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    Am I learning?

    OK, so instead of just asking what each board was, I figured I'd try to sort them on my own to see if I'm getting the hang of this. These are all pulled out of all-in-one printers. the skinny boards are from the scanner lens and 7 is the back view of the LCD panel.






    OK here's what my totally amateur and barely educated eye sees:

    2,3,4,5,8,10 low grade
    1,11 mid grade
    6,7,9 high grade



    So how off am I?

    Thanks

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    I would like to know as well, lol

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    With maybe the exception of #8, i would get motherboard grade on all of them. We tear apart lots of printers. Different buyers grade differently, but that is what i would expect on them

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    Quote Originally Posted by directrecycle View Post
    With maybe the exception of #8, i would get motherboard grade on all of them. We tear apart lots of printers. Different buyers grade differently, but that is what i would expect on them
    Would you need to remove capacitors and other "bulky" stuff from those to get MB grade?

    @OP: I think many buyers also require you to remove batteries, like in #6

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    OK, so instead of just asking what each board was, I figured I'd try to sort them on my own to see if I'm getting the hang of this

    Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...#ixzz2WR5u3epB
    Thank you for taking the initiative to learn before just asking questions...hopefully the other new people can learn from this. Good work !
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    I usually get at least mid-grade from any double green boards, .50 - .75 lb.
    If they have large can caps on them, then I use a small hammer and knock them off.
    I don't see any low grade up there. The small boards with pieces of gold plating showing you might want
    to hang onto them till you have a nice accumulation and sell them on Ebay, might get more for them that way.
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    i am still learning board grading too.
    isnt #1 high grade? and the rest I would put as mid grade.

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    I'd have thought 6,8,9,11 were high grade buuuuuut......thats why when i turned my load into EWASTED he said i had 60 lb vs the 29 I thought I had. lol, it all looks the same to me really.

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    amoncion

    Thanks for your nice post.

    Nice pictures , great job.

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    just not off large caps and heatsinks as well as anyother questionable plastic and such. Dont have to be pretty about it use a small pry bar and hammer

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    Thanks for the info, should I remove the
    LCD screen?

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    In what picture is there a heatsinks? Its not popping out at me!


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