Easy way to remove copper winding from a motor core

Nice manual method.

Myself? Angle grinder with cut-off disk. Half the time. Wear safety glasses! And DO NOT cut the string first....it helps hold it all together for the cut.

Originally Posted by Enoch43

Nice manual method.

Myself? Angle grinder with cut-off disk. Half the time. Wear safety glasses! And DO NOT cut the string first....it helps hold it all together for the cut.

I think this is a nice way to do it, for who don't have electric tools.
Thanks for sharing your way to do it.

is it worth more to take the copper wire out of the coil

As with any other scrap deciding how far you're going to break it down depends on the individual and how much material you have to process. Personally I remove copper from motors like the guy in the video. It only takes a few minutes and you have some nice #2 copper. I learned the hard way to always check first and make sure it is copper and not aluminum.

Too long, I cut off one end on a bandsaw, then press out the rest. 2 minutes at most.

I use a grinder. Sawsall tends to rip and pull at some of the strands. Band saw only works if its a good one, a lot of the cheap ones bind up on stuff like this.

As to weather its worth it, it depends on the motor some have more copper than others. I like fan motors from the osculating fans.

Matt..shh! Now everyone will be out collecting fans!

Sirscrapalot - Loves some of those fan motors.

just some advice, add a vice to this project

Matt hopes none of his fan motors are cheating on him with Sirscrapalot

Originally Posted by ginofrater

I think this is a nice way to do it, for who don't have electric tools.
Thanks for sharing your way to do it.

This is a hard business to be in without power tools. I picked up a 4 1/2" grinder for $20 from HF. It's been dropped, drugged across the floor, left out in the rain, the handle broke off, etc and it keeps chugging along. Probably one of the better $20's I've ever spent.