Disassembling an HP Color laserjet 4550

Originally Posted by CGsEnterprises

Now put all the plastic weight back on and sell it for shred! Lol

By the way, CGsEnterprises, I noticed that you're in Columbia. I grew up in that neck of the woods. Are you affiliated with one of the local scrap businesses?

Originally Posted by Bamcis

By the way, CGsEnterprises, I noticed that you're in Columbia. I grew up in that neck of the woods. Are you affiliated with one of the local scrap businesses?

My family owned USA Recycling out in West Columbia, but we closed it after my dad passed- worked for a few years as the NFE Manager @ Carolina's Recycling Group (Now part of Omnisource). Couldn't stand it anymore working in the industry where my dad raised me and we worked side by side everyday...didn't figure on coming back to open a recycling company again 5 years later, but here I am.

And Happy- I guess it all boils down to what kind of time you have and what you are willing to settle for /hour. I enjoy breaking things down, but usually yank as much wire and the mobo grade board(s) and chunk the rest. Luckily, my yard could care less what goes in the shred pile... :-)

Originally Posted by CGsEnterprises

My family owned USA Recycling out in West Columbia, but we closed it after my dad passed- worked for a few years as the NFE Manager @ Carolina's Recycling Group (Now part of Omnisource). Couldn't stand it anymore working in the industry where my dad raised me and we worked side by side everyday...didn't figure on coming back to open a recycling company again 5 years later, but here I am.

And Happy- I guess it all boils down to what kind of time you have and what you are willing to settle for /hour. I enjoy breaking things down, but usually yank as much wire and the mobo grade board(s) and chunk the rest. Luckily, my yard could care less what goes in the shred pile... :-)

Ah, I see. To be honest, I'm not familiar with many of the scrap businesses in the Columbia area. The only one I do remember is the one in Cayce near the train yard. My daddy used to take scrap out there from time to time.

Yeah, there were actually two yards out that way...one is still there- CMC. The other started as K&W Recycling then moved through different names (Carolinas Recycling Group, Omnisource, etc...) now they just use the yard as a truck depot for their actual scrap yard in Columbia.

Originally Posted by CGsEnterprises

Yeah, there were actually two yards out that way...one is still there- CMC. The other started as K&W Recycling then moved through different names (Carolinas Recycling Group, Omnisource, etc...) now they just use the yard as a truck depot for their actual scrap yard in Columbia.

Yeah, CMC is the one that I'm talking about. I think the last time we went there was in the mid 90s. I was 13-14 years old and we were scrapping two old broke down Hondas that my daddy had bought off of a friend for fifty bucks or so. Anyway, I'm off of work for the day and I'm going to get back to taking apart this printer. Hopefully, I'll pull out some more goodies today.

Ok, I've made a whole butt ton of progress on breaking this thing down, and have decided to take a well deserved break. Below are the photos.

Progress:
001_zpsc5e983f1.jpg picture by Eadiot - Photobucket

Bucket o' motors, plastic gears, wire, and other worthwhile scrap:
002_zps59cfb10d.jpg picture by Eadiot - Photobucket

Items to still be broken down:
003_zps0111e4a2.jpg picture by Eadiot - Photobucket
006_zps6b13047a.jpg picture by Eadiot - Photobucket

Pile of sheet metal from the frame:
004_zpsf962db31.jpg picture by Eadiot - Photobucket

Plastic:
005_zps7c62220c.jpg picture by Eadiot - Photobucket


I must say that removing the plastic gears from the supporting bars and frame has been the most tedious part of all of this... I found that an old butter knife was the best tool for the job of removing the metal clips holding them on, but it still took a half an hour or so to get them all off.

why are you removing the plastic from the bars? are you going to put them in something other than shred? i have a handful of those rods that i saved/have been using a punch tools. i have been wondering if the ones thicker than 1/4 inch could be put in another class. for the few i have a put them on concrete and hit w/ hammer to pop off the plastic. after a few of them i just left them on the frame and put the whole thing in shred.

Originally Posted by Bamcis

I must say that removing the plastic gears from the supporting bars and frame has been the most tedious part of all of this... I found that an old butter knife was the best tool for the job of removing the metal clips holding them on, but it still took a half an hour or so to get them all off.

Regarding the sheet metal from the frame, what would that be classified as, general ferrous scrap??? Or could some of it possibly be stainless?