- anyone ever scrap an old school flatbed scanner?
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For example, this microtec scan maker V310 I acquired? I know for a fact it doesn't work. I started ripping it down, found some interesting things. I was just wondering if anyone else has ripped a scanner down before and can give me some pointers on anything special to look for. and yes I have searched through the archives.
thanks for the help love you guys!
Video game ninja
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Buying ewaste and video games !
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This is epic!! And I giggled a lot reading it. Thank you!!
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I have broken apart several of these...really not much in them actually...low grade power board and possibly a mid (rarely a high grade) controller board. I think there is 1-2 small motors and a bit of wire....rest is plastic and the glass. they are pretty easy most of the time...just a few screw..not like D#$M printers which are built like friggin Fort Knox.
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Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Save the round metal bar. I sold a box of them on ebay for $40. Also these bars are in printers. Black smiths and metal art crafters want them.
Love those round bars. I have several sizes of them that I use for punches working on farm equipment.
Scanners, I kinda quit tearing apart because the yard will take them as shred and it just wasn't worth it.
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careful with the glass, it's untempered plate glass and will shoot shards if broken. Their in all-in-one printers also.
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I just toss them whole into the tin pile, making sure to toss them high up on the pile in case of glass. I don't even take apart computers anymore really. I just pull the ram and processor and into the shred pile it goes!
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Doesn't your yard at least take PCs as a separate item?
Experienced Scrapper
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Nope. I used to buy computers from them, then prices went to crap. I dont really care about ewaste. It just takes up room in the garage as far as I'm concerned.Originally Posted by RevenantDusk
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
I see, to each their own I guess. Here in NY all the yards Ive heard of buy PCs at 15 to 20 cents a lb. I used to completely dismantle the whole PC and sell the motherboards online but with prices the way they are now I just pull the wires, CPU, RAM, finger cards and hard drive and sell the rest for 20 cents a lb as a PC. I don't find it worth it to ship the MBs anymore with the low prices. I figure most motherboards weigh a lb or maybe 2 if you're lucky, and if I take the the MB out the power supply will go 10 cents a lb for breakage and the rest is light iron at 5 cents a lb, MBs are a dollar a lb at my yard. So I make more money if I sell the case with the MB inside and also the power supply and CD drives since that's most of the weight. I found a server recently, I pulled all the wire, cards and most of the hard drives, the MB was so tiny it probably weighed a little under a lb but the case was thick heavy steel, didn't make any sense to pull the board imo so I just sold it for PC price at my yard.
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Why don't you work a deal with another area scrapper to maybe trade computers for their steel, copper, or alum. At least someone could use them besides "the yard".
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WOW...that is crazy talk around here! LOL.....wish I was near you, I would take all of it off your hands.
I make GREAT money with WAY LESS effort off ewaste. 100 lbs of steel...$5 (YES FIVE WHOLE BUCKS)....100 pounds of motherboards...WELL in excess of $100....not even close. Plus loading enough steel to make a difference means kicking my a$$ plus gas and time to drive to the yard. I can do all the ewaste I want in my garage if I wanted to and make far greater paychecks.
Of course, my opinion. I have ZERO desire to kill myself with scrap metal.
Experienced Scrapper
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I used to get a lot of computers from the yard, for a pretty good price. Then one of the big dogs came and started buying their stuff for a price I can't compete with, which is ok with me. That being said, I hardly ever get computers anymore. Like maybe 1 every two months. I probably should have mentioned that in my origional post. When I do get a good load of computers, I do take them apart. So I guess I should have been a little bit more specific. The way I made it sound like I was dumping truck loads of computers into the shred pile, which is NOT the case at all.
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I agree but everytime I turn around I stumble over some, but I'm the kind of person that will stop and pick up a penny off the ground.Of course, my opinion. I have ZERO desire to kill myself with scrap metal.
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I was gonna say.... too bad you aren't my way! I would have traded with you too!!
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