Commercial Printers? - Page 4

Originally Posted by MattInTheHat

i was going to read the comments, but tl:dr I am probably repeating/confirming

There is a market for some parts on obsolete untits

some companies still seek out older units due to reliability, or their specialty

commercial units usually have ram and pretty boards, also good steel weight and possible nonferrous

there used to be any ebay seller on here that went by commission, anybe a min, not sure

research specific units

The warehouse I am cleaning out had a small machine shop with several shelves full of new parts for these printing presses. I didn't have enough time to take many parts off of the machines themselves but I will have my hands full just trying to sell the new parts.

The yard I am working with is providing the trailers for $200 a load.

Originally Posted by hobo finds

cfs may be closed Monday bank holiday

Oh man don't tell me that! lol When I talked with Noah he didn't mention being closed on Monday but he might have forgot they were going to be closed.

Originally Posted by hobo finds

How are they categorizing the big stuff, Sheet Iron, Unprepared or Clean Sheet Iron? And if you sell enough of the new parts you may cover the fee for the trailers! Thanks for all the pics and info you provided on this I am not sure I would have been able to do such a big removal of scrap metal. But as they say divide and conquer!

They are classifying it as unprepared. But they are giving me a little less than the normal unprepared price because it's REALLY unprepared and needs so much torching before their buyer will take it.

When I first saw the machines I was very intimidated by them but once I actually got into it they were actually pretty simple.

I have been super busy since I finished up this job. But just last night I started testing and breaking down some of the computers and electronics I got from this warehouse clean out. So far I have 2 working I-mac computers that have all kinds of great editing software including Photoshop. They are similar to the model in the link below.

Funny how things work. I hadn't touched any electronics from this job in months until last night and this morning I get a text from the property manager asking me if I could remove a tree that fell down during a recent storm. She contacted me first because I made sure to let her know all the different types of work I do and that my main business for the last 10 years has been landscape/tree trimming. So long as I keep doing good work this relationship will pay off for years to come I am sure of it.



https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

Here is some of the other electronics I got from this job back in February.
Imac worth about $150 but my wife wants it.
2 servers which don't seem to have much value except for the power supplies and CPUs. 2 power supplies @ $100 each and 2 @ $150 each 4 CPUs worth $25 each
network switches 1 @ $90 and 3 @ $30 each

I never really gave the numbers to finish out this thread. So here it goes.

160k pounds steel
300 pounds #1 copper
750 pounds #1 wire
250 pounds #2 wire
200 pounds stainless
200 pounds sheet aluminum
200 pounds lithograph
Some brass and #2 copper but not much.
5k pounds of paper

well done. congrats.

Originally Posted by msmoorad

well done. congrats.

Thanks. It wasn't easy but it was do able. 3 semi loads 50+ loads in my trailer. 10 weeks of mostly 12+ hour days with few days off.

Luckly there were offices in the warehouse where I set up a makeshift play room for my then 2 year old daughter.

This warehouse i cleaned out 3 years ago now is still vacant! Wish I had kept a key! lol