acpeacemaker
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How much are you actually breaking down?
Kind of a small rundown from my past.
All wires were stripped for clean number 2.
A lot of disk drives have brass. Which a punch set helps on these because a lot of it is mechanically pressed. Some had boards some didn't. The ones that had boards usually held a ring of copper coils behind the magnetic ring.
Most transistors I have found to be copper. Plastic was crushed or incinerated. Not the prettiest copper but still added to the no. 2 pile.
Heat sinks should be counted as extruded aluminum. Usually .05 to .10 cents more than your other aluminum.
Hard drives of course the aluminum body. Tops I usually found to be magnetic. I actually found a place that would buy my magnets. Platters went into the aluminum pile as well.
Breaking the power supply down or selling as is? There is copper, aluminum, and I was still able to sell the board.
Of course you still have the motherboard and components as already stated above.
It really boils down to how much you actually are stripping down.
The pic is a current price sheet from a yard I used to frequent in the midwest. Their prices have really dropped since I've done anything. They also had an e-cycle sheet but prices were really terrible.
There was a lot of other posts when I was trying to post this so it may be good/no good.
Andrew
Kind of a small rundown from my past.
All wires were stripped for clean number 2.
A lot of disk drives have brass. Which a punch set helps on these because a lot of it is mechanically pressed. Some had boards some didn't. The ones that had boards usually held a ring of copper coils behind the magnetic ring.
Most transistors I have found to be copper. Plastic was crushed or incinerated. Not the prettiest copper but still added to the no. 2 pile.
Heat sinks should be counted as extruded aluminum. Usually .05 to .10 cents more than your other aluminum.
Hard drives of course the aluminum body. Tops I usually found to be magnetic. I actually found a place that would buy my magnets. Platters went into the aluminum pile as well.
Breaking the power supply down or selling as is? There is copper, aluminum, and I was still able to sell the board.
Of course you still have the motherboard and components as already stated above.
It really boils down to how much you actually are stripping down.
The pic is a current price sheet from a yard I used to frequent in the midwest. Their prices have really dropped since I've done anything. They also had an e-cycle sheet but prices were really terrible.
There was a lot of other posts when I was trying to post this so it may be good/no good.
Andrew