Motor windings

I'm confused on something, maybe you can clarify. I been stripping motors with the air chisel, since steel is hard to find atm, Some are aluminum with copper coating. You know the kind where it looks like copper, but aluminum in the middle?



Anyway I have been throwing it in with the cast aluminum.

Have I been paying idiot tax? Should this actually be copper/alu and go in with the ac condensers, rads, etc?

Ok thanks. I was starting to wonder if it was copper/alu or just sheet.

Its anodised Ali, hardly worth it if the rest of the motors all steel.

Originally Posted by Mick

Mine goes with Sheet Aluminum. Actually, I've quit cutting it out of the motor as not worth the effort. Usually gets thrown with Light Iron.

Typically I find these motors in the washers and dryers, but I still throw them in the electric motor pile. The yard takes them as such, I guess because there is so much aluminum in the windings and casings. I get 2.5 times what I would get as tin.