If you scrap CRT TV/monitors, I want to give you $5/lb for something you throw away!! - Page 4

Ah...as I said..I've been sorting them, an for that bump in price, I'll keep right on doing so.


Sirscrapalot - Look at the pretty colors..

Yeah I forgot to say anything about the bump in price, thanks a lot. I will defentally keep sorting them into seperate bags.

Sirscrapalot - If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. - Barry McCaffrey

Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...#ixzz2pTWvnjRX

Good stuff. One more reason to chop boob tubes

Who knows what kind of silver quality and quantity you can get from the glass main tube?

Way cool idea on the colored glass man! My wife does glass fusion at her pottery store All Fired Up! Art was a dieing thing in this country for too long. A friend of mine had an eyeball with optic nerve made for him. It took three years, 37 tries and he got #38. Man, that is one cool piece of glass with a lot of work in it.

Now, go burn your fingers on some funky new color you'll come up with.

Thanks KAM, that eyeball with optic nerve sounds intense. I'm going to have to look into that. Sirscrapalot and mseashell, thank you both for putting in your time and work. I'm excited to see what kind of colors get unearthed. I'll try to get that pic loaded up when I get home.
Oh, and is it easier to remove the bars whole with the little pieces of wire still in the back? If it helps keep the bars together and speeds it up on your end that might not be so bad.

Thanks, parrothead I just went and changed the post. Thanks for that!

Originally Posted by Monkythrowpoop

Oh, and is it easier to remove the bars whole with the little pieces of wire still in the back? If it helps keep the bars together and speeds it up on your end that might not be so bad.

Just wanted to confirm that you will take the glass with little bits of metal attached? Cleaning out the last few scraps can be pretty labor intensive and causes a lot of powdering of the glass which also reduces recovery. If you are able to work around the metal remnants you would probably get more glass from us.

I guess it depends how much metal is still attached. Any way someone can post a picture with the wires still attached? Just so I can see how much is left in there. It's probably okay, I just want to see it before I give the go ahead.

The metal he's referring to I think is the piece in the glass. I'll try an post a pic later, if some one doesn't beat me to it.

Sirscrapalot- Keeper of the traveling cooler.

Myself, I would not break a TV tube because of the release of chemical powder inside. There is also a sheet of metal inside the tube and between the two sheets of glass.

Originally Posted by flyngeagle47

Myself, I would not break a TV tube because of the release of chemical powder inside. There is also a sheet of metal inside the tube and between the two sheets of glass.

You don't break the tube

If your breaking the tubes, below a certain point on the electron gun, your doing it wrong.

The electron gun is accessible thru various means, the top, going through the protective glass, an sure other ways. None of the ones I just mentioned require breaking the leaded part of the tube.

Your results may vary.

Sirscrapalot - Fire....electron guns!

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

I draw the line at stripping No. 14 (size) stranded wire into bare #2 copper. And it doesn't get turned into bongs for yuppies."
J.

HAHA I try not to believe in alarm clocks, but somewhere along the lines, my recycled copper has made it's way into one!!!

Man, I give up. Nobody is asking you to smash a tube. If you are, your doing it wrong. The electron gun is where the glass he needs is as at, an it's easily removed without breaking the freaking tube. Go try it yourself if you don't believe me or the others who have done it successfully. The OP even told a way to do it without breaking the tube. As have I an others. It's not that difficult.

It's not your cup of tea so be it, but don't go acting like the man is asking you smash tubes for him. He's not. I would hope the majority of you would know I'd not smash a tube for any reason, as I've made that plainly clear in the past. If I had to break a tube, I'd not be getting the glass gathered nor would others who've posted in this thread who are doing so.

Far as your gas claims..an there's plenty more backing up the below right here on the forums, in the archives, you have but to search. It's a bit harder then just throwing out such statements, I know.

WHAT TYPE OF GAS IS IN TELEVISION TUBES? - Yahoo Answers

What Is the Gas Called in the TV Tubes - Ask.com

Both statements are 100% false. The CRT is a vacuum tube, so there is actually no gas inside of it whatsoever. Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap-metal-safety-hazards/2915-hazardous-chemicals-microwaves-crt-monitors.html#ixzz2plJeGWSh

To those taking on this task, do it the right way. Don't smash the tube, if you can't do it without breaking the tube, just don't do it. To those that don't like this, then don't do it. If it doesn't fit your moral compass, it's not like he's asking you for baking soda to make crack or sell him batteries to make meth. You did know that right? Those batteries you pull out of cell phones, an other items, can be used in cooking meth. Keep that in mind next time your hollering at some glass blower that is capable of making everything from pipes, to glass eyes, to other awesome items from glass.

Sirscrapalot - Truth exists; only lies are invented. - Georges Braque

It's probably a lot my fault. I had written they were "in the tube". That was probably misleading if they didn't know what I was talking about. I edited my first post, hopefully it helps!

Till when are you going to be buying this ?