63 Huge Air Conditioner Compressor Pull Apart. I Make it Look Hard (Scrap Copper) Bondi Scrapper

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2 жыл бұрын

In this video I tear down a huge 59kg air conditioning scroll compressor from an 8 horsepower air conditioner.
It's a comedy of errors as I try and figure out what to do next.
I'd recommend that you use this video as a guide of what not to do when trying to reclaim scrap burnt copper. :-)
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@harleykeller9314 2 жыл бұрын

The first one is always the slowest, but good work, you worked it out. I usually mount the stator a bit higher on some chocks of wood so that you can just use gravity, a hammer and a long screw with a flat end to tap the windings out all the way and not have to lever them out with a screwdriver or a pinch bar. I don't bother cutting open compressors or upright fan motors, but pump motors and winch motors are usually much better because you can just undo the casing screws and take the motor out, and not have to muck around with all the heavy steel, anchoring bolts and welding that compressors have protecting the motor.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

At the moment I've got a lot of projects happening and am scrapping the easy way for a lot of stuff. I'll be glad when life is a bit less busy

@daviddaus 2 жыл бұрын

I've got a couple of compressors I've been staring at for a few months, think you might have saved me some grief haha

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

I think it was just me...

@TheUltimateRecycler 2 жыл бұрын

Perseverance over intelligence! 🤣🤣 A lesson in persistence as well! 👍

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

I don't like machines to get the better of me

@TheUltimateRecycler 2 жыл бұрын

@@bondiscrapper1781 I hear ya!!

@danthescrapper815 2 жыл бұрын

Good effort mate.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

It was certainly good for the cutting wheel suppliers. :-)

@danthescrapper815 2 жыл бұрын

@@bondiscrapper1781 Hahaha no doubt.

@markmclean4897 2 жыл бұрын

Gosh I’ve got the same Copland sat looking at me Maybe time for a rethink

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

Certainly you'd re-think the terrible technique and not make the same mistakes. Maybe check the prices before getting out the tools? Good luck! :-)

@ihearDeadpeople 2 жыл бұрын

One thing I have learnt over the year's is to follow the joins or welds when cutting things like this apart

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

Aren't the welds thicker and stronger than the surrounding metal?

@ihearDeadpeople 2 жыл бұрын

@@bondiscrapper1781 maybe but that's where it was put together i found they come apart easier

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

@@ihearDeadpeople I'll try it next time.

@swanseascrap4404 2 жыл бұрын

You made hard work with at compressor mate tbh I does em in like 15min max tbh mate

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure there are a more efficient, easier, cleaner methods than mine. I didn't have a clue when I started and wasn't much smarter when I finished.😂

@iffy9776 2 жыл бұрын

I would have tore into that compressor as soon as I got it for the copper. It takes me 10 to 15 minutes to take a compressor apart. On my first one it took ages. Now I have taken over 100 apart. I live in the UK we don't get thst much for compressors so it's best to cut them open.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome! Definitely I need practice. I can be a lazy git and tend to do the quick easy jobs first as I get bored with the bigger projects. The scrap price yesterday was 95c/kg which is 22p/lb. How does that compare with your price?

@iffy9776 2 жыл бұрын

@@bondiscrapper1781 I think price are very similar because metal is traded on the world market. Last month. I got £6.35 per kg for bare bright wire. £5.25 for num 2 copper wire. House hold flex, cat 5 wire normal electric wire not stripped £1.89 per kg. Copper 5.65 per kg .brass 3.50 perkg. Aluminium comes all under one price 90p per kg . Stainless 1.20 perkg. I think motors compressors all go for 30 to 50 pence per kg. Shred is 20 ppkg.

@iffy9776 2 жыл бұрын

I was surprised the you only got 3.7 kg if copper from a compressor weighing 70kg..Normally a compressor this big has 5 kg at least.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

@@iffy9776 Similar but different. I should take some bare bright in again and see how it goes. Thanks for all the prices.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

@@iffy9776 It did seem a bit light on the Cu.

@ukscrapperparttime6114 Жыл бұрын

I do about 10 of theses a week lol no longer that 30 45 mins per unit

@bondiscrapper1781 Жыл бұрын

I'm the first to admit it was a debacle.

@E-BikingAdventures 2 ай бұрын

$1.10 a kg for compresors. I find that hard to believe.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 ай бұрын

I don't really care what U believe. That's the price I was getting when the video was made.

@peterrobbins2862 6 ай бұрын

Were are you getting $1.10a kilo for motors

@bradgray123 6 ай бұрын

The Sims Metal Management yard 1km from home. This video is 2 years old. 95c was the price a few weeks back IIRC.

@phillipvmason1 2 жыл бұрын

I did one once, it;s not worth it.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

I think there might be a "trick " to it.

@elainerussell924 2 жыл бұрын

Ok to be cranked 8 hrs work 3 grinder blades for a few bucks crap

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

That was pretty much my thoughts too. Every day is a school day. :-)

@jonglewongle3438 2 жыл бұрын

1:14 - 59 kilos. At $$ 1.10 per kilo. Comes to $ 64.90. Round it down to $ 60.00 for the sake of conservative calculation. Would have got $ 60.00 for it as is. So, round up the burnt copper to $ 40.00, and and an officially established $ 8.10 return on the steel [ 31.10 ], for an actual return of, say, $ 48.10. As against a potential return of at least $ 60.00. What you have achieved is to take at least $ 10.00 out of the economy. By your labors you have tightened the economy by $ 10.00. You have added $ 10.00 to the productivity of the economy.

@bondiscrapper1781 2 жыл бұрын

I can tell you are a "silver lining" type of guy. :-)

@jonglewongle3438 2 жыл бұрын

@@bondiscrapper1781 Actually, one can be more exact than my above calculation, and circumvent any other residual material to do with the item such as any brass appendage and so forth, just by adding the steel weight to the burnt copper weight, 57+ kilos, at a rounded down $ 1.00 per kilo for compressor weight, and its a conservative $ 57.00. Thus a very conservative $ 8.90 pruning, but probably $ 10.00+. But I think it definitely still less than $ 20.00. But whatever you pruned from the value is processessing work you did for for other interests further along the stream.

@computerlearingchannel4257 2 жыл бұрын

Wo wo wo where do you get $1.12 a kilo for compressor ?

@jonglewongle3438 2 жыл бұрын

@@computerlearingchannel4257 I myself don't do compressors so I don't know regarding that. I can only hope I cited the correct figures here.

@computerlearingchannel4257 2 жыл бұрын

@@jonglewongle3438 im from united states so compressor sell to scrapyard for 0.08- 0.15 a lbs, so if you are getting 1.10 a kilo holy shit that alot for compressor