Un-boxing a 1993 Zenith Sentry 2 TV in cabinet

Opps.

I'll still scrap CRTs, just as long as they are not consoles and under 32", Best Buy's criteria. There is one 5 minutes away from where I work. I dropped 2 off there, drove around for a while and found 2 more My name is Kill Yr TV for a reason :P

Originally Posted by KillYrTV

I'll still scrap CRTs, just as long as they are not consoles and under 32", Best Buy's criteria. There is one 5 minutes away from where I work. I dropped 2 off there, drove around for a while and found 2 more My name is Kill Yr TV for a reason :P

I thought you just liked the song...Hobo, that's your cue...

Originally Posted by KillYrTV

I changed my mind. Both of the ones I did today had bonded yokes, and one was super dusty inside.

Are you also pulling the degaussing wire, the tinned copper wire in the corners of the tube (with the springs attached), and the hose clamps around the neck of the tube?? (some are SS, others SS with a steel screw).

It all adds up.

whenever I get really dusty stuff I give it a good blast with a leafblower. just another great tip I learned here
I'm sure it looks odd with pc's and tv's opened up in a couple lines across the yard but after seeing the huge clouds of dust, I wouldn't work on them without doing it anymore.
When the dump started charging for tv's, so did I. They charge $.18/lb I charge $.20/lb and I still get quite a few as lifting them is "work"

Originally Posted by jimicrk

You're going to open a tv one day and it's going to have something more than dust inside.

Roaches, spiders, ants nest.

Someone near me set a TV out at the curb (knowing full well there is no one to pick it up here) about 6 months ago. At first it was like a tease for me (I don't do CRT's) every time I drove past it. Now it is more than half covered in weeds and vines and there is no way you would get me near it. This is Florida... no telling what will jump out at you. In fact, try and grab it and something may well pull back trying to keep it...

I left the yokes (I've done 6 CRTs so far) in the freezer for a week (forgot about them!) and I put them in a cloth bag, put a wooden board on top, and ran it over with my car. It just cracked the yokes (and the board), so I brought the bag inside and beat it with a small hammer. That worked well, though the de-gaussing cable gave more copper weight compared to the time spent. Pulled the flybacks, small transformers, and heatsinks off all my low-grade circuit boards and put them in their own bins. I unspooled several of the small transformers, but eventually realized that it wasnt worth the time. It's good to know how to do it though. Took the scrapped TVs to Best Buy 1 or 2 at a time, and left the Zenith console out on the curb. I think apartment maintenance took it, I had told them about it. Out of 6 TVs, 2 had bonded yokes, didnt pull those off, 2 had aluminum DG cables, and 2 had aluminum yokes. I didnt track which ones correlated with which. All said and done, I came out with 2.2 lbs of clean #2 copper wire from low grade items, which equals about $5, and some heat sinks. But at least I know how to do it now. I'm going to concentrate on computers and stuff, and if I get low grade boards I will sell them by the pound.

Originally Posted by KillYrTV

I left the yokes (I've done 6 CRTs so far) in the freezer for a week (forgot about them!) and I put them in a cloth bag, put a board on top, and ran it over with my car. It just cracked the yokes, so I brought the bag inside and beat it with a hammer. That worked well Though the de-gaussing cable gave more copper weight compared to the time spent. Pulled the flybacks, transformers, and heatsinks off the circuit boards and put them in their own bins. I unspooled several of the small transformers, but eventually found that it wasnt worth the time. Took the scrapped TVs to Best Buy.

My yard had no problems taking the flyback transformers for the longest time but now that things are tight, they refuse to buy them or the fans from computers.