I'd start looking hard at the board.
Theres a few parts where you can see copper, get them, most have a ceramic iron inside & around them & its easy to just save them up, pick out 1 & smash the ceramic & plastic & pick out the copper.
Some are made so you can insert a screwdriver thru the plastic bobbin & just pull the wire right off. I do 3 at a time. All CRT's have at least 1, sometimes 3.
The big chunky black plastic thing with red highvoltage wires coming out of it, its classed as 'shred' iron. We don't get that class here, so I chuck it in the rubbish. Speakers are iron.
Transistors, grab the copper heatsink on the bigger ones, twist it off the board & with any luck all the noncopper parts break off & stay on the board.
Look hard at the small 'Can' shaped transistors, some I have found have gold plating inside & around the base, same as its wires, gold plated.
On the older TVs, the remote control 'eye' has gold plating around it.
A B&W TV channel controller I found last week has a 'star' shaped contact disc inside it, its got gold plated ends on it, one electron tube on the controller (theres two) also had gold plated pins...
I have only noticed this week that a lot of the CRT TV's have a small coin sized metal can component on the board (looks like a fat short older can transistor), I took the top off & found gold inside...
Its to the left of the top of the black vertical IC chip in this pic http://image.ec21.com/image/zzscelec...CRT_TV_SKD.jpg
The quartz ocissilator, its a small flatish metal can with a number like 365.00123 printed on its side has a quartz sheet with what I think is Silver on both sides of it, they also sometimes have gold plating inside the cab, on its base & maybe gold plated wires on it. http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...upIurvRRNTjQpw
Inside it, http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...C7w6cUq1ZagoEl
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...dvl2Mx_-Nm5rTA
Theres silver in the switch contacts, or silver/copper. Try the main switch & any electric relays, theres copper in the relay too.
To get the relays, first I check its not a capactor, they look the same, but the relay has as many as 5 solder contacts under the board while the Cap has mostly 2.
I break the case off, peel the contacts away from each other & use a pair of sidecutters to snip directly from the side, 1/2 way thru the silver contact, this should cut thru the copper or brass arm & cut into the contact, this will splay it out a bit, expanding the cut thru the contact arm, the contact will come loose, or hold it with the end of the side cutters & pull it out.
I weighed my relay contacts today, I have 50grams of silver & 80grams of silver/copper base & about 20grams of magnetic contacts (has iron)
Lotsa plastic coated wire....
Transformers, only the older ones have them.
Ali heatsinks, the sheet metal ones holding the bigger transistors. You need to remove the steel legs on them too.
The extruded ones, you need to seperate the fins around the pin to loosen its grip, then pull it out. 66 of these equals 1Kg Ali.
In this pic http://image.ec21.com/image/zzscelec...ther_Board.jpg you can see at bottom right, the copper wire on the transormer, thats the one you can side onto a screwdriver & unreavel it by hand after smashing off the ferrite (ceramic iron)
To its right is a black box that controls the degaussing curcuit, not worth anything.
Above that is the ferrite transformer with a copper band around it.
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