A few weeks ago, i was in the middle of a work day, ripping into my 15 gaylords of electronics, when i ran into something odd. I was tearing apart a car audio amp. Nothing special about it, solid aluminum all around, could not see inside. I opened it up, and the circuit board was in the design of our American flag! Had the white stars, blue square, and red/white stripes. Just immaculate condition. I gave easyrecycle a call and he said to keep it around, that it might be worth something. So i put it away, and forgot about it.
Well, friday i was ripping some more stuff apart. My employee was working on an old power converter. The entire case was aluminum, 50 billion screws, and about 40 pounds. (Funny how all the good stuff is encased in AL...hmm) My partner found 2 boards. Both some kind of plastic. 1 was a milky white, with crazy gold swirls on it. The other, the same plastic type, but DARK brown, with the same awesome gold swirls. Those are now put away as well.
I don't know the value of this stuff, but i know it's worth a helluva lot more than scrap. I'll include pictures in a few days, forgot to bring the pieces home (duh).
Moral of the story, don't be so quick to smash and grab when it comes to circuit boards. Sometimes i can get into a rhythm and forget what i'm really LOOKING for, just taking things apart and throwing them in their buckets. A little bit of extra time and an inquiring mind will lead you to a nice little collection of neat stuff.
Oh, if anyone has any idea about the worth of the same kind of boards i mentioned, feel free to let me know! haha.
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