Originally Posted by
freonjoe
Here they won't pay electric motor prices for them. It's either 10 cents a pound or part them out. How many do you do a week?
Averagely, about 3~7 a week, more like 4 med size ones.
I scrapped a Tall commercial fridge motor a while ago (coulda been a AC).
I found there was 3 spot weld marks around the outside.
So I wound a long strip of paper around the case, one edge over the centre of the spotwelds & marked a line there.
Then I went & cut right around the line with the angle grinder. Then bashed the case apart.
From there I could slide out the rotator armature shaft & once that was out I found I could lift & bash it down onto a concrete pad & the copper windings & lamination part slipped out.
I'm surprised it wasn't welded in place too.
First time Idid one I had decided it wasn't worth the work, but I'm always learning...
Learnt a lot since I found this site too.
That shaft, inside the laminations there was x8, 2 inch square by 1/8th thick, neodymium (I think) really really strong magnets.
They chip/break really easy too, take yah time & they will slide out.
freonjoe 
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