Window ac units

Originally Posted by mike1

Got some acs had to stack em 3 high I was going to stack them 5 high but I figured it was dangerous to do that. I got about 30 I would say. The window ac that are the heavy ones are 77lbs each I have a bunch of those left to get over the next two Fridays. I'm going to start the break down tomorrow too tired now haha two truck loads of loading and unloading plus loading steel up to take to scrap yardplus I loaded up all my rads i had clean and other non ferrous into my grandma's car took it in after work got 285$. Plus 47$ for the steel 540 lbs of steel. She said I could get more next Friday so things are finally looking up for me.

Good to hear things are moving in the right direction Mike.

How are things going Mike ?

I had a couple of identical GE brand ac's come in the other day. They were a bit more difficult to do. They had something like six or seven sheet metal screws poking out through the bottom. I whacked em' with a 10 lb sledgehammer and that worked really good on the ones i could get at easily. Some of the others were in the recesses where the hammer couldn't quite pound em' through. A 3/8" drive extension worked pretty good as a nail set worked for reaching in to the tight spots and pounding them through.

Best of luck !

It may take awhile to get through a hundred or more but you might make a little coin with it at the end of it all. Individually ... each ac might not be worth doing because it's lower value stuff.

If you've got a bazillion of em' ... the little bits add up. It's just a lotta work.

Originally Posted by hills

How are things going Mike ?

I had a couple of identical GE brand ac's come in the other day. They were a bit more difficult to do. They had something like six or seven sheet metal screws poking out through the bottom. I whacked em' with a 10 lb sledgehammer and that worked really good on the ones i could get at easily. Some of the others were in the recesses where the hammer couldn't quite pound em' through. A 3/8" drive extension worked pretty good as a nail set worked for reaching in to the tight spots and pounding them through.

Best of luck !

It may take awhile to get through a hundred or more but you might make a little coin with it at the end of it all. Individually ... each ac might not be worth doing because it's lower value stuff.

If you've got a bazillion of em' ... the little bits add up. It's just a lotta work.

Took in 160lbs of clean rads roughly 19 window ac units all different sizes so I can get a pinpoint figure ahead of time. Got 330$ with some tubes ,plugs and wires. What would be the recovery rate of the flat kind of plug that a window ac has?. My yard guy said it has to be 50% to be num 2 wire. Would it matter on recovery if the gauge is 16 or 14?. I have ten more out of 30 to do yet. I'm saving the motors and compressors for later and the loops on the cut off ends.

Originally Posted by mike1

Took in 160lbs of clean rads roughly 19 window ac units all different sizes so I can get a pinpoint figure ahead of time. Got 330$ with some tubes ,plugs and wires. What would be the recovery rate of the flat kind of plug that a window ac has?. My yard guy said it has to be 50% to be num 2 wire. Would it matter on recovery if the gauge is 16 or 14?. I have ten more out of 30 to do yet. I'm saving the motors and compressors for later and the loops on the cut off ends.

Nice haul on the rads & stuff. Way to go !

I checked scrap monster for the official definition of #2 ICW and it is 50% recovery.

Maybe hand strip a few pounds of ac cords to see you get for recovery.

It used to be that anything that plugged into the wall was considered #2 but it's been awhile since i sold any at the yard. Maybe they're stricter about it nowadays.

Thanks and I bet it depends on the yard and there definition of it. I really only go to this yard now cause it's 5 mins away from my work haha. I really didn't think a window ac could be 77 lbs that's nuts.

I just didn't want you to feel like they were shorting you at the yard. 50% recovery for #2 ICW seems to be the standard these days.

I suppose you gotta look on the bright side.

A 77 lb window ac is heavy to lift but then you get more $$$ out of the teardown when you're done.

Originally Posted by hills

I just didn't want you to feel like they were shorting you at the yard. 50% recovery for #2 ICW seems to be the standard these days.

I suppose you gotta look on the bright side.

A 77 lb window ac is heavy to lift but then you get more $$$ out of the teardown when you're done.

True I didn't know the bottom parts of the AC were that heavy my truck guy we loaded up um 17 bottoms of windows acs got 440lbs of steel it's at 11$ for 100lbs or .11 cents a lb. I got all but 6 broke down on the first batch. I'm going to pull the loops out when I'm done with all of them haha first I'll cut off the rads take those in then sort the tubes into number one and number 2 then tear down fan motors then compressors the fan motors and compressors and loops I'll pull when I don't have anything to do haha.