Some of my ewaste finds (Pics included) - Page 15

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I know your busy and have a regular job but there is so much re-sell equipment there I can't believe its just in the driveway.........Oh well

I would scrap everything except for the monitors if they work and you can find a market. It looks like the desktops are all Core2Duo, if they are they would get scrapped right away in our shop.

Mike, do you still have a market for Core2duo machines? We have tried clist, letgo etc but couldn't find a good level of effort and price to make it worthwhile.

The monitors will be tested and sold but the Core2duo desktops are getting the ax. No hard drives, no ram, no time.

The back half of the pile came from the company I sell my batteries to. You can't really see it but there is an old IBM server, 3 IBM towers, a dot matrix printer, 7 dummie terminals and a big flat printer that looks like an old typewriter. I removed the cover from this printer and found some nice boards. I'll post some pics of these later. This stuff has been on 2 pallets for years in a nasty warehouse by the dock doors where they receive and stack their old batteries.

Mike, you know how I feel about ebay......it ain't gonna happen. Don't think I'm scrapping everything because I'm not. I just sold a nice gaming pc yesterday and I have some i3 and i5 processors and ram that I'm going to sell also.

One of the more interesting things I scrapped yesterday was a Centronics printer. It almost got scrapped as is but when I picked it up the plastic cover fell apart and I could see circuit boards inside. I did manage to find a label.




This thing was nasty!




I got a brush and some soapy water to see what was underneath the funk. The boards were corroded in several places. I'm not sure if that was due to the black crap from the tow motors or being close to pallets of old lead acid batteries.




The chips with the yellow stickers are eproms.




This board had something interesting.




My first with gold legs, I just wish I could find more.

Comdial Executech


A friend gave me this small phone system the other day and this is what was inside.




A lot of smaller systems have only 1 board inside.





The first thing I noticed was the 1 big transformer, 31 small transformers and 3 big capacitors.





I could have sold it as is but I decided to remove them. It took about a minute to remove the transformers, capacitors and the battery, increasing the value of the board. Total breakdown time was close to 5 minutes and I ended up with a 1 pound 10 oz board and about 3 pounds of transformers, including the big one shown in the 2nd pic.

Polycom SoundStation

I was going to sell this but it got knocked off a stack of boxes and was broken. It's an older Polycom but if working properly they sound great.




The board had 2 metal shields soldered on but they were easily removed.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

Polycom SoundStation

I was going to sell this but it got knocked off a stack of boxes and was broken. It's an older Polycom but if working properly they sound great.




The board had 2 metal shields soldered on but they were easily removed.

I have 186 polycom phones that I'm dreading.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

About 2 months ago I gave my neighbor a PC I received in a scrap load. It didn't have a hard drive but he had one and it's been working for him. He offered me 50 dollars and I said sure.

I was at his house today looking at some cards he had and talking about the different components on them and he asked if I would be willing to take the cards as a partial payment for the money he owed me. Sure will, and we loaded them up.

I just got through going through them and sorting them and this is what I got.

Starting on the left with the first white bin and going clockwise are gold finger cards, gold finger cards with the gold fingers removed, CD ROM boards, 11 small socket mother boards, 21 laptop mother boards, 1 large socket mother board, 1 board from a data switch, and 6 thin client mother boards. In the center I have about 1 pound of ram, 1 slot processor and a mix of large and small cps. None of them were ceramic.


I would also like to add that the cards came in the white bins and the white bins do not belong to me. I plan on transferring the cards to cardboard boxes and the white bins will be rinsed out and returned to their rightful owner.

My guess is you got your $50 and then some.

I like to line the street with those bins the guy hast to get out every 3 houses or so... LOL

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

My guess is you got your $50 and then some.

Yeah, I think so too. Some of the cards were in an old cat **** box. I kept the cards and threw the box away.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

Dot matrix printers hold value if okidata

What if it's an IBM Dot Matrix?