Question about floppy, cd, and dvd rom boards

If you remove the boards from floppy, cd and dvd rom drives will e-scrap or e-waste buyers still buy the floppy, cd, and dvd rom drives? and Does removing the boards decrease the price per pound you are paid for the drives? Thank you in advance for your help.

I'm not sure if they will still buy them with the boards removed. If they do still buy them, the price per pound will definitely be less.

Boardsort.com buys hard drive boards and hard drives with out boards but I would ship the hard drives without board because you want get paid that much for them

Floppy drive boards are low grade. i just sell them whole to local yard for $.15 a pound. CD/dvd rom drive boards are high grade/motherboard grade price to most buyers. I pull these off and just put the carcass in with the shred. I also pull the easy to get to motors and throw them in my motor bucket. Hard drive boards sell better then motherboard price. I tear these things all the way down to seperate the different metals. This is just what I do.

I could be wrong. But I thaught thats what I read from one of the buyers in another thread. they are brown on one side green on the other. Maybe its a medium grade board? I dont remember now.

I have used my cheap ebay gold test kit on the pins of the floppy boards. These are the ones with the green on one side brown on the other type boards. They tested as gold plate. So it leaves me with a question what do I do with them? Maybe just cut off the pins and sell them when I have a bunch. Mike.

DVD boards get the same as mother boards. A floppy drive can be different(and usually is. Some of the floppy drives have a brown board that is basically worthless. Those I can see and don't even need to dismantle. I can usually get a screwdriver in behinf the connector without taking the back off and 2 little whacks will break the connector off and it goes in the connector pile currently at around 2.50 per pound. Some of the floppy drives have 2 boards. one is brown and the other is green. Only takes a few seconds to get the back off and pull that and it goes in the motherboard pile along with the dvd boards as well. It is small, but takes no time at all.

The carcass goes in your steel/tin shred pile.

I process all my floppies. Some are all steel, others are steel with a cast aluminum center

Board = low quality / 18 cents / pound
connectors = Gold Tip Connector Ends 2.50 / Pound
If aluminum, smash with hammer put aluminum in aluminum pile and the rest into steel alum 53 cents / pound

Thanks that answered my question about what to do with the connectors, Mike.

Thank you everyone that replied. All the responses answered my original questions and a couple that I hadn't even thought of.

CD Rom and floppy drives with the boards removed are nothing more than scrap metal. Better to keep them as a whole unit unless you get a real good price for the boards. The board is a mid-grade board but you might be able to blend it in with high grade boards in some cases.