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    Today's e-waste pickup

    Hi again, I wanted to post some images from my job today and get some input. It was a factory that builds circuit boards. I got 5 gaylords of stuff. Four gaylords were old computer things. I got 2 servers, several dot matrix printers (lol those are old), electronic calculators, scanners, heavy laser printers and quite a few huge monitors. The last gaylord was interesting. I've posted pictures. I don't know what half of the stuff is lol! The things I do know are spools of surface mount capacitors (4000 on each spool), a reel of resistors, boxes of transistors, unused printed circuit boards, and more. There are lot of things I don't know. So my question is do I try to put this stuff on Ebay or would there possibly be a better market for it? The circuit boards, will they be worth anything since they have nothing on them? Any help is appreciated!!







    Half way through box 5!




    Some boards with attachments



    Images of the blank printed circuit boards





    Surface mount capacitors




    There is a ton more but I want to get these taken care of and then I'll get more images up. Thanks again for your thoughts.


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    Another image

    There is a 10 image limit so here is the last one.

    Not sure what these are. They look like small LCD screens. Any ideas???

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    congrats on the haul, erg.....was it all free?

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    Prolly screens for digital readouts. For what, who knows.

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    Thanks Dee! Yes, all free. They even loaded it for me.

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    Sweet, free gives you the time to figure out the best way to get rid of this stuff. Thanks for the pictures, Mike.
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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    Pic. #3 shows what looks to be relays (with the brass plug-ins) and commercial plug-ins for power or microphones (round things with the brass/gold? pins in the middle. My best guess would be circuit boards for military/commercial radios; could be ham radio accessories tho. The reel of caps are one hundred thousand pico farads with a tolorance of + or- 10%, and their surface mount so their still in popular demand. Use that if you list them, and use this to find the value of any misc. resistors that aren't marked http://www.csgnetwork.com/resistcolcalc.html. I'm selling variety packs of resistors on Ebay right now. Those are LCD readout screens. Even the mic plugs (male-female) still have value to ham operators on Flebay. And it's been well talked about, you know whats inside those relays? Should have contacts with a little silver on them. Not installed they might also have some value on Ebay,,,Good luck, I'd be in hoggy-heaven.
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    Thanks so much Mechanic!! That helps a lot. I'm up to my ears in sorting right now.

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    Those surface mounted capacitors have Palladium in them.

    eBay them for the PM recovery, the guys over on the Gold Refining Forum love stuff like that!

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    Erg, where in Mi are you. We are located in the Mid Mi area


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