todays haul and surprises!

Friday, my boss tells me out of the blue, to take all the lead acid batteries we have from changing out bad power chair batteries. Said the supplier dropped the core charge and he would rather see a worker get the smaller money than him deal with random pickups and them being in his way. Yes sir, lol. That was 320 pounds of batteries .

Also on way to the yard, I notice two computer towers on the curb, cases opened and parts missing. Figure they would add to the pile and picked them up. The giant aluminum heat sink caught my eye, so I got my tool bag and pulled into a grocery store lot and dug in. Power supplies, ram sticks, CPU's, all were there, just missing hard drives. So now I guess I need to look into escrap and see how it works more than the little I know now. Did find a funky chip, real pretty, says Amd486 on it... I know enough to keep that aside, lol. I never find computers, and never see them at the yard. The first one I find in two plus years of scrapping has a ceramic gold chip. I'm the type to have no luck but bad, so that was pretty neat.

Ticket shows 700 pounds of shred at $,0.08 a pound for $56.00.
320 pounds of batteries at $0.20 a pound for $64.00.
6 pounds of irony/clean aluminum at $0.52 a pound for $3.12
And 10 pounds of insulated #2 wire at $0.75 a pound for $7.50.
Grand total of $130.62.



Somehow they got a magnet to stick to one aluminum heat sink from a wine fridge from curbco, so got downgraded in price I wish I knew what magical magnet they use cause I test EVERYTHING before I sort it with a big magnet from HF that will hold a 50 pound weight up if it's stuck on a steel sheet. But they always find something my magnets seem to miss. Oh well, that's $130 more than I had when I woke up. Pics to come later.

AMD486 gold backs go for $3 - 8 each
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