Sledge Learning the E-waste ropes.. have some compliments and questions! - Page 2

Ok Gents.

First off I'm going to say that for anyone new to the board who comes to ask an e-waste question that 99% of everything I have learned on a 2 day, hyper-focused bender has been gleaned off of this forum and the use of the search box. I want to give kudos to a few members in particular for some PM's as well as just posting in topics that answered darn near every question I came up with. So to Mechanic, easyrecycle, SirScrap, Brojer, PartTimeScrapper and others... I say Thank you!

I have begun my journey into the e-scrap world.. it is a slow start.. but I was able to ask on Fb if anyone had some towers and I garnished 3 of them on Saturday. I then meticulously hunted and searched the forum for breakdown tips, pros and cons of doing certain things and not others.



I now must garnish a set of Torx drivers to do hard drive break downs, but already (just from the forum) I think I have in my mind all my buyers and everything!

I of course do have a question or two that I cannot seem to answer they are the following:

1. This is a CD-Rom Board- well two pieces of CD Rom board that are separated by and connected via the puny ribbon cable.
It appears that the front or small board is sort of a crap board possibly?
The larger board seems to be the one with "all the goodies" on it. Are these two different grade boards?


2. The second question is I found this in a 3.5" Floppy Drive. The board looks like it may be a desirable board for a refiner.. but it is fused to a metal plate.. thus I'm not real sure what to do with it. It does not appear that I can separate this "board" from the steel and the steel is FAR more weight than the board. Any tips on this thing? *EDIT* after further inspection this looks like whatever circuits there are that they are printed right on the metal.. there really is no "board" at all.. nothing to separate!




3. I think I have cleaned my Motherboards correctly. Basically, I only took off the CPU chip and took out the battery. Obviously if there was a large alum heatsink pinning the chip down it was removed. Other than that I have not touched anything else. I also did pry any heatsink "caps" off of the CPU chips to get better pricing.

That is all for now. Hoping to see if I can document my journey just a bit and be out of the hair of the long time e-waste guys and gals who have blazed the trail!