[RE-wrenches] Scraping old Trace SW’s

[Jay]

Depends. 

Where I live the local metal scrap yard pays very differently for 
Steel
Copper
Electronics 
Wire
Transformers

So for me even if I just pulled it apart without actually breaking the transformers I’d more money vs putting it into the scrap steel. 
My time isn’t so valuable anymore. 
But the larger issue to me is the better recycling by type vs it go into the main scrap metal bin. So I spend the time. 

They are all finally end of life. End of an era. 
I just removed a still working from 1995 sw4024. 



> On Apr 14, 2026, at 9:27 AM, David Palumbo via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
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> Asking for advice on scraping two old SW’s (one is SN 0049). Is it worth my time and energy to take them apart to separate the transformer out for higher return at the metal recycling place?
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