First time tearing apart electronics-need some adivice..Tons of pictures!

Originally Posted by ResourcefulRecycling

I have no idea what this is...But it weighed 80lbs

It's the bottom half of an EAS scanner (the gates that set off alarms if people try to shoplift something with a security tag on it).

The ic chips that are plugins, pull them and put them in seperate container worth about $5lb. All the brown board, I believe is the lowest grade and certainly not worth shipping. I toss them in with the shred at $0.12lb.

All the boards out of the old computer are good as mother board, finger board and maybe telcom. Its up to your buyer to detemin.

The boards on the bottom of the drives are also high grade boards. I will guess the hard drive is mostly Al and may have some SS in it as well. Along with great rare earth magnets, I use them to determine if the SS is high enough to go in the SS bucket.

The connectors in the first three photos I would put in my gold plated connector bucket and I got paid $1.80lb the last time I sold.

Here is a great thread to read, best of luck, Mike.

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/showt...identification

Bear break down and get a faster connection. lol

Bear is whinning because he has a dial up connection. If you are young you don't know how slow it can be. I would guess it took several minutes for him to view your photos. And we do prefer to see what you are talking about. Mike.

If you see any gold showing (pins or fingers) Then your looking at usually hi grade. The first pic looks like a brass phone connector. Cat 5 looks almost the same but has more lil pins than a phone line/cord and is gold. You kept the least valuable thing in the keyboard, hang onto the plastic film, when you get a couple of pounds then you can ebay them or maybe sell on one of the gold forums. If all the sorting and deciding is giving you a headache you might try just selling the electronic stuff to a ewaste scrapper.
Example of a mid grade;

Example of a low grade;

Example of a motherboard;

Example of cord ends;

Originally Posted by miked

Bear is whinning because he has a dial up connection. If you are young you don't know how slow it can be. I would guess it took several minutes for him to view your photos. And we do prefer to see what you are talking about. Mike.

That's almost as good as the "resourceful" thing, Mike. No, this isn't whining, this is disgusting. After reading your comment, I sat here and let it load. (20 minutes now, and counting) My first glimpse (earlier) of the photos posted seemed like a deja vu, as I've been reading most every thread here going on almost two months, and cannot count the times, i've seen "most" all of these items discussed in great detail on other threads. The "noob question" on another thread, where that fella read all threads for a month, and took page after page of notes, you still reminded him to read, read, read. How many times have you said that here?


My only other question for this "resourceful" fella, is if he hasn't the time to look any part of this up, but expects you to do it instead, how did he find time to do this photo presentation in the first place?

I was going to say that you may be reading info based on where I got my pic's from. They were handy to get to for an example. Some of you people might recognize the pic's.