Any condition, any size
Sell a Transformer in Greater Cleveland
Padmount, substation and dry-type units bought across Greater Cleveland, with rigging and freight arranged.
What we buy
What we buy here
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.
Region
Greater Cleveland at a glance
the utilities that serve the region serves Greater Cleveland and the surrounding the region ground, which is why a municipal seller and a plant seller there often need the same paperwork. A seller should keep the photographs after the sale, because the next buyer will ask for the same ones.
A plant engineer who knows the fault history is worth more than a file of invoices. A transformer with its original documentation is easier to insure, easier to resell and easier to explain.
What the region holds
An autotransformer has no galvanic separation, which is the whole reason plants avoid it for isolation. A phase shifter without its control system is a very expensive fixed reactor.
A seized tap link turns a five-minute voltage change into a tank opening, which is worth knowing before the sale. Phase loss damage is often confined to one winding, which makes the unit a rebuild candidate rather than scrap.
Greater Cleveland runs on a grid built for a much larger industrial city, which is why so many of its transformers are oversized for the load they now carry.
Logistics across the region
We schedule Greater Cleveland pickups around the plant's shift change, because a loaded trailer and a shift change do not mix. A rectifier transformer is matched to its bridge, so the pair is worth more together than apart.
A lift over a fence needs a crane with reach, and reach costs more than capacity. The last hundred feet decide the day, and they are the hundred feet nobody photographs.
What we buy here
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. A unit with elevated gas that has been stable for a decade is a different proposition from one where the figure doubled.
A buyer who arrives unprepared wastes the site's morning, which is remembered long after the unit is gone. Remanufacturing keeps the footprint, and the footprint is often the reason the unit cannot simply be replaced.
Counties in Greater Cleveland
Cities we cover in Greater Cleveland
Questions from the region
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
Do you cover every county in Greater Cleveland?
There is no middle layer taking a spread: the desk that quotes is the desk that pays and the desk that sends the truck. Ohio only is not a limitation for us, it is why the logistics work: the crews, the cranes and the permits are all in-state. A unit with a clean surround has usually been maintained by somebody who cared, and that shows in the oil.
Service area
How far will you travel for one unit?
Send the tag, the cabinet, the bushings and the pad, and the answer usually arrives before the end of the working day. Most units leave within a week of the number being agreed, and a unit that has to clear a site by Friday can usually be gone by Friday. A unit that came out of a working plant is almost always the better buy, and sellers rarely realise it.
Payment
What kinds of units turn up in Greater Cleveland?
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. Surplus equipment around Greater Cleveland arrives in waves tied to plant closures and utility projects rather than to the economy in general. Details that seem trivial on the phone become decisive on the pad, which is why they are asked about early.