I have a 3 ton Goodman split system in a rental house I own and am having to replace system due to the evaporator coil being mostly destroyed from the previous owner that attempted to clean it and never changing the filter. Plus the air handler is 20+ years old. The outdoor condenser unit is a 2004 and does work. I dont want to put much money into replacing parts in a R22 system. So I am having a Bryant 13 SEER with air handler installed. I am interested in salvaging all copper. How many pounds of copper in air handler coil? The blower motor and cage are good will they interchange with other air handlers? I am thinking of saving condenser unit for a spare to my other house that has the R22 refrigerant. If I dont keep how much copper can I get from the condenser coil. I checked a scrap yard and the rate today is 1.71 per pound. I told the A/C company that will do the install that I want to keep all old parts. Is there anything else other than that I need to keep?
I wonder if A/C company was planing to scrap my system if they hauled it away?
Hate throwing away parts I might be able to use later since most of the system is OK. If it was my house I would try to straighten and clean coils but it is a rental unit and it cant have an unreliable old system

 

It is possible there is no copper in the coil, that it is an aluminum coil. At any rate, the price for copper quoted was for "clean" copper and the coil(s) will have the aluminum fins. The price for such "dirty copper" is considerably less. You could go to the work of removing the fins if your own time is worth little but even a retired person like I would be hard pressed to justify the time required.

 

what about the condenser coil unit outside? Here in Florida people are stealing copper from A/C units. How much will that get me?

 

Slightly more but still wouldn't be worth my time. The people that steal the units are mostly meth-heads and ANYTHING they get from the scrap dealer helps to pay their drug habit.