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37chief · Jan 20, 2019

Our church has an outside air conditioner. Our insurance co. made us put a cage around it to keep it from being stolen for the copper. I got a estimate for around 600.00 for a ready made cage. I made one up with scrap 1 1/4 inch sq tubing in a few hours. Smaller tubing would work the 1 1/4 is what I had. Some one with a good work area , experience, and tools could sure build one cheaper than 600.00. I know it's cold now, but in the summer I am sure it gets hot where you are. Just a thought for someone looking for some extra income. I might consider it, but I have too many projects now. Stan

JOCCO · Jan 20, 2019

37 I used to say that all the time, build it cheaper. When you figure the labor rate, insurance, taxes, delivery, inventory and so on YOU CANT. Where you shine is the one of a kind custom THAT YOU CANT BUY.

showcrop · Jan 20, 2019

Chief, what is it fastened down to?

37chief · Jan 20, 2019

Most house conditioner units should be setting on concrete. This one at our church is on a sidewalk behind the building. I have a tab with a hole to anchor it on four places. Stan

David G · Jan 20, 2019

That is so sad.

Tom in NE · Jan 20, 2019

What has this world come to? Have to lock down air conditioner units like that?
Everyone say a little prayer for our future.

rockyridgefarm · Jan 20, 2019

(quoted from post at 15:54:43 01/20/19) Our church has an outside air conditioner. Our insurance co. made us put a cage around it to keep it from being stolen for the copper. I got a estimate for around 600.00 for a ready made cage. I made one up with scrap 1 1/4 inch sq tubing in a few hours. Smaller tubing would work the 1 1/4 is what I had. Some one with a good work area , experience, and tools could sure build one cheaper than 600.00. I know it's cold now, but in the summer I am sure it gets hot where you are. Just a thought for someone looking for some extra income. I might consider it, but I have too many projects now. Stan

So, since you built and installed this cage, will the insurance company deny a claim if the cage is broken into and the copper is stolen? Will you then be responsible for replacing the a/c unit?

Something to think about.

37chief · Jan 20, 2019

I serious doubt it. The crooks will not want to spend the time to unscrew nuts with Loctite. Stan

Philip d · Jan 20, 2019

Makes me wonder about heat pumps being stolen

Steve@Advance · Jan 20, 2019

Most residential and some commercial units sit on a fake slab. It's Styrofoam with a thin coat of mortar, just looks like concrete.

Nothing to anchor to, but it would probably fool a thief.

David G · Jan 20, 2019

My office/shop in Chandler is in an industrial complex, someone came in on Saturday night and stole all the outside fuses. My building is 480 3Ph, so I am assuming they stole those and not the 12.5KV.

charlie n · Jan 20, 2019

HVAC Company my son worked for tried some antitheft devices. We live in a world of thievery and cordless grinders.Aint nothing safe.

Vicinalvictor · Jan 20, 2019

Lots of breaking & entering on the local news....

parisspringstom · Jan 20, 2019

I had to build a cage for our church here in rural missouri after our unit was tore apart and the scrappable parts taken out of it.

aFORDable · Jan 20, 2019

It's not the world as much as it is the flow of drugs coming across our border. Druggies need $$$ so they steal.

steve_in_mo · Jan 20, 2019

Meth.

JLG · Jan 21, 2019

My company did some work at a former army base that was being redeveloped. It had sat empty for years but some group bought the place and was fixing up a few buildings at a time. They told us thieves had stolen the furnaces out of every building except the church.

Crazy Horse · Jan 21, 2019

It amazes me that someone would go to that much trouble to steal some copper, I know it's expensive but how much would they realize from the theft of an air conditioner? Clean & bright copper brings a scrap price up here of between $2.00 and $2.50 CDN per pound. On the other hand, thieving has been going on for thousands of years, it's certainly not anything new.

ss55 · Jan 21, 2019

Some business is buying it.

RobCons · Jan 21, 2019

Saw that market 10-12 years ago. Owned a company making cages selling into the residential, commercial, and public housing market. Made good money especially in apartments and public housing. Shipped cages all over the states. Another company in Utah dominated the market. The cages were hinged at the front along the bottom to fold open for technician acces, locked in the rear, bolted to concrete or optional anchors allowed the legs to be set in concrete. Lots of states changed scrap laws and the market diminished.

steve706 · Jan 21, 2019

The flow of drugs over the border is just an excuse to shift the focus away from the fact that the majority of the junkies stealing everything not nailed down are synthetic drug abusers ie;meth heads, using substances made in the US.

Super H Mike · Jan 21, 2019

They stole the aluminum can trailer full of cans from our church, the money from that normally went to the youth group in the church. It was Meth heads from down the road. Matthew 18.6 might apply there.

WGM · Jan 21, 2019

What has this got to do with topic?

rlp in Co. · Jan 21, 2019

I have a yard where I keep my old tractors, trucks, cars, and junk. I have had a lot of stuff stolen and what in my opinion is even worse is vandalism. What is the big thrill of just destroying stuff? A couple of months ago I put an electric fence around it. Maybe that will help. There is no insulated grip to open the gates. I know a farmer could defeate that, but maybe a thief wouldn't be smart enough.

hoof print · Jan 21, 2019

America is flooded with cheap meth from south of the border. It cheaper to get it from Mexico than to make it in the US. When was the last time you heard about a meth lab bust in the US? It?s been a while.

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