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    Whats a guy to do with all these boards?

    I've been saving up boards since I started scrapping a few months ago since my yard pays terrible low rates like $0.03/lb for low-grade.



    I've been researching sending them off to boardsort but the shipping from Canada would break the deal. I was thinking about maybe selling on ebay but I'm not sure if to break them up into separate lots or sell all as one big haul and the shippng would be about $150. Some may go as telecom or higher than midgrade non-motherboard price.

    They are from anything and everything - tvs/monitors, remote controls, computers, microwaves, modems, home phones, printers, appliances, cable boxes, nortel netwroks/cisco systems switches. One of them is a gaming motherboard some guy put up on CL for free (the pins for the CPU are all bent up)

    Here's a gallery I uploaded onto Imgur. These suckers are hard to take good pictures of.

    Circuit board collection - Imgur
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    According to a couple of the guys, there is a few board buyers up there. Might be better than trying to ship across the border.
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    uhh just to help you out a little tear the transformers and heat sinks off the boards

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    Just take a business trip and drive out and sell out . It's a scrappers field trip. Enjoy the change of pace and venture out. It's more productive than speculation. Happy trails.

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    Uh oh, someone hasn't been reading much....

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    Yes alot of low grade brown . The green on both sides or other colors just email those pictures to any buyers of choice. Also try to identify what's on a board. Each type has similar parts or the same. Group by what is the same or 75% simular. Imho 1scrap.

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    We are located in Michigan. Depending where you are in Canada you could make the drive in 1 day. PM me if you have any questions. We are currently paying .17 per lb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blacksteel View Post
    Yes alot of low grade brown . The green on both sides or other colors just email those pictures to any buyers of choice. Also try to identify what's on a board. Each type has similar parts or the same. Group by what is the same or 75% simular. Imho 1scrap.
    I've sorted them out now into low grade, mid grade, peripheral , telecom, motherboards, finger cards, gold and sliver/tin fingered ram cards. - will post pics of the sorted piles tonight and will most likely list on ebay with local pick-up option .

    The only ones im still trying to figure out are ones like these - green on both sides but has the same components as low grade. Circuit board collection - Imgur Circuit board collection - Imgur

    Can a board thats green on both sides ever be considered low-grade?


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