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Thread Number: 45375
Vintage Washer/Dryers Going For Scrap? |
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Post# 664619 , Reply# 1 3/8/2013 at 21:58 (4,056 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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| Post# 664623 , Reply# 3 3/8/2013 at 22:22 (4,056 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
Yes. I drive by people with a truck full of appliances every day. I have tried to explain to these scrappers that a good used wp dd transmission is worth $50. Alas, in vain have I ever got a reliable scrapper.
Right now you would get $15 for a wp dd washer at the scap yard. So, a flair would get, what $45? I go to the scraap yard routinely. It is unreal what is throw away. But, if I post something, if you don't response within a day, it will be scrapped. I have no room. I have a shabby shack. | ||
| Post# 664630 , Reply# 6 3/8/2013 at 22:42 (4,056 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
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Jacking up prices
You are 100% correct. Parts have fone up across the board by proabably 20-25% in the last year. But the used parts market is booming. I strip as many machines as I can.
For years I came across great vintage machines up here in Grand Rapids. Look at the dishwashers Pete took alone. Those days are over. Older machines are parts are harder and harder to find. | ||
| Post# 664638 , Reply# 9 3/9/2013 at 00:24 (4,056 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
Prices of Whirlpool washer parts have also increased a lot here in the last few years.
A pump for a DD Whirlpool used to be $38 Canadian just a few years ago (was probably a lot cheaper in the States) but it's now near $80 and the water level switch is $72... And I bought a self-destructing lid switch for it two days ago and it was $52 and it didn't include screws (which often disappear when the plastic switch splits in half where it's held by the screws) at that price! After all the efforts Whirlpool made in making their DD machines serviceable, now they seem to want us to throw away our better machines so they can sell expensive disposable appliances and let younger generations believe that these things were never meant to be long-lasting or serviceable... I wish our governments, instead of trying to force manufacturers to make their appliances "energy efficient" until they become not efficient at all, could instead force big corporations to provide free replacement parts for their domestic market products for at least 15 years and regulate the price of replacement parts for older machines so the sum of all the parts required to assemble a new machine from scratch couldn't exceed 3 times the original value of the appliance adjusted to inflation and that each part couldn't exceed 10% of the original price of the machine... That way, manufacturers would be forced to keep their designs longer to avoid stocking a lot of different parts and we'd have better machines too. | ||
| Post# 664648 , Reply# 10 3/9/2013 at 01:01 (4,056 days old) by DigAPony () | ||
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Don't want to get political here but the state forcing "X" to do "Y" is the main reason we've arrived at the sorry state of affairs these days. | ||
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Post# 664672 , Reply# 12 3/9/2013 at 06:10 (4,055 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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 Around here, scrap is about $225.00 a ton for appliances. I probably take in 7-8 a month. As stated above, most people don't want something that's 10+ years old fixed. New is more appealing. Used appliances is still a decent business, I made about $1500.00 profit last month, working it part time. But it's getting harder and harder to find inventory to sell. Most of my customers are landlords with rental property, a used stove or 10YO refrigerator makes perfect sense to them.
When I get something vintage in, if I don't keep it, I usually offer it here, for nothing, or next to it. But most times, it get's scrapped, because some of the folks around here who keep saying they can't find anything vintage, won't drive more than an hour to get a vintage machine. Or won't put forth the effort to get something shipped. It's sad that these go to the scrapyard, but ya can't save everything. | ||
| Post# 664726 , Reply# 14 3/9/2013 at 15:11 (4,055 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 664735 , Reply# 15 3/9/2013 at 15:42 (4,055 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Im tired of the government... Telling me how much water i can use or how much electricity!! If I pay the bills with money I earn, they should mind their own business!!! | ||
| Post# 664744 , Reply# 16 3/9/2013 at 16:11 (4,055 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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