Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
I'm in my mid sixties Mike. At this age ... it's better to have some kind of boss job and leave the heavy lugging & tugging work to the younger hands. Work with your head / not with your back.



The AC's from the 90's would definitely be heavier. I went to buy a new ac from Home Depot awhile back and couldn't believe how light it was in comparison to the one it was replacing. It seems to have held up well enough even though it's not built as heavy.

The few older ac's i've torn down seemed to be more difficult to scrap out. Some of the sheet metal screw heads were all rusted up. The teardown procedure varies some from manufacturer to manufacturer. The good part is that you're likely to get a little more copper out of them. They were built more heavy duty and made to last back in the day.

Nowadays they're built as cheaply as possible.
The coils tend to be thicker