My haul last spring cleanup week

**Mechanic688** · 02-14-2013, 11:44 PM

Good job, but you could have taken the cases out to your local scrapyard and gotten about .09-.11 cent a lb for the cases. About $60-75 bucks extra right there. Need to maximize your profits.

Looks to be wiring still inside them also??

**jimmybay** · 02-14-2013, 11:54 PM

Yep, I knew that was the first thing I would hear about the cases and power supplies ha. This was back before I ever knew about all the things I could do to maximize profits. I had only stumbled upon some ebay auctions selling ram and motherboards so at that time I was saving the motherboards, ram, cpu, cards, hdd and throwing the case, power supply and cd roms stupidly. Thank god for forums like this one, I must have read 20+ hours worth of threads and am still learning every day.

What made me not interested in turning these in for scrap metal is over the course of the winter before this I was saving all the metal off of the HDTV's I was parting out and repairing. I took a pickup box load down to my scrap yard and only got something like $25 for the load. (I live in North Dakota, our prices are likely not as good as yours).

Didn't seem to be worth the effort to pull all the plastic and whatnot, but I'm just assuming they want the plastic off, I know all yards are different but how "clean" do you guys have to make your cases before your yards take them?

**Mick** · 02-15-2013, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by jimmybay

Didn't seem to be worth the effort to pull all the plastic and whatnot, but I'm just assuming they want the plastic off, I know all yards are different but how "clean" do you guys have to make your cases before your yards take them?

I pop off the plastic front, take out all the stuff inside and throw the frame into a pile to haul to the scrap yard. The plastic is the only thing I can't sell and it takes about half a second to take off.