Trip to the other yard

[2muchstuff]

Yes, I have several yards that I visit depending on what I'm cashing in. Gotta go where the money is, right.


912 Lbs of motor breakage at .15 per pound got me $136.80

It's amazing how much weight there is in a pile of electric motors.

 

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[davest]

looks like a decent days wages and some gas money. good going.

 

[2muchstuff]

Thanks.

One advantage I have is that my work provides me with a full sized van that I take home every day. They provide the gas and maintainance. The only disadvantage is that the van has the company logo on the side. There are many places that I won't take it because of that, like competitors dumpsters.

 

[2muchstuff]

Another trip to the yard got me the following:

80# of scrap Aluminum @ 55 cents/Lb.......... $44.00
106# of clean Aluminum @ 71 cents/ Lb.........$75.26
171# of cast Aluminum @ 68 cents/Lb............$116.28
88# of Red Brass @ $2.13/Lb.........................$187.44

For a total of...................$422.98

 

[davest]

now that's a great day of wages, congratulations.

 

[pygmy]

I'd be more interested in knowing what equip. these electric Mot's came from.
Over here in Australia I have to work hard to get the weight up.
I collect about 40 pedestal fans a week. Mot. is 1 lb plus about 1/4 lb pvc copper.
About 30 vacuum cleaners. mot. is about 1. 1/2 lb and about 1/2 lb pvc copper.
20 microwave ovens. The 10 lb Hi-voltage transformer is paid as for motor and about 1/4 lb pvc copper. plus the shell is sold as pressed steel.
Larger white goods ,fridges, washing machines etc, about 30/ week giving up about a 5-10 lb mot, ea.

 

[2muchstuff]

Pigiron,

The pile consisted of numerous 3/4, 1 and 2 HP electric motors. They were from dental vacuum pumps, basically jet pump motors. There was also some electrical transformers pulled from various pieces of equipment.

 

[pygmy]

Dental vacuum pumps you say. Well thats a new one for me. I'll have to see what happens to them over here.
I would'nt have thought there would be a constant supply of these.
Was it a one-off
Geoff

 

[2muchstuff]

Goeff,

I work as a dental eqipment service tech so I have a resonable supply of them. They last about 10 or so years and by that time they are pretty nasty looking. I separate them into basically the motor and the pump body which is red brass.

 

[whitesid]

912 Lbs of motor breakage at .15 per pound got me $136.80

doesn't that seem a little low? motor breakage should be more like .30 a pound

 

[pygmy]

Here in Australia that price is spot on. Last week 30c/Kg, this day 35c/Kg or about US$15c / Lb.
This day Copper and AL rose but Lead still flat at about US$ 7c / Lb
Picked up 3 gearboxes at about 40kg (90 Lb) ea. Over here it's classed as irony aluminium at
40c/kg or about US$ 17c/Lb.

Thanks for info about dentistry, should be fun researching prospects.

Geoff

 

[2muchstuff]

There are also the motors from the air compressors if you are interested. In fact today I'm going out and replacing an old oil head air compressor with a new oilless one. Should be somewhere around 300 Lbs worth of scrap steel.