E-waste Pics

Inspired by one of my favorite ongoing threads, will here post pics of various e-waste I run into.

These are boards from from an early 2000s video slot or poker machine of some kind. A cool thing is the case they were housed in was a few pounds aluminum. The two smaller boards seem to be printed directly on aluminum. The Atronic motherboard is a little different in appearance but is otherwise quite normal. The CPU was a standard early 2000s Intel.

in the 1st pic, dont u remove all the copper bits?
buyers here require us to remove all things like that before weighing our boards.

For sure will. Just planned to post the pics as I find them unless something that needs cleaning off has to be removed to shoot it. Windings like those take just a second to unwind so will do that and drop them in my No 2 box.

This is a 3com 24-port superstack switch.

your slot machine mother board has quite a few ta on it nice board

Hey JJinLV, on the Teledex phones, do you have to remove the wires that have the gray connectors on them?

Originally Posted by jimicrk

Hey JJinLV, on the Teledex phones, do you have to remove the wires that have the gray connectors on them?

Can't speak for all buyers but the person am sending them too wants them off.

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Can't speak for all buyers but the person am sending them too wants them off.

I take the wires off also. Small wire like that and anything that comes out of a pc, except the ribbon cables, is sold at a local yard as #2 insulated at .62 a pound with the ends left on.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

I take the wires off also. Small wire like that and anything that comes out of a pc, except the ribbon cables, is sold at a local yard as #2 insulated at .62 a pound with the ends left on.

Local insulated wire prices here are so low that I actually ship out most of my wire too! For example degassing cable here is graded as "50% insulated" and goes for about 75¢/lb...

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Local insulated wire prices here are so low that I actually ship out most of my wire too! For example degassing cable here is graded as "50% insulated" and goes for about 75¢/lb...

Ouch! I strip all of mine.
I find it easy to cut thru the 2nd layer of tape covering the connection, pull the short bit of two insulated wires out and snip both the plug and soldered ends off.
Then cut the insulation away for about a inch and then pull out some of the wires and keep pulling them so they slice thru the insulation.
And then do that for the whole length and I get a good size ball of Copper #2, add that to what I get off the ray gun and I'm happy.
There's always a couple of Copper wire coils on the boards as well.

These two boards (along with an unpictured power board) came out of a Teledex ExpressNet AirLink 2010-vc-12. Just picked up about 30 of these. Haven't located a resale market for them but this one was scrap anyway. The main board is both heavy and telecom grae!

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

Ouch! I strip all of mine.
I find it easy to cut thru the 2nd layer of tape covering the connection, pull the short bit of two insulated wires out and snip both the plug and soldered ends off.
Then cut the insulation away for about a inch and then pull out some of the wires and keep pulling them so they slice thru the insulation.
And then do that for the whole length and I get a good size ball of Copper #2, add that to what I get off the ray gun and I'm happy.
There's always a couple of Copper wire coils on the boards as well.

Yeah should strip mine too. Degassing cable especially takes little time even without wire stripper. Sometimes I just get backed up a bit and need the space!

Originally Posted by armygreywolf

looking at the tape drive i might go with hdd boards on that one, i just dont get them very often.

I'd have to agree with TJ, you should get higher than dvd/cd on that board. I think a buyer in Ohio had a tape drive catagory, maybe priced on inspection.

I include the tape drive boards with my hard drive boards, I don't get many either.

This one is a 3com Superstack 3 Switch 4226T. Forgot to take pics of the backs today.



This is a 3com Baseline Switch 2250



This is a Cicso Catalyst 2950 switch

This is an old DishDVR analog DVR. Each one weighs about 10lbs 2oz. About 14oz is a power board, a mix of three mid-grade boards are just shy of 1lb, a hard drive weighing between 14oz-22oz and about 8oz insulated wire. Rest of the weight is tin and one super light low-grade board. These are mostly older but the hard drives tend to be 250gb and bigger so have a decent, modest resale value or can be used to upgrade older computers for resale.