New on board sort?

[mikeinreco]

Funny how times change just second nature to pull batteries.......

[johnuppy]

I have yet to cash in any boards...i talked to a local company about their grading and pay policy, he told me they have high and low grade. I told him ive been pulling aly heatsinks, motors/transformers, and anything with copper on it...he told me i didn't have to, just pull the board and thats it. I know they obviously want to pay as little as possinle, but for motherboards what all needs to be on/removed? Do buyers care if copper is pulled off?

When we send in our Motherboards all batteries need to be removed. If batteries are on, you get charged per lb for them to sort and remove batteries. All heat sinks must be removed also.

[Deathhit02]

As for the post . My yard only pays low and high grade for boards . Bs find a new buyer . There's more than two grades there's four for tell com a lone . From 20 cent to 20/25 dollars a pound on computer boards.

[BoardSort]

Funny how times change just second nature to pull batteries.......

Times do change. We took some heat when we made that change back then. Even though the earlier replies to this thread from buyers claimed they accept boards with batteries, if you go to those buyers now you will see that they no longer accept batteries on boards.

I guess you could say that boardsort was ahead of the game. And yes, those directives come straight from the refineries. We are open and honest about our buying policies. I do not like surprises and my customers like them even less. So when we catch wind of industry changes, we comply in order to prevent a rude awakening when 600 lbs of boards arrive with batteries and the seller is faced with the decision of cleaning them all on the spot or accepting a reduced rate. I would rather be upfront with my sellers even if it is an unpopular requirement.

Thank you to all who understood and tried to explain the situation to others. The scrap business is always in flux. As the "pile thins" requirements from our processors and refiners get more and more stringent. Back in 2010 there were 4 grades, Low, Mid, Motherboard and Telecom. Now there are more than 20 grades of boards. None of these changes where of our design or desire, we simply comply with what our buyers require of us.

Chris
boardsort.com - Nationwide E-scrap buyer.

[hobo finds]

Times do change. We took some heat when we made that change back then. Even though the earlier replies to this thread from buyers claimed they accept boards with batteries, if you go to those buyers now you will see that they no longer accept batteries on boards.

I guess you could say that boardsort was ahead of the game. And yes, those directives come straight from the refineries. We are open and honest about our buying policies. I do not like surprises and my customers like them even less. So when we catch wind of industry changes, we comply in order to prevent a rude awakening when 600 lbs of boards arrive with batteries and the seller is faced with the decision of cleaning them all on the spot or accepting a reduced rate. I would rather be upfront with my sellers even if it is an unpopular requirement.

Thank you to all who understood and tried to explain the situation to others. The scrap business is always in flux. As the "pile thins" requirements from our processors and refiners get more and more stringent. Back in 2010 there were 4 grades, Low, Mid, Motherboard and Telecom. Now there are more than 20 grades of boards. None of these changes where of our design or desire, we simply comply with what our buyers require of us.

Chris
boardsort.com - Nationwide E-scrap buyer.

2nd post since 2011 welcome back!

[eesakiwi]

IYG here you go,,,

This is the other sort to look for. Its normally on real old boards, Apple and Mac stuff and Telecom boards.
I get the impression they are made from a solid slug of Lithium with a thin hole down the centre and a Thionyl chloride paste in it. Smells of sulphur.
Very long life batterys.

About the other battery, I unsoldered a bunch of the battery clips and soldered a LED onto it.
When I get a bettery I put it in the clip until its flat. Theres a bunch of coloured glow worms on my workbench.

[BoardSort]

Those MasterFire batteries are appropriately named!

A quick tale from the book that we could write from some of the things we have witnessed in the scrap business.

We had a customer come to the dock with a load of boards, all of which contained these masterfire LiIon batteries. They were attached to the boards with 2 inch exposed wire leads. We told the customer that they will need to remove the batteries before we could buy them.

A short while later the customer returned with the load of boards and sure enough the batteries were all removed. Soon we learned that he left behind his five gallon bucket full of those now removed batteries in our warehouse.

How did we find out? Because all of the sudden it sounded like we were under a mortar attack. Hundreds of flaming, exploding LiIon batteries were flying in every direction each with the explosive force of an M-80 firework. The ceilings in our warehouse are easily 40 feet high and there are dozens of burn marks where batteries embedded themselves into the insulation.

Within seconds 50,000 sq feet of warehouse was engulfed in a toxic white cloud of sulfurous dichloride all the while a few of our employees are being pummeled in their backs by the screaming molten projectiles (yes some actually scream as they discharge their payloads). As it turns out all of the leads on the bucket of batteries were tangled together creating a real disaster in the making.

It was a frightening scene and a lesson learned. We are now extremely cautious when it comes to batteries, particularly these. They are deadly and I encourage anyone that handles them to pay these little batteries the respect that they require in order to prevent this accident from being repeated.

Fortunately everyone escaped with only a few minor scrapes and a few superficial burns to the back.