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A car shredder operates as a spectacular example of brute force engineering and recycling innovation. At its heart, the key player is the crusher electric motor, a powerhouse of energy conversion. The process begins as a scrapped vehicle is positioned on a conveyor belt, slowly moving towards its impending doom. As it approaches, the crusher motor roars to life, driving massive hammers, blades, or rotating drums to tear into the vehicle. The relentless electric motor generates immense torque, smashing through the car’s structure with a deafening sound. Simultaneously, powerful magnets and eddy current separators help remove non-ferrous materials like aluminum and plastics. This electric marvel shreds, crushes, and grinds the car into smaller, manageable pieces, reducing it to a chaotic heap of recyclable materials, ready to be transformed into new products. One example of where this material goes is a customer of ours: Steel. They melt it down and reuse it. So what kind of motor is needed for an application like that? A 6000 HP Crusher Motor. Horner was called after the shaft was broken. Imagine the force to break a shaft on this motor. Randy Isley received the initial call and Billy Burge and Collin Mann went out to look at the job onsite at the recycling plant. The rotor was electrically tested and passed, so the broken shaft can be removed and replaced with a new one. Horner is currently in the process of working with the customer on what they would like to do. Along with the broken shaft there were multiple bearing house parts that are damaged need to be replaced, which the customer said it was having a hard time sourcing from the OEM. Horner is working to identify, blueprint, and manufacture spare parts not only to repair this motor but to potentially provide stock for the customer on future repairs.