Bucket List

I figured I would start a list of buckets needed for scrapping in general.

feel free to add to it and i will try to update the list when i can.

Copper #1
Copper #2

Electric motors to turn in
Electric motors to break down

Short steel

Aluminum
Aluminum cast
Aluminum extruded
Aluminum dirty to turn in
Aluminum dirty to clean

Insulated wire to strip
Insulated wire #1
Insulated wire #2
Insulated wire #3

Brass

Stainless

Gold ends
Eproms

Ram gold
Ram Tin
Ram bus
Cpu's sorted in a nut/bolt organizer

Finger board
Motherboard
cd/dvd board
Floppy board
Hard drive board
Mid grade board
Low grade board
Low grade board to break down

money!
small change
large bills
gold bullion

What about a trash bucket? Need to keep your area clean!

wish I had (or needed) that many buckets. Whenever I get to what's next I just grab whatever's available and go with it.
Using the trailer for a bucket has its disadvantages, such as having to offload to make an unexpected run

Power supplies.
Cord ends.

For some reason I am saving heating elements?!> I saw it mentioned on this site, so I remove them and throw in a beer box! Not sure what I will get for them when I do get rid of them! Dirty Stainless or something else?

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Originally Posted by MattInTheHat

I figured I would start a list of buckets needed for scrapping in general.

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Wow. My garage isn't big enough to fit all those buckets, and my scrap yards aren't all that discriminating! Here's my bucket brigade:

1. Copper #1
2. Copper #2
3. Aluminum
4. Ali cans
5. Irony Ali
6. Brass
7. Stainless
8. Insulated Wire
9. Christmas Lights
10. Electric Motors
11. Low Grade Boards
12. Light Iron/shred

plus one box: Future to Smash/more work

and another box: Boards/RAM/CPU to ship away

sealed units, batteries, A/C units sit on the floor

You forgot transformer bucket

I have a small container of wheel weights

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

For some reason I am saving heating elements?!> I saw it mentioned on this site, so I remove them and throw in a beer box! Not sure what I will get for them when I do get rid of them! Dirty Stainless or something else?

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Yes you should get Stainless for the heating elements,

So, maybe a heating element bucket, Yellow brass bucket, Red brass bucket, Dirty brass bucket, and a reusable items bucket.

Bare Bright??

http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/...7/IMAG0572.jpg sometimes you need big boy buckets too.

I have a bucket for screws too. They sell fairly well at the flea market.

Where do yall get your steel, and short iron buckets from?

I use mostly 55 gallon plastic barrels.
#2 copper
field copper
dirty copper
55% insulated copper
clean cast aluminum
dirty cast aluminum
extruded aluminum (mostly heatsinks)
ni-chrome wire
stove elements
Going to start a #1 copper for all the copper from heatsinks. Mistakes I've made filling barrels, transformers (1180 pounds when full) dirty brass (900 pounds when full) and electric motors ( 800 pounds when full).

I have a stack of 5 gal buckets! So a bucket for buckets! I take any buckets I find, cat litter, pool chlorine, empty paint. Can't have enough buckets!

Beer/Soda/Whatever alum drink bucket

Rotor/armature bucket

Gold Plated bucket ( for those odd ones, not pins )
Connector bucket
Cell Phone Bucket
Cell Phone Battery Bucket ( All taped )

an now thanks to Eric over there int he buyer thread I have a small bucket for Ta Caps. har!

Sirscrapalot - Have buckets will profit.

I have a cigarette butt bucket.

Yes i'm a bucket fan, you certainly can't have enough buckets or tubs or containers to organise bits.
I'm normally not very organised, I prefer to work in more of a chaotic way, to an outsider it looks like
i've no idea but things come together in the end.

but e-waste scrapping doesn't seem to work very efficiently if your not well organised, at the start I just assumed
it would all come together but quickly realised double & triple handling of anything is just a waste of valuable time.
so I been organising my garage to suit scrapping, got a long way to go but I've most of my buckets in place.

Here's my garage desk, it's where I sit and chill out.
mostly i'm there at night time doing little fiddly things whilst listening to music.
the bucket on the desk is my bucket bong, sometimes I like to have a few to get into it.

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1827.jpg

the buckets here are suited to that type of work, little fiddly bits and higher traffic items.

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1828.jpg

the coffee tin is normal batteries to be recycled..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1829.jpg

on the floor in front of my chair is two incoming bit tubs, basically all the little bits I pull off boards,
heat sinks that need cleaning up, little transformers ect that need to be put in it's bucket..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1836.jpg

further up I just stack mobo's as they don't fit into anything well, but here's another form of bucket,
a heavy old filing cabinet with a T bar padlocked so it's like a safe..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1838.jpg

on top of the cabinet is two microwaves that are temporary cpu/ram chip cabinets..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1839.jpg

in the filing cabinet there's one for finger cards and one for kept h/d's..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1843.jpg

one for cables and wires I keep..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1845.jpg

and the bottom one is for more plugs and finger things..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1847.jpg

need to cut it short as we can only post 10 pictures in one post it seems..

on the workbench I have 3 more buckets, the stainless pot is for stainless steel bits,
the black bucket is for that silvery wire from around crt's I like to keep, and the one on the right are tv yolk clamps..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1831.jpg

I just like 'em...

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1832.jpg

against the other wall is my bigger buckets with milk crates at the base for other things too..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1850.jpg

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1851.jpg

from right to left there's a bucket for ribbon tape, a bucket for mid grade boards, and on the ground below it's just heavy transformers..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1853.jpg

next is #2 copper and a milk crate with power adapters ect..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1854.jpg

then there's the bright n shiny Millberry bucket and in them crates go small tranformers..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1857.jpg

the insulated wire bucket and my crate for flouro light ballasts..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1856.jpg

my bucket for little motors from fans, printers ect which is just a scrapped wet/dry vacuum canister, and a crate for tv yolks that need to be smashed up..

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...F/102_1858.jpg