What should I be getting for appliance motors with aluminum windings?

**utahscrapper** · 02-17-2012, 05:33 PM

My yard only wants to give me shred price for appliance motors with aluminum windings. They give me motor scrap price ones for the copper windings. Am I getting ripped off? What do you guys get for them? Thanks!

**mikeinreco** · 02-17-2012, 08:05 PM

at least .25 cents a pound

**Hypoman** · 02-17-2012, 08:11 PM

Yeah, you are a little, my yard will sometimes only gives me breakage price for motors with aluminumwire. Depends on who is working that day.

**wildbillhappy** · 02-17-2012, 08:17 PM

Most of the time if you put them in with a load with mostly copper windings they pay me the same about .25 .30 a lb. It's my thinking though that if a typical yard is willing to pay .25 a lb. for dirty aluminum than whats the beef with motors that have alum. windings? wb

**queevil** · 03-04-2012, 12:32 AM

My yard paid me .27 today for a load that included some larger motors that had aluminum windings. Another yard about 15 miles away pays .30. With the cost of gas I don't think it would be worth the extra drive unless I'm doing enough volume.

**PartTimeScrapper** · 03-04-2012, 12:44 AM

I still cut them out. Granted I dont do many of them but my yards will pay me 81 cents a pound for clean aluminum wire.

**eesakiwi** · 03-05-2012, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

I still cut them out. Granted I dont do many of them but my yards will pay me 81 cents a pound for clean aluminum wire.

And you get the difference between 'shread' & 'heavy iron' for the iron.
Thats my deal with a guy for fridge motors.
I scrap it, keep the copper wire (2Lb each) & sell the iron at heavy iron prices & give him the money for the iron.

**eesakiwi** · 03-14-2012, 01:14 AM

My yard has a set price for 'Ali contaminated heavy iron'. Dunno what it is, just a bit under the heavy iron price.
It all gets dumped in the same pile, I just get less than full price for it.

Thats were all my electric armatures ended up.