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    Question Armatures

    I'm taking apart air conditioner compressors. After removing the copper windings I have a lot of armatures to get rid of. Someone said they contain copper, so can't be put with prepared steel. He said to include them with shred, but they're over 1/8/ inch thick and still have the thick casting on. What do I do with them?



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    Shred.... ive never seen a sealed unit have a armature that contained copper. Sound like they were talking about vacuum cleaner, or electric weedwacker style motors that would have copper wound in the armature

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    Talk to your yard. You can probably get #1 iron or #2 unprepared for it. Otherwise shred. Unless you got big tonnage the $ difference is gonna be small between the categories anyway

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