Yeah, my wife was having a fit when I told her about it.
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Yeah, my wife was having a fit when I told her about it.
Well, you were smart and kept them outside!
Subscribed! But honestly I have never got any telecom equipment but I enjoy the thread. For some reason I like looking at the phones lol.Thank you for the pics. I feel you 100% on the ebay thing. I work a day job that sometimes is sun up to sun down and its 17 miles to the nearest post office and 35 miles to the closest fed ex/ups store. We are so unpopulated that all services are a maybe, for example next day delivery maybe, home pick up maybe. It makes ebay a pain. It's too bad all those places that sell your stuff on ebay for you are not around anymore.
Do you still have the rectifiers? If you get one that works I'd be interested in it, be nice to finally have an reliable battery bank charger.
I do have them but they came out of a leaking trailer and were thrown into a construction dumpster where I retrieved them. Since then they have been outside in the rain trying to get the smell from the mouse pee and turds out of them. They are all bent up and broken with wires that have been chewed on and good for nothing but scrapping.
Lol, im jealous. But I love getting large loads like that. I hope you didn't pay for any of that, that would make me super jealous and proud of you that you didn't pay. I dont like to pay if I have to spend my time away from my family to break items like these down.
I'm blessed that I've never had to pay for any scrap. I have many contacts and they call me when they need me to pick up something. Most of the time I stop by on the way home from work to pick it up and I sometimes I'll arange a pickup when I'm in their area. I got a call Friday to pick up 4 batteries from the main guy that's over the IT dept and takes care of the phone system also. I'm going to talk to him about any old computers or anything else he might want hauled off.
That's great man, I do the same thing. I do purchase motherboards if they are already processed, but thats it. Keep up the good work. Nobody else will, considering where you had to dig the electronics out of.
I posted a pic of some rectifiers a few weeks ago but have not been able to do anything with them until now. I went out this morning and took one apart. Took me 2 hours but could do it in half the time since I've figured out the best way and in what order to remove each item inside. After weighing the #1 copper, #2 copper, #3 insulated, aluminum, and metal (shred), current prices at my yard amounts to $27.00 each for 1 hour of work. Or I can sell them as is for .10 lb for a total of $11.00 each. I like the $27.00 more.
I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted any pics. I was in the area of one of my regular contacts today and gave him a call. He told me stop by because he had some scrap for me. I ended up with 11 PC's, 2 battery backups, 8 keyboards, 1 printer, 1 monitor and 4 mice. I'm a happy camper.
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looks like you might have a fixer up'er
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Yeah, that's my baby. 66 Chevy that I bought back in 1984. The pic above was taken in 1990. I've hauled many dirtbikes to the races every weekend plus loads of wood, rock and mulch. I'm in the process of getting it running again but don't have a lot of money to put into it right now. It's been a great truck.
Some good pcs in that mix, I would definitely keep and repair a couple for resale
Ya still got that truck ..... I have had a bunch of them trucks in the past years
Just got through processing 55 more telecom boards. I ended up with about 250 pounds of boards and my local buyer is giving $3.10 a pound right now.
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Have you looked into selling to one of the buyers on the forum? If not I suggest you send some photos so they can have the opportunity to make offers. Mike.
I've spent most of the day getting some of my boards sorted. I'm finding things I forget I had like 7 pounds of eproms. I've still got a ways to go but I'm running out of room and I still have more scrap coming in all the time.
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My latest acquisition. Nortel Meridian 81C
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I need to get the part numbers off of the cards because I found someone local who is very interested.
I just wanted to post a few pics of some cards I pulled out of a big Nortel Option 81C PBX system.
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This is the main CPU with a black fiber processor.
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It also had 2 more CPU’s. Each with 1 ceramic processor and 3 sticks of gold plated memory.
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The system also had 4 nice backplanes that were 14"x22". Each weighed 5lbs.
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Ended up with 40 pounds of high grade telecom boards, 20 pounds of backplanes and 206 pounds of cast aluminum.
The next 2 pics are boards that came out of two 48 port data switches.
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My BIL gave me a water damaged Gateway Profile 3 last week. Scrapped it this morning and ended up with a large socket MB, a green fiber CPU, a 60 Gig HD, 2 sticks of gold finger Ram and the other 2 boards came off of the monitor. Now if I only had 500 more.
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Great photos, thank you, Mike
A few pics of what was left of a load I brought home last week. My Wife had processed most of it before I could get some good pics but I'm not complaining at all.
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I was talking to my buyer recently after sending some pictures of different circuit boards to him. He's always been very helpful by telling me what I can remove from the boards to increase the value of them. I spent about 30 minutes processing 13 boards and wanted post a few pics. Each board weighs between 1 and 1.5 pounds after processing.
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After
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I removed all plastic, transformers and any metal. I can sell these as high grade telecom now.
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Got ready to leave work today and decided to check out the dumpster. I found a box that had 20 pounds of nice telecom boards in it. There's still some phones and a few more circuit boards but I couldn't reach them. I'll be prepared in the morning.
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Preparation + knowledge + effort = profit. Mike
I wonder if I should start a titanium bucket. I really wouldn't know a piece of titanium if I found some. These were in a sample case that a friend gave me.
Anyone care to guess what they are?
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this may get me some poking fun at, but they look like bike petals before the bearings and shafts are installed.
Those be surgical implants for the spine. Too bad their scrap value is .00001% of their MSRP.
WhiteCollarScrapper, you are correct! Ya don't win anything but you are correct.
I just want everyone to know that they have never been used or removed from anything except the sample case they came in.
I picked up 18 PC's the other day and the guy gave me 2 laptops also, both still in what looks like their original cases. The one I found interesting was a Dell Inspiron 7500 with Windows 98 and a Pentium III processor. My gosh this thing is a beast, but it looks brand new and it still works. Not sure what I'm going to do with it.
Sell it on ebay. It may take a long time to find the buyer(I haven't done any research) but I believe there is a buyer out there. It works
I don't know your experience but in case you don't know first check out the "sold" area for prices. Second if there is little or no record of sales items like this may take some time.
Some where in the description use "vintage laptop" as this may help get you into buyers searchs. Mike
scrap it, it ain't worth the time hassle and space you could be saving to scrap more, I get those all the time anyway so will you :D
Just wondering if anyone else finds these. Some come from the old wireless cards for laptops but most that I get come from Nortel phone and voicemail systems. They are about the size of a credit card.
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A lot of the implants used to be made out of titanium.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteCollarScrapper
Regarding the spinal implants--They look like they are made to replace a section of the bone....how do they deal with the spinal cord...is it supposed to go through the middle of the metal implant?
Jon.
We find a lot of those. We break them open and throw the board in the telecom box.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
I stopped by my favorite dumpster Thursday and found 2 boxes. The first box had a bad amplifier. I ended up with about 10 pounds of metal, two transformers, two circuit boards and two heat sinks.
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In the second box I found 11 old Nortel phones
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This is a Nortel T7100
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Inside the phone was two small boards and 1 speaker
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The next phone was a Nortel T7316E
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Same with this phone, two small boards and a speaker. This phone has 2 extra wires that connects to a mic making it a speaker phone
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The third type of phone was a Nortel M7208
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There's not a lot in these phones but I still like to scrap them. The display boards on most business phones usually have IC chips and gold plating. My buyer pays me well for them.
I wonder if that stuff is considered telecom?
I know they are phone systems, but the company I used to take them to would take those out
Yes they are telecom. Grading computer is easy....telecom is a completely different world.