New Guy
Hi all! My name's Bill. I work full time in IT at an accounting firm in Wisconsin. I've been looking into scrapping ewaste for a few months now and want to start it as a hobby. The firm mainly gets rid of monitors and occasionally a computer or two. Are there any types of valuable metals in monitors? Thanks!!
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Welcom, Bill!
Are these crt or flatscreen monitors?
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Flatsceens will have a few small boards, be careful not to break the small back light tube this contains mercury, CRT's will have a copper yoke at the back end of the vacuum tube, maybe a few small transformers for copper.
Again do not break the vacuum tube it contains phosphorous, places that dismantle the tubes use a hot wire to break the leaded glass face from the tube then vacuum up the phosphorous. All this is done in a safe environment.
Last edited by alloy2; 12-10-2017 at 11:13 PM.
Experienced Scrapper
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old working flat screen or new broken can be sold as it for $$ to $$$$ on classified adds and both on scrap yards for $. don't break them to separate components if you just sell the boards, you must have a customer for all the stock in (screen,boards,wire,metal). expect 2-5$ for scrap yard (as it) and 10-50$ on craiglist (depending on age and if they work)
i don't collect crt tv. it's a waste of time in my area, low boards worth almost nothing (10 cents per pound), only the copper yoke can generate cash but it am stuck with the glass and plastic shell
on a computer , there will be :
1 motherboards
1-2-3 gold ram
1 cpu
1 power supply unit
1 floppy/cd drives/none (depending on age)
1-2-3 gold fingered cards (graphic,audio,ethernet, back plane..)
1 hard disk (if you're lucky because most of time on business like this they are destroyed)
few wires
1 steel case
because of you very small volume : count on 5$ of scrap per unit if p3 or recent stuff . 7$ if p4
for my part, i stack all the flat screen and sell it when i have 30 units (one small gaylord). to generate few more bucks and save spaces, i throw the base in shred and put more screen on the gaylord (same price with or without base often)
New Guy
They are mostly LCD monitors with the occasional CRT monitor. As far as p3 or p4 I don't know. They do have an intel dual core processor in them. Thanks.
Welcome Bill! I am also from Wisconsin and in IT.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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who are you selling flatscreens to.
i have 2-300 working units on hand and approx 300 non-working ones.
I need these gone asap as we are moving before end of the month.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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is anybody taking crt tubes without charging you for them? Last i checked, they wanted to charge for them.
Experienced Scrapper
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any eco-center and drop off locations takes it for free in quebec. you can also strip the copper and the boards, and they will take the rest of the crt with no problem. personnally, i rarely collect crt, When i do, it's to accomodate the customer that sell/give me a load of other inetresting stuff. when i get crt, i put them at the side of the road and other scrapers take them.Originally Posted by TJMETALRECYCLERS
in toronto, they pay 0,13 ca$ per pound for crt and prjection tvs
i sell lcd /delmonitors in quebec, not bringing this stuff to us market. I get better price here (in fact, not better but i save a big amount of fuel)
personnaly, i can only justify buying or selling flat screen when it's for backhaul or to fill the truck.
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