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First time tearing apart electronics-need some adivice..Tons of pictures!
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Originally Posted by
ResourcefulRecycling
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).
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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
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good grief, too many pictures to load
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Bear break down and get a faster connection. lol
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not an option where i live, unless you'd be willing to pay the astronomical satellite bills ;)
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I thought you guys like photos, thats why i took all of the photos. Thanks for all of your input, keep it coming!
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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.
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where did you get the name resourceful? that's a good one
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When thinking about a buisness name, i was considering many comfort names, and resourceful came to my mind.
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I believe the EDS computer you broke down is worth much more on the resale market than scrap value. I found out that they are an old computer manufacturing company from Germany. My suggestion would be to place everything you pulled out of there, including the shell, in a box and start asking questions on the computer collector forums.
The boards that you have are nice. I see mostly high grade in your green boards . The brown boards can be stripped of their goodies and resold as low grade. Throw the connector ends with gold plating in a box they have scrap value of x < $2
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Im sure they do have resale value, but my issue is i have alot work. I mean i work 6 days a week 10 hours a day. I do not only do e-scrap, i also do all kinds of recycling. So i dont have time at night to spend tons of times on fourms looking for buyers for collecting computers. Great idea just dont have time.
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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;
http://boardsort.com/midgrade.jpg
Example of a low grade;
http://boardsort.com/lowgrade.jpg
Example of a motherboard;
http://boardsort.com/socket370.jpg
Example of cord ends;
http://boardsort.com/connectorends.jpg
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Originally Posted by
Bear
not an option where i live, unless you'd be willing to pay the astronomical satellite bills ;)
Bear i live out in the booneys aand had dial up for a long time. About 6 months ago i called wildblue and i qualified for some goverment grant deal because i had no high speed accsess. it cost me 40 a month and i didnt have to pay a dime for equipment or installation. Its on 1mb download speed but its a whole lot better than dial up. I got rid of my dial up and my land line and save about 40 bucks a month.
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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?
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Originally Posted by
mikedmissouri
Bear i live out in the booneys aand had dial up for a long time. About 6 months ago i called wildblue and i qualified for some goverment grant deal because i had no high speed accsess. it cost me 40 a month and i didnt have to pay a dime for equipment or installation. Its on 1mb download speed but its a whole lot better than dial up. I got rid of my dial up and my land line and save about 40 bucks a month.
Cool! i'll jot that down :)
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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.
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lol mech! ohno! i'm glad i came back to read that lol, if i can get this thread to stand still long enough to press the button!
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I am on cable and it still lags at time. Can't imagine having dial up now, though I did have it about 10 years ago.
Before I got to Wayne's post, I Googled Sensormatic and came up with the information he posted. Google is your friend for future reference.
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Originally Posted by
Bear
good grief, too many pictures to load
You should have the option to turn off pictures and avatars in your profile somewhere, that will speed it up.
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Hi;;; In your first 2 pics ,,,they both are GOLD plated .. not brass as said earlyer .... I recover GOLD from electronics and have done many lbs of these ... Just
remember that GOLD will merry to GOLD..... keep and save every thing till you have several lbs. I will buy these from you ..
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Does anyone else here remember using 14.4k modems?
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Originally Posted by
MrMetal
Does anyone else here remember using 14.4k modems?
Hooow caan I eveer foooorgeeet.
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Originally Posted by
trashmaster
Hi;;; In your first 2 pics ,,,they both are GOLD plated .. not brass as said earlyer .... I recover GOLD from electronics and have done many lbs of these ... Just
remember that GOLD will merry to GOLD..... keep and save every thing till you have several lbs. I will buy these from you ..
Whats your minimum poundage and what do you pay?
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Lol - I thought I was fast when I upgraded to a 28.8k. I still remember my first dial-up board.
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I didn't think that they even had dial up anymore.... lol No worries Bear; I borrow wireless signals that have no password for the most part.
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Originally Posted by
MrMetal
Does anyone else here remember using 14.4k modems?
I remember even slower ones and being in my younger teens working odd jobs to buy 15 - 20 of them and the phones lines to make interwebs
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Originally Posted by
ResourcefulRecycling
Im sure they do have resale value, but my issue is i have alot work. I mean i work 6 days a week 10 hours a day. I do not only do e-scrap, i also do all kinds of recycling. So i dont have time at night to spend tons of times on fourms looking for buyers for collecting computers. Great idea just dont have time.
Nice job of breaking that stuff down,BUT, most of the guys and gals on here also have full time jobs, have a lot of work and also do other types of scrapping besides escrap. If your not going to put the time into researching what you have why not just offer to sell it whole. You obviously are concerned about the $$$ you can get out of it. Kinda one way to me...jmo
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I am a scrapper. I dont resell stuff. I hate tire kickers which seems like thats all i find on CL. I am doing re-search learning what i have, thats why i am on this site.
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No, you do resell stuff, to the yard everytime you bring stuff in. It seems that you were able to get the stuff but want others to do your work when it comes to learning about what it is and what its worth. You said in your intro that you have been scrapping for 3 years, thats great, how did you come about your knowledge then? Now that you found ewaste where one lb of something potentially has the same value of 1000 lbs of steel you expect others to show you where it is and how to get it. And to show your appreciation for all this info you thanked ONE person on this forum for all this info.
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Sorry, I guess I didn't realize that hitting the thanks button was so important. The reason why I enjoy selling stuff to the yards because they are not tire kickers, they always buy the stuff from me. I learned how to scrap ferrous and non ferrous metals by asking people, like I am on this forum and trial and error.
