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    anybody take the small copper windings off motherboards?



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    I personally don't devalue motherboards; I send them in whole.
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    I remove the heatsinks, ram, cpu's and any metal brackets and that's it.

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    So here's that thing...pulling it off makes it copper bearing (WAY WAY less than MB pricing), even unwound they would be #2 copper at best, again below MB pricing. That is what I always look at (factoring in the time to pull it or whatever as that is a "cost"). I pull nothing form the MB unless it absolutely has to come off...or is worth way more (ie some tantalum).
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    Quote Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff View Post
    So here's that thing...pulling it off makes it copper bearing (WAY WAY less than MB pricing), even unwound they would be #2 copper at best, again below MB pricing. That is what I always look at (factoring in the time to pull it or whatever as that is a "cost"). I pull nothing form the MB unless it absolutely has to come off...or is worth way more (ie some tantalum).
    Actually a lot of motherboards are worth less per pound right now than copper. That being said, no I don't remove the windings currently.
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