A nice little scrap score, Computer Scrap, Advice Please

[Thogey]

A guy in my neighborhood is getting kicked out. He left this stuff on the curb. He even helped me load it up.
Any suggestions on breaking it down. There are a couple NIB items here.
He must be a computer repair man. There are a mess of motherboards, memory cards disk drives wire heatsinks fans etc.

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[natsb88]

I sold my last batch of scrap boards to these guys: http://boardsort.com/payout.php

If there are any functional laptop screens, they are worth a couple bucks on eBay. Either the bare screens or the whole top assemblies. Best to have the manufacturer's name and model number in the item title. But given the pile of rubble, it probably won't be possible to test the functionality, and might not be worth the hassle of a potential claim/return.

I see a couple heatsink/fan assemblies. If they are aftermarket and in good condition, they might be worth a couple bucks on feeBay too. If they are just stock, or dinged up, probably only worth the Al/Cu scrap.

Can strip down the hard drives. Aluminum frames and steel hardware to the yard, logic boards and platters to the board buyer.

Can sell power supplies whole to the board buyer, or strip them down (steel, copper wire, low grade brown board).

Functional motherboards and memory could have some value, but you'd need a way to test them. Otherwise, off to the board buyer they go...

[hobo finds]

Good stuff!

Memory
CPU's
Server boards
Mother Boards
Gold finger boards
Hard drives
Gold ends

I use this guy... http://www.cashforcomputerscrap.com/what-we-buy

[hobo finds]

Here is his prices...


Pricing delivered to our dock (44060)

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
Please remove batteries and excess AL and Steel
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$3.75 Motherboards Mixed Socket (Large and Small Socket)
$2.15 Small Socket Foreign Boards
$3.55 Finger Board Trimmed/Devalued
$4.45 Finger Boards
$4.25 Dual Socket Server Boards
$ 3.00 to 6.00+ Telecom (Paid on Sort)
$3.75 CD/DVD Boards

HIGH VALUE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$8.00 RAMBUS (Memory with METAL Enclosure)
$11.25 Hard Drive Boards
$11.25 Cell Phone Boards CLEAN (please remove excess Plastic, Steel, Aluminum and Battery)
$15.50 Memory Mixed (Gold, Silver/Tin)
$16.50 Gold Memory
$14.90 Silver/Tin Memory
$60.00 Gold Fingers (Pricing is for quality cut trim. Little to no Green, otherwise deduction)
$11.25 Slot Processor

OTHER PRECIOUS METAL ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$2.15 Gold Connectors
$6.75 Cell Phones w/o battery

CPUs (Must be Sorted)
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$135.00 Intel 386 and 486
$95.00 Motorola
$100.00 Pentium Pro Gold Caps
$58.00 Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap
$44.00 Pentium Ceramic
$37.00 AMD Ceramic Clean (without Al. Cap)
$37.00 Black Fiber CPU
$21.00 Green/Brown Fiber without Heatsink
$9.00 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pins
$8.25 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pinless

COMPUTER/SERVER PARTS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.05 Hard Drives Complete
$0.40 Hard Drives w/o Boards
$0.40 Power Supply w/ Wire
$0.35 Power Supply w/o Wire
$0.18 Mixed Floppy/CD/DVD Drives

OTHER ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.10 Laptops Complete
$0.80 Incomplete laptops (Must have Motherboard)
$0.30 AC Adapter w/ Wire
$0.22 AC Adapter w/o Wire
$0.75 Mixed Computer Wire



Prices are subject to change without notice.
Pricing is determined by date of RECEIPT of material unless otherwise noted.

Anything else, send us an email: info@CashForComputerScrap.com Thanks

Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap-bu ... z2Hxw7Y1c4

[NHsorter]

I used boardsort once in the past and it was a very smooth transaction. I thought about selling it on eBay, but after fees and hassle it was not gonna benefit me much over just selling to boardsort. Never tried anyone else. Any computer scrap I had in the past was just chucked into the dumpster Live and learn, I guess.

[hobo finds]

What was the breakdown of this good find??

