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    Cool 4/20 telephone/computer ebay store guy

    Scrapyahherd and I Went and hit one of my bigger jobs 2 locations around 1000 pounds of scrap computer equipment. sadly most of it is in office phones but man did we get some good stuff. heres the start of the pic train. Sadly no loaded down truck photos it was raining the whole afternoon.







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    Old hardrive that had a weird adapter on it. basically sata to PCI


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    And yes i know my shop is covered in money, i dont see it as a problem.

    2nd picture wouldnt that be telecom grade? People better then me chime in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dunemaul View Post
    Old hardrive that had a weird adapter on it. basically sata to PCI

    looks like an old compaq server hotswap scsi hdd tray

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    that is correct, thing was scrap worthy motor was warped.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dunemaul View Post
    Scrapyahherd and I Went and hit one of my bigger jobs 2 locations around 1000 pounds of scrap computer equipment. sadly most of it is in office phones but man did we get some good stuff. heres the start of the pic train. Sadly no loaded down truck photos it was raining the whole afternoon.





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    that bottom one is old eisa full length add in cards, be worth googling to see if they're worth more than scrap

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    thats what i was thinking. just never gotten this much server equipment to go through. so im finding all sorts of goodies. Really pushing to get everything broken down boxed up and out of our hands by Monday.

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    Will do bear, thanks ill keep u entertained tonight at least.

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    i just re read your title, if he's ebayed this stuff already, unless he wasn't running on all 3 cylinders, it might be just scrap. I had some of those hdd trays 6-8 years ago, and they weren't worth anything then. Still be worth checking what hdd's are inside them, maybe they've made a comeback some reason. People are bringing back older systems more often now, and most times newer hardware won't work on them as well. Probly not worth building a warehouse for, but still maybe worth giving a peek to see?

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    Yeah He did ebay alot of stuff but what im breaking down now are computers he never got around to. The guy was sitting on like a 200 computers and telephone equipment from a company clean out and was selling it the past 3 years. From what i gathered he really got screwed on his pricing to. so him getting sick of the pile was our gain. He did tell use bout one of one really old server that was very collectible, but someone had it shipped to AZ. And im all ready sick of all the screws on these.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dunemaul View Post
    actually those are ISA's, see the single lil slot? 2 rows of fingers? The earlier EISA has an extended row and a second slot. Minor differences, but differences just as well. I do believe, as in anything else, the later versions would be more cheaply made(they call this progress) I also think each progression in manufacturing used a thinner layer of conducting elements, as new tech processes emerged, even until today, as newer boards have almost nothing in them, but they are tech savvy

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    5 hours later that truck bed full of stuff is broken down sorted and ready to go. Next victims please :-D tomorrow im going medieval on 400 pounds of phones. also got a 55 gallon drum stuff full of insulation 2. Im leave the ups units over at Scrapyaherds' one of the suckers weighted 150 pounds O.O gonna be some killer brass copper and batteries right there.

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    I'm sure you have but did you check ebay on the phones? I'm selling this http://www.ebay.com/itm/230777602596...84.m1555.l2649 right now and I'm glad I looked it up! The Norstar phones that go with this system sell very well too. I've found that pretty much any decent phone system will sell on ebay, be it old or new. Just a thought!

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    This guy tried to ebay these phones for over 3 years. Im not gonna waste my time on it. they are getting scrapped and im moving on to the next project. If you want 400 pounds of call center phones pm me and ill have them ship it to you.

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    Im leave the ups units over at Scrapyaherds' one of the suckers weighted 150 pounds O.O gonna be some killer brass copper and batteries right there.
    The transformers in them will be killer, the small one I did had a nice peripheral board in it also.
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    I get $0.26 a pound for UPS units...As is with or without batteries. I only get $0.20 a pound for transformers, $0.14 a pound for low grade boards, and Unknown on the batteries. So i take them things in whole. Took in over 500#'s of UPS/APC units in my Altima...poor car hated the trip the whole way!
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    Thor my prices are double urs :-) they getting broken down.

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    Nice haul and I agree brake'm down and move on. By the way check your pm box.

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    Sent u a new PM, and now i went over and grabbed half the phones off of SYH so ill get photos of it once it stops raining. Looks like we will have everything gtg by sunday.

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    I only get $0.20 a pound for transformers, $0.14 a pound for low grade boards, and Unknown on the batteries.
    Good price on the low grade boards, the transformers bring .30 lb here and unfortunately only .20 lb for batteries. A lot of the UPS units have a computer style plug in on the back, that is my clue that the board is better quality.
    No way those are low grade. Isn't that what they call a mid grade board?


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