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I'm wondering if the boards themselves have any value, or is it just the components. What I mean is, I was planning on pullin off all the chips, pins, capacitors, resistors etc from each board I get and sorting them in bins. I'm not
Looking to maximize time and profit, just kinda doing for fun and get a few bucks. Is it even worth removing the components or just keeping them as is
Thanks.
depends on which type of board it is
what type of boards are you talking about?
In my opinon, you would do far better to take that time and break down your old hard drives. Boards from hard drives are worth good money. Aluminum from the hard drive frame is worth 40 Cents a pound at my scrap yard. Hard drive platters are worth a buck a pound.
It is tedious but seperating the aluminum into clean and dirty piles nets you far more than you will get from tearing apart motherboards. Plus the borads from hard drives go up dramtically if seperated from the drive ahead of time.
And I know that only whole motherborads fetch the highest price. If you knock off all the gold bearing stuff, you wind up with about 10 Cents of copper in the traces- not exactly a money maker!
Now heatsinks, etc, I take those off and sell them as clean scrap aluminum.
My scrap yard really apreciates the fact that they KNOW I seperate everything and that I have proven I am honest. They don't even bother checking stuff with magnets becuase they know I did already.
Lastly,
The Alco-Nickel magnets are worth scrap dollars too! But you have to have a good pile of them. And that metal bracket they are stuck to? THAT's NOT NORMAL STEEL! It is a special alloy worth good money! So smack those magnets off with a chisel or screwdriver, then stick them on your fridge until you get a pile big enough to recycle.
Box up the alloy and ask the scrap yard what it is worth! I forget what the special "magnet blocking alloy" is called. Anybody know?
Anyway, if you want to have fun and make money, tear those hard drives apart! Magnets are way more fun than silly of motherborads anyway.
Jeff
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And that metal bracket they are stuck to? THAT's NOT NORMAL STEEL! It is a special alloy worth good money! So smack those magnets off with a chisel or screwdriver, then stick them on your fridge until you get a pile big enough to recycle.
Box up the alloy and ask the scrap yard what it is worth! I forget what the special "magnet blocking alloy" is called. Anybody know?
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computer engineers make the magnet’s brackets out of an IRON, NICKEL and MOLYBDENUM based alloy called a permalloy! Permalloy has an extremely high magnetic permittivity, meaning it will stop most magnetic fields.
jghilino:
I'm thinking just any board in general, stuff from sattelite receivers, DVD players, remotes, etc. I know there's small amount of copper, nickel, palladium etc in the ceramic capacitors and resistors, I was wondering if it was worth popping those off and having them in bulk piles or just leave them on
TechJeff: thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind when I get computers
i pull mlcc's, tantalum caps, ic chips. But what it comes down to is what grade board it s and what you can get by with.
Most of that stuff you mentioned has a value around $2.50- 3.00 a lb for the boards, maybe more. I personally just sell the good boards whole.Quote:
Originally Posted by amoncion