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Originally posted by Danger-Darryn
Watch out for being locked in a scrapyard with a very large guard dog! It took 1 hour to sneak out over the back fence.

Anyway.......finaly got a copper HC from a Scania truck, but unlike cars the dashboard on these are huge with the HC burried deep inside. Once I lick my wounds a bit more, I'll take some snaps.

Safer methods of copper rad collecting could be from these people http://www.readyrads.co.uk. Also, it may be obvious to you-lot, but searching in Google for "heater matrix copper" yeilded better results than "Heatercore"

Man... I feel your PAIN! finding a nice HC is SOOO much easier than tackling how to get that mofo out! But with the right TOOLS it's not so bad I dug out a chevette 86" HC in the middle of July and it was like 98F this past summer, while wearing thick jeans and a sweatshirt, in hopes of avoiding hidden hornet's nests and flying chips of sharp plastic, as I bashed away at the HC's housing.

I used the following for a quick (15min) extraction:

--14" Bolt cutters (to cut main lines and anything in the way)
--Steel Hammer
--Vise grips
--Multi head screw driver set with L-bend (for tight spots)
--hackSaw

WIth a backpack and those above, getting a HC isn't so bad... plus if you do some winter searching, the plastic breaks REALLY easy in the cold! Good luck all!