I broke down a small stack of PCs this afternoon but I couldn't feel real good about myself because of the elephant in the garage that is my overflowing box of drives that need to be broken down. So I started on those and, as expected, got pretty board (see what I did there?) pretty fast. So I decided to time myself for 30 minutes to see what I could knock out and it's value. Of course, I managed to pull the absolute toughest drives out of the box - hidden screws, philips head & star on the same unit, etc. - but I got through it. Here are the results:
5 optical drives (one laptop version), 4 hard drives, and 3 floppies
Dirty aluminum - 1 lb 12 oz - $0.26
Aluminum - 2 lb 8 oz - $1.13
Small motors - 7 oz - $0.12
Steel/shred - 9 lb 8 oz - $0.76
Floppy boards - 2 oz - $0.16
Optical boards - 11 oz - $1.65
HDD boards - 5 oz - $3.09
There were also HDD platters and magnets that I'll eventually sell, but I don't have prices on those. Also a wee l'il bit o' copper and probably something else I forgot, but that was the bulk of it. Grand total - $7.17. Times 2 = $14.34 per hour. That makes me feel a little bit better.
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