Comments on: What to do with your old Window AC Units

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:11:13 +0000

I agree. The article above clearly states that to get the best price you need to tear apart the ac unit and seperate the different kinds of metal. It dosen’t sound like the person that left the comment did that. This pretty much goes for anything that you scrap. If you dismantle it and seperate all the different kinds of metal you will get a much better price for it. If you just bring even a huge load of mixed apliances that are not broken down and seperated, you will usually get the “tin” price which isn’t much. I just brought in a load and didn’t have the time to seperate everything, but I had two fridges (you have to remove the compressor and frion if you want to get anything for it) two driers, two water heaters, six bicycles, 1 wood stove, 10 overhead florescent lighting units, and a few other things and got $239. Plus $36 worth of non ferous metals which was a few pounds worth of copper tubing off the water heaters and some wiring. I got the idea to do this because I am a contractor and another out of work contractor friend of mine did it the other day. He took in a ac unit and got $10 without tearing it apart. You can get at least $50 if not more if you tear it apart and seperate it!!!! I see people stealing them on the news all the time and they wouldn’t be doing that for $15. You can get $200-$300 for a large central air unit.

By: DV

DV — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:16:57 +0000

I believe the article is saying that if you disassemble the unit, and separate each metal, then you might get $50. I was told I would get $20 if stripped a washer and dryer, I said screw it I found the thing and I took it in and got $11. If you have the time, it is worth stripping. I unfortunately do not I just picked up stuff from what the lady said i could probably fix them easily (washer, dryer and window unit with heater). Unfortunately where I live I don’t have room for this stuff, and it probably would take a while to sell it. So–I could probably spend $20 (maybe more on a sensor for he washer) and make maybe $90 (the stuff is old) or I can haul it away now and make $20. I would strip it but I can’t and hey its quick money. What sucks is I am pretty sure the stuff is easy to fix. She said the AC worked just not heater, but its all fallin apart and noone would spand more than $20 for it. The washer might be worth fixing but the parts are probably more. The dryer easiest fix but it is beat up lookin. Scrappin it as is. I am just wondering about the AC–freon and compressor oil etc.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:16:05 +0000

It is the weight of the copper tubing that will bring in the bucks. Of course there will be slight variations depending on what part of the country you are in, but it sounds to me like you may have been taken for a ride. I just checked the commodities market and copper is trading for $3.15/lb so I’ll let you do the math.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:32:27 +0000

just recycled my old window AC unit and a dehumidifier – together weighing 149 lbs. They only paid me $13, not $50 as suggested above.