New Member(s) from Orlando, FL

My name is Bo and my username dtwins is named after my identical twin boys, Jimmie and Chuckie (they are 10). We started scrapping as a team in August 2013. I had brought home 70 Sun servers from my business to sort them by specs. Bottom-line, the equipment that I purchased was not what was I expecting, the resale value on eBay was a slow dime and it would taken at least 3 months to move it. I looked into scrap pricing and saw I could almost X 3 my money in just a few days. My boys came out to the garage and were immediately drawn to what I was doing. They immediately volunteered to help and I knew what was on their mind "DESTRUCTION". LOL



My son Jimmie has Type 1 Diabetes and on the second day of destruction, my other son Chuckie came up with a great idea. We can recycle electronics to raise money for the "Walk for the Cure". A day later Chuckie came up with our name, we are know "Team Recycle-Betes". We put in about 10-15 hours a week and we are 5 months into our Father and Son Mission. Team Recycle-Betes has raised just under $1000.00 for the Walk for a Cure. 50% goes back into my business and 50% for the Cure. I know I am rambling on, but I am very proud father, they are still at it after 5 months with 2 more months to go. The "Walk for the Cure" is March 8th. Now I find myself rummaging through my warehouse all the time looking looking for equipment with little resale value, but decent scrap value. This weekends project is 7 Cisco 4000's which I just horse traded for.

I've been coming into your forum for several months now, because the answers are always there. I want to thank all of you for my Scrap Education. We are up to almost 3 pounds of Tantalum Caps. I would of never known about Tantalum had I not stumbled across a thread which lead to another thread and to another. Your knowledge is priceless.

Thanks,

Team Recycle-Betes (Keeping it Green for the Cure)
Bo, Jimmie and Chuckie

Hello Bo, welcome to SMF, and good luck with your very commendable ventures there man

Welcome from Cincinnati.

YOU GUYS ROCK!

Glad ya joined us.

You have a heart of gold that no doubt your sons will inherit. Welcome to the forum.

That's inspirational to say the least. It's more of what America needs......a good family structure. Kudos to you and your boys. I find it interesting that my 9 yr old grand daughter got interested in my brass and copper one day. Her dad would rather see her playing with dolls instead of sorting iron, but I thought it was great. It could result in a lifetime hobby for her. Two of my grandsons (another family) want to go load small stuff with me but I'm more into heavier machinery and it's dangerous having them around when I'm whipping around with the skidsteer, running the torch and such. They're home schooled and available and I thought it would be a good lesson in life to take them with me one day. They're 12 and 10. Better for them than sitting in the house "on the computer". WHOOPS, what did I just say? LOL

We need more people like you! Welcome to the forums!!

Welcome, we're real close.

welcome from maryland, sounds like u have a double blessing to be proud of there dad. good luck and keep researching the archives,always find something when i search, which is very often.

Welcome to the forum. My advice would be to stay organized. Keep enough buckets to do your sorting. Know each day what you are going to do and try not to get side tracked. Good luck!

When did you move down here Recycler? Welcome DTWINS

welcome from new-brunswick,canada

Howdy neighbor, how ya doing. Just read your post and saw you guys are in Oviedo thats awesome! I've been reading this forum for about a year and just signed up the other day. I think what you all our doing is really inspiring and wanted to say thank you. We live over by the high school and are proud to be your neighbor. Thanks again, Mike & Wanda

Welcome aboard, and I would say if you can come up with that much in tantalum capacitors, you should be able to do very well on that goal. Not to mention sharing your info might help some of us who are still new to e-waste! We love pictures here on the forum too!