Today's pickup-- The motherload!!

[silversaddle1]

Thanks!

 

[scrapit]

Were do you find this stuff??? My jaw just hit the floor

 

[silversaddle1]

The stuff's still out there, tons of it. You just have to find it. We have been hauling electronic scrap for this company for over 10 years now. All the stuff you see in the photos came out of a store room. It was all support parts for these three machines. We scrapped the machines over three years ago and we knew about the storeroom then. It took the company this long to let the stuff go. I was just knocked out by the amount of stuff they still had!

Crazy ain't it?!!!

 

[flankdrive04]

WOW!!

Gives us all hope!

Plating looks nice and thick too.

Well done!

 

[silversaddle1]

Flankdrive

Love the Hammer Time avatar!

 

[scrapit]

What kind of company do you run? Is it a scraping business, how do you make money off that stuff? I'd love to start a recycling business like that I already do it in my free time for extra cash I enjoy ripping stuff apart and finding things. I'd love to here more about this job of yours.

 

[goldmankc]

that's awsome,

 

[Geld Konig]

Last one

What a wonderful vision. All this boards and slots. I fill like UNCLE SCROOGE.

 

[silversaddle1]

What kind of company do you run? Is it a scraping business, how do you make money off that stuff? I'd love to start a recycling business like that I already do it in my free time for extra cash I enjoy ripping stuff apart and finding things. I'd love to here more about this job of yours.

Yes, I own a metal recycling business. Our main type of work is railroad contracting. We tear out old RR track, cut up loco's and cars, and do general clean up work for the railroad. We have been doing that for about 16 years. The electronics side of the business started by chance when we were contacted by a large data company to remove and dispose of two huge UPS's. And these things were monster systems with transformers in them the size of a pony. It has just grow and grow from there and the electronics side is starting to catch up with the railroad side. It's great winter work when there is little railroad work to do. As far as making money off it, we strip all the computer stuff down to basic parts and then sell them to recycling companies around the country.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Yes, I own a metal recycling business. Our main type of work is railroad contracting. We tear out old RR track, cut up loco's and cars, and do general clean up work for the railroad. We have been doing that for about 16 years. The electronics side of the business started by chance when we were contacted by a large data company to remove and dispose of two huge UPS's. And these things were monster systems with transformers in them the size of a pony. It has just grow and grow from there and the electronics side is starting to catch up with the railroad side. It's great winter work when there is little railroad work to do. As far as making money off it, we strip all the computer stuff down to basic parts and then sell them to recycling companies around the country.

Have you thought about offering items to members of the board?

Possibly pictures?

 

[scrapit]

That's a cool business you got going there. Thank you for the insight

 

[Chumbawamba]

Man, it's actually kind of a shame that those machines couldn't be preserved in a museum. They may have well been the last of their breed. Or even one of a kind systems, with all that wire-wrapping. That was a ton of work.

At any rate, I've never gotten a haul quite like that in my electronics recycling business, but I do still get stuff like that, occasionally. It is out there, especially if you go looking. Of course, if I got this, I'd be hard pressed to scrap it. It'd go into my museum

 

[silversaddle1]

Man, it's actually kind of a shame that those machines couldn't be preserved in a museum. They may have well been the last of their breed. Or even one of a kind systems, with all that wire-wrapping. That was a ton of work.

At any rate, I've never gotten a haul quite like that in my electronics recycling business, but I do still get stuff like that, occasionally. It is out there, especially if you go looking. Of course, if I got this, I'd be hard pressed to scrap it. It'd go into my museum

I'm sure more are still around. Maybe not. Some of the boards I did not show are wire wrapped just like the gold ones, only they have silver colored pins on them. They look just like the gold ones and even have the same date span on them, just silver pins. I'm thinking they are tin coted, I'm not sure. They do still have the gold socket liner where the IC plugs in to the board. And 100's of IC's plugged into the board! If I get time tonight, I'll post more pics of some of the other neat stuff that is turning up in this batch of stuff!

 

[pinwheel]

Good score.

 

[flankdrive04]

Flankdrive

Love the Hammer Time avatar!

LOL!! Cheers mate.

 

[silversaddle1]

Just thought I would update and let you know that so far this load of stuff has yielded 13 pounds of gold finger edges and we are still not done. We have 1 gaylord box hand stacked full of PCB's, and about 1/2 of another. If we don't fill the second, I'd be suprised.

Onward!

 

[silversaddle1]

I listed the backplane. See my other post in "ebay" section for link.

Did not want to double post the link. :wink: