Pool heater

Got my first pool heater tore it apart 22 lbs of copper 5 lbs of brass.never weighed the shred, Best part all done in ten min gotta love it :-$ . Thank you guys for your post on smf your helping me big time thx again

Last one I did I got over 30 pounds of red brass from the heating part with the fine. Kinda looked like a/c coil just a lot bigger.

Ill have a look thx my friend

Saweet!

Here's what your after inside the pool heater. This one has brass manifolds also.
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...508_141721.jpg

I had one that had around 20 lbs of copper, 20 lbs of copper/alum fin, and misc other stuff

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Originally Posted by divapickers

Here's what your after inside the pool heater. This one has brass manifolds also.
http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/...508_141721.jpg

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need to keep my eye open for one of them
You know a good find are restaurant ice makers nice copper on the ice maker plate are usually tin coated copper .
Pool heater never knew about them.

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Originally Posted by Copper Head

need to keep my eye open for one of them
You know a good find are restaurant ice makers nice copper on the ice maker plate are usually tin coated copper .
Pool heater never knew about them.

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Thanks Copperhead, never new about restaurant ice makers. I just thought, too much syrofoam in it to bother.

Too take apart a pool heater, you just need 5/16 bit in your drill and wire cutters to cut the wires.
Undo every screw you see and it will come apart easily.
Once you've done a few, you'll know which ones to undo.
However, taking the cast off the copper is a different issue.
You can beat it with sledge but we prefer chop saw.
Sawzall works great also.

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Originally Posted by divapickers

Thanks Copperhead, never new about restaurant ice makers. I just thought, too much syrofoam in it to bother.

Too take apart a pool heater, you just need 5/16 bit in your drill and wire cutters to cut the wires.
Undo every screw you see and it will come apart easily.
Once you've done a few, you'll know which ones to undo.
However, taking the cast off the copper is a different issue.
You can beat it with sledge but we prefer chop saw.
Sawzall works great also.

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First I need to find one & since it is cold here - compared to any place 300 miles south west east .
There should be some floating around , but I think solar heaters are the thing with home owners .
Hotels here don't have out door pools these parts , heated pools in your town are the thing
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Ice maker plate is exposed with miscellaneous water feed gadgets around it
the plate is often 2.5 ft by 2.5 @ 20 #
I have found 3 to bad i sold the copper those were worth saving as to ease of storage
there like a big Ingot, a definite E bay seller
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Another hidden copper treasure - some cast iron boilers
have wound copper that looks the same as pool heater just in a coil