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    Any escrap buyers in the Tri-Cities?

    Does anyone know if there are any decent escrap buyers in the Tri-Cities or Yakima Washington? Looking for a buyer for power supplies w/wire, CD/DVD drives with boards and floppy drives. Have way too much to haul back to Idaho with me. Thanks.



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    darn, good luck on that! even if there's a yard there, won't it be till monday to move it ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by freonjoe View Post
    Does anyone know if there are any decent escrap buyers in the Tri-Cities or Yakima Washington? Looking for a buyer for power supplies w/wire, CD/DVD drives with boards and floppy drives. Have way too much to haul back to Idaho with me. Thanks.
    That big auction must have been more than u thought........Good luck

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    Bear, I still have about 100 towers left to part out so I'll still be here until next week sometime anyhow.

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    scrapping from a hotel room ? Don't get the telephone mixed up in it, or forget which TV was theirs!

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    Bear, I'm scrapping from a friends house. The downside of it is each tower needs to go into the truck as soon as it's parted out. I'm sure that rule was made because there is a pallet or two of carcasses on the back patio from last time I was up here.

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    hahaha Joe, he shoulda took em off and sold em ; )

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    if you had time you could grab the CD boards and strip the power supplies and just toss the rest in the scrap. It's what I do here cause there's no money in shipping the rest

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    Pack them up and ship them off?

    Just sent my first lot to ewasted. Shipped from the west coast all the way to Ohio.Even after shipping, it should work out very well.

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    I don't think Ewasted wants a 1000 pounds of power supplies showing up, but I may be wrong.

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    I dont think you could get shipping cheap enough to pay for the 1000 pounds of power supplies. Check the local yard where you are you might get lucky and they wioll take them as copper bearing. If not cut the wire and shred it?

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    PIS, I'll ask the yard that I'm hauling the carcasses to. I do know that they have some stupid copper laws up here, if they want to include power supplies too, I'll ship them out of state just for spite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freonjoe View Post
    PIS, I'll ask the yard that I'm hauling the carcasses to. I do know that they have some stupid copper laws up here, if they want to include power supplies too, I'll ship them out of state just for spite.
    My local yard buys them as transformer class without the wire so there might be an option, .25 a lb, better than shred price.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechanic688 View Post
    My local yard buys them as transformer class without the wire so there might be an option, .25 a lb, better than shred price.
    I wish there was some around here would do that! I snip the wires, and time permitting, pop the cover and grab the easy transformers and stuff, then it's shred

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    Managed to find a yard in Yakima that bought the power supplies w/ wire for .25 a pound and .15 a pound for floppies and CD's. Wasn't able to sell any aluminum or copper heat sinks though. Tin prices sucked at 115.00 a ton.

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    why couldn't you sell copper and aluminum heatsinks ?

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    If you sell any non-ferrous in Washington for over 10.00, it takes 2-3 weeks to get a check.

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    dang! wonder what's it all coming to

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    All it's doing is creating a vibrant underground group of buyers and sellers.

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