Crt Tvs?

What do you do with the transformer (power) unit? I broke one open before, has copper in it but its a pain. Do scrap yards take them as is? I have a 10 gallon bucked filled with those things...lol

Originally Posted by billygoat

Are you talking about the high voltage (or flyback) transformer? It depends on your yard. At my yard they are considered low grade copper bearing and pays the same as the boards, so I just leave them on. They are a pain to get off the boards anyway.

Nah a couple of whacks with a hammer... I have like 50+ of them saved up... I don't save the boards from tv/monitors. Just strip them down. I do have another question. OT- On many a board, there are the chips (usually the ones with heat sinks) Smashing them with hammer, it looks like they are made of copper/aluminum or some other non ferrous metal. I was wondering are they worth saving on their own?

http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/200...ic-components/

has some good pictures of the circuit board components to help identify them.

I think what you are talking about is the transistors. To the best of my limited knowledge they are coated copper(Nickel or Al coated). Some yards will buy them as small copper bearing motors ,some will pay #2 copper,some will let you throw them in with mother boards, some will buy them as IC chips. The best I can get for them is coated#2 copper.

I read an old thread here somewhere where they were talking about how toxic it is to breath the "dust" from breaking the plastic off of them, so I wont be doing that ever again.Hope this helps.