[Thogey]

I don't know. It's still in a pile on the side of the house.

I found a 64G usb memory stick that works perfect. About $40 new.

There's a few brand new items in there.

[Zincanator]

I had a similar situation when a neighbor who was a renter finished out the lease. They left a fully-functional Sony Vaio desktop PC tower and a few other random PC boxes at the curb. I grabbed them before the trash pickup. The Sony ended up being a high-end multimedia server with two hard drives, lots of RAM and full DVR capability. Sold the lot on FeeBay for a nice profit. Why people throw this sort of thing out I have no idea.

[Thogey]

OK I need help. I just started wading through this stuff I notice the e-bay market is pretty bust on this stuff. But I don't know what I have. There is easily a couple hundred pounds total.

I pulled a few things out that are circut boards. Can someone tell me what they are and how to scrap or sell them.

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[Thogey]

I found this video Waht do you guys think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEvV0RHMU-Y

[hobo finds]

Memory sell as is
Mother boards remove CPU's
Other gold fingerboards remove alum heat sinks metal brackets
Any conector ends that plug into the unit are gold plated cut off ends sell them and scrap the wire with your #2 insulated
CPU's are good money based on there type

[hobo finds]

video is a good one! I have not cut off the gold ends on any board I sell them as is. Good info on what to remove on the Mother Boards.

[silver]

There are flat pacs on the motherboard, sometimes more than one. You can see a gold edge on them. Just take a sharp chisel and pop the whole thing off the board. Get enough of them and they hold a decent amount of GOLD!
ED

[hobo finds]

http://ewasteguide.info/node/220

[Thogey]

Are the disk drives CD/floppy worth taking apart.

[messymessy]

Are the disk drives CD/floppy worth taking apart.

I don't think so. I'd sell them whole.

[silversaddle1]

Are the disk drives CD/floppy worth taking apart.

I don't think so. I'd sell them whole.

Not true. Always pull the mid-grade boards out of the CD drives. Simple to take out, 4 screws and it's yours.

[messymessy]

Are the disk drives CD/floppy worth taking apart.

I don't think so. I'd sell them whole.

Not true. Always pull the mid-grade boards out of the CD drives. Simple to take out, 4 screws and it's yours.

Well, I know you've torn apart WAY more computers that I ever will, but I really don't think it's worth it.

Here's my take: I get $.60 a pound for midgrade board and $.15 a pound for whole CD drives. I'm guessing the board weighs about 8 ounces. Value of the board, separated: $.30. Value of the board sold as part of the drive: $.07. Profit from separating: $.23. Time spent separating? I don't know, I've never tried.

It boils down to what you think you time is worth and how many you can actually do per hour. I really don't think I can separate them quick enough to be worth my time.

[silversaddle1]

Now I must correct an error I posted in my OP. CD boards pay about $2.20 a pound as a Peripheral Board, not mid grade.

So, lets do some math.With a Dewalt screwgun it takes about 15 seconds to pull the board. If they are stacked up and ready to go, my wife can do around 3-4 per minute, easy. Say your guess is correct at 8 ounces per board. So if she can do 4 a min, that makes 2 pounds of boards. 2 X $2.20 + $4.40 per min. That means it pays around $260.00 an hour to pull them boards. How much is your time worth?

[messymessy]

Now I must correct an error I posted in my OP. CD boards pay about $2.20 a pound as a Peripheral Board, not mid grade.

So, lets do some math.With a Dewalt screwgun it takes about 15 seconds to pull the board. If they are stacked up and ready to go, my wife can do around 3-4 per minute, easy. Say your guess is correct at 8 ounces per board. So if she can do 4 a min, that makes 2 pounds of boards. 2 X $2.20 + $4.40 per min. That means it pays around $260.00 an hour to pull them boards. How much is your time worth?

My time is certainly worth that much, but I suspect our combined math is off somewhere.

[silversaddle1]

It could very well be off. Still, save the boards!

[messymessy]

It could very well be off. Still, save the boards!

Without a doubt, I'll try it once and see how it turns out. As always, thanks for the input.