Listed will be the make and model, or make and year.
Compaq-yr 2000, Phillips 107E6, Dell M782, Yundi V560, Compaq-yr 1999, Dell E773S, Phillips 107E6, Daytek DT57A, Acer-yr 1995, Dell E772C, Dell P780, Gateway-yr 2000, Dell-yr 2001, and a apple monitor.
The Compaq 1999 was missing the degaussing cable and yoke. The Gateway-yr 2000 was missing the degaussing cable and yoke. I included these in the analysis since it could very well be a good representation of those few you accidentally get.
Out of the 14 monitors only 3 had vga cables, none had power cords.
I have not gone to the yard yet but these are the prices I would get.
Low Grade Boards 20lbs @ .20/lb=$4
Stainless-3lbs@ .50/lb=$1.50
Aluminum-7lbs @ .50/lb(some of this was extrusion but the price I get varies between .40-.50/lb so I'm going to lump it all into aluminum @ .50/lb.=$3.50
#2 wire- 5lbs @ $1.20/lb=$6
Steel-27lbs @ $.10/lb=$2.70
Motors/transformers=12lbs @ $.25/lb(I'm lumping them together but I will seperate transformers for .40/lb and motors for .18/lb)=$3
Copper #2 11lbs @ $2.80/lb=$30.80
=$51.50
I paid $2 each for the monitors so cost was $28.00. It personally took me 6 hours to break every single thing down. Not included is gas which is variable but cost me about $8 to pick up and drop off the resulting scrap.
So $51.50-$28.00=$23.50 profit
I effectively made $3.92/hr untaxed which for my tax bracket would be about $4.70/hr working for the man. Yikes! Even if every monitor was still 100% it would only bring the profit to about $29.00. Some monitors were better than others but not by too much.
I'd estimate most your average newer computer monitors to be worth no more than $4 in scrap, if you were getting all of them 100% complete with both cords I bet you could get $5 out of them.
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