Electronic Musical Equipment

[Jeremiah]

Has anyone ever scrapped out musical equipment including mixers, mics, amps, keyboards and other electronics equipment? What types of c-boards do you think they have? Would you pay .02 per pound for any of this equipment?

[Scrap man]

I scrapped an amp awhile ago. There's about a pound of insulated wire, a transformer, and some misc. steel stuff. This was a homemade amp though, so it could be different

[ComputerScrapper]

It would depend on the brand....Some of your higher end stuff may have better boards while the cheaper stuff will have low grade...It would also depend on the age. We scrapped a newer keyboard a few months ago...One mid-grade board and the rest was all low grade stuff....It was not a high end piece so it is pretty hard to judge.

[bejak]

I would check for more than scrap value on any musical equipment working or not. Went to a public auction a while back, Sound & Light co closing selling all equipment and misc. was an educational experience. What many of us see as a chunk of aluminum, copper & steel or e scrap is big things to some collectors and enthusiasts. If you have time research before you scrap or sell, you might get your eyebrows raised.

[thortek]

Here I get $0.05 a pound for Audio/Video gear (Not CRT TV's though). A buddy of mine works for a Audio/Video Warehouse. I picked up a 30 gallon tote of dead car stereos and a few old dead dvd players. If I scrap it as is, I'll probably pick up $10-15 let them take it apart.

He also dropped off a couple of hundred pounds of blown subwoofers..can't wait to take them and pc cases to the scrap yard!