Still being coy?? Sheeit, we ARE your 24/7 bidniss/tech consultants, so you SHOULD divulge details.....
100,000# at 10c/# (retail) would be that place's expectation of scrap payment ($10K), less what they'd have to pay to bring it to a yard. So if you paid $10K, you paid waaaaay too much. $5K would proly be too much. Well..... am I getting close?? LOL
But the parts value could be considerable. Old motors, tho, were not renowned for efficiency. New Baldors (and others) are topping 98% (claimed) effic -- ackshooly, for quite some time now..
Everybody uses short tons... easy conversion, I spose. 2,000#, right?
100,000# is about 200 cu ft of steel, or about 7 cu yds, or one cube about 6 ft on an edge. If you "melted" alladat down, it should then fill those volumes. If that seems visually reasonable, then dats proly what you got. If not, you need to re-estimate.
I'da thought more, but still in the ballpark. I don't scrap, just bring my own shit to the yard in m'pickup, and DATS time-consuming. Dead LEAVES are time-consuming.... lol
Scrap yards pay me 290 per short ton, and with this much I hope that I can get 300/ton.
There is steel, copper wire, electrical controls, valves, hydraulic power units, and motors, among the sellable parts.
This is not how I estimate, I go by known machines (like "cincinnati vertical mill 14k lbs) and think, how many of those would be about equivalent to this machine.
I am not great at estimating yet. But I have to learn. I keep spreadsheets of how much I make from scrap machines.
You should do alright.... proly not a windfall, but still worthwhile. Depending on how you handle "parts", tho, you might have some of those for a while. Thank gawd for ebay....
If I had the money, space, I'd put alladis in a "manufacturing museum". Lord knows, Merka already needs one.....
It would not be practical to use a plasma cutter for scrapping machines. Many reasons, such as them not being as portable, needing compressed air, electricity etc, cut thickness and so on.
Questions: How critical is it to have super dry air? Will running it from a freshly drained compressor tank hurt it? Would inline filter driers work, such as are used at the ends of spray painting air lines?
But in one way or another , we all milk RCM for personal gain. =================================================
There are soldiers, and mercenaries. There are swinging doors, and ratchet-and-pawl turnstiles.... There's milking, and chewing off the nipple. Etc.
Ultimately, you are correct in some sense -- most here ARE getting something out of this relatively one-way exchange. But it reminds me of the super-great Yellow Pages ads, years back: You had to guess the subject from the skit, in this case: Oh, enough of me, let's talk about YOU, now, dear: What do YOU think about my latest movie????
Subject: Vanity Cases.....
Look, ig, I'm sure, is a tax-paying patriot, who loves his kids. I'm just sayin we should all get a tip, at Xmas.....
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