I scrap the heatsinks out of my metal, mostly TVs & stereo's. The value of them is tiny, 10 grams = 1cent...
Stereo's have larger heatsinks & it may be worth selling them as a heatsink or the whole power supply part itself.
I do it simply because 'they are there' & easyish to break off the board, those are the TV ones. Since I scrap at different places I can bag the bits up & take them home & clean them down while watching TV.
Theres other copper heatsinks in some TV's & they & the small transformers & the ferrite trannys all get picked out at the same time.
The ferrite trannys are plastic coated, looks like a capactor, but differing diameters under the plastic, they pick off easyly, grab with a plier & snap the ferrite tower inside it & that exposes the copper wire, some of the wire has a fine cloth coating.
I agree (now) that taking them off a Computer board isn't worth it as you get a better $ selling the board whole & also some of the computer & related stuff is actually magnesium.
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