What it means to take apart a desktop - Page 2

Why pull heatsinks just to please a buyer thats paying less than $4 when you can sell to someone else thats paying more than $4 that dosent care. Just throwing my 2 cents out there. Like i said im not doing this to make friends, just to make money, friends are a bonus =)

I have bought computers where somone pulled the cpus then put the heatsinks back on. That is why on all the ones i buy now i open the cases and pull the heatsink off to make sure everything is there.

My buyer ask that I remove all exesse metal on all high grade boards, so I do. I also get benefits from my buyer that I would not get from any other buyer. I will not deal with arcoa, I have heard to many complaints about them, Like waiting two months for a check. my .02

I just sold 70 pounds of dirty motherboards boards as you call them for $4.50, that did not include shipping, but atleast all i had to remove was the batteries. I sold them to one of the buyers on here.

Well this might suck. I sent off a box of large chip MB that I only took the CPU heat sink off (and metal and plastic). My other two buyers nexer asked me to take north and south bridge heat sinks off.

Happyscraper, I am a buyer for ARCOA. There were some known issues at the Orlando terminal that were causing delays in payment, but those issues have been addressed to the best of my knowledge. I just helped out another member of the forum in getting his payment issues resolved from when they still existed, and I'll do the same for anyone that can document the fact that they dropped off material at our Orlando location and have not been paid:

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...ations-4.html?

FWIW, it's a whole lot easier to prevent problems in the first place than it is to resolve them after they occur. Any vendor will take their material to the place they get the best deal, and no one can blame them for that. We don't always pay the highest prices, but no vendor that sells material to me is going to wait two months for payment if they help me out by thoroughly documenting their drop off. I know the right cages to rattle.


Todd Anderson
ARCOA
tanderson(at)arcoausa.com

Why would they won't those removed, the ones on all mine contain gold connectors inside those little boxes.

But hey, I could be wrong..I know shocking, but it's possible.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler.

Originally Posted by ilyaz

There were recently some posts discussing how fast one could completely take apart desktops. It occurred to me that what it means to do it completely might be different for different people. So here's my checklist:
1. Clean out the tower:
- take out the motherboard with everything on it
- take out any drives (floppy, CD, HDD)
- take out any PCI cards, the power supply, all wires, any fans
2. Clean the motherboard:
- take out RAM
- take out the CPU and its heatsink
- remove the battery and anything that is big and made of steel (like those brackets some MBs have on the bottom)
3. Separate wires:
- cut off any gold connectors
- cut off the wires from the power supply
4. HDD
- remove its board and whack the drive with a hammer a few times

I used to take apart CD-ROMS and floppy drives but I don't do it anymore, not worth the time for me.

Now, can ya tell us how to do that in order, with your eyes closed? ; )

can I ask for a pm on the place were I do not have to take off the heatsinks love to send them my business cause on average that's $10 a board but the good ones with those double radiator ones that's about $30 a board and I just took apart 6 today