We're probably about even now. We do a lot of trading. A few months ago I gave him a server and a battery backup.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
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We're probably about even now. We do a lot of trading. A few months ago I gave him a server and a battery backup.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
Pic. 8 is what they call a Slocket. I have a post up on my business Facebook page with 2 of them. I know they made one for a Pentium Pro.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
https://www.facebook.com/MTDewaste/p...type=3&theater
I've only ever found 1 Slocket during my e-waste career. What a neat find when you pull away the plastic housing!
Lanier/Toshiba KSU 6 Electronic Key Telephone System
This brings back memories from about 1984. These systems were the first kind I ever installed. They had gold finger boards but like most systems from that time they had some large bulky components. The transformers will be removed for better pricing.
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4002&stc=1
I thought the power supply below would have a power board inside but it didn't. There was just 1 transformer and three caps inside.
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4003&stc=1
Central processing unit
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4004&stc=1
2 digital station cards
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4005&stc=1
2 analog trunk cards
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4006&stc=1
This card controlled external paging, background music and music on hold. I believe it also provided power to the other boards.
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4007&stc=1
Backplane
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4008&stc=1
Components from the power supply
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4009&stc=1
I have a few of those slocket processor/boards myself. Plus a number of normal slot processor boards. All still gathering dust. Call it my retirement account :)
I recently purchased a 100+ network switches and am slowly breaking them down. Sold some of the newer switches. Also, just this weekend I attended an auction for some old TV Station equipment. Bought a truckload of stuff for less than $100 with tax and BP. Could of gotten more after the auction for free but I was full and this was 3hr drive from the house. Here are some of the boards I've pulled out so far. Did get a pentium pro CPU and 2x pentium 3 CPUs.
http://i.imgur.com/hACISAY.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mOWp6PE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dkj1b95.jpg
Nice boards! That board with the wire- do you cut that off or leave it on? I haven't ever run across a Pentium Pro in my 10 years of scrapping yet. I guess I just haven't found the right one yet. But I have come across several Pentium 3s. Has anyone come across a slot CPU with a ceramic CPU soldered to it? If I remember to, I will try and post a picture of the one I have. It's pretty cool looking.
After emailing ewasted I'll be de-populating the IC chips. I'll also cut the wires and the round iron pieces off the other board.
those boards are so beautiful...i could admire them all day long.
I went dumpster diving a my place of work yesterday and found some pretty good stuff. 4 amplifiers, 3 phone systems, 5 data switches and a UPS.
The grinder and the sawzall were a gift from my neighbor. Both work. He also said he had 2 Redmax trimmers and a table saw I could have. I don't really need them but I could probably make a few bucks off of them.
We all need workplace dumpsters like that.
Nice grinder. Makita blue.
Man - they just toss that stuff in the trash? I'm depressed every day at work when I see all the surplus / scrap that I can't have. On the University side it all goes to sale, or to a "state" scrapper. On the hospital side it all goes to 1 guy that is responsible for destruction. There is so much ewaste in the scrap it's not funny.
Talked to a wow technician and asked him about their old equipment. He said if it's still good they refurb it. If it's old / bad they just toss it. Sort of hard to think they really do that, but now I'm wondering.
I one time purchased a lot of outdated tv cable boxes and assorted equipment on 2 server racks from the University of Virginia hospital. Bought it on a local auction site for only $8.34 after premiums and taxes. Spent hardly anything, and made about $400 off it. Still have the 2 server racks, and they now hold a server, and a few switches among other things. I might try and dig for a picture of the lot, but I know I don't have pictures of the boards inside the cable boxes. I do still have all 40 activation cards. Each one was for 1 channel. So, 1 card got A&E, one got Discovery, one got History, etc. It was pretty cool. As a side note, anyone know of a good place to sell these cards, or SIM cards with them? Is eBay the best, or what? That's the only reason I still have them. I want to get a fair price for them, and not over price them. Thanks!
MP45-D Media Device
This is one of the items I picked out of the dumpster last week. I wasn't sure what was inside but it's really just a small computer.
I got a few pieces of aluminum, heat sink, memory, 160 gig hard drive and a few small boards.
Power boards and heat sinks.
I scrapped some paging amplifiers this morning and found some nice heat sinks. There was one that had transistors down both sides and they were screwed on with those small hollow torx screws that always seem to strip when removing. It went straight into my power board box. The other two below were attached with 4 phillips head screws and were very easy to remove.
Sometimes those transistor hold down tabs are copper, brass or stainless. Nice heat sinks. I sell these larger ones at the ham-fests and swap-meets for $3-5 each depending on size. Guys love them for diy projects.
Harris Lanier Series lll phone system
Another mid 80's phone system I found Thursday while I was moving another phone system. The customer said it was hanging on the wall when they moved in 20 years ago and told me I could have it.
It had 2 decent boards but there are about 25 small transformers that need to be removed.
I checked the price of transformers and they have dropped to 4 cents a pound. I've been getting .25 a pound for a while so I've been selling them for that.
Since the price has dropped so much I decided to break out the band saw and these are the results.
Total transformer weight before cutting was 84.10 pounds.
