I have a restaurant grade stainless steel cooler. It weighs about 300 pounds. What's it worth? Do I need to do anything to it before I scrap it? Is it worth scrapping? Any help or answers would be appreciated. Thank you.
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I have a restaurant grade stainless steel cooler. It weighs about 300 pounds. What's it worth? Do I need to do anything to it before I scrap it? Is it worth scrapping? Any help or answers would be appreciated. Thank you.
You need to tear into that beast and get the copper out of it. With what's left, you would have to take off some plastic and regular iron/tin to get the clean stainless price but that depends on your buyer.
Did you check the sides and door with a magnet? Dirty stainless by me is $0.06 a pound. 300# x .06 =$18.00
Nonmagnetic SS will bring around .35-55 a lb.Quote:
Originally Posted by nutpie
Check on resale first. Even if the cooling unit is shot, I should be worth something to someone as a storage locker. More money in reuse or repurpose .
Does it work? I would bet any restaurant would pay $100 for a halfway decent SS cooler just to put a new compressor in.
Several things to do.
Does it work? If so try and sell it.
Is it all stainless steel? Magnet wont stick anywhere? No wheels or gaskets or other non metal items? Then if it is non working sell as stainless steel..
If the magnet sticks either remove the parts if you can and sell it as stainless steel. Or sell as is as dirty stainless as is.
Also I am sure there is a compressor and some copper on it, you will want to remove these items as well and sell them, in order to get clean stainless price.
Before you do anything check with local yard to see if they buy dirty stainless or if they just throw it in with the steel.
I would just make it into a big beer fridge!
Most of the commercial refrigerators used in restaurants are low grade stainless steel, unlike most restaurant equipment, so the main body would be better off sold as shred steel. The inside insulation is going to be foam and will end up being trash. You can rip the compressor out of it, and the copper lines on the back to get a little more money back. The evaporator coil on the inside will either be all aluminum or a copper/aluminum mix, and can be sold separately.
Most large cities have companies that rebuild and refurbish old kitchen equipment because its so expensive new, and you could try to sell it to them whole.
I had sold a large stainless fridge that worked but no refrigerant so it did not cool down. I contacted all the Resturant suppliers in the area and nobody was interested. That's in my area though. Some guy eventually bought it and turned it into a smoker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Faceball
It will be hard to get clean stainless with all the insulation inside.
I used to be in the bakery business years ago and when we closed the business ( just to many jobs )we sold off all of the equipment. The 3 door stainless fridge in working condition sold for $600.00. But it was well used.
Decent commercial equipment can always sell well. My buddy handles all sorts of restaurant, industrial and custodial equipment and he does very well buying at auction, refurbishing, if needed and then reselling. He knows his market
well and that's the key to making it work and not loosing your shirt in the process. But as stated above if it's scrap grade then do as they advise to get the most you can for it. Good luck.