Window ac units

**mike1** · 11-07-2024, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by hills

I'm looking on ebay right now. The 6" to 8" pipe cutters are about $ 300.00 new and $ 200.00 used. You take some of the money you make from scrapping and re-invest it back into the business by purchasing tools and equipment that help you work more productively. It's true what they say .... you have to spend money to make money.

There's another way of looking at it too. You might say to yourself .... gee .... i saw on the video that there's this man over there in Pakistan that's set up to do the job a whole lot better than i can. Maybe i will just sell my sealed unit at the scrap yard and farm the work out to him. It makes more sense for him to do that kind of work than for me to do that kind of work. That will free me up do do something more profitable than struggling with the sealed units.

Basically .... i'm just trying to say that you have different options. You just have to decide what approach works best for your own particular situation.

I usually use my angle grinder on rivets and screw heads that have stripped. Gt's hammer and hatchet sounds like another good way to do the job. I've recently started using a meat clever to split stators apart.

I've seen videos of the machete being used never tried it myself .unfortunately I have to take the strings off the windings on the reg motors it can be a pain when the strings have a finish on them and are hard good thing about the oil ones in compressors no hard strings so that's a plus.

**hills** · 11-17-2024, 09:02 PM

Ahh ... the forum is back online again. That's good news.

As it worked out ... a 4" pipe cutter was just the right size for the compressors coming out of the window AC's. I got a used one off ebay and did a trial run. It worked okay. I tapped on the side of the compressor with a ballpeen hammer. You can tell where the stator is by the solid or hollow sound. Made a mark where the top of the stator was and cut there. Made a mark where the bottom was and cut there. The stator lifted right out and i stripped it for the copper like i would any electric motor.

It was a pretty smooth process. No oily mess. No grinder dust. No smoke from a torch. No more sawzall blades to buy.

There was one unexpected thing. I think there are a couple of decent chunks of brass built into the shaft that runs up through the middle. I guess you would call that shaft part the rotor.

I think i'll have to do a few more compressors the next time they become available. Maybe the brass parts were just a one off and not what you would normally find when you tear open a sealed unit.