It's good to hear from you T. I hope all is well with you and your lady. How's the chess going ?
The ewaste has dropped off a lot in this area over the last few years. I used to get a lot of satellite TV boxes and a few cable TV boxes here and there. The boards are about the same. They're well worth doing in my opinion. The local yard pays .30/lb. I usually ship them off to one of the ewaste buyers here and get around 3.00$/lb.
What you want to do is focus on the green board. The tan colored board to the left on the one you pictured is the power board. That changes the voltage over from 120 volts to 12 volts. The power boards don't have much value so you can just toss them in with the sheet metal shred.
Once the green board is out ... remove the aluminum heat sinks. They usually go as extruded ali.
The hard drive ... if it comes with one ... is probably worthless. Nine times out of ten they either failed or are about to fail. The Western Digital greens have an especially high failure rate. It's generally best to pull the little green board on the back and toss the rest in with your aluminum shred.
Anyhow ... save up your green boards in the shop. They don't take up much space. Ship em' out to an ewaste buyer here once you've accumulated 45 lbs and you'll probably do okay.
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