Scrapping Monitors & TV's (Plastic & Glass)

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Floyd, on the tube tv's don't forget the degaussing wire and the "silver" wire down around the tubes that has springs. The silver one is tinned copper.

I now have a can of those "braided" silver color wires that loops around all 4 mounting brackets, what can tinned copper go as? #2 copper? Here #1 is clean and #2 can have solder or be varnished wire so I assume tinned copper is about the same as copper with solder on it right?

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Floyd, on the tube tv's don't forget the degaussing wire and the "silver" wire down around the tubes that has springs. The silver one is tinned copper.

I have always sold this as aluminum.

Never once got copper for it. Perhaps there is a difference from one tv / monitor to another but I have done TVs for more than 3 years.

You also forgot that that there is a small amount of aluminum in some and some iron, and occasionally stainless.

If you get lucky there are some of the older monitors out there that are not only worth the time but pay well in materials. I have found some that were extremely heavy built and contained the following:
2.5lbs stainless
10 lbs iron / tin
3 lbs copper
0.5 Lbs #2 wire
0.5 lbs degaussing coil
4 lbs low-medium boards

Also the standard tube, plastic, etc.

The tube in this model was surprisingly light. Keep in mind these are RARE but do exist.

Oh really? I did not know that was tinned copper I thought it was just steel banding cable since it was under load by springs, what would that go as #2 copper?

yep ; ) it's a part of the grounding strap assembly

Originally Posted by Gravitar

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...ing-guide.html

This shows pretty much everything you need to know about scrapping TV's and Monitors.

Does it show how to get somebody else to pick em up and move em for ya? : D

I don't scrap TV's and monitors because I have to pay between 5 and 10 dollars to get rid of the tubes. Goodwill won't even take a working crt monitor and Best Buy charges also.

I read an article recently regarding a British company and their technology to (supposedly) effectively separate lead and glass from CRTs. Google "Nulife Glass". It appears to take a different approach from recycling CRT material to make "new" CRT devices.

There could be U.S. companies doing the same thing, I just stumbled across this in a search.

Ok, last thing and I will shut up for awhile on this .... quick google search brought up a company called Kuusakoski ... scary thing about what they do (to me, anyway) is treat the CRT material in a manner that stabilizes lead to virtually prevent leaching .... the resulting product is then approved to be used as a daily cover for municipal landfills. Wow ... don't like the sound of that. At least on the surface, I didn't dig super deep into a discussion of the technology.

Also caught a blurb about Sims Recycling that indicated they are pursuing opportunities more in line with what the British company is doing.

This (CRT disposal) is a massive problem that will have to be addressed and that should create some opportunities for scrappers. That is, as long as governments on whatever level don't step in to "fix" it .....

The bands around the yoke are stainless and usually 1 of the screws is too

Thanks everyone I should have read further for other posts.

Luckily I live 2min from the landfill and people from all around have to all but drive by my house to go to the landfill and for them its only 2min out of the way and it saves you on dumping fees for almost anything expect plastic, trash, cardboard, etc.

I can take a whole bed load of plastic to the landfill 2min away and dump it for free so that is not an issue, and they take the glass with the plastic as well for free I smash the tubes up into small pieces of glass...that is not bad right? It's just a vacuum there is no gas in there right?

With flat screens I am stuck with the LCD that as I am aware the electronics buyers do not buy as a circuit board they have what liquid crystal in them? I have a HUGE projection HD tv in my backyard someone just dropped off, the boards get pulled, the plastic plexi front goes on my greenhouse, the shell goes to the landfill and all other electronics are pulled as well for eScrap.

It's bad. You're releasing the phosphor coating into the atmosphere and the glass is leaded. You're creating greater surface area for the lead to leach out of the glass into the landfill.

I wonder if the glass they "take for free" is only bottles or other non-leaded types? I can't imagine a municipality welcoming leaded glass. I can recycle "normal" glass for free at our center, but no go on CRTs.

I get 40 cents a monitor it used to cost me to get rid of them about a year ago and that plastic does have a market it just takes a lot of looking to find a buyer. I have been saving plastic for 2 years finally found a buyer, .135 cents a pound.

The Nulife Glass recycling technology seems to be top notch and very legit. To recover 99% of glass and lead by putting it all in a furnace and treating it.

A new facility has been/ is being built in Dunkirk, NY.

Like mentioned before the best I've found out there by googling was Nulife and Kuusakoski.

I've read online that many abandoned warehouses full of tons of CRT's are being found across the US.