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by **knibloe** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:37 pm

I have an old TV (10 years old) that I need to get rid of.

1. It there any value in scrapping it?
2. Is there any danger to doing it?

by **scrapper2010** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:04 pm

There is a decent amount of copper and insulated copper wire inside. Be careful not to break the tube.

by **psi** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:21 am

Capacitors with residual charge would be another possible danger, unless it hasn't been turned on for a good long time.

by **knibloe** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:20 am

Thanks for the replys.

The TV has been off for several months.

I ended up breaking the point off of the tube in order to fit it into a garbage bag.

There were probably several lbs of copper in it.

by **AGgressive Metal** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:00 pm

Anything salvageable besides the copper?

by **knibloe** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:14 pm

There were wires, a circuit board, and the copper.

Inside the tube there was more metal, but I have heard that the tubes contain some nasty stuff (not sure if it is true or not), so I did not open the bag to see what it was.

All in all, I would not pick up a TV to scrap it because of the volume of non-salvagable stuff. This was one of my own, so I was worth it to get rid of it.

by **glockngold** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:17 am

On large pickup weekends, fellas in my area will take a hammer and break open & pull up the back wooden panel of old console TVs & cut out the copper wire.
They just take the low hanging fruit.

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