Some of my ewaste finds (Pics included) - Page 10

Originally Posted by thebugguy

jimicrk-

I just took the time to read all the way through your thread- as others have said: thanks! I really get a kick out of seeing what's inside some of these things. I'm a very, very part time scrapper and don't work with escrap very often. When I do it's usually the standard dead desktop Dells, not the telecom stuff, which is more varied and interesting.

I'm always wrestling with the question of if/when/how much do I clean up boards to increase their value. Since I don't usually do a lot of volume I would have the time to pick over my boards one at a time if I felt it was worth it. I can generally identify the heavy/worthless components but, unfortunately, unlike your tantalum capacitor notes, I've never seen good before/after numbers on how much of an improvement is made by cleaning boards.

For example, on page 8 (I think) you have several pictures of boards from a joe-average Lucent/Avaya phone. I now have 50 (or 60 or 70) boards that look pretty much like this one- pretty ho-hum. Can these be improved by tearing off the capacitors and flyback transformers and such? It wouldn't reduce the weight by much, but if I get an extra $0.25 a pound for the cleaner boards it might be worth it- I only see so many pounds a year. Is this something you negotiate with your buyer on a case by case basis, or do you have some rules of thumb regarding when/what to clean and when to just chuck the things in a box?

Many thanks in advance- and cheers!
tbg

There's a few examples in my thread where I talk about removing transformers, metal brackets and other items to increase the value but it's really your buyer that decides.

I regularly send pictures to my buyer for grading and pricing. He gets back with me and might say $2.00 a pound but if you remove this and that, I'll give you $2.50 a pound.

I don't usually remove anything from the boards that come from phones. Any wires speakers and lcd's are removed but that's all.

It's going to depend on your buyer. If you don't have one start looking. There are some great buyers here at the SMF but you may already have one locally with good prices and not know it.

That PC case looks nice, what was inside?

Originally Posted by unknownk

That PC case looks nice, what was inside?

I haven't looked inside yet but I'll try to check it out this week.

Originally Posted by unknownk

That PC case looks nice, what was inside?

I was moving some things around today and remembered you asking about a pc I had picked up.

It's an 8 port AXXESSORY Talk Voicemail for an Inter-Tel AXXESS phone system. It was still working when I removed it so I'm going to hang onto it for a while and see if I can sell it.

It has a Socket 3 mother board and a ceramic processor but I'm not sure what kind.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

I was moving some things around today and remembered you asking about a pc I had picked up.

It's an 8 port AXXESSORY Talk Voicemail for an Inter-Tel AXXESS phone system. It was still working when I removed it so I'm going to hang onto it for a while and see if I can sell it.

It has a Socket 3 mother board and a ceramic processor but I'm not sure what kind.

Later generation 486 board since it has 3 72 pin SIMM slots (is it PCI?). Should sell easy enough especially in that nice clean case.

Originally Posted by unknownk

Later generation 486 board since it has 3 72 pin SIMM slots (is it PCI?). Should sell easy enough especially in that nice clean case.

Not sure if it's PCI or not or even how to tell.
There's still a few businesses around that have these old systems so I might see if they need a spare system for parts.
I have 24 new phones still in the original boxes for this type of phone system.

Just got through with the last of the back planes and of course I had to take a picture.

I like the gold pins.

A mans got to know his limitations!

I remember the days when this wouldn't be a problem, but I almost got in over my head on my last pickup.

This contact had an IT room with three 4 post racks full of servers, switches, pc's and battery backups that needed to be removed. They pulled the hard drives and said they wanted the rest destroyed. All of it is outdated anyway so sure.






Here's 2 of the 4 bigger battery backups. Each weighed 160 pounds. There were 2 more that were about 100 pounds each.




I'm guessing at least 500 pounds of batteries and possibly 600.




This pic shows the 6 battery backups in the back. There were about 16 servers and 4 data switches also.




The next 2 pics are of a HP Proliant BL680c G5 server. This thing is a beast, probably 200 to 250 pounds. I did managed to get it home and in my garage.







After removing all of the heavy stuff. I need to make 1 more trip to remove all of the power cords and patch cables and clean up a bit.

jimicrk - Congratulations on your new found E-waste. THERE'S NO LIMITATIONS, to free money (almost free). Process it and go for the green stuff!

I was finally able to get back to this site and finish removing everything from the racks. I swept the floor real good and was able to make 3 more pickups on the way home. Stopped by the battery place and dropped off 671 pounds of batteries and headed home.

I've been letting my transformers pile up for about a year now and since the price is back up to .25 a pound I decided to sell them as is.

I loaded up almost 1300 pounds today and took them to the yard.

Trying to make room for what I'm bringing home tomorrow.

Some transformers, the 'double yellow one on the right, if you smack them in the center, they break in 1/2 and you can pull the Copper wire out by hand.
Just a example, sorta like the microwave transformers, easy to pop open.

By the look of it you simply don't have to time to do it. I find a similar one in PSU's, they get saved up till I get to the point I need some extra $ and have enough #2 Copper wire to sell, the extra helps the deal along.

Anything smaller, like the rest of the transformers, small motors, floppy drive motor windings & induction coils get sold for 'Copper bearing Iron' $. It feels good to get rid of them, and get paid for it!

Youtube videos that scare me!

I've been watching a lot of videos this week about things we don't discuss on this forum. Some are interesting but most are very scary.

I've said this before but I'm perfectly content scrapping electronics and selling the ferrous, non ferrous, batteries, transformers and circuit boards to local buyers.

I could be making more but I am making a profit that I'm very pleased with.

At the end of the day I still have all my fingers and skin. I can deal with the sore muscles.