Do you break down televisions?

i dont ,space or time if i did there hundres of them free a week around here

Ok, i see now about the poll. I'll try one soon. My next question is the obvious one, though. How many questions can you put in a poll? If only 1, then is there a place where all the poll questions and answers can be found? You wouldnt have to have a note section there, just a running list of questions asked and answers. Thanks!

when you start thread scrol down should be poll option ,now for questions you have to make your own questions ,it pretty self explanatory just read and you can get it

first off you need a place to dispose of the crt's, if that's all good then why not.
so long as your scrapping and disposing as you go, not stack tv's up like I did.
only takes a few minutes to scrap out a tv, and if e-waste is all you do then the degaussing cables
are about the thickest wire you'll see and probably the only wire worth stripping.

i'm using tv's to build my business, free pickups along with anything electrical, the difference for me is the cord,
can't find many tv's out there with cords, a cord ain't much but after a few hundreds tv's them cords add up,
so I figured if I offer to pick up tv's then i'll get the cords too, and here in oz', a plug has 3 prongs, not 2,
so I get 33% more brass then you do, ha!

Originally Posted by scrapperben

first off you need a place to dispose of the crt's, if that's all good then why not.
so long as your scrapping and disposing as you go, not stack tv's up like I did.
only takes a few minutes to scrap out a tv, and if e-waste is all you do then the degaussing cables
are about the thickest wire you'll see and probably the only wire worth stripping.

i'm using tv's to build my business, free pickups along with anything electrical, the difference for me is the cord,
can't find many tv's out there with cords, a cord ain't much but after a few hundreds tv's them cords add up,
so I figured if I offer to pick up tv's then i'll get the cords too, and here in oz', a plug has 3 prongs, not 2,
so I get 33% more brass then you do, ha!

I love 'em Ben. Degausser, copper wires, aluminium etc. Only takes a couple of minutes to do a basic strip. Bring 'em on.

I used to take all i could see, but now i wont touch them unless it is part of a larger pick up.

I use to do them but not really anymore. There is money to be had from them, but disposing of the tube is the problem. I mainly do cpu monitors cause my brother-in-law is a IT cpu guy at a collage and can take my stripped monitors for recycling.

Burly, if you want to PM me I might have a buyer near us that would make it worthwhile for you to break these down.

yes all of them crt, lcd and plasma all add to the bottom line, especially if they are free

"yes worthwhile" answer here BUT with some major qualifications...

1. 27" is my size limit for CRTs. 34" Sony Wega is 191 pounds. Top of the line 35" is 240 pounds.
2. no off-brand CRT TVs unless they are older. Gotta have that copper degaussing wire as my reward
3. never pick up more than I can dispose of legally and safely.

Here in northern NJ I have my pick of TVs...for now

I take the ones I can carry myself. If I have a larger one that I can't carry i just get the cord if its still there. I love saving the boards up and in my free time I break those all down.

So Are the boards easy to sell? Do they have to be all in one piece or will they take them broken as well? can the boards be sold as a mix from other electronics?

Originally Posted by jmurrow3

So Are the boards easy to sell?

I dunno. I haven't sold any of them yet. I've been collecting circuit boards and keeping them in a couple of 55 gallon drums. I was going to list them on Ebay as bulk e-scrap as soon as the barrels were full but in the last couple of weeks I've been learning that there are differences between high/low grade boards and even some of them are worth more than others.

Originally Posted by auminer

I've sworn off TVs/monitors a zillion times...

Haha, me too... but every time I slice open a degaussing cable and see that flash of copper and every time I look over at that bucket full of yokes, it pulls me back in. Fortunately, I can set tubes out and the garbage truck will collect them.