Ewaste Insanity

i give up trying to read about them. I haven't seen any posts on them that's understandable enough to even try to decipher. There's a crap load of em in my scrap metal trailer now

Hey Holedigger, I'm with ya this stuff can get crazy even down to the more than 5 grades of Motherboards. I am building a 1968 Dodge Superbee ground up every nut and bolt, but took a while to figure out even the basics of the scrap circuit board scene.

I wouldn't throw the flyback transfomers in shred. You'll be able to either find someone to buy them as motors or transformers or whack em with a hammer, pull out the easy to get copper and then chunk em in shred.

Tantalum capacitors are tough to ID at first but I finally have a handle on some of them. The yellow(or black the same size) rectangles with only two leads are tantalum if they have a stripe on one end indicating polarity. Also the yellow torpedo shaped ones and bulb shaped ones that have polarity + marks on one leg. There are others that I'm not familiar with. However, even if you can ID them, they are so small that it takes from 100-200 of them to make an ounce (yes I weighed some batches of em). If they are $6 per lb, they just aren't worth getting. At $50 per lb, maybe.

I'm going to list some on ebay to see if I can get some bites at better prices.

We admitted we were powerless over ewaste - that our lives had become unmanageable.