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Electric motors at your yard

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    Electric motors at your yard

    How do they pay for them intact



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    All the same and .15/lb at one buyer and a whopping .20/lb at the other that I frequent
    I'm so into scrapping.. When my Steel Toe Boots Wear out, I cut the Steel out of them and recycle the Toe!

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    I have seen a change in motors recently. Motors any transformer and pc fans all were the same . Then he would not take the fans. Last trip he picked out some transformers and said now they are only cb.

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    Preferred price program at our yard, .26 per# down from .32 a #.

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    all pay the same $480 ton or 24 cents pound
    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
    I AM ACTIVELY BUYING ESCRAP OF ALL TYPES. BOARDS, RAM, CPUS AND MUCH MORE

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    .31 per pound including pc fans. closer to .40 for transformers

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    Wow gents .26, .24 and .31... I'm getting hosed here in Central Indiana!
    Good on!

    They are always worth taking, but I'd like to be getting near double like you guys are! WOW!

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    Copper motors 0.27 and aluminum motors are 0.20.

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    Copper wound .30, aluminum wound .15, transformers used to be .35, but last time they, too, were .30.
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    Quote Originally Posted by directrecycle View Post
    .31 per pound including pc fans
    that is very nice

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    Last time I got Copper wound motors at .22/Lb and .14/Lb for Alum wound motors, pretty low.

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    $0.23 a pound for motors, transformers, cbm

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    .26 here in Ontario this week, that's for mixed EM, (aluminum, copper, transformers fans) buckets of random em

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    all motors/transformers have a single price at my yard. last time i brought some they were .65# i'm sure it's a lot lower now that was back in april
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    The last time I sold electric motors they were .36# if you had 500# or more. All electric motors and transformers are the same price. 32# for less than 500#

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    Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
    Last time I got Copper wound motors at .22/Lb and .14/Lb for Alum wound motors, pretty low.
    b$0.22 a lb up north today, Greytruck. Either we are getting ripped off or being more honest than some others.

    I can mix anything in. Computer fans, copper wound, alum wound, computer power supplies, flybacks, etc...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russell View Post
    Greytruck. Either we are getting ripped off or being more honest than some others.

    I can mix anything in. Computer fans, copper wound, alum wound, computer power supplies, flybacks, etc...
    They must have to ship them off farther than the steel is my guess.

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    .20 cents a pound down here. I always get aluminum breakage for the aluminum motors, I don't even check transformers if I'm selling them whole.
    Made in China, Recycled in the Republic of Texas!

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    motors,transformers,and ballasts are 10 cents a pound here in southern ohio,and ive been told to put the flybacks in my shred .at the price im getting i could throw them in a car and get 11.5 cents a pound.since ive found this forum i have stopped selling my motors and transformers.ill save them till i can fill a truck and trailor then ill haul them somewhere else.i cant justify selling them at ten if i can haul them a little ways and get 30


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