Breaking down a power supply vs selling whole - Page 2

Heres my new thinking on power supplies. Open the shell, cut off the wiring, pull the aluminum and copper items, put the shell back together and throw it in the shred pile.

Originally Posted by jghilino

Heres my new thinking on power supplies. Open the shell, cut off the wiring, pull the aluminum and copper items, put the shell back together and throw it in the shred pile.

Why put the shell back together? That seems like a waste of time to me. Just leave the low grade screwed onto the bottom half and toss it into the shred. It would be the same as leaving tires on bicycles and plastic on appliances (at least to me.)

You need to cut the connectors off the wiring so you can sell the wiring at #2 insulated, if you dont they will buy it at the wiring harness rate.
Fans same thing if your trying to get motor grade for them they need to look like motors. Break off the plastic and fins so it is just the motor part.
Transistors are not number #2 copper, that is like $3 pound. You should leave them as is and sell them on ebay or to a buyer. for around $6 pound.
IC chips should also be pulled off and sold to an ic chip buyer.
Also save up any tantalum and mlcc capacitors you run across.

Originally Posted by Gravitar

Why put the shell back together? That seems like a waste of time to me. Just leave the low grade screwed onto the bottom half and toss it into the shred. It would be the same as leaving tires on bicycles and plastic on appliances (at least to me.)

Because yards are getting particular about escrap. If they look at your load and see a bunch of circuit boards in it they will reject the load. Now on the other hand if they look at it and see metal boxes then the odds are much better of your load being accepted.

They deduct on cars if the tires are left on them by the way. Same thing with appliances, you are paid at a reduced rate over clean sheet metal/shred. Car bodies are clean sheet metal and are paid at top dollar.

500 Mixed Scrap & White Goods $200
501 Cars with tires (5 max) $210
502 Cars no tires $220

Originally Posted by jghilino

Because yards are getting particular about escrap. If they look at your load and see a bunch of circuit boards in it they will reject the load. Now on the other hand if they look at it and see metal boxes then the odds are much better of your load being accepted.

They deduct on cars if the tires are left on them by the way.

500 Mixed Scrap & White Goods $200
501 Cars with tires (5 max) $210
502 Cars no tires $220

Ok, I'm going to assume that you can sell low grade separately. Wouldn't it be easier to just sell the low grade separately? And what about when people toss whole computers in the shred? IDK, maybe I'm just an idiot when it comes to what shred is.

Originally Posted by Gravitar

Ok, I'm going to assume that you can sell low grade separately. Wouldn't it be easier to just sell the low grade separately? And what about when people toss whole computers in the shred? IDK, maybe I'm just an idiot when it comes to what shred is.

Nowhere in town buys low grade and its not worth shipping. I have to process it down and throw away the boards or sneak it in with the shred.

5 years ago you could sell boards as shred, its alot harder to now

Alrighty then, that makes more sense to me now.

The epa has cracked down hard on yards and is getting tighter every year.

Wow im glad I live in colorado. I can turn the fans in whole as well for motor price. Dont have to cut the plugs off of wires to get good price either. Car crusher dont care if there are tires on the car. Heck you can fill the car with shred and get the car price as well. The yard I go to will take printers and copiers whole as shred as well. Granted they will deduct like 10% for plastic if the whole load is printers and copiers.

this is another situation where the answer is not a simple yes or no. it is something you have to gather all the info you can price wise and cost wise. then depending on what stage scrapper you are, make the right decision for your operation.

at one stage I needed every Penney so a complete break down was the thing.
now I have one and a half gaylords full. amd more coming soooo different time, different operation. each with different decisions based on cost of break down value of time.