Great photos, thank you, Mike
Great photos, thank you, Mike
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
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A few pics of what was left of a load I brought home last week. My Wife had processed most of it before I could get some good pics but I'm not complaining at all.
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I was talking to my buyer recently after sending some pictures of different circuit boards to him. He's always been very helpful by telling me what I can remove from the boards to increase the value of them. I spent about 30 minutes processing 13 boards and wanted post a few pics. Each board weighs between 1 and 1.5 pounds after processing.
Before
After
I removed all plastic, transformers and any metal. I can sell these as high grade telecom now.
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Got ready to leave work today and decided to check out the dumpster. I found a box that had 20 pounds of nice telecom boards in it. There's still some phones and a few more circuit boards but I couldn't reach them. I'll be prepared in the morning.
Preparation + knowledge + effort = profit. Mike
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I wonder if I should start a titanium bucket. I really wouldn't know a piece of titanium if I found some. These were in a sample case that a friend gave me.
Anyone care to guess what they are?
Ewaste Entrepreneur
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this may get me some poking fun at, but they look like bike petals before the bearings and shafts are installed.
Cleaning up the e-waste one company at a time
New Guy
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Those be surgical implants for the spine. Too bad their scrap value is .00001% of their MSRP.
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WhiteCollarScrapper, you are correct! Ya don't win anything but you are correct.
I just want everyone to know that they have never been used or removed from anything except the sample case they came in.
Last edited by jimicrk; 11-01-2014 at 05:10 PM.
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I picked up 18 PC's the other day and the guy gave me 2 laptops also, both still in what looks like their original cases. The one I found interesting was a Dell Inspiron 7500 with Windows 98 and a Pentium III processor. My gosh this thing is a beast, but it looks brand new and it still works. Not sure what I'm going to do with it.
Sell it on ebay. It may take a long time to find the buyer(I haven't done any research) but I believe there is a buyer out there. It works
I don't know your experience but in case you don't know first check out the "sold" area for prices. Second if there is little or no record of sales items like this may take some time.
Some where in the description use "vintage laptop" as this may help get you into buyers searchs. Mike
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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scrap it, it ain't worth the time hassle and space you could be saving to scrap more, I get those all the time anyway so will you
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Just wondering if anyone else finds these. Some come from the old wireless cards for laptops but most that I get come from Nortel phone and voicemail systems. They are about the size of a credit card.
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A lot of the implants used to be made out of titanium.Originally Posted by WhiteCollarScrapper
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Regarding the spinal implants--They look like they are made to replace a section of the bone....how do they deal with the spinal cord...is it supposed to go through the middle of the metal implant?
Jon.
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We find a lot of those. We break them open and throw the board in the telecom box.
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I stopped by my favorite dumpster Thursday and found 2 boxes. The first box had a bad amplifier. I ended up with about 10 pounds of metal, two transformers, two circuit boards and two heat sinks.
In the second box I found 11 old Nortel phones
This is a Nortel T7100
Inside the phone was two small boards and 1 speaker
The next phone was a Nortel T7316E
Same with this phone, two small boards and a speaker. This phone has 2 extra wires that connects to a mic making it a speaker phone
The third type of phone was a Nortel M7208
There's not a lot in these phones but I still like to scrap them. The display boards on most business phones usually have IC chips and gold plating. My buyer pays me well for them.
Last edited by jimicrk; 01-24-2015 at 07:48 AM.
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A closer look at the Nortel phone boards
Last edited by jimicrk; 01-24-2015 at 07:56 AM.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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I wonder if that stuff is considered telecom?
I know they are phone systems, but the company I used to take them to would take those out
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Yes they are telecom. Grading computer is easy....telecom is a completely different world.
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