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    Scrap at someones work place

    So my friend works somewhere where they have a bunch of monitors that work but are garbage as far as the company is concerned. Old CRTs that no one will use. There are a large number.
    Said friend would be the person that disposes of the CRTs. So its clear he can just toss them. He tosses stuff all the time as a normal part of his job or has things removed by other employees. He is afraid to take them and scrap them because he thinks someone might consider it stealing.



    So what can he do to cover himself? Has anyone had experience with a situation like this?


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    Quote Originally Posted by sumguyonline View Post
    So my friend works somewhere where they have a bunch of monitors that work but are garbage as far as the company is concerned. Old CRTs that no one will use. There are a large number.
    Said friend would be the person that disposes of the CRTs. So its clear he can just toss them. He tosses stuff all the time as a normal part of his job or has things removed by other employees. He is afraid to take them and scrap them because he thinks someone might consider it stealing.

    So what can he do to cover himself? Has anyone had experience with a situation like this?
    Tell said riend to get a testrone shot.

    How thick is the dust layer on these CRT's. if it's thick enough to make you sneez this would be a good indication they're long forgotten no longer listed as an asset on the company spreadsheet.

    Proper way would be to approach managment with a written request then bide your time on a reply.

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    you better have a place where you can dispose of the tubes....I don't touch them anymore as Best Buy charges now to take them...FAR more than what is in them. And I will tell you from experience there just isn't that much stuff in there for the work...but of course YMMV (ie $$$ to work for me might be need to be higher). Again, I just say no thanks to crt and tube tv's now. I will take anything else pretty much.

    Moral of the story...if you have no place to get rid of tubes, run away...it will be expensive, far more than you will make off them. Again, depends on your area, but here, nope.
    PROFIT is made when you BUY/ACQUIRE NOT when you sell

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    Loysa dangers in CRT's, just picking them up is dangerous. The tubes can explode like grenades. That dust inside them.... Every cigarette and infectious cold/flu virus its ever been exposed to is locked up inside it.

    I scrapped a bulk lot of CRTs, some are just not worth picking up (Panasonic's, normally) as their degausser cables real thin.
    The trinatrons and Sony's and early flat screens have good degausser cables.

    But, if its from a company, I am sure they will just want to get rid of them in one go and not have someone who could expose them as a potential safety hazard/lawsuit.


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