Last weeks haul

[BCR]

Last week's haul

Got my cheque today from the electronic scrap I hauled in:

Power Supplies 185lbs@.11 cents =20.35
Disc Drives 186lbs@.14 = 26.04
Motherboards 76lbs@ 1.20 = 91.20
Fingerboards 21lbs @1.30 = 27.30
Hard Drive Boards 3lbs @ 1.05 = 3.15
Low Grade Boards 9lbs@0.015 = .14 ( Ouch)
Plastics 107lbs @ 0.03 = 3.21
K6 Chips 0.3@5.80 = 1.74
Pentium Chips 0.8@11.00 =8.80
486 Processors .04@37.00 =14.80
Fiber Chips .08@7.80 = 6.24

$204.00 give or take a few pennies, this is based on roughly a month's worth of collecting and sorting the material.

 

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[stinkweed]

Re: Last week's haul

Nice haul. I find a lot of computers, but I'll have to
see if I have a scrap yard that takes them. My question
is: Do you have to handle the parts carefully or do you
just strip them and throw them in boxes til you get a
good sized load? They're just after the gold right, not
for resale?

Thanks

 

[cmbb]

Re: Last week's haul

Very Good!

 

[BCR]

Re: Last week's haul

Nice haul. I find a lot of computers, but I'll have to
see if I have a scrap yard that takes them. My question
is: Do you have to handle the parts carefully or do you
just strip them and throw them in boxes til you get a
good sized load? They're just after the gold right, not
for resale?

Thanks

Scrap yards don't take electronics per se, you have to find an electronics recycler who pays for the material. I'm in Canada, I was able to find one that is reputable. Down in the US, you guys are lucky... you have these places in the dozens!

I strip the computers, this is what gets sent to the scrap yard, #2 insulated wire, computer housing and internal tin, CPU heatsinks ( aluminum extrusion) hard and floppy drive aluminum housings. The rest of it gets sorted and put in boxes and I ship it out once or twice a month.

The circuit boards etc are basically old and obsolete by the time I get them so they just end up being sold for precious metal reclamation.

The thing is computer stores don't always have the time to properly fix something, so they toss it. I have the time to do that, if something can be repaired I will do it and sell it.

 

[stinkweed]

Re: Last week's haul

Thanks for the info. So the electronic components
aren't wrapped in bubble wrap or protected from
damage in any way, right? Just sorted and tossed
in their separate boxes until you cash them in.

I found a local place, but the prices aren't near
what you're getting. I'll keep looking though.


Monitors 14" SVGA -------------Working or not ------------------------$1.00 Each

Monitors 15" SVGA -------------Working or not -------------------------$1.00 Each

Monitors 17" SVGA ------------ Working or not -------------------------$2.00 Each

Monitors 19" SVGA and up ----Working or not ------------------------$1.00 Each

PCs any size (Full) -------------Working or not ------------------------ $2.00 Each

Computer Memory -------------------------------------------------------- $1.00 Per LB

Computer Chips (CPUs) any type ---------------------------------------$10.00 Per LB

Circuit Boards (mother boards, video cards, any computer card) --$0.50 Per LB

Thanks again

 

[BCR]

Re: Last week's haul

Thanks for the info. So the electronic components
aren't wrapped in bubble wrap or protected from
damage in any way, right? Just sorted and tossed
in their separate boxes until you cash them in.

I found a local place, but the prices aren't near
what you're getting. I'll keep looking though.


Monitors 14" SVGA -------------Working or not ------------------------$1.00 Each

Monitors 15" SVGA -------------Working or not -------------------------$1.00 Each

Monitors 17" SVGA ------------ Working or not -------------------------$2.00 Each

Monitors 19" SVGA and up ----Working or not ------------------------$1.00 Each

PCs any size (Full) -------------Working or not ------------------------ $2.00 Each

Computer Memory -------------------------------------------------------- $1.00 Per LB

Computer Chips (CPUs) any type ---------------------------------------$10.00 Per LB

Circuit Boards (mother boards, video cards, any computer card) --$0.50 Per LB

Thanks again

I don't get anything for monitors anymore... used to but no more. So I don't take them at all. If somebody insists, I charge a handling fee because it costs me money to deal with them.

Nope no bubble wrap at all, they just get fired into a box for recycling. If the video card looks fairly "new" I put it aside, test it, if it works, on Ebay it goes or is donated to a worthy cause... namely me lol

Your prices are in US dollars mine are in Canadian