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    Helirotor compressors

    I was wondering if anyone on here ever scraps Trane chiller units, and what they do with the helirotor compressors. A lot of people around me (in Florida) don't want them and say they are not rebuildable, but they are and I've been shipping them to Louisiana. Just wondering what everyone else does with theirs.

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    They are a type of screw type compressor used by Trane in their large chiller units. I've heard similar style units referred to as scroll type compressors. They are cast iron construction and have a large electric motor on one side to power the two spinning screws that are on the other.

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    I've always heard them referred to as cast iron compressors. you can get rid of them closer then La. especially in truck load quantity. some shredders will take them as that particular commodity. the output is a meatball and lots of cast. they can also be disassembled into a stator and clean cast. you will have to deal with some oil waste unless you have an outlet for that. I have done the breakdown numbers, a yard can make no money disassembling them the broke-down and whole price are lockstep. individuals can make money if their time is cheap
    if you are not getting them in shippable quantity expect cast iron price.


    the breakdown had the stator as 10% of the compressor with a little brass, some breakage, and some ICW.

    If you got them in quantity PM me

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    Most if the units I get are still working, and I would like to sell them for at least core a value. The ones I get that are ceased up, I sell next door to my shop to a scrap yard and I pull the motors off and sell for cast. Sorry HT1 but I get them in hit and miss quantities.



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