Congradulations on your win! I always get a rush of excitement when I get my hands on something new to scrap. As was mentioned, you'll probably get your money back. Since you have won such a large quanity, you can probably update this forum with what your average return per monitor was. Your numbers will be a little more acurate on average than just doing one or two monitors. I'll throw in a few other things to think about:



- Before you use your dumpster, make two phone calls. First the haul away company. Ask them first if TV's are a problem to put in there (make sure you mention a high #). Second, ask them if they are charging the insurance company a flat rate or a per pound amount. If it is per pound, stop there. You would be stealing from your insurance company if they incur extra costs not related to the claim. They could even possibly bring up charges. Not likely they will take signifigant action, but it is wrong. If it's a flat rate, then you might just have your parents ask the claim rep the next time they are talking to him.

- Call Goodwill. Explain you have several monitors to dispose of. Make sure they will take them (you might mention Dell's recycling program). Mention some have the cords cut and make sure those are OK. See if they are OK with you bringing all in at once or if they have a daily limit.

- Best Buy now takes them for free, but I think there is a limit of 3 per day. Note that they do not take "Disassembled TVs and Monitors"

-Something I have done in the past is leave the cord and the circuit board and only take the yoke/degaussing cable. Take a few parts off the circuit board if you want. That way you're less likely to catch flak about trying to pawn off a disassembled monitor. Your call on that one.

-Check with your local yard to see if they buy yokes as-is, and what the rate would be for the degaussing cable not stripped. You might turn a quicker profit with less work.

- Make sure you read up on the forums here for all the goodies to get out of here. There is the silver braided cupronickel wire and stainless screws/clamps on the tube. Make sure you get those in the right spot.

- In considering the net gain of the project remember to take into account gas for obtaining these and getting rid of the tubes.

I'm quite interested in what you have to say once it's all said and done and what the dollars come out to. If nothing else, you're not losing the shirt off your back over this one, and you will have a learning experience. I had one yesterday when I bought what I thought was a printer/fax machine/scanner from the 80's for $5 from a thrift store. I figured with the cartridges I could get my money back easy. It turns out it was a thermal fax machine only so no cartridges. The total thing netted me less than $2 in scrap and took half an hour to scrap. Lessons learned: do more diligence before purchase and stick to no more than my normal price points per item.