CRT Monitor assay

[slaghunter]

Infortunately, there's no bare bright in a CRT monitor. It's all #2 copper. If your yard will take the degausing coil as bare bright that's awesome, but don't count on it.

I asked my yard. They said as long as it is striped and has no foreign matter on it they would call it BB. They do not care what size it is. I assume that is why you call it #2?

Either your math is off or you took a nap between monitors. It only takes me 5-10 mins a monitor (depending on how many cocktails I've had). I don't see how 10 monitors can take more than 2 hours = 25.00 an hour.

So you are saying you can tear apart a monitor, unscrew anything that is attached to the alum heat sinks, remove all the transformers, snip all the wires, remove the IC chips, remove all the wire from the cone in less than 12 minutes each?? I would need to see that. You must know some tips I do not.

If I get a particularly stubborn monitor/TV, it may take me 10 minutes from the time I crack it open to the time I'm setting the carcass out by my garbage.

I take the back off, pull the board, take the little board off the tube, pull the yoke assembly off, snip the degaussing cable, snip off the braided wire that is up towards the front of the tube, pull any speakers that may be in there, then screw the backside on. Set it by the garbage cans. 5-10 minutes per, and I'm not trying to win any races with 'em.

Again see my reply above. I can get the stuff out in a couple of minutes but than you just have a pile of junk it is not separated to be sold. I would love to have someone time themselves from start to finish with the breakdown I gave. It would be interesting to know how much time it really takes. Now I have to get another monitor and time myself

[billygoat]

ISo after all that it came to $5.00 a monitor which is what most people on here say they are worth. I figure with the time it took me I made about ten cents an hour.

I can be a little slow sometimes... You mean it took you 50 hours to break down each monitor? That's how I computed it (50 hours at $0.10 per hour = $5.00).

I asked my yard. They said as long as it is striped and has no foreign matter on it they would call it BB. They do not care what size it is. I assume that is why you call it #2?

Basically, yeah. At my yard each wire or strand has to be as big as (or bigger) than a #2 pencil lead. For instance, #12 solid is #1 copper, while #12 stranded is #2. Ce la vie.

[slaghunter]

I can be a little slow sometimes... You mean it took you 50 hours to break down each monitor? That's how I computed it (50 hours at $0.10 per hour = $5.00).

Ok just to clear up the confusion the $.10 and hour remark was a joke. I really don't know how long it took me but I am sure I can make more money on cpu's or other scrap. That's why I said ok if you have nothing else to do but not my first choice.