No fees, no broker
Transformer Buyer Versus Scrap Yard
How selling a transformer works in Ohio, in plain steps, with the paperwork and freight covered.
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.
Buying desk
The short answer
The alternative to a buyer is a scrap yard, and the difference between the two is usually the difference between a machine and a heap of steel. Two units of the same age can be worth very different amounts, and the difference is usually the tap changer.
An offer that states what it assumes is easier to accept than one that does not, because both sides know where they stand. A K-rated unit holds its value in any building full of electronics, which is most buildings now.
How it works here
A number is only as good as the description behind it, which is why the questions are short and specific. An insurance salvage is bought on the adjuster's valuation rather than the seller's hope, which keeps the process honest.
A transformer that is still connected belongs to the plant's electrician until it is isolated, and that is the first call. A demolition pickup is fast, dirty and often the most profitable, because the alternative is a unit in a rubble pile.
What we need from you
If the tag is painted over or missing, photograph the bushings, the gauges and the tank; a buyer can usually read the size from those. The question that decides most purchases is not what the unit is but where it has to go next.
A unit that came out of a working plant is almost always the better buy, and sellers rarely realise it. A relocation leaves behind exactly the units that were built into the building, which is why they become surplus.
Compared with the alternatives
A number agreed before the lift is a negotiation, and the same number after the lift is a dispute. A number given on the phone is an indication, and a number given in writing is an offer with assumptions attached.
A transformer sold as equipment keeps its documentation chain, and that chain has value to the next owner. Solar inverter units are recent enough that the first wave is only now reaching the used market.
Ohio only, on purpose
We know the Ohio permit routes, the scales and the bridge limits because that is the only ground we work. A short drive within one county costs less than a long drive across three, and the number shows it.
A county with a rail siding is easier to work than one without, because rail takes what road cannot. A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated.
Common questions
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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 buy transformers anywhere in Ohio?
Site names, addresses and photographs stay in the file, and the file does not leave the desk. We buy in Ohio and only in Ohio, which is why a truck can be at a Ohio gate the same week the number is agreed. A decommissioning is orderly, which makes it the easiest kind of large project to buy from.
Service area
Is there a fee to 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. Nobody asks you to front the crane, the permits or the haul, and nobody nets those out of the offer afterwards. A site visit answers in twenty minutes what a week of messages cannot.
Payment
How fast can a unit leave the site?
If a unit sits just over a state line, the honest answer is that somebody closer should buy it. 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. The order of work is always the same: look, measure, test, agree, lift, pay.