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Scrapping old AC & Heating unit
Salvation122
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So about a month ago my AC and heating unit got replaced (the old one broke down.) I was told that someone would be by to pick it up in a week or two. Again, it's been a month.
I've got something of an entrepreneurial spirit, and there's bunches of valuable steel, copper, and aluminum in old heating and AC units. I called the two local scrap yards, and the prices I was quoted were $8 per hundred pounds, if I just brought the whole unit in. Given that copper is currently sitting at something like $2/lb by itself, I'd rather try to disassemble the thing and sell each material seperately.
Is this safe? Are there big fuckoff capacitors in AC/heating units that will kill me if I look at them wrong? Are there any hazardous materials I need to worry about? Am I actually likely to make more money by breaking it down than I am just dragging the whole thing to a scrap yard?
I've got something of an entrepreneurial spirit, and there's bunches of valuable steel, copper, and aluminum in old heating and AC units. I called the two local scrap yards, and the prices I was quoted were $8 per hundred pounds, if I just brought the whole unit in. Given that copper is currently sitting at something like $2/lb by itself, I'd rather try to disassemble the thing and sell each material seperately.
Is this safe? Are there big fuckoff capacitors in AC/heating units that will kill me if I look at them wrong? Are there any hazardous materials I need to worry about? Am I actually likely to make more money by breaking it down than I am just dragging the whole thing to a scrap yard?
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and honestly? you'll make like $20 for the bits, and have to poison the planet, cut yourself on sharp metal bits, and lug a ton of crap to a scrap yard, while throwing the rest out with normal garbage.. is it worth it?