Picking up 50+ monitors and 4 or 5 towers tomorrow

Generally if you finalize all copper prosability's of monitors / not just the yolk - wires copper on the boards each monitor can have 1lb or close to it of copper . Then you have some times almost 1LB of AL . The TV tubes if you are suicidal have some TIN & the board has weight. rest is garbage
so here is the value I go-by each unit should Gross $4.10 as of current rates . 55 monitors should = $225.50 gross amt.
The macs might be a saving grace as to pure scrap value or re-sale . Profit for CRT's is $155 that you will work you butt off for . Positive cash flow is always better then ZERO. about 20 hrs of work not inc driving and removing the garbage portion

Originally Posted by Copper Head

The TV tubes if you are suicidal have some TIN

Place the tube in a large trash can...Throw cinder blocks into it from a few feet away, after hearing glass break, run and close the lid...then wait a bit before gettng the tin...

I've never done it but it's a thought I had once upon a time.

Originally Posted by rca987

Place the tube in a large trash can...Throw cinder blocks into it from a few feet away, after hearing glass break, run and close the lid...then wait a bit before gettng the tin...
I've never done it but it's a thought I had once upon a time.

Break the little 'pigtail' of glass inside the plug on the back of the tube.
Wear safety glasses & earmuffs & a full face sheild when muckking around with the tubes though.
Sometimes I just, with gloves etc, wiggle the plug around & when the pigtail breaks you can hear the air get suckked into the tube.
Otherwise I use a long bit of metal & tap around the plug until I hear the air get in, wait till its all full.

Don't lift by the tube end & don't relie on the steel band to lift the tube, they are sometimes loose & will slip off, leaving the tube to drop 3 feet & smash around your legs...

Then I put the tube face down on my wheelie bin & start tapping around the tail & break off bits & let them drop onto the screen.
Those bits get put into the bin untill I can get to the metal screen, I pull that out, hardish to do & its close to the broken glass edges, use gloves of course.
Get good acess & use a screwdriver to push the tabs so you can remove it.
Then I keep smashing & let it all drop into the wheelie bin.