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Thank you very much alloy2.

Interesting read. Lots of information there.

I don't think someone hanging around 10-20 minutes on the side of the street taking apart and then leaving most of the tv would good over well in my area. Maybe some landowners would allow it but they usually want the whole thing gone not just someone playing inside of the machine. Why don't you do the landowner a favor and take the whole thing home, strip it of what you want, break down the rest and throw it away in your own trash (that's what I do). Maybe a different culture where you live bur roadside stripping probably not well looked upon here...

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

Interesting read. Lots of information there.

I don't think someone hanging around 10-20 minutes on the side of the street taking apart and then leaving most of the tv would good over well in my area. Maybe some landowners would allow it but they usually want the whole thing gone not just someone playing inside of the machine. Why don't you do the landowner a favor and take the whole thing home, strip it of what you want, break down the rest and throw it away in your own trash (that's what I do). Maybe a different culture where you live bur roadside stripping probably not well looked upon here...

When I can, I do. But at the moment, I don't have a means to haul the big ones. In my area, they require special pickup. People put them on the curb on trash day, and the trash man leaves a sticker on them informing them they need special pickup, and leaves it on the curb because he cant pick the thing up on his own. They end up sitting out on the curb for weeks sometimes. But when I strip them down to just the parts that can go in the regular trash, and the cabinet is broken down into parts that one guy can pick up by himself, the trash guy takes them out of there same day. So I am generally doing the land owner a favor here.

I actually had four landowners come out and shoot the breeze with me while stripping TVs today. One asked me what I do with the parts I am removing, then started asking me if I knew how to fix lawnmowers too. We spent that time talking about how to troubleshoot his lawnmower, and then as I was getting ready to leave, he called me back and offered me a bunch of other stuff like speakers for scrap.

Another one came out and offered to help me load the parts in the car. The other two just came out and chatted. One of them telling me that they didn't scrap the TV's because sometimes they have juice in them still (I always cross the caps with my screwdriver to discharge the big ones).

I had a another guy see me stripping the last projector of the day, and he went up to his place, and started dragging out large flatscreens that he was unable to fix for me to take.

Maybe if I headed to an uppity area, they might get snooty, but I'm cool with people, I speak respectful, and I don't leave a mess; and when I lay some good ole charisma on them, they warm up to me. I'm no fool. I know where I can, and can't go, and when it's appropriate to let one slide. Like if I'm going to impede traffic, or cause a disturbance by doing it, I keep moving, or I move it to somewhere safe to do it.

The town I live in has code enforcement. I've even done it with code enforcement riding down the street. I've done it with cops going down the street. When they see how neatly I do it, and a smile and a wave, they don't bother me. I'm not that crackhead trying to score. I dress well, and I work with speed and purpose. And when I say I don't leave a mess, I mean I often leave the pick neater than when I got there.

If only all scrappers worked the way I do at it, no one would have a problem. It's the guys who go in with hammers, and wreck up the joint that cause the issues.

In my shop we have invested in a mechanics parts cleaning tub. yes we do that many of them. it is mineral oil or gyptol based oil. gyptol is a sugar based material. We empty the tank about every six months.