Recently Discovered Scrapping

I am also new to scrapping and excited about finding this board and all the info.
On my first scrap yard trip I took a submersible water pump. It weighed 30lbs and I was paid .20 lb = 6.00. It was listed on my receipt as motors/trans.
I didn't know if that was good, bad , normal payout......I was just glad to get it out of my garage.
I also had 11lbs of copper tubing from under the house and got 2.80 a lb for that.
I'm thinking now maybe that huge pump would be worth more but I don't know. Maybe it can be torn down into parts for a better payout ?

Originally Posted by Renaliz

I'm thinking now maybe that huge pump would be worth more but I don't know. Maybe it can be torn down into parts for a better payout ?

I'm new to this game, but I have turned up some research. I wish I knew about breaking things down when I had to change one out a couple of years ago.

Here's what I found about submersible pumps...
1. Extra heavy electric motor. Apparently most of these motors have the copper epoxied into place, so people are suggesting not to bother breaking down the actual motor.
2. Stainless steel impeller shaft with stainless steel discs separating the plastic impellers.
3. Solid core copper wire running down to the pump.
4. Although rare, apparently some older pumps use bronze impellers. Also, it seems there was something about Nickel alloy, but I can't find anything definitive about it.