Stator in shred or iron?

**MetroRecycling** · 02-11-2012, 01:06 PM

Just joined the forum but have been in the shadows for a while now. I normally only have a few stators after I pull the copper out of them so just put them in my shred pile. I just hooked up with an HVAC guy that is selling me condensers in the 3 to 5 ton range. Have about 40 stators right now stripped and was wondering if I can put them with my iron. I can ask the yard I use but wanted to see what you guys do with yours. I know they are laminated thin sheet but as a whole they form a pretty good chunk of steel.

**freonjoe** · 02-11-2012, 01:13 PM

The yards I deal with only buy them as tin, but they do give me a dumpster bin to put them in.

**Scraphappypappy** · 02-11-2012, 01:29 PM

I take a lot of motors to my yard. When I first started taking them in I called and asked what an electric motor is considered once I pull all copper and aluminum out. Short Iron was the answer I got and they have never wavered. I remind them of this conversation if they get an odd look on their face when they see what I have.

**freonjoe** · 02-11-2012, 01:37 PM

SHP, will they come get them and still give you short iron prices?

**Scraphappypappy** · 02-11-2012, 01:41 PM

No, I have to haul them.

**freonjoe** · 02-11-2012, 01:44 PM

I don't mind getting a little less knowing that they come out every month to get it and have money waiting for me when I go in. I'm getting too old to handle that stuff very many times.

**Scraphappypappy** · 02-11-2012, 01:47 PM

It is a pain.

**PistoneScrapProcessing** · 02-11-2012, 03:10 PM

If you aren't getting prepared heavy melt for your stripped stators you are getting bent over with no vaseline. Lets say you strip a good size motor down and the shaft is say two inches or more. Do you really think a shredder is going to be able to turn that into fragmented material? Yeah right something that size would potentially break a hammer on the rotor of the shredder. I would murder the yard manager if they told me to put it in the shredd pile. Just kidding about the murder part but you get my point. I have never sold a stripped motor as shredd NEVER. Always went into the prepped hms.