Motors?

Let me start by saying if this topic has been covered already on here and i missed it, im sorry for the duplicate post.

When scrapping motors out of things like power tools, microwaves, Pool filters, ect..., what do you guys do? Do you take them apart and try to get the #2 Copper out of them or is it almost just as profitable scraping them as whole motors?



And if you do separate them, how in the hell do you get them apart. These are the hardest things i have fought with in my little time of scrapping.

Thanks in advance for everything!

Hi Adam...yes, you did miss posts about motors. Lot's of them...did you try a search ?? Good luck. BTW, I always go for that copper !! Wasted a lot of time and turned a lot in as motors that I wish I had back.

That was the answer i was looking for Dee! Thank you very much!!! Now i just gotta search on here and find an easy way to break them apart! Thank you again.

Welcome to the board. You will find each motor will be different as they are coming from different appliances. One tip, take and scratch the windings (wire) on a motor before getting to involved to make sure it is indeed copper. Nothing more disappointing then working to remove the windings of a motor only to find it is aluminum. Good luck you will find motors fun to work with, I do!

Does this sound right?
I have a couple of pretty big compressor motors. each weighed around 70 pounds. after breaking one down, I seem to have about 10 pounds of copper.

is there any copper in the armature? or is that just ferrous?

thanks for the reality check

#2!?!?!?!?!? I get #1, its clean an shiny, how come you guys don't get #1??!!?!

I also break motors down. The only ones I havent been able to fully get apart are some motors off of lawn mowers. Cant get that big block apart to get the rods out so I turn it in as electric motors or irony aluminum whatever they want to call it that day!. anything else gets totally broken down because there is steel. aluminum and copper in them all.