Originally Posted by ozzy214
Thank you for taking into account all the plastic fumes you are releasing into the air we all must breath.
Just think if everyone did this.
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Thank you for taking into account all the plastic fumes you are releasing into the air we all must breath.
Just think if everyone did this.
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it
no taxes, no debt, women did all the work.
White man thought he could improve on a system like this. - Old Cherokee saying
I did not surrender, they took my horse and made him surrender. - Lone Watie
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oh btw i took the two biggest ones i had in to the yard 2day and they gave
me .25 cents a lb and it was 22 lbs so i got $5.50 is that good?
Were they microwave transformers?
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yes they were
I just did 10 transformers out of late model over the range microwaves. Starting weight was 105 pounds. All of them had 1 copper winding and 1 aluminum winding. Ended up with 5 pounds of copper. I lost money breaking those down!
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mine were well one was a regular size microwave and the other was
out of a big ol microwave you know the kind that looks like a mini
apartment size fridge with the door that you pull down that one had
the biggest one
I think the older microwaves had all copper windings.
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so that one would have been worth taking apart? or no?
That one would have been.
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I can definitely understand your reasoning on the VERY SMALL ones, but the ones that are not small, are worth the time and effort. Copper is the most expensive thing, and I am sure anyone would rather get paid more for than, then electric motors.
What I do with the very small ones, is put them in a 5 gallon bucket, wait till I have 2 or 3 buckets and sell them.
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Once you become experienced and FAST at getting the copper out you will never sell all copper motors whole again. joe only lost a little because they weren't all copper motors. You just have to practice a lot. Took me about 6 months....but that was before I saw the proper techniques on video. You'll get it.
Im not burning wires injunjoe, just the transformers. The small amount of tape and varnish does not produce any bad fumes whatsoever. Especially since I use a propane blow torch for fire. That bastard runs up to 100000 btu'/ It burns clean, hot, fast, and cheaper than any other method. Now if ya using wood or something, then sure you will get a lot of fumes. Not with this method. Got the idea from a house I was cleaning out. Guy did legal incineration'/s of dead pets and this was the same method he used. Thats where I got the idea and it works like a charm....
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I had a nice run on older microwaves recently some of those transformers could be used to work out in the gym they are so heavy !!
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes;
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate
where to start...
thanks for thinking about my video's for transformer stripping.
I don't use hi grade hatchets. the hatchets are all high carbon NOT HEAT TREATED (the really cheep ones in the store). notice that the end of that hatchet is taking dents it means it is softer then the hammer I use (the hammer being 56-58 R). this means it is also softer then the steel I am hitting.
only mike the scrapper uses 2 case hardened hammers.
that being said it is not the safest way to strip them. its just my way.
you can use an angle grinder to cut the ends off. I found a clip of this on you tubers with a similar method ill link it. I use a metal saw on motors because it has a clamp on the table part but it has been broken for last 6 months. i am probably going to scrap it.
burning tape? its probably not tape wrapped around the copper windings its nomex insulation held by a small piece of tape. i wonder what nomex does to the environment when it is burnt?
http://www2.dupont.com/ReliatranV3/e...ex_family.html
doing the math on freonjoe's tear down project. 105 lbs starting weight. 5 lbs copper $3.25 for #2 wire x 5 $16.25. leaving with apx. 2 lbs of aluminum @ $0.50 = $1.00 remaining weight is... any body? 98 lbs of STEEL not tin not mixed tin not Lucabond not wood clean non grain oriented carbon steel lamination's welded together. 98 lbs of steel @ 0.14 a lb $13.72 giving us a grand total of $30.97 for 10 aluminum bearing transformers. from experience that sounds about right. or 105 lbs @ $0.27 = $27.30 if you get $0.27 a lb for them. you cant lose money stripping them just a bit of time. do that 100 times you just made $400 bucks. not trying to attack you you just sound lazy.
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