Be careful of what you wish for....

I put an ad on Facebook and everything just blew up. I picked up 8 t.vs today and some cable boxes. Have 3 pick ups for tomorrow that are suppose to yeild 10 t.vs and monitors and a bunch of Misc. stuff and I have pick ups for Sunday. I am so proud of myself I might take a pic and post for everyone but to be honest I am a bit nervious to t.vs are the low end of scrap because of tubes n plastic, if I don't do this in an organized fashion my wife will put an end to my scrap career. Any suggestions? Take two or three completely apart, or do a mass destruction n fine tune it later? I did enjoy the whole process so far I did learn you have to be organized and always use map quest, some towns have two of the same street.. Also found a decent truck that would be perfect for scraping for 900. So I better keep this going. Been looking into getting a angle grinder. You are suppose to cut the metal corners off tubes right? Read reveiws and dewalt seems to be best brand. Any suggestions? This is kind of fun, I view it as a game, the stuff is out there how are you going to get it...

Congrats to your succcess

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I never do, that's a good way for the tube to implode/explode]

That is sooooo true. I had one explode on me when I tried to lever the band off with a screwdriver..
Still can't believe I never got cut or blinded...

Depressurise the tube by breaking the little glass pigtail inside the circle of pins.
Or, using glasses and gloves, wiggle/twist the board that sits on those pins till the glass breaks and the airs sucked in.
Don't lift the screen by the band, often its loose and the screen will fall out.

I'd buy a 5 inch grinder because the discs a little bigger and that little bit makes it last a lot longer.
I use grinders all the time, never had a accident, 'cept slitting my left finger knuckle while putting the small grinder in its wall holder. Very small accident..... allmost nil accidents then.

But, I see some people do scarey/scarry stuff I could never think up.....
Just make sure that when ever using it, if you let go of it, that it will pull away from you.
Never towards you.

In some of my early posts I did a writeup about using grinders.
. Right handed? Then looking down at the grinder the handles on the left and the guards in a 10 - 4 o'clock position.

Quick question. I did some searching on line on local yards some had a price list and I noticed some gave a price for yolks and it was only .20 a pound! I thought the yolk would be number 2 copper price? Or is the only number two the cable that runs along the edge of the t.v.? One other thing I am a bit confused about is the cord itself. Should I strip it and cut off the plug ends? Or is it worth more unstriped because of the weight? I am really hopping to get about 5.00 out of each t.v. Have a couple that are tv VCR combos hopefully there will be some good stuff in there. I forgot to tell everyone I found a decent size roll of coper wire for sale at goodwill. They want 20.00 for it, I was going to wait for the half off special and pick it up, it's on a small wooden spool so it's kind of hard to estimate the weight but I figure there has to be at least 5 lbs of copper on there. Does anyone have a good method to est. the weight. Say pull out 3 or 4 feet of wire and say that is one striped pound of copper? I did find it fun to, I went to the store with the solle intention of looking for items to scrap. Found a brass sprinkler but it was 3.00. Funny thing about goodwill they wanted 25.00 for used microwave and wal mart is right next door where you can pick up a brand new one for what 50.00

By 'yoke' they might be meaning the actual unit, not the Copper that came off it.

I wouldn't bother buying metal just for scrap. Ask about what they do actually throw out. They have to pay for it to be taken away.
If you do want to buy stuff, then yard sales may be worth visiting, as they open for cheap items, and as they close for unsold items.

The degaussing cable (google degaussing cable to find out what it actually does, then google 'trinatron' to find out why there's a difference in cable size......) I'm guessing you are stripping it down. That's about the only plastic coated cable in a crt thats worth doing.
The other stuff, you can clip the plugs off, save it up, sell it as insulated. Check with your buyer, they might buy it with the plugs still on.
As soon as you open up a crt, spray the inside with a weak mixture of kitchen cleaner to keep the dust down andbkill bacteria.

Check cl or ebay to see what the combo tv/videos are worth. Also, see if it works, maybe it just needs the video cleaned.
Most of the ones I find also work on 12 volt DC. So they will work from a car cigarette lighter socket, or battery pack.
They might be worth more than scrap.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

That is sooooo true. I had one explode on me when I tried to lever the band off with a screwdriver..
Still can't believe I never got cut or blinded...

Depressurise the tube by breaking the little glass pigtail inside the circle of pins.
Or, using glasses and gloves, wiggle/twist the board that sits on those pins till the glass breaks and the airs sucked in.
Don't lift the screen by the band, often its loose and the screen will fall out.

I'd buy a 5 inch grinder because the discs a little bigger and that little bit makes it last a lot longer.
I use grinders all the time, never had a accident, 'cept slitting my left finger knuckle while putting the small grinder in its wall holder. Very small accident..... allmost nil accidents then.

But, I see some people do scarey/scarry stuff I could never think up.....
Just make sure that when ever using it, if you let go of it, that it will pull away from you.
Never towards you.

In some of my early posts I did a writeup about using grinders.
. Right handed? Then looking down at the grinder the handles on the left and the guards in a 10 - 4 o'clock position.

Yeah, I had one implode on me too. I was cutting the steel band with a angle grinder and it just BOOM! I didn't get injured though luckily. I still get it but now I just take a screwdriver and pound it in where the red circle is (where the suction cup and wire used to be) let the air in and then use a screwdriver and tin snips.

Takes me about 3-5 min per tv. I don't waste any time. Open the back, cut wires, pull boards, speakers, wire around tube, yoke, throw it all in a bucket until u get a couple buckets full. Than take it all and sort it and smash the yokes up. If u don't have a dumpster to dispose of the 10-100 pounds if glass it yeilds than I wouldn't mess with them. Good luck

I'm lucky because I work at a transfer station and we have concrete floors I can just drop the TVs/monitors from in the air (or set the bucket on) and then grab all the goodies out and throw them in a can that ends up in my pickup at the end of the day. Easily disposal of glass for me

I feel a bit like a surgeon now after reading some posts being able to get yokes off of tubes most of the time without having to bust the tip of the tube at all. Angle grinder for scrapping a tv???

when I was out on the streets in October, I had a good run of scrapping TV's inside of apartment dumpsters with nothing more than my boots. You guys always talk about shopping at curbco...but I was doing some American History X curb stomping.