Toroid transformers - need rid - options to scrapping them?

[RRH]

Chaps, due to a customer going bust a while back we have a large quantity of toroid transformer - essentially copper wire wrapped around a steel 'doughnut', about 2.3kg a piece.

We could do with turning them back in to cash, but, unless we strip them down to copper & steel component form (which I don't think is financially viable) they're worth very little.

Any ideas?

Mods please don't delete - this isn't a for sale thread - I'm looking for ideas!

Thanks muchly,
Simon

[StarmistBlue400]

Talk to Roger Miller at Three Pin Recycling. Decent bloke who should be able to point you in the right direction if he cant help.

Tell him Andrew from Castle Computers sent you

07552 674 267

[dudleybloke]

They are easy enough to separate if you break the core.
How many have you got?

[RRH]

Andrew - thank you

DB- about 4,500. Scrap value is about equal to labour cost to separate, sadly.

[guards red]

Lots of people looking for these on eBay to use in DIY amplifiers.

Depending on spec and use may be a worth selling them on there. Would be worth reasonable money too.

[dudleybloke]

Or make a rail gun.

[Hoofy]

How big is the hole? No, I'm not going to propose buying the air inside it.

Just wondering how big these things are.

[RRH]

[RRH]

Cost of transaction would be too high to sell them in small quantities

guards red said:

Lots of people looking for these on eBay to use in DIY amplifiers.

Depending on spec and use may be a worth selling them on there. Would be worth reasonable money too.

[Hoofy]

Could probably sell them for £4 each as novelty weights for weight lifting. They'd fit on a home barbell bar.

[RRH]

lol