And I'm not even an E-Scrapper

**msmoorad** · 10-22-2014, 04:57 AM

congrats

just take the advice of those here who know about ewaste
u wont regret it

**DakotaRog** · 10-22-2014, 07:58 AM

I guess its depends how much time you have. With the monitors, I'd at least take off the backs and get the degaussing cables and yokes off. Then, when its cold outside in Husker land and you're watching the boob tube, clean up the Cu and sell that. Better than shred (imo). If you have more time, take the extruded Al heat sinks off and other Cu bearing items. You can unwrap those as well in the winter watching tv. My calculations is that an old CRT monitor has about $4+ of non-ferrous in them. Just what I do...

**spinroch** · 10-22-2014, 08:32 AM

Laser printers have nice circuit boards in them

**eesakiwi** · 10-22-2014, 11:24 PM

In the printers there's a board that's high grade. The printer heads and or ink cartridges have Gold in them too.
I think there's more Gold in those parts than what it looks like.
Some of the Gold tracking on the cartridges seems to be full Gold, not Gold plating on Copper tracks. The HP ones.
Then there's where they connect the mylar to the actual.printing head face.
Some printer heads, the HP sort again, Gold plated pins and springs.

Rip that stuff out, chuck the rest in the shred pile. Shred pays the bills and everything else goes in your pockets

Oh, the 'light bar strips' from printers. I ripped apart a 4 colour toner copier yesterday.
4 strips of lightbar. Each strip had 29 Gold plated sections, each section had 21 5mm long Gold wires connected to it.

29 x 21 x 4 = 2436 Gold wires.... times 5mm long
Equals over 12 metres of Gold wire.

Even the cheapest printer has these .

Now, another theory. Recycled ink toner. Some toner black ink is black.
Some toner black ink is a mixture of colours. Could recycled toner ink be mixed up into just black ink?