Floppy question

I pull the motor on the back of the floppy drives. I also actually pop the back off if there are just 3 or 4 screws and then, if I can get it with a couple of screws, I pull the motor on the inside and throw it into copper breakage as well. My yard pays copper breakage for them which is about 25cents a pound. I take in a 5 gallon bucket at a time. I fill up a bucket in about a week to 10 days. It weighs about 25 to 30 pounds when I take it in. (side note, my yard also buys fans at copper breakage and I don't have to break off any plastic. unscrew the fans from desktops, clip the wire, fan into the copper breakage bin.) The same is true for DVD/CD roms. If they are DVDRW drives and they work, I ship them to PTScrapper here on the forum.



For the hard drives, I actually break them all the way down if they are small drives or broken drives. (If they are larger and work, I send them to Terry as well. Well, and the occasional bad drive.) You have some stainless, some aluminum, the platters and the magnets. You even get some gold mylar. There is zero waste in a hard drive. The small bits of plastic in them have metal attached to it so I throw it in shred or, if I can get the plastic off, I throw it in stainless. The covers are stainless most of the time, but sometimes they have metal coverings you have to pull off, or else just throw it in shred. The screws are sometimes non-magnetic stainless as well. Watch out for those The magnetic screws go into my shred 5 gallon bucket for screws. And...the spacers between the platters are either stainless, shred or aluminum depending on the hard drive.

Oh, and I know that the drives in the end don't pay a lot, but I get my two boys to sit around a table with me and we talk while we dismantle the drives. They get a kick out of using the power screwdrivers and I get time to talk to my boys. It is a win win.

Good luck. If anyone sees something I'm missing, please let me know.