No fees, no broker
Sell or Repair a Transformer? A Decision Framework
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
If a unit is in Ohio and it has a tag, there is a reasonable chance we will buy it. Solar inverter units are recent enough that the first wave is only now reaching the used market.
A seller who understands the rating will understand the offer, and the conversation gets shorter. A unit with new bushings has usually had money spent on it, and that spending is visible.
How it works here
Every county in Ohio has a slightly different way of doing things, and a buyer who works statewide learns them all. A seller should be able to tell, from one phone call, whether the buyer has done this before.
The difference between a good and a bad purchase is usually information rather than luck. A quick decision is a kindness when the unit is standing in the way of a project.
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. A short list of photographs covers the cabinet, the tag, the bushings and the access, and nothing else is needed at the start.
A site visit answers in twenty minutes what a week of messages cannot. A unit that came out of a working plant is almost always the better buy, and sellers rarely realise it.
Compared with the alternatives
A unit with a matched partner is worth more as a pair than as two singles, and pairs are rare. An offer that states what it assumes is easier to accept than one that does not, because both sides know where they stand.
A mixed lot is priced unit by unit, and the junk in the corner is part of the arithmetic rather than a gift. A site visit costs the buyer a morning and saves both sides a misunderstanding, which is why it is free to the seller.
Ohio only, on purpose
Every county in the state is covered, from the lake shore to the river, and Ohio sits inside the regular loop. A relocation leaves behind exactly the units that were built into the building, which is why they become surplus.
A seller should ask what happens to the unit after it leaves, because the answer says what kind of buyer they are dealing with. A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated.
Common questions
A buck-boost unit is almost always misapplied rather than worn out, and the diagram inside the cover explains why. A short conversation at the start saves an argument at the gate, and the argument is the expensive part.
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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 do not buy in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana or West Virginia, and we say so rather than waste a seller's week. The order of work is always the same: look, measure, test, agree, lift, pay.
Service area
Is there a fee to get a number?
Payment goes out by bank wire, ACH or certified check on pickup, with no holdback waiting on somebody else's sale. Nobody asks you to front the crane, the permits or the haul, and nobody nets those out of the offer afterwards. A transformer is heavy, oily, regulated and awkward, and every part of the process reflects that.
Payment
How fast can a unit leave the site?
The last thing we need is a contact on site who can open a gate, and that is often the hardest thing to arrange. We work to your deadline rather than ours, which is why the first question is when the site has to be clear. A buyer who arrives unprepared wastes the site's morning, which is remembered long after the unit is gone.