My Scrapping Log (including e-scrap)

I have probably seen it, I have seen lot and lots of scrapping videos on Youtube.


This is the cart I store components to scrap such as capacitors and copper windings, inside are the charts you requested and I forgot to open the cart for a picture! ha I will next weekend...I promise. I also store CD/DVD drives, HDDs, floppy drives and power supplies that all need to be broken down in there. The crate on top holds unsorted boards they are not usually in piles on the floor like the previous photo and there are a few charts to identify useless components on there of things not to confuse with capacitors. To the right there are two stacked trash barrels full of un-stripped copper wire...I have CCTV cameras all over the place as this stuff builds up as its my hard work.




The unsorted crate is where the boards go before the wires, heat sinks and metal parts are removed. They then get sorted into the rack in the background:



Taking my allotted sorting space into account I built this rack out of 2 shelves, old recycling bins and coffee containers. I think I can make do with this and when they get full maybe I will band stacks of boards into bundles or something. This is how I am sorting from top to bottom:

-Telecom/Communication/Cisco/Networking (finer sort at a later point)
-Complete Finger Boards
-Dual Socket Server Boards (small socket/DIVIDER/large socket)
-PC Motherboards (small socket/DIVIDER/large socket)
-Power Supply Board (DIVIDER) Cable & Satellite/Printer/Modem/Floppy Boards

With 5 shelves I can fit 30 coffee containers it's tight (6 per shelf; 4 in the front and 2 in the rear centered for extra overflow storage mostly printer cartridges) this is how I am sorting from top to bottom:

-Cell Phone Boards / Gold Tip Ram
-HDD Boards / Silver & Tin Ram
-Rambus / CD & DVD Boards
-Intel 386 and 486 / Motorola CPU & Pentium Pro Gold Caps / Cyrix-IBM-VIA Gold Caps / Pentium Ceramic
-AMD Ceramic (without Al. Cap) / Black Fiber CPU / Green & Brown Fiber without Heatsink / Printer Cartridges