[Shop-talk] Does any re-manufacturer buy cores?

[Elton E. (Tony) Clark]

*Long, long ago, a college pal was a junk scrounger and made serious money
buying flathead Ford V8*
*engines and a long list of parts for a rebuilder in Ft Worth.  On the list
was some odd **Chrysler connecting rod; the rebuilded was offering $10 or
$12 for each!  Ron majored in this item and amassed a big pile of them, I
donno, maybe 50 or 60.  Most of them, he'd had to tear down the motor to
"harvest" .  When he presented them to the rebuilder dreaming of his
hundreds, they said: "Hell, we only want 3 or 4 of them!"*


On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Peter J. Thomas <pj_thomas at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On 9/5/2014 11:51 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Peter J. Thomas <pj_thomas at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just replaced a part with a new part instead of a re manufactured part.
>>> Now
>>> have a core but no need to have it re manufactured.  Does any company buy
>>> cores?
>>>
>>>  Call your local junk yards.  And ask the shop you bought the new parts
>> from.  Unless you're talking about an engine or transmission or other
>> expensive thing, don't expect much.
>>
>
> It's a fly by wire throttle body.  New OEM it's is about $600, refurbs
> vary but are around $400 with core charge is about $30-50 bucks.  It also
> appears to be an indemand part with low supplies.  I ordered a new one
> online (horror story) and they don't do cores unless you buy a part.  I'd
> expect a auto parts store or junk yard to at most pay half.  I thought
> selling it directly to a refurb might make it worth the effort.
>
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