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    my most efficiant e tear down.

    if i'm dealing with pallet load or bigger towers or servers i have found a little extra time in front saves me a lot of time over all.

    I stack the load into like servers or towers.
    each make or even model can be a little different , diffrent screws rivets etc,

    a u 1 or u2 server is a whole different animal from a costom 300 pounder.

    by separating them into category you will b
    get a rithum and the proper bits tools etc together in one spot easy to access.

    doing them any other way causes tool searches and momentary thoughts trying to figure them out each causing a small delay in your task. those delays can add up to several hours over a weeks time.
    "anyone who thinks scrappin is easy money ain't doin it right!"

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    I totally agree with you OldDude. The more organixed you can be the better your chances are of making more $$ per hour. I try to arrange everything I do, so that it makes more sence to my way of thinking, which in turn makes my work load easier and often times much quicker.


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    I agree also but I find I get bored easily so after 6-10 of one model I need to do something else. Luckily I have lots to do that is different that I wish were more repetative. 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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    I agree.....One day I do towers, one day servers, one day printers, and when I get in the mood to sell sum copper monitors

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    my downtime was having the toilet paper roll on the left side, I'm right handed so by moving
    the roll to the right, I can grab paper much quicker now, more time to scrap.

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    Now this is the kind if thread I like to see. Little bit of thinkin saves a lot of unnecessary doing.


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    I love having a stack of "like style" computers. It makes things so much nicer. I once had a stack of 50 laptops all the same. When I started I was at 15 minutes breaking my first one down. By the 4th one I was down to 3 minutes each and was on a rhthym.

    Just this weekend, I had 82 of an exact same model that I was breaking down. Not a full tower, but a "satellite" type unit. Not much to it. A power supply and a motherboard, a steel inner casing and a plastic 2 piece outer casing, all with a fairly nice possibly resellable splitter/adaptor cord off of the back. As usual the first one took some time. I needed to set up with a 3/16 bit to undo 6 screws on the back that held in the motherboard, and then I just needed a flat blade screwdriver to quickly undo the one screw that held in the power supply. Once the power supply was done I needed the flat blade to make one twist to remove the power supply and then one certain placement to then remove the mother board.

    After I got the routine down and was moving fairly quick I figured that I needed to do 4 units in 10 minutes in order to make $20 an hour. I grabbed 4 of them and kept at it now that I had the routine down. Finished them and looked at my clock and I was at 6 minutes. Sweet!. I kept going and cleaned up. In more ways than one.
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