What do you rip off low-grade?

What do you guys rip off low grade boards before you sell them? I am about ready to take a trip to e wasted and i have about 500lbs of lowgrade. Right now all i have ripped off it transformers and AL. Oh and all of the copper.
Thanks!

I rip anything copper or Al and throw the rest of it in with the tin/shred, but I'm not near enough to a buyer, or feel it's worth any difference

Like the others, copper/alum, and the transformer, and wires of course. Then I toss it in my low grade/bleh pile and take it to my yard when I got enough. My yard doesn't pay much for them but it's something. As we all know, something is better then nothing.

Sirscrapalot - Goes all "Hulk SMASH!" on low grade tv boards.

I use some slip joint pliers and just start grabbing/twisting stuff off, what's left just goes in the junk/shred pile

Why would he buy low grade boards for the ic chips when about 50% of them don't have ic chips, when i'm through with them none have any ic chips.

im confused. do you tear apart to low grade boards because they wont buy them with everything on them? or is it cost productive to tear it down versus just sending it as is?

I'd like to re-open this discussion and ask, what do you do with the stuff you take off the boards? Do you take all the little do-hickeys off the aluminum heatsinks, or sell it as "dirty" aluminum? What about the transformers, do you break them open to get the copper out, or do you sell them as transformers? Most of them are pretty small. At what size does it make a difference?

Some of those little copper wound things are easy to get the wire from, even fun maybe, not very profitable, but eventually adds up. the little transformers are definitely best tossed into the transformer pile

I take off the aluminum and put it in dirty aluminum pile not worth cleaning up the little stuff
but on bigger ones if not much ill clean it up to get more for it.

when dealing with low grade I pull off all the usual suspects,
but I cut the wires off while they're still attached, so the plastic ends stay connected to the board.
not sure if that's cheating or not but that's the way I've been doing it, adds a little more weight.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Why would it be cheating, your leaving brass tabs on the board. Should increase the value to them.

so you're saying there are brass tabs in the plastic ends that connect the wire to the board?

So what do they buy the low grade boards for? What do they recover off of them?

cool, how old do you think the TV boards have to be to find the gold plated transistors?

Basicly take anything off that you can sell for better price than the board it self (low grade boards only) any other grade of board you'll degrade the board. Also don't take anything off a power board, a good example of power board would be the boards from power suplies. I take aluminum off and I clean it, it's easy and quick, I take large copper windings and IC chips. I leave transformers on becuase I get more for the boards than I do for transformers.