Originally Posted by
mike1
wow thats cool. so if a car radiator looks like it has copper tubes its not copper but brass right? and copper fins? if the fins are copper would it be sheet copper? i saw a ford truck he said it was made in the 80s does that mean its got brass tubes or are they copper? from what i could tell the radiator looked like the ac kind. do they weigh more than the ali ones are they more than 25lbs? also how much will i get for the fans on the radiator on a car there is 2 small fans attached to the radiator can i take those off without draining the radiator? the radiator is staying in the car my grandma is going to just give me 10 dollars for it its a 01 lumina so i think its not copper tubes right? my dad poked a hole in our car radiator he ran into a tree limb in the road dont have to worry about draining that fluid cause its gone=) at least he only damaged the radiator but hey its free for me=)
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A car/truck/etc radiator is normally Aluminium with plastic ends.
or Copper/Brass, if so, its probably got Brass end caps top & bottom and the tubes are Brass but the thin fins between are Copper.
There will be Steel mounting plates soldered to the Brass end caps, normally its Lead solder, so you can often just peel them off.
There's a separate catagory price for Brass/Copper radiators, here in NZ it will get you NZ$3.41 a Kg.
I think that's US$2.38 a Kg, or maybe US$1.10 a Lb.
To get that you have to remove anything Steel from it, check it with a
magnet to find any Steel.
You will have to remove the fan unit(s) & their brackets.
You can sell the fans once you have stripped off the brackets from them, as 'Electric motors' grade metal.
Since its not much, you would save up at least 20-50lbs of this grade before you sell it.
With the Aluminium radiators you will have to break off the plastic ends and remove anything that's not Aluminium, rubber grommits etc.
The only exception to this info I have found is that automatic transmission engines often have a small radiator set up beside, or inside the radiator.
They can also possibly be inside the end cap, in this case you can see the inlet & outlet fittings, normally it is either Brass or Aluminium. It will be about a foot long tube inside the end cap.
Also, with cars etc, the heater
core is often Copper/Brass just like the radiator. And the air-conditioning core is a big box shaped Aluminium radiator. (In the jap cars anyway) its inside a plastic box under the dashboard & takes a bit of work to get it out.
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