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.
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