520's Scrap Finds - Page 6

This months gold RAM.

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Met with my new board buyer today up in Phoenix and picked up 2 pallets of printers on a deal I set up because I knew I would be up there in the area. Won't make much but they'll pay for my fuel and i'll profit on the boards. Plus the 3 black printers i'll keep for myself until I run them out of ink then i'll scrap them and there was paper still in the trays of about half the printers so that's another bonus.

My new buyer has GREAT prices and I am very happy to be doing business with them. The guy I met with today actually helped boardsort when they first started and he really knows his stuff. I'll be shipping about 3 gaylords this week.

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Originally Posted by jimicrk

I've said this many times before. The best thing about scrapping is I've never had to buy computers, laptops, monitors, printers, paper, or toner cartridges for me or my family.

Are you keeping the 2, 4, and 8 gig ram separate for better than scrap prices?

I don't come across much of it but yes 2 4 and 8gb ram stay separate from the scrap.

Got my first load delivered to my local yard waiting to be shipped out next week to the buyer. My yard hooked me up with their IBC tote supplier so I picked up my own totes today but forgot to take a picture of them loaded. I filled 2 totes and had boards left over but I didn't want to send out a half full tote so I held off shipping the rest of my boards.

My yard buys any boards as "green mother boards"(at .15 normally) so that was the only category they could use on their computer system when making up this bill of lading.

Most of the servers from my last post are decent working units with no HD's or OS. 2 of them each have 256gb of ram! 8GB server ram seems to be selling well on ebay so if the servers themselves don't sell I am sure the ram will sell.

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So I haven't posted in a while because it's really just more and more of the same. Plus they aren't really scrap "finds" as I have been buying everything I have scrapped.

But I figured I would share a few things I scrapped recently.



First off this big UPS. I think I posted it while back on this thread but I finally got around to scrapping it out. Hammer placed on top of the transformer for scale.

Normally I don't mess with stripping copper from transformers but this one will be an exception. Lot's of real heavy gauge #2 wire in it as well.

I already scrapped the lead acid batteries.



Next is a computer I bought from an auction that does all the auctions locally for items seized by police/government.

Hopefully this computer with a partial evidence tag was seized by the revenue dept. because it had evidence of tax evasion or something like that.

I think you know where my mind went when I saw that tag. Needless to say the HD was gotten rid of asap.



Last is this dumpster. I have gotten some serious scores from this walgreens in the past. Last year I got a whole truck load of school supplies that I was able to donate.

Well people started making a mess so they started locking the doors. Someone cut the lock so they put 2 locks on the metal doors.

Then someone had the great idea to hook a chain to the doors and that resulted in the doors coming off but they brought down the cinder block walls with them.

So when they rebuilt the walls they filled the cinder block in with re bar and concrete and added tall metal doors with this wire cage.

Well it looks like the doors now just come strait off when you pull on them with your truck instead of bringing down the cinder block.


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Someone video-ed me when I saw your gold memory box from the end of October...

I'm a little confused about your totes you took to the local scrap yard. You only got 15 cents a pound for all those boards or were you saying the yard usually pays 15 cents a pound but you got a much better deal...?

Crazy things about that Walgreens' dumpster. I guess people are determined to get into their trash. In one of my previous lives, I was a pharm teck for a while at one of the hospitals in "big town" next to us. Pharmacy students used to brag how much places like Walgreens would pay them starting out in say metro Phoenix. I used to remind them that 1) they will fill a *ellva lot of scripts a day (and don't screw up too many times doing them or you could lose your license) and 2) get used to being robbed on a semi-regular basis. And this was before the "opioid crisis". No businesses pay a person a high salary out the goodness of their hearts...

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

I'm a little confused about your totes you took to the local scrap yard. You only got 15 cents a pound for all those boards or were you saying the yard usually pays 15 cents a pound but you got a much better deal...?

Crazy things about that Walgreens' dumpster. I guess people are determined to get into their trash. In one of my previous lives, I was a pharm teck for a while at one of the hospitals in "big town" next to us. Pharmacy students used to brag how much places like Walgreens would pay them starting out in say metro Phoenix. I used to remind them that 1) they will fill a *ellva lot of scripts a day (and don't screw up too many times doing them or you could lose your license) and 2) get used to being robbed on a semi-regular basis. And this was before the "opioid crisis". No businesses pay a person a high salary out the goodness of their hearts...

The yard is being used as a freight carrier to bring my boards to their buyer. The sheet only says "green mother boards" because that is the only category for boards that my local yard has in their computer.

My yard ships my boards to my board buyer which is also their non ferrous buyer.

As far as pricing the buyer pays as much or more than the big buyers on the forum.

So, that 15 cents a pound is what your yard is charging you to ship your totes on to the buyer. Ok, I got it now. That's a really good deal!

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

So, that 15 cents a pound is what your yard is charging you to ship your totes on to the buyer. Ok, I got it now. That's a really good deal!

I am only paying .05 a pound on shipping so it's an even better deal! It's only being shipped about 100 miles but it's well worth it for me to not have to make the 200 mile round trip.

All I was trying to say was that the "green motherboard" category was what my yard labeled my load for shipping because that is the only category they have for circuit boards in their computer system. It was just kind of a side note that they buy "green motherboards" for .15.

Some cool little chips I pulled from finger cards that were removed from some old lab equipment that came out of the local university.

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Traded a couple servers with some resell value for 40 of these. I think they are some kind of video mixer. Decent boards and easy to dismantle. They had been for sale for 3 months and didn't move so I don't need to mess with listing them before scrapping them.

In other news I found a second board buyer. He has a small operation but I have not been happy with customer service of this big board buyer I have been dealing with. Not a single response to emails or texts asking for pricing on certain items.

Seems like it would be simple to respond to a text asking "current price on ribbon wire with gold connectors?" or "can I have your monitor pricing? I'm trying to work a deal on a couple hundred monitors"

I'm super easy to do business with and even if I am small time I feel simple pricing questions should be answered. I don't get a delayed response. I get zero response!

Anyway I am still selling to this buyer but I realize I can't count on them for much of anything....hmm didn't mean to turn this post into a rant lol

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Ram for the last 45 days.

First pic is scrap 1gb and under.

Second pic 4gb ddr3 laptop

Third pic 2gb desktop

Fourth pic 4gb desktop

Fifth pic 2gb laptop ram

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I've been solely scrapping PC's until recently. I started buying at a new auction house which mixes a few good PC's into the pallets of scrap PC's. This brings the bidding up higher than it would otherwise.

This means if I want to buy at that auction I need to start refurbishing the good PC's on these pallets to maintain a healthy profit margin.

I know people have told me before I am leaving money on the table by not refurbishing my computers. Mostly I have been getting computers that IMO are not worth it. I am not going to spend the time reformatting HD's, installing windows and selling a computer that is only worth $50-60 bucks

But at this new auction I now buy at I got a pallet of computers for $250. I made that back in scrap and I am left with 6 i5 computers and 3 i7. They need ram which I have plenty and HD's which I am lacking.

Most computers I buy do not have HD's or the HD's are too small. So I think I need to make a buyers thread to start buying working HD's from forum members. I am going to need laptop HD's as well.

Anyway...just wanted to let you guys who told me I should be refurbishing computers that I am now getting around to it.