Fairly old (free) tv's?

[dimka]

This site has a lot of good information;

http://www.scrapmetaljunkie.com/

http://www.scrapmetaljunkie.com/scrap-metal-handbook-guide

Thanks! Ill make sure and read all of this!

 

[necromancer]

Prior to turn in I strip all copper and aluminum easily accessible. This includes yoke, degaussing cable, heat sinks, coils, transformers and any IC's. It is dirty grunt work, but when I turn in the TV, with covers reinstalled, I get a small tax-deductible donation receipt.

is this not the same as filling your copper pipe with lead and selling it to the scrap yard ?
or putting tungston in the centre of your gold and selling it ?

Isn't that fairly smart to do though?

you believe being dishonest is smart ?
i know lots of people just like that. they don't get much help from me.

 

[galenrog]

The place I turn in TVs knows exactly what I do. For CRT type TVs they are simply a collection agent for a recycler that wants only the CRT glass, although that facility also sends on to others the balance of the recycleable or reusable materials to other processors. The only reason I reassemble the the shell is for them to ship the stripped TV to the CRT recycler. That facility wants the CRTs intact. The best way to do that is to have the CRTs in the original housing. When CRT TVs and monitors are turned in to the first facility they are immediately put on pallets for shipping. Shipping unprotected CRTs can cause all kinds of problems for crews involved.

Before I accepted any old electronics for disassembly, I checked with scrap yards, direct recyclers, collection points and a host of others to determine where different components should be turned in for maximum return or, in the case of CRTs, minimal loss, without violating any laws or acceptance rules.

 

[solar_plasma]

dimka, with surgical precision you're just finding every sand trap around Hurry up reading more on the forum, so you are going to know what does not fly with people in this forum, instead of learning the hard way.

 

[necromancer]

The place I turn in TVs knows exactly what I do. For CRT type TVs they are simply a collection agent for a recycler that wants only the CRT glass, although that facility also sends on to others the balance of the recycleable or reusable materials to other processors. The only reason I reassemble the the shell is for them to ship the stripped TV to the CRT recycler. That facility wants the CRTs intact. The best way to do that is to have the CRTs in the original housing. When CRT TVs and monitors are turned in to the first facility they are immediately put on pallets for shipping. Shipping unprotected CRTs can cause all kinds of problems for crews involved.

Before I accepted any old electronics for disassembly, I checked with scrap yards, direct recyclers, collection points and a host of others to determine where different components should be turned in for maximum return or, in the case of CRTs, minimal loss, without violating any laws or acceptance rules.

thats very good !! i took your other post for its face value, glad to see that honesty is the best policy.

 

[galenrog]

I have met people who try, and sometimes succeed, to game the system. I'm related to several.

 

[solar_plasma]

All cultures in history had a theorem to treat others like one wants to be treated by them. There is only one reason, why every human culture came to this wisdom, even independent from influences of other cultures: it works. This is the basis of any successful social long term relation. This is the quite unromantic view of exchange theory, but beside it, I feel in my simple humanistic characterized mind, being dishonest will poison yourself. The ancient Chinese said, the thief believes everyone wants to steal from him. That would not be a world I like to live in. Therefor I only deal with people, who I find to be honest and I am honest against them.

The short living gain of being dishonest is not worth all the negative effects on relations and yourself.