I ended up with 63.10 lbs of metal, 17.35 lbs of #2 copper, 3.20 lbs of plastic and trash and .45 lbs was unaccounted for.
Comdial DX-80
I know I've scrapped these before, just never posted any pics.
I consider this system as a turd compared to all others. If any of you have a business with one of these, you know what I mean.
The 2 main points of failure are shown in pic 3. The bottom left pic is the power board and it will not power up the system when it goes bad.
The bottom right pic is the main board that all of the other ones plug into. It goes bad a lot causing static on the stations and trunks.
I did test the power board and it works which means the main board has gone bad. I'm going to keep the power board on my truck for spare parts.
How did the numbers work out for you? Mike
Not as well as I thought it would. I ended up with $31.79 in #2 copper and $3.15 in metal from the transformers and it took me about 4 hours to complete.Quote:
Originally Posted by miked
My hands don't work as well as they used to and working with transformers is hard on them. I refuse to sell them for 4 cents a pound though and they were getting in the way.
To make up for the whopping $34.94 I made from the transformers, I spent the rest of the day scrapping things that had some nice circuit boards in them.
By the end of the day I was well pleased with the results.
I found a base unit for the Engenius phones I scrap and wanted to post some pics. It's got a nice board but there are a few metal screens and 1 transformer I remove.
EDW-48-2 Console
This is an old console from an NEC phone system. Not much of a board unless you like led's. There's 108 of them on the other side.
ShoreTel 230 and Mitel 480 IP phones
I picked up a a small load of desktops this week and 5 of them were i5's. Woo Hoo! There was also 3 boxes of assorted cables and a few bad IP phones. I wanted to show the difference in the older Shoretel phones and the newer ShoreTel/Mitel phones. Mitel bought ShoreTel at some point hence the Mitel logo. The 230 phone has much nicer boards with a lot of of gold plating while the 480 phone has 1 decent board, 1 low grade and a useless piece of mylar. New technology is getting much smaller and less valuable. Thank goodness there's still a lot of the old stuff out there.
I was taking apart a TV the other day and pulled out this impressive little board.
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4101&stc=1
Phillips Speech Mike Pro Plus
I picked this defective recording device the other day. I cut the cord and was about to throw it away but decided to check out what was inside. Turns out they have a nice little board inside. Lots of gold plating.
The way you lay out your pictures with the components in reference to their location in the case is greatly appreciated. It gives a unique look to your thread and for those of us with little ewaste experience a great reference point. Keep them coming.
T-CONN board. It sends the video signal to the screen its self. If it is a cracked screen tv and you can demo ti works then sell the board on ebay. MikeQuote:
Originally Posted by 406Refining
Tadiran 28 DLX/BL
Here's another phone I've never seen before. I was hoping the contacts on the bottom right board would have gold contacts but it didn't.
I got this TV the day after the Raiders lost by one point. I plugged it in and it powered up with a broken screen. There was also rectangle the size of a cell phone where the screen was cracked. It could be unrelated, but I think someone was upset that their team lost. Definitely going to sell this board and the other internal boards. I've taken apart about 70 or so TV's but have never seen that many gold cap chips on a single T-Con board.Quote:
Originally Posted by miked
I was referring to selling the T-Conn board as a working board, worth far more than scrap value. Other wise check your buyer for his prices for scrap value. 73, MikeQuote:
Originally Posted by 406Refining
Valcom V-9970 Page Control
I was working on a paging system that was down last week. The problem was a bad page control. I installed a new one and scrapped the old one. After removing 2 transformers, a big cap and a heat sink I had a nice midgrade board.
Does anyone know if it is unusual to find that some of the laptop synaptic board i have are 100 gold plated instead of copper?
I picked up 2 old computers today from a family member who bought them years ago.
The first 2 pics are of an Apple llc keyboard with a floppy drive on the side and a Gorilla monitor.
The other pics are of an Apple lle computer, monitor and printer.
When I have some time I want to clean them up and see if they still work.
I think I sill have some old "floppy disks" for that computer. One that was popular with teachers was "Oregon Trail." It is assumed the computer is considered vintage and valuable to collectors.
There's a cabinet full of the old 5 1/4 disks. I used to play games on one of these back in 81 when I was in high school.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patriot76
I was out in the garage this morning breaking a few things down and remembered the Apple lle I brought home last week. I want to clean it up and see if it still works. I was hoping I would find a cool processor when the cover was removed but that was not the case. It did have some nice cards inside but there was also a rather large mouse nest inside made from insulation, string and bits of snake skin. Yes snake skin. This is why I don't bring anything inside the house.
Just finished my third night of viewing this whole thread. I've never done telecom stuff before, only computers. It has been a very informative read. Thanks for all the effort it must have taken to post so much. And thanks for your willingness to share the knowledge. Mike
I picked up an old Apple laptop and accompanying docking station, along with a matching Apple printer and 2 brand new toner cartridges for it. It all works. I tested it myself, and the previous owner told me. I might post pictures of the equipment if I can remember to. I love the old Apple stuff. Makes this business worth it by itself.
Did they pee inside the machine (very corrosive)?Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk