Any condition, any size
kVA ratings, size by size
Padmount and dry-type units at this rating bought across Ohio, from pole cans to padmounts, with the freight arranged.
What we buy
What we buy here
kVA is the figure that decides whether a buyer exists, because a common size can go anywhere and an unusual one cannot.
Each page below carries the wet weight, the usual form and the handling that size needs.
Who we buy from
Six kinds of seller, one desk
- Recyclers
- Electrical contractors
- Equipment dealers
- End users
- Demo contractors
- Distributors
Fast offers
A nameplate photo is usually enough to price a unit the same day.
Dedicated logistics
We arrange the crane, the permits and the flatbed, not you.
No broker fees
You are dealing with the buyer, so nothing is shaved off the offer.
How it works
Six steps from your yard to the money
- 01
Take pictures
The nameplate, the cabinet interior and the tank in daylight. Three photographs are usually enough to place a unit in the right class and the right price band.
- 02
Send them to us
The form on this page, a text or an email all reach the same desk. Include the city, the access and any deadline the site is working to.
- 03
Review the offer
A buyer reads the photographs, asks one or two questions and sends a written offer with the assumptions stated, so nothing changes on the day.
- 04
We schedule freight
Crane, flatbed and permits are booked around your access. You get a date and a window, and we carry the cost of getting it right.
- 05
Testing on arrival
Winding resistance, megger and turns ratio, plus oil analysis where the unit is liquid filled. The results decide the final number, and you see them.
- 06
Get paid
Payment is released on the agreed terms once the unit is received and tested, by check or ACH. No retention, no sixty-day terms.
What we handle for you
The parts sellers dread, done for you
Rigging
Crane and forklift arranged around your access, not the other way round.
Oil containment
Bunds, absorbent and disposal handled before the unit moves.
Bill of sale
A clean title document for your records, signed on collection.
PCB paperwork
Pre-1979 units get the testing and the manifest they need.
Ratings
The detail that decides the number
A buying desk earns its keep by answering quickly, because a seller with a unit in the way is not looking for a relationship. A plant engineer who knows the fault history is worth more than a file of invoices.
The market for used transformers is smaller than the market for new ones, and it rewards honest descriptions. A desk that buys for its own account answers with a figure rather than a promise to find one.
Details that seem trivial on the phone become decisive on the pad, which is why they are asked about early. A unit with a clean surround has usually been maintained by somebody who cared, and that shows in the oil.
The order of work is always the same: look, measure, test, agree, lift, pay. A relocation leaves behind exactly the units that were built into the building, which is why they become surplus.
A substation-class unit sits between what a plant can maintain and what a utility would own, which is why it changes hands. Every county in Ohio has a slightly different way of doing things, and a buyer who works statewide learns them all.
A buyer who quotes without asking anything has quoted for a different transformer. A unit that is documented is easier to move than one that is not, in every sense of the word.
A decision made on a photograph is reversible; a decision made after the truck arrives is not. The question that decides most purchases is not what the unit is but where it has to go next.
A buyer who explains the reasoning gets a second call, and the second call is where the good units are. The difference between a good and a bad purchase is usually information rather than luck.
The unit will outlast the building it serves, which is why so many of them change hands. A mine-duty unit is designed to be dragged, and it looks it, which is not the same as being worn out.
The work is unglamorous and the equipment is heavy, which is why so few people do it properly. A transformer is a boring asset until the day it fails, and then it is the only thing anyone discusses.
Everything in this section
Questions
Get started
Get an offer in minutes
Five fields and a phone number is all we need to start. We reply the same business day, and a firm number follows the nameplate photo.
(614) 715-3047or send the form and we will call you.
Questions
What sellers ask before they call
Equipment types
Is every page here written for Ohio?
Nothing sits in our queue for a week waiting for approval, because the buyer who quotes you also books the crew. Every county in the state is covered, from the lake shore to the river, and Ohio sits inside the regular loop. A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated.
Service area
Can I sell a unit that is not listed here?
We ask what the unit is, where it sits, and what has to happen before it can leave; the rest is scheduling and signatures. A buyer who says yes to everything is not a buyer; the useful answer explains what would have to be true for the number to rise. A buyer who cannot say where the unit will go is a broker, and brokers add a day and a deduction.
Payment
How do I get a number?
A buyer reads the tag, checks whatever oil history exists, and says what the unit is worth as it stands rather than what it might be worth rebuilt. Send the tag, the cabinet, the bushings and the pad, and the answer usually arrives before the end of the working day. A buyer who has seen the site will always beat a buyer who has only seen a form, which is why the visit is free.