Commercial Copiers/Scanners/Fax Machines - Board Quality?

[Racer997]

I recently obtained two of them. They are big, as you know, maybe 150 pounds or so. They do have quite a bit of plastic on them, but that all goes into a recycle bin my trash service picks up and recycles There's a lot of stranded and insulated wire in there, and quite a bit of shred metal holds the thing together (along with 500 screws). There's also several small motors, which I like, and get tossed into the motor bin. There's some aluminum sheet, too, which I was surprised by. So bits of good stuff everywhere.

There's also a several green boards inside one of these things. Some of them appear to have processors, e-proms, and flash memory and whatnot. There's less ribbon cable than I expected, but I still see a bit of gold pins here and there.



What classification would these boards be? I'm thinking mid-grade or less, but I could be wrong.

[freonjoe]

Pictures of the boards would help a lot.

[Racer997]

Pictures of the boards would help a lot.

Agreed, and I'll get some tonight.

[Jonniebrass]

I pulled a nice ceramic CPU from a board in a HP office copier. If I remember early 1990's model.

[jghilino]

I did 2 full size coppiers awhile back, not much yield there on boards. 10 pounds of midgrade, 15 pounds of low grade, 5 pounds of high grade between the 2. The 3 hours of tear down time killed it. But i still think i made about $10 hour.