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

    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!
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    1. You are correct the small board is low grade. You should remove it.
    2. Also low grade, or maybe electric motor.
    3. Motherboard cleaning sounds good. Any heatsink retainer brackets should be removed. Check the back of the boards too for the bottom of these.

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    Ryan-
    Thank you sir for your reply. Would these retainer brackets be generally plastic? I only have 4 Mobo's right now and if I look on the underside of the board it appears I have:
    1. A Slot Processor Plastic Bracket (so it has 4 tabs poking through the back side of the board)
    2. Second Board is (as you said) an Aluminum Heatsink Bracket (again 4 tabs poking through the back side of the board)

    Both of these should be removed from their respective Mobo's?
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    Yeah, most of the time they are plastic, and they, like you said, go through to the underside of the board. There is usually some type of plate or other bracket holding them from that side. Some of the time it will be a metal plate. Plastic probably doesn't matter as much, but I remove them If I notice them.

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    On the lil CD rom board, I pull the pushbutton for later and the rest goes in the low grade pile. On the floppy drive board I pry off the center piece and the rest goes as shred. The center piece I put with my motors. Occasionally on the MB's you'll find a metal plate on the back side from a CPU heatsink being screwed to that metal plate. (There will be 4 screws)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechanic688 View Post
    On the lil CD rom board, I pull the pushbutton for later and the rest goes in the low grade pile.
    On the floppy drive board I pry off the center piece and the rest goes as shred. The center piece I put with my motors.
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    Fudge in pic #1 double check the small board. Once in a while they may be green on both sides and can go as a mid-grade low board which is still better than low grade. Also check the older cd/dvd drive boards, you may find an eprom or removable ic in a socket. Welcome to the confusing world of ewaste.
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    Thank you Brass... now to go research the terms "eprom" and "removable ic in a socket"
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    For #3 - make sure and grab the RAM(Memory) sticks out as well, you didn't mention them and they are worth quite a bit.

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    Another question that slipped my mind on my initial posting:
    All the White Connectors that are the wire ends that come off a Power Supply: Junk or Save?
    I tossed these in my bucket with other connectors.. but I don't think they are gold. True or False?
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    Power supply cord ends are brass. Gold connectors are used to transfer information and the likes, just a good way to try and figure out if its brass or not, figure out what the cord itself is for. You might get dirty brass or something for them. My yard has a category for plugs, and I think these will go in as that, haven't had enough to try yet

    My yard takes pic #2 as electric motor as is

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    I may need to clarify.. These are the "P" Plug ends P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 etc. They are Silver.. non magnetic.. So I'm guessing dirty alum?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sledge View Post
    I may need to clarify.. These are the "P" Plug ends P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 etc. They are Silver.. non magnetic.. So I'm guessing dirty alum?
    I'm guessing tinned brass.

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    This is a entertaining thread . Don't forget the brass standoffs underneath the mobo . You can find them on some older cases . Make sure you research any older towers or send flowers limits pics of the pre 1990 stuff . My last load had a hp 382 . Seen similar units on ebay for over $800 tested . Good luck !
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    Mech is correct. Most white connectors are coated brass, some very tiney connectors are gold but very few. a quick way to be 99% correct is if it is colored it is gold except for the power plug. Also some tower to monitor plugs are white but pins are still gold. You did your home work you will do well quickly.
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    On the second pic:

    Remove the three Philips head screws and the winding goes in w/ motors. There's a little bronze bearing.

    On the left hand side is the square flat IC chip. Cut the legs w/ a utility knife and pry it off.

    Get the little brown rectangular shaped things w/ silver ends. They're called multi layered ceramic capacitors (MLCC's) They have PM's inside.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrappah View Post
    On the second pic:

    Remove the three Philips head screws and the winding goes in w/ motors. There's a little bronze bearing.

    On the left hand side is the square flat IC chip. Cut the legs w/ a utility knife and pry it off.

    Get the little brown rectangular shaped things w/ silver ends. They're called multi layered ceramic capacitors (MLCC's) They have PM's inside.
    Ok.. Took off the winding and then tossed "board" into shred.. I'll dig it out and cut off the items you stated. Thanks man!!

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    Why the jump? If I may ask, Sledge. You are better at larger scrap items it seems...Your time may be better used with cars, appliances...most ppl. on here are ill-equipped to do the big stuff...you are blessed with this ability...

    I personally keep that jazz for cold, rainy days when I can't work outside. And all the stuff I have to do before winter...My stash of computers awaits...
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave View Post
    Why the jump? If I may ask, Sledge. You are better at larger scrap items it seems...Your time may be better used with cars, appliances...most ppl. on here are ill-equipped to do the big stuff...you are blessed with this ability...

    I personally keep that jazz for cold, rainy days when I can't work outside. And all the stuff I have to do before winter...My stash of computers awaits...
    HA.. no jump my brotha.. Just adding to my scrapping knowledge and one more revenue stream!

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    Hi and welcome to the escrap side of the force.. Only advice I'll give is keep everything, every time I used to throw it in the shred pile (with obvious exceptions) I later regretted it,( hard drives, ribbon connectors, ect..) yeah you will need torx bits t8 through t4 or t5 if I remember correctly (small ones for laptop hard drives if you want to bother with them.. I personally do ;-) ). I bought a bag of hardened t8 bits online, keep one on the drill for taking apart desktop hard drives (make sure you save the boards on those) get a good jeweler set of small screwdrivers use the small phillips for some LT harddrives and the really small one to release cd drive disk holders to access the boards. found a 3/16 and 5/16 sockets handy in a number of applications also.. The rest is the usual flat screwdriver, #2 phillips tip for drill for cases and motherboards, needle nose pliers and tin snips.. I'm sure you will figure out what works best for you. Good luck and happy scrapping. Iron.
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