At the time I didn’t have a car and a girl I was dating wanted to take me out in hers. I salvaged a deli slicer for the metal value to pay for gas to the beach.
I found the slicer next to a dumpster while walking home from the dollar store. I got $29 for the aluminum and $9 for the food grade stainless steel. Most of the stainless steel was in the giant cutting blade which was sharp enough to shave a buffalo or lop off a thumb. It took me about 30 minutes to extremely carefully dismantle it.
I tried to sell the motor because it was 1/2 horsepower but nobody wanted it so I just took it apart eventually.
I like this thing more than the girl in the end.
I would have thought all that copper was worth a fair few dollars alone.
Lotta time the coils are coated in insulation that makes salvaging the useable copper hard which affects the price.
Source: built stators for 5 years.
Was it a bit of a mess around the lacquer vat?
Boy was there
Copper is valuable but magnet wire not so much because it’s covered in lacquer
Can’t you burn off all the lacquer? I use magnet wire for soldering projects all the time because it’s cheap, solid core, and thin, and I just burn off what I need with my iron.
Might be a little more environmentally friendly to soak it in a solvent (lacquer thinner or acetone). If you’re not in a hurry anyway.
If I had 20 yes. I’m not going to dismantle this and clean the copper wire off for $6
Why not? /s