Is there anything worth taking out of laptop screens? Like boards or metal?
Thanks
Copycat
Is there anything worth taking out of laptop screens? Like boards or metal?
Thanks
Copycat
Aside from the hard drives and ram, nothing else really seems to be of interest, unless you sell it all as scrap on ebay.com
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if the lcd screens are intact and working i would ebay them, all you need is a part number to find out what laptop models it fits
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i process the lcd board for trimmings, recycle the aluminum frame and plastic sheets and save the lcd panel, have not found a buyer for lcd panels yet, but am hopeful one will appear in the future, until then i continue to accumulate them
The little board has some gold fingers on it worth pulling.
My local ewaste buyer will buy flat panel tv screens. I mean the ones, that are completely flat. Not the big bulky flat ones.
Dont know, but I am guess it is the boards. They only pay $1 per, so I just say the hell with it.
im talking about the lcd panel itself. I have about 30 pounds of them. I am buying the lcd boards at $10 pound.
I don't remember exactly what material is in these but I've been saving the actual screens from laptops/flatscreen monitors and TVs. I passively read an article about how the materials are becoming more scarce as the demand is skyrocketing. So as long as you have spare room, keep them at least until you run out of room or can find more data on this subject.
If I find more information I'll post.
BE CAREFUL of the back lights (They look like very small florescent lights.. These contain mercury.)
Integer- the screens are made from rare earth minerals and there is some work being made into recovering them from the screens. Hold onto to them as I believe someone will find a process to refine and recover them in the near future. I also save mine like jg is as well.
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the rules of thumbs #1 in the scrap world is if you have the room save everything #2 even if you don't have the room save everything and buy a new room #3 everything has or will at some point have value
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