I have accumulated a pile of these heavy bombs and hear selling the copper in them separate from the iron is worth the trouble taking them apart . I think Paul B posted something once on this subject.
So here goes. Most all are very rusty. Starters first. Easy to get the long bolts out. Easy to get the Bendix off the Arm. That is about as far as you can go there.
Getting the field coils out is another story. The slotted machine screws are impossible to turn. But they drill out real easy. You have to drill them out on Genny coils too.
With the Gennys it is getting the pullys off the Arm. Seems like no two are just alike. The nut came off every genny easy.
With the aid of my big vice, A BIG hammer and a big pipe wrench I finally got a pile of genny arms by themselves. I can't see going any farther with the arms to get copper off the steel.
The steel in one pile at $6 a hundred . Arms in another pile and the clean copper coils in another better be worth the hours I spent separating .
They go today along with 15 brass radiators I sweated the rusty steel off of. 4 or 5 of the 20 Rads in the pile looked good enough to keep to reuse.
Then I 'm going fishing
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