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    Bucket List

    I figured I would start a list of buckets needed for scrapping in general.

    feel free to add to it and i will try to update the list when i can.

    Copper #1
    Copper #2

    Electric motors to turn in
    Electric motors to break down

    Short steel

    Aluminum
    Aluminum cast
    Aluminum extruded
    Aluminum dirty to turn in
    Aluminum dirty to clean

    Insulated wire to strip
    Insulated wire #1
    Insulated wire #2
    Insulated wire #3

    Brass

    Stainless

    Gold ends
    Eproms

    Ram gold
    Ram Tin
    Ram bus
    Cpu's sorted in a nut/bolt organizer

    Finger board
    Motherboard
    cd/dvd board
    Floppy board
    Hard drive board
    Mid grade board
    Low grade board
    Low grade board to break down

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    money!
    small change
    large bills
    gold bullion

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    What about a trash bucket? Need to keep your area clean!
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    wish I had (or needed) that many buckets. Whenever I get to what's next I just grab whatever's available and go with it.
    Using the trailer for a bucket has its disadvantages, such as having to offload to make an unexpected run

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    For some reason I am saving heating elements?!> I saw it mentioned on this site, so I remove them and throw in a beer box! Not sure what I will get for them when I do get rid of them! Dirty Stainless or something else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattInTheHat View Post
    I figured I would start a list of buckets needed for scrapping in general.
    Wow. My garage isn't big enough to fit all those buckets, and my scrap yards aren't all that discriminating! Here's my bucket brigade:

    1. Copper #1
    2. Copper #2
    3. Aluminum
    4. Ali cans
    5. Irony Ali
    6. Brass
    7. Stainless
    8. Insulated Wire
    9. Christmas Lights
    10. Electric Motors
    11. Low Grade Boards
    12. Light Iron/shred

    plus one box: Future to Smash/more work

    and another box: Boards/RAM/CPU to ship away

    sealed units, batteries, A/C units sit on the floor

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    You forgot transformer bucket

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    I have a small container of wheel weights

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    Quote Originally Posted by hobo finds View Post
    For some reason I am saving heating elements?!> I saw it mentioned on this site, so I remove them and throw in a beer box! Not sure what I will get for them when I do get rid of them! Dirty Stainless or something else?
    Yes you should get Stainless for the heating elements,

    So, maybe a heating element bucket, Yellow brass bucket, Red brass bucket, Dirty brass bucket, and a reusable items bucket.

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    sometimes you need big boy buckets too.

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    I have a bucket for screws too. They sell fairly well at the flea market.

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    Where do yall get your steel, and short iron buckets from?

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    I use mostly 55 gallon plastic barrels.
    #2 copper
    field copper
    dirty copper
    55% insulated copper
    clean cast aluminum
    dirty cast aluminum
    extruded aluminum (mostly heatsinks)
    ni-chrome wire
    stove elements
    Going to start a #1 copper for all the copper from heatsinks. Mistakes I've made filling barrels, transformers (1180 pounds when full) dirty brass (900 pounds when full) and electric motors ( 800 pounds when full).

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    I have a stack of 5 gal buckets! So a bucket for buckets! I take any buckets I find, cat litter, pool chlorine, empty paint. Can't have enough buckets!

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    Beer/Soda/Whatever alum drink bucket

    Rotor/armature bucket

    Gold Plated bucket ( for those odd ones, not pins )
    Connector bucket
    Cell Phone Bucket
    Cell Phone Battery Bucket ( All taped )

    an now thanks to Eric over there int he buyer thread I have a small bucket for Ta Caps. har!

    Sirscrapalot - Have buckets will profit.

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    I have a cigarette butt bucket.
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    Yes i'm a bucket fan, you certainly can't have enough buckets or tubs or containers to organise bits.
    I'm normally not very organised, I prefer to work in more of a chaotic way, to an outsider it looks like
    i've no idea but things come together in the end.

    but e-waste scrapping doesn't seem to work very efficiently if your not well organised, at the start I just assumed
    it would all come together but quickly realised double & triple handling of anything is just a waste of valuable time.
    so I been organising my garage to suit scrapping, got a long way to go but I've most of my buckets in place.

    Here's my garage desk, it's where I sit and chill out.
    mostly i'm there at night time doing little fiddly things whilst listening to music.
    the bucket on the desk is my bucket bong, sometimes I like to have a few to get into it.



    the buckets here are suited to that type of work, little fiddly bits and higher traffic items.



    the coffee tin is normal batteries to be recycled..



    on the floor in front of my chair is two incoming bit tubs, basically all the little bits I pull off boards,
    heat sinks that need cleaning up, little transformers ect that need to be put in it's bucket..



    further up I just stack mobo's as they don't fit into anything well, but here's another form of bucket,
    a heavy old filing cabinet with a T bar padlocked so it's like a safe..



    on top of the cabinet is two microwaves that are temporary cpu/ram chip cabinets..



    in the filing cabinet there's one for finger cards and one for kept h/d's..



    one for cables and wires I keep..



    and the bottom one is for more plugs and finger things..



    need to cut it short as we can only post 10 pictures in one post it seems..

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    on the workbench I have 3 more buckets, the stainless pot is for stainless steel bits,
    the black bucket is for that silvery wire from around crt's I like to keep, and the one on the right are tv yolk clamps..



    I just like 'em...



    against the other wall is my bigger buckets with milk crates at the base for other things too..





    from right to left there's a bucket for ribbon tape, a bucket for mid grade boards, and on the ground below it's just heavy transformers..



    next is #2 copper and a milk crate with power adapters ect..



    then there's the bright n shiny Millberry bucket and in them crates go small tranformers..





    the insulated wire bucket and my crate for flouro light ballasts..



    my bucket for little motors from fans, printers ect which is just a scrapped wet/dry vacuum canister, and a crate for tv yolks that need to be smashed up..


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