Hi, I'm new to E-scrapping.
Just obtained several new desktop computer towers with erased hard drives and functional power supplies. Towers contain everything except RAM.
Question: Should I disassemble tower down to components (e.g. Power Supply, hard drive, motherboard, cpu) and individually test these components for functionality?
If individual components are functional, then I assume they can yield more cash through an ebay or craigslist sale than the scrap value of the metals.
What's the best way to test and verify functionality of removed power supply units, hard drives, motherboards, cpu.
If individual componenents (power supplies, hard drives, motheboards, CPUs) aren't functional, then I assume they could be scapped as whole components.
How do you weigh/determine the time value of:
1) testing functionality of individual components vs. scrapping the whole component for metal value.
2) Breaking down the nonfunctional component into valuable sub-components (e.g. in the case of hard-drive - separating aluminum casing and copper parts and platinum coated platters, and neodymium magnets) vs. just selling the whole component (complete broken hard-drive)
For a new and small time operator/hobbyist looking to make a few extra bucks, is it worth it to invest time in verifying functionality of components to get higher ebay / craigslist price? It seems a shame to scrap the components of an entire PC tower for merely the extracted/purified metal values when some of the components could still be functional.
Bookmarks