What do you do with your cleaned green board components?

[pinwheel]

I find myself wondering more and more each day as I manually clean green boards for shipment, do these things that I am removing have more value than tossing them into the steel bin?

I am talking about the things that buyers would prefer you to remove from the boards.

One thing I started saving today was those large blue capacitors. (Electrolytic Capacitors, 400V 3900uF) for example which I just found out seem to sell for something like $15 each used. Then there are the frequency generators and various motors and then everything under the sun you can think up. I think I could easily supply an electronics outlet with parts forever.

Then I find myself daydreaming about breaking out the soldier gun to recover even more components from the boards rather than just ripping them off harshly.

What about the heat sinks, batteries, fuses and toggle switches?

I mean how for could one go in this?

Does anyone do this? Do you ebay these things, scrap them as steel on the sly? What do you do with your seemingly expensive electronic parts?

The other side of me says that ebaying this stuff would take staff. There is so much of it one could get bogged down big time.

Is there a market here?

 

[butcher]

I stock my bins for electronic projects, you can build all kinds of things from a well stocked bin, most electronic parts have value to the right people, I have seen and bought parts from ebay, there are hamfest's held all over, these are were radio people take thier electronics to sell or trade, a good place to buy or sell parts, there are also company's who sell surplus parts, some old or rare parts can be worth thousands of dollars, to integrated circuit collectors, you sure would not want to throw that part away, altough you will need a market otherwise its just junk, also some of those part do contain some valuable metals, learning is key, switchs can have silver, gold and platinum group metal's, I alway's think twice before I throw something away, but then sometimes that is a problem(can't get into my barn).

 

[patnor1011]

I saw auctions on ebay and even checked sellers feedback to see if people buying things. They are selling like 10 cooling fans, 20 heatsinks, 20-40 ferrite rounds, 10 motors from CD/DVD drives, 10-20 magnets from hdd - nearly everything you can imagine. These lots are sold for around 5-8$.