My Scrapping Log (including e-scrap) - Page 2

So I have been scrapping for several years learning more every year, I started like everyone else throwing everything as light iron. Now I separate everything and am into e-scrap, I decided to start posting some of my process feel free to comment. I fill these truck bed liners with light iron/e-scrap cores after the majority of plastic has been removed:



After the plastic removal I pull all wires, motors, and circuit boards. Then I pull the aluminum heat sinks, transformers, inductors and visible copper goodies. The cracked up and stripped boards then go into those orange tubs, there is also a non-mag stainless bucket, brass, copper #1 & #2 in the photo:





For now I throw all the transformers and inductors into one bucket and get $0.20/lb which is not that great not sure if I can get more for the inductors:



This is an example of some of the things in my transformer bucket, I think the small items up front should yield more then transformers:



I have this bucket as well that I throw visible copper goodies in that are not wrapped in tape, etc, I think some of them might be inductors as well but I smash and unwind these in front of the TV lol throw the wire in my #2 bucket:



All the wire will be stripped someday, I could stop now and sell the boards without the aluminum and copper goodies I think they actually prefer you strip the heat sinks and they tolerate the copper wire component removal but I'm not sure if its okay I had to break many of the boards to remove the heat sinks. I am between that and processing them further myself, if I take anything else off I would have to make it worth it and take everything possible or else I think I would break even between selling the boards and just stripping a few things it would be a lot less work to just sell the boards...I know I need to take the ICs and a few other components including gold connector pins, and then I can sell those components by weight and even some such as ICs can be processed myself. I've seen ICs burnt with a torch contained in bricks slowly fed to prevent smoking, after being burnt cleanly thrown in a bucket with some steel balls and I think a paint mixer on a drill so everything is smashed into a dust/powder then mixed with water and "panned" off...not sure where my cutoff line will be but it is a good way to save if you are not good with money haha.