Any condition, any size
Selling topics, in one place
How selling a transformer works in Ohio, in plain steps, with the paperwork and freight covered.
What we buy
What we buy here
Some sellers want the process, some want the comparison, and some want the city they are standing in.
The index below covers all three, and every page ends with the same form.
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.
Selling
The detail that decides the number
A desk that buys for its own account answers with a figure rather than a promise to find one.
A unit substation is convenient in service and awkward to move, because the sections are bolted together.
A buyer who turns up with a torch and a tape measure is not there to argue about the paint.
The second data plate on a rebuilt unit matters more than the first, and it is easy to photograph by mistake.
A decommissioning is orderly, which makes it the easiest kind of large project to buy from.
The best outcome is a unit that leaves the site and turns up somewhere useful, and that happens more often than people expect.
A seller who has the serial number to hand moves through the first call in half the time.
A seller should keep the photographs after the sale, because the next buyer will ask for the same ones.
A relocation leaves behind exactly the units that were built into the building, which is why they become surplus.
The unit will outlast the building it serves, which is why so many of them change hands.
A transformer that is still bolted down belongs to the building until somebody unbolts it, and that is a decision.
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.
A transformer is heavy, oily, regulated and awkward, and every part of the process reflects that.
A site manager who has already cleared the pad has done most of the work that matters.
Nothing about a transformer improves by waiting, and the oil in particular gets worse rather than better.
Remanufacturing keeps the footprint, and the footprint is often the reason the unit cannot simply be replaced.
A hot mechanical room quietly derates everything in it, and nobody notices until a unit fails early.
A mine-duty unit is designed to be dragged, and it looks it, which is not the same as being worn out.
A unit that has been looked after is obvious within a minute, and so is one that has not.
The unit will outlast the building it serves, which is why so many of them change hands.
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?
A receiver, a trustee or a plant manager can send a list without it becoming public information. If a unit sits just over a state line, the honest answer is that somebody closer should buy it. The work is unglamorous and the equipment is heavy, which is why so few people do it properly.
Service area
Can I sell a unit that is not listed here?
Nothing here needs a meeting. A nameplate photograph and a sentence about access is enough to start, and most answers come back the same day. There is no pressure to accept on the call; the number holds for a set period and you can test it against another buyer. A buyer who explains the reasoning gets a second call, and the second call is where the good units are.
Payment
How do I get a number?
With the tag and the access photographs, a working number becomes a firm number and the truck can be booked against it. You send a photograph of the nameplate, a buyer reads it, and you get a number with the conditions attached instead of a range that means nothing. Nothing about a transformer improves by waiting, and the oil in particular gets worse rather than better.
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