got my first crt television

**blacksteel** · 02-24-2014, 05:19 AM

A load of tv will yeild little copper. The effort is better spent. You missed a mother load for a tv not smart unless just learning lol and you will. Seems like copper used to weigh more and pay better than now days. A whole trash can of pipes (house, refridg ) not over 90$ several trips. I figure what does it take for 100$ ¿ Aluminum, copper, wire, rims,brass, stainless ect..... Think real numbers not Pennies a day.

**skylinejack** · 02-24-2014, 05:42 AM

Originally Posted by blacksteel

A load of tv will yeild little copper. The effort is better spent. You missed a mother load for a tv not smart unless just learning lol and you will. Seems like copper used to weigh more and pay better than now days. A whole trash can of pipes (house, refridg ) not over 90$ several trips. I figure what does it take for 100$ ¿ Aluminum, copper, wire, rims,brass, stainless ect..... Think real numbers not Pennies a day.

^^^ Not necessarily so ^^^ A lot of people ( especially on this forum ) scrap a lot of T.V.'s and make money doing so. Real money. To each his or her own, of course. Just pointing out, there is money to be made in em.

**Swampy** · 02-24-2014, 08:09 AM

Free tv, scrapped on lunch hour? Easy money - don't see how that was a waste of time at all. Plus, being the first one, now you know what they're about.

**TheRecycler** · 02-24-2014, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by blacksteel

A load of tv will yeild little copper. The effort is better spent. You missed a mother load for a tv not smart unless just learning lol and you will. Seems like copper used to weigh more and pay better than now days. A whole trash can of pipes (house, refridg ) not over 90$ several trips. I figure what does it take for 100$ ¿ Aluminum, copper, wire, rims,brass, stainless ect..... Think real numbers not Pennies a day.

Black steel, you are either new to the scrap game or need more info but tvs is a good and consistent source of copper. Might I suggest digging through the archives on this forum on scrapping tvs. That should get you up to speed.