Regarding electronic board scrapping with all the various grades, I see some people on Youtube fill buckets with the components off the boards such as capacitors, diodes, IC chips and gold fingers. If I am stripping components off the boards will places still take the boards for whatever is left?? I assume this drastically alters the price per lb for the boards and when they are stripped possibly there is less need to grade/sort them so specifically?? It seems like the real money is in selling bags full of board components on say eBay, which is what I am trying to weigh out...should I sell the boards as is or sell the components off the boards in bulk?



Any idea if cracked LCD screens are worth money from laptops, TVs and monitors?

Usually I cut the power cords off electronics and throw them in my light iron loads so I have barrels of wire...today I sorted the wire into three categories. Copper core, aluminum core (silver color), and copper coated aluminum, I was surprised to find that well over 80% of my wire is copper core. My old boss used to throw his wire in the fire and melt off all the plastic illegally then I believe he only got #2 copper for them, someone told me today they sell their wire with the plastic on it and their buyers can make money off the plastic as well as the wire itself plus this means the wire is clean #1 instead of burnt up #2 all in all selling the wire with the plastic shielding seems more profitable then burning it.