E-waste Pics - Page 2

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

It's great that you have time for printers. I'm sitting on about 13 pallets of them right now. Hoping China's National Sword thing doesn't mess up my plans. I'd ship them now, but in order to break even or maybe make a penny a pound, I have to include them in a FTL.



I didn't see the low grade power supply board in your photo. If your shipping pallets, these can be profitable.

Hope it works out for you and sooner rather than later! I should've taken the power board out too. Totally forgot. Taken off the side panels and popping those boards off I've found takes very little time and they're almost always some kind of mid-grade. So is worth the time for me. I pop the cartridges out too. Haven't shipped any out yet but gonna try one of the cartridge buyers and see what the return is like.

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Hope it works out for you and sooner rather than later! I should've taken the power board out too. Totally forgot. Taken off the side panels and popping those boards off I've found takes very little time and they're almost always some kind of mid-grade. So is worth the time for me. I pop the cartridges out too. Haven't shipped any out yet but gonna try one of the cartridge buyers and see what the return is like.

I'm thinking of trying Dazz Cycle for cartridges. One thing interesting with them, they test stuff sent by individuals, but not schools, non profits, etc.. I may talk with my wife about setting something up for her daycare.

These boards came from a 3d Systems ThermoJet 3-d Printer. Wish I could've kept the whole thing to sell for parts or refurbishing but oh well, can't win them all. A lot of nice boards in this one which includes all the guts of a desktop computer in addition to a lot of other boards.

These boards come from a busted Glory SDS-100 coin sorter I picked up this morning from an elementary school. Quite a few good boards here to go along with around 15lbs(!!!) insulated wire, about 5lbs aluminum, a few small motors and some 250-300lbs or so of tin. Content-wise it's somewhat analogous to a stand-up ATM except a LOT lighter (and without the keypad board). One of the pics includes a no socket motherboard which is pretty neat. And by the powerboard of grayskull this was a relatively heavy powerboard! And yes cleaned the batteries (the orange objects that could be confused with capacitors) off those two top boards.

These boards came from a United Coin Machine video poker machine from the early 1990s.

These boards are from a Paradigm Gaming system of some kind from the late 1990s. Didn't scrap this machine myself, got the boards from someone at the scrapyard so can't swear to what else is missing beyond the power board and monitor boards. In truth I can't even swear they all came out of the same machine but it looks about right.

These are the boards from a Sony Cyber-shot digital camera. Anybody know how that little storage board with the gold fingers should be graded?

This is a Barracuda Networks BSF 400a Spam & Virus Firewall Appliance. Also came with two 500gb SATA drives and a small-ish power board. Am gonna try to sell the board for parts rather than scrap as the cost of the appliance is incredibly high and as scrap it's just small socket, non-green motherboard.

This is a VisioWave Discovery 2400 DVR. Nice groups of boards in this one with the potential for many more if fitted with the full compliment. All the finger cards in this one are identical. Also has a large-ish power board, the size typical to elongated server power supplies.

This is a Pelco System 9760 CM9760 Code Distribution Unit. Nothing really impressive here but super quick to scrap. A few screws to open up and a flathead screwdriver to pry the transformer off.

This is a Foundry Networks FastIron 4802 Edge Switch. It's identical to the 2402 model except with a higher board population due to double the ports. My guess is telecom-low and it weighs over 2lbs, 11oz which is pretty nice. The power board is the same as the one for the 2402 except it was super quick to remove the power supply unlike the 2402.

This is a Cisco 2800 Integrated Service Router. Nice group of boards in this one, mostly telecom and telecom-low. Not shown is a modest power board. Popped the brackets off the two that have them.

These are from a Pelco DX 8000 Series DVR.





Two identical boards, front and back

Originally Posted by JJinLV

This is a Foundry Networks FastIron 4802 Edge Switch. It's identical to the 2402 model except with a higher board population due to double the ports. My guess is telecom-low and it weighs over 2lbs, 11oz which is pretty nice. The power board is the same as the one for the 2402 except it was super quick to remove the power supply unlike the 2402.

That board is high grade telecom for sure. The BGA chips contain a decent amount of gold. Last time I got $4.50 per lb for very similar looking Cisco boards.

This is Foundry Networks FastIron 2402 Edge Switch. They're not complicated to disassemble but are a little inconvenient and difficult to streamline, especially the power supply which is annoying even by power supply standards lol. Only on the fifth one did I get a time under ten minutes. The upside is the main board (looks like mid-grade high to me) is quite large and weighs 2lbs, 1oz.

Originally Posted by miked

What are you doing with your scrap power boards? Selling locally, partially stripping them and shipping? 73, Mike

Just clipping the pigtail and shipping them off. Can't even get breakage price locally and if I strip them at all they'll be devalued and barely cover the shipping price. Not a lot of great power board options from here, at least not until I dramatically increase the volume.

Great pictures and info