My local yard a while back stopped accepting computer fans.

yea, not much incentive to remove, when we can get shred, if we leave them on. One yard still gives me motor price, if I have motors, mixed in. The other just dropped them to .03. May just leave them all on from now on an avoid the extra labor.

No kochy ive never had that problem . I sell cord ends as motors and the yards fine with it. The story the yard gave you may be nonsense cause I was always under the assumption that motors dont get processed domestically , it would cost to much . I thought they put them in container and off to china they go

Same thing happened to me. Yard manager said it was because of the board inside the plastic, NOT the plastic itself. I have a pile of them now, trying to decide what to do with them.

I just took about ten of them apart, all of them were the same size.

Take apart, with just the motor portion it weighed .4 ounces and whole it weighed 2.3 ounces.

Are they paying more per pound, taken apart?

Originally Posted by Kochy

I mean now, I just give the fan a wack with a hammer, if it doesn't come off, i leave it go and if it looks like I can pry it off in like 2 more shots then I take it off. But other then that, I'm not gunna sit there and unscrew em, I've been starting to leave on my cd and floppy drives aswell, because its not worth my time to do them really. Floppies are just a pain, and CD drives are a pain too for the one board you get out of them. Also power supplies, cut the wires off and leave it on, I'm starting to pile some stuff up cause I plan on taking a trip out to see Ewasted, load my truck up and as some people said before, that floppy drives and power supplies will pay for the gas used to get out there and then all the nice boards are pure profit.

You might want to see if he buys the fans.

When making a trip like that, you might as well fill your truck. If the boards don't fill it, the load up drives and stuff like that.

My yard recently went to $0.05 per pound on their scale price.....

I still pull them off and give them a few whacks with the claw end of a hammer and bust the plastic off and expose the copper windings inside. The 2 yards I normally use both have rejected fans before, but neither one has ever given me any problems when I have the plastic busted off. I do the same thing with flyback transformers out of tvs and monitors. They won't buy them whole, but when busted open so they can see the copper inside they never question them.

Haven't had any problems like that. 2 yards I use both take them whole, no problem. One buys them as motors, the other buys them as electrical breakage. $0.15-0.20 per lb. I usually pull them, turn them in when I have 100 lbs or so.

My main yard will take the fans as CBM, same with flybacks. They know what's in them so don't mind. I save the nice ones for folks down here I trade with, as they use them in their machines, or other devices. Either way, I get more then shred for them. So taking them off I will continue to do till it isn't profitable or trade fodder.

Don't have to sell everything to make a profit. I find trading can lead to more profit then just giving up an tossing it in shred. Then again I have quite the network of folks I interact with whether business, private, whatever. I don't limit my networking. Talk to everyone, never know what kind of deals you can work. Not everything has to be item for money. Sometimes what you taking in trade can work out better then the low ball offer cash, or it could just be me.

As always...YMMV



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