Taking the next step....

Well done Dude. That's how you get the ball rolling!

Silly question I'm sure, but are you set up to dispose of the CRTs once you strip them? If you were closer I'd offer to take them off your hands. I have no issues getting rid of the glass.

Sounds like a nice pay day coming up for you if all works out. An ya best post some pics or I'm gonna have to restrict your access to the cooler.

Good luck an keep us updated on how things go.

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hahaha...thanks Sir. Love the quote by the way. With a load of monitors that size, Best buy is out of the option, but I did find a few locations, in the past, so it's time to find my contacts and get to work. He was also concerned about proper disposal, and I assured him that I recycle everything responsibly, which I do. I don't see a point in doing what we do, if you're not going to do it right. As the wise Hunter S. Thompson said "Anything worth doing, is worth doing right". Don't worry about the pics, there coming as soon as I get everything into my unit. Still working out the logistics and location, but I have a few days to prepare. Thanks again for your continued support and contribution to the forum Good Sir .

Score!!!!!!

Dude...that's a great score man!

Best advice I have is sort the towers by brand when you start and you can use the same tools and method in breaking them down.

Very good advice Pnut. Saves a lot of frustration an time.

I do the same with my towers, Hard drives, CD/DVD, Cables boxes, etc.

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Hey Sirscrapalot, from one North Carolinian to the other, where/hopw do you get rid of CRTs? I just bought 198 for 7.35 from a local school system and I have an ABS Plastic buyer and theoretically I can get rid of them 20 at a time(by going to 4 different closish locations each time) in my county, but Id love to know if I can take them all somewhere at once.

I'll drop you a PM Steelmill. So as not to take away from Thedude's thread.

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No worries Sir if the topic gets a little off base, then so be it. Thanks for the advise Pnut. I will definitely take your advise and run with it. Mike, I'm will no doubt be looking for resell-able parts and computers. The two guys that are helping me are my brother and a really close friend. I think we are going golfing after the pickup, so I'll probably pay for there rounds, and after rounds, if you get my drift. Pictures are coming on Saturday...

Alright kids, I only have one pic thus far. This is my storage unit after I unloaded the first trailer full. I brought a load home in my Expedition, but my 5 x 10 unit (I know its small) is jam packed. Thus far I have 107 desktops, 49 CRT monitors, 12 printers, and 2 old Dell servers. My best guess is there are probably 40-50 more towers and around 50-60 monitors, along with a huge box of keyboards/parts and one huge telecom server. All the hard drivers were pulled, and apparently someone got to most of the CPU's before I could. On a positive note, other then the fact I paid $0 for all materials, most everyone has several sticks of ram and at least 1-4 PCI cards in them. Going back next Saturday for the rest of the stuff, but I'll keep updating the thread with totals and pictures as I get them. In addition, the manger of my storage unit is going to give me an inclosed trailer next weekend for half price and also a break on my unit in the future. "I gotta say....Today was a good day".

Oh these will all be broken down and processed before the second months rent is due

Ok ladies and gents, here are a couple more pics for you. This is my dungeon/work space. It's not much, and needs a complete overhaul, but it's what I got for now along with my storage unit. I've been sick the last few days, so that's hampered my ability and motivation to really get at it. I've separated and sorted most of the materials I've broken down thus far, and also put aside the items for resale. Has anyone had any luck selling Dell case fans, the green HD/CD/DVD/Floppy rails, or PCI blanks in the past? The majority of the Dell's are early mode Dimensions and GX series, but I do know that these can be used in other models as well. Ebay listings are here and there, obviously depending on the size/model it's intended for, but I figure with the quantity I'll have its worth a shot and see. I'll be posting some more pictures and giving some specifics on how much each model is worth base on my buyer. Hopefully I'll feel better over the next couple days. I'm picking up the other 50 computers and monitors, along with some telcom equipment on Saturday, so I don't have time to be sick. Hope everyone enjoys watching the piles get larger

150-200 pounds of Power supplies, empty computer cases, aluminum, etc

Some vintage computers on the left and the various scrap or sorted items for resale

Surprised they didn't strip all of these as well. I have 6-7 right now and am hoping for a few more, since most of the computers remaining are this particular dell model.

I've always thrown the green rails in with the ABS. But, I do this as a second job. I need to focus on the higher dollar stuff. If you're part time at E-Waste, you could probably get enough money for a pizza or something cool like that.

I grade E-Waste on a semicircle if you will. One like this:


The stuff on the left is higher in value, due to higher prices for E-Scrap, and/or higher value for collectors parts.
The stuff on the right is valuable, because I can resell it.

The stuff that isn't all that old, but is too old to refurbish goes in the middle. Sadly, the low point seems to be the Pentium 4 machines (Socket 423 excluded). You seem to have plenty of them. Don't worry- I get tons of them, too. I like to spend as little of time on processing a P4 as possible. The only thing that's less profitable is an old Mac. They take forever to disassemble.

But, those white machines will be more valuable in scrap.

My rules on what to keep:
*Power Supplies Greater than 400W, with SATA connectors
*RAM that is 1GB/Stick or larger. I keep DDR2/512 sticks, because I had many desktops come in without RAM.
*Hard Drives 80GB or larger that are IDE or SATA. I don't keep SCSI drives.
*Dual Core Computers
*Any Mac that is G5 or Intel, or the iBook G4 and Mac Mini G4.
*Higher end graphics cards. PCI Express only. If it's older than that, it's E-Waste.
*Any Black colored desktop drive that can play a DVD. I had two pallets come from a school that didn't put any optical drive in their machines.

And, that's about it. The rest I scrap. I'll resell processors that bring at least $15 online. That's a fair price. If it's worth $3.99 with free shipping, it gets soldby the pound.

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Hopefully that helps a little. I took apart about 300 machines over the last four months. I didn't go to the funny farm. I just turned on the oldies, and did it from 9AM to 7PM. It's actually pretty enjoyable work for me. I think you'll be fine. Plus, you're paying rent. That's incentive enough to go faster!

Why are you reading this? It's midnight. You could be taking a Dell apart!

Thanks Matador for the advise. I also do this part-time, with the dream of doing it full-time if I can get enough residual clients. I only have a few thus far. Some of the older vintage stuff I have needs hard drives and case covers (I'm not sure why they didn't put the covers back on after taking out most of the processors) but I know a few of them should bring in more then scrap value. I need to contact FLimits and see what she thinks. With most of the computers not having any hard drives or CPU's my bottom line will be less, but still a nice haul regardless.