We Buy Westinghouse Equipment

A word to demo contractors

Old buildings coming down are the last reservoir of Westinghouse gear, and demo crews scrap most of it for pennies against its real value. If your next teardown was built in the 1950s–70s, walk the electrical rooms with your phone before demolition day. Ten photos could add four or five figures to the job's recovery — and we schedule removal around your timeline.

Westinghouse lines and why they still pay

Westinghouse stopped being a manufacturer decades ago, and that is exactly why its equipment holds value. Every DS and DB breaker that gets scrapped makes the remaining ones scarcer, while the buildings and plants running that gear still need replacements. Scarcity plus continuing demand is the best possible combination for a seller.

The DS and DB air power breakers are the headline items — complete units with their trip devices are worth serious money and are routinely thrown away by crews who see rusty steel. Molded case lines like the FB and HFB frames trade in volume, and legacy Westinghouse switchgear lineups feed a parts market that new production cannot serve.

Identifying Westinghouse equipment

Nameplates on this vintage are often painted over, corroded, or missing. Photograph the unit anyway from several angles — case shape, lug arrangement, mechanism style, and overall dimensions frequently identify a frame when the plate is gone.

Where a plate is readable, capture the type designation, frame size, amperage, and interrupting rating. For air power breakers, also photograph the trip device and note whether the closing mechanism is complete.

The most important instruction on this page: photograph before demolition, not after. Cut, torched, or pried-apart Westinghouse gear loses most of its value, and this is the brand where that loss is largest.