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    A nice ewaste load

    Just picked up this load a few days ago. Took two pick-up loads to bring it all back. About 20 large Dell severs (80+ pounds each), 25-30 towers, boxes of parts (not shown), tape library, some telecom boxes, 100-150 lbs wire, some switches, etc, etc. Paid $450 for all. Already dismantled most of it, so far about 160 lbs boards, 11 lbs RAM, lots of CPU's (some ceramics), a few good resale parts, 100 lbs aluminum, wire, tin, etc. Will be an easy $1000 clean profit on this lot. I'm very happy!















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    drool. nice score

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    That's awesome man! So, do tell... Where did you get it? Referral, craigslist, auction?

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    We need a razzberry smilie for people that post these kinda things... showing off their good fortune...

    LOL. Just kidding. GREAT score, and I can't WAIT til I get one that finally forces me to go get that 10x20 storage unit I been itching for so I can get my garage back.
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    Nice score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by badkarma506 View Post
    drool. nice score
    double drool! very nice score indeed!

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    i like the huge pile of cables/cords, lots of gold connectors and #2 insulated, nice score
    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
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    Sweet load but do tell how long it will take for break down. Envious! !
    Cleaning up the e-waste one company at a time

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    see lots of telecom boards and backplane boards

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    I would be doing the "happy dance" great score.

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    you gotta tells us how much your going to make to!!

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    Did the dell opitplex have a pentium pro? Its in the last picture on the bottom right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by demo117 View Post
    Did the dell opitplex have a pentium pro? Its in the last picture on the bottom right.
    Unfortunately not, it was a Pentium III. But there was 1 486, 1 gold cap IBM, a couple of AMD ceramics, and one ceramic Intel i960 on one of the cards in one of the servers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by happyisthealero View Post
    you gotta tells us how much your going to make to!!
    Everything is broken down now, took 2 days with some good help.
    I already got rid of the cases, barely fit on the truck.

    Here is roughly how it will work out:
    1400 lbs tin/shred $100 - already taken to the yard
    180 lbs high grade boards - $720
    11 lbs RAM $165
    ~8 lbs slot CPU's $96
    misc ceramic CPU's $40
    other CPU's $15
    100 lbs Aluminum $60
    350 lbs power supplies $105
    wire - haven't sorted or weighed yet maybe $100 or so?
    batteries and transformers (from UPS) $25

    resale parts:
    2 tape drives currently bid to $100 on ebay
    some hard drives $50
    some apple keyboards and mice $40
    5.25" floppy drive $15
    misc. resale parts $50


    TOTAL: $1681.
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    Definitely a nice score!

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    You should be able to break down the UPS further I have started doing it because I would rather make .40 cents per lb instead of .23 for UPS units whole, and besides most of the weight is in the transformer

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    You will do well with the servers. Congrats


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