There was areally good post a week or more ago about
escrap.
It was a 'wall of text' post but he put down some really good points.
Like that any flatscreen that had a intact screen was shipped overseas to be made into a new flatscreen.
Imagine that, the flatscreen you paid $1000 for is reconditioned and sold to someone else as reconditioned, for $100....
That certain production runs of circuit boards had lots more Gold in them than other production runs.
The point here was to be able to search thru the manufacturers specifications to figure out what runs they were. As the parts look exactly the same. But the Gold return isn't.
That some certain parts have more Gold in them than most people think. (I think they are the contacts on printer cartridges and their mylar).
And certain mylar have more Gold in them too, Im thinking the mylar on flatscreens.
He did say that if a flatscreen is undamaged they tape them up face to face, without the stands, into a shipping container to go overseas.
But yeah. Theres soo much info here its hard to put it all in one place. I learn something every time I log in here at SMF.
(it reminds me, I got a debt card to get membership here last month. Gotta do it soon.)
My, 'one off' escrap buyer, sells to malaysia or around this area. They buy cars and scrap them and send the parts overseas.
When they can they pallet up escrap and chuck it into a container with car parts. When it gets there, they unload the escrap and send it on to the processor.
I expect to find out the company name in Asia when I sell my escrap.
I dunno where you are based. If you are in America, theres members here that will help you out.
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I remembered this later on. It was the clincher in the walloftext post.
Knowing exactly what you have in your hand, what the item is and what it can be used for.
I read about this in a national geographic about escrap, in my good Doctors waiting room.
In the artical they sent out a reporter to Asia to see what its about.
So before he e
leaves for Asia he gets a box of old cellphones to see what they are worth.
The first guy looks thru them and offers to buy several, "for reconditioning, its a popular model here"
The guy also picked out several others and offered $10 for one cellphone.
This got the reporter interested. $10 for a free cellphoe thats years old. "Why?" he asks.
"I know someone who will buy this cellphone for $20 -$30"
"$30!!! Why?" the reporter asks.
"Because this model, of this year only. Uses a certain chip for its texting function. When they first included texting in cellphones they didn't have enough time to design the IC chip for it. So they used a 'off the shelf' chip that they brought in bulk, for cheap, to do this function".
"Now this chip can be taken out and put into another circuitboard, along with recycled LED's, a fixed up recycled power supply and a new board we designed. And its made into a 'Scrolling' sign"
You know the sort of sign, LED sign with scrolling words programmed to run aross the sign.
This sign. They probably sell for hundreds of dollars. = mucho profit, many jobs and possible future industry.
later I relised that these signs are probably for their own market. But, that gets them a 'foot in the door' for real cheap, to set up a manufacturing plant making these signs for the export maket, but from brand new components.
Knowing exactly whats in your hand can turn it from a 50cent item,into $30. Someone has to make this money. Either in Asia, or America. Its all about knowing what you have, sorting, and selling in bulk.
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