difficult ones are done with a sawzall. YMMV

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wLX1-EZqdyk

Originally Posted by mike1

I did one today after I cut open another central one I had to cut the top of the window ac one near the lid should I have cut it farther down? I couldn't get the motor out I had to snip the wires and pull the strands some at a time I'd like to get the whole thing out like I can the central ones ideas?. Oh I forgot I got 2lb 10oz so are they going to be consistent ? If so I'll have 70lbs or so. What about the central ones?.

Like i said in the other post, i just throw the copper in my bucket and weigh when full. i do know that from central units you can get anyware from 5 - 10 lbs of copper. but the 10 lbs are from the 220lb sealed units from rooftops.

Check out simple man on youtube. he has alot of videos breaking down compressors.

Originally Posted by greytruck

Like i said in the other post, i just throw the copper in my bucket and weigh when full. i do know that from central units you can get anyware from 5 - 10 lbs of copper. but the 10 lbs are from the 220lb sealed units from rooftops.

Check out simple man on youtube. he has alot of videos breaking down compressors.

I had to hunt for him. Finding videos on youtube can be a little hard for me sometimes cause there are so many different ones to sort through. Figured i would post this video from simple man to make it easier for everyone else. Thanks for the heads up. I like his videos because he doesn't talk endlessly like some of the other ones do. The chatty ones waste a lot of time before getting to the point.

Originally Posted by hills

I had to hunt for him. Finding videos on youtube can be a little hard for me sometimes cause there are so many different ones to sort through. Figured i would post this video from simple man to make it easier for everyone else. Thanks for the heads up. I like his videos because he doesn't talk endlessly like some of the other ones do. The chatty ones waste a lot of time before getting to the point.

I should have said serch "simple man scrap" or else alot of Lynyrd Skynyr videos pop up. He does a good job. i get inspired by him to get my butt going on my motor and compressor pile at times

Got to admit .... it's got me thinking about it. Looks like i'll have access to quite a few compressors later on in the summer after the freon units we have on hand have been pumped out and tagged by the refrigeration tech. The windings come out a lot easier when they are all lubed up.

Originally Posted by hills

Got to admit .... it's got me thinking about it. Looks like i'll have access to quite a few compressors later on in the summer after the freon units we have on hand have been pumped out and tagged by the refrigeration tech. The windings come out a lot easier when they are all lubed up.

For sure, way easier to get out than a regular electric motor windings.