Brown PC Boards

I know the Brown Boards are low grade and I am only getting .30 a pound for it. But I just wanted to see if anyone was taking the time to get the copper and AL off. Some of them seem to have a ton.

Low grade boards I strip of all heat sinks. angel hair wire, copper windings, and anything else that looks "better than shred" to me. The rest of the board goes in the sheet iron pile. Heat sinks go in the clean aluminum extrusion bin, angel hair goes in the non strip wire bin, windings either get stripped for clean #2 copper or go in the motor bin whole. I won't take too much time with alot of the windings as your getting ounces of copper off them and your burning air saw/sawzall blades or grinding disks not to mention time for pennies on a part.

Same as victor, except I smash the small motors with a hammer, then the copper windings pretty much seperate themselves in the process.

I sell my low grade boards as is...will take to much of my time to do much anything else with them.

I strip off any wires, aluminum and copper windings. I save all the windings for when I have nothing big to do and need to kill time and it keeps my hands busy. yeah, they are small but they help fill up my bags!


Victor - why do you throw them in the sheet iron? Does the yard take them as steel? I never knew that and only one of my yards I use buy the boards so I never knew I could throw them in with sheet iron. Is it the solder that makes them go as steel/iron?

Originally Posted by newattitude

Victor - why do you throw them in the sheet iron? Does the yard take them as steel? I never knew that and only one of my yards I use buy the boards so I never knew I could throw them in with sheet iron. Is it the solder that makes them go as steel/iron?

My yards don't have prices for boards of any kind, or any e-waste. That's why Victor and I throw it in with our other stuff.

I like to grab the relay switches. Often times they are small black or blue rectangle boxes. Pulling them off sometimes opens them up or side cutters or hammer etc. Little roll of copper wire and copper or brass tabs that have silver contacts.