E-waste Pics

This is a Cisco UCS 6120XP 20-Port Fabric Interconnect. In addition there are two power boards weighing around one pound each. This main board weighs just shy of five pounds so it's pretty high value so far as scrap goes. Depending on the telecom grade given, the main board alone could go between $17-30 from some buyers.

These are from a Bose 5-CD car stereo. The boards, all mid-grade after cleaning, are actually better than I expected compared to other care stereos I've scrapped but was a huge pain to disassemble. Given how the screws are fixed level by level it's hard to think of a shortcut that could've made it quick.

This is a K-Hub Internet Weather Forecaster used to connect satellite receivers to the internet. One quick pry with a flathead and you're done, no screws no nothing. Tiny board but entire process takes about 3 seconds.

These are from an SMC Networks Elite Connect Wireless Hotspot Gateway.

These are from a Nintendo Wii. Was a little inconvenient to disassemble. The one board with all that gold trace is quite nice and probably some level of telecom. The others are some level of mid grade.

This one I picked up as is. Not sure what it came from but it's got a LOT of gold trace.

Not sure what this backplane board came out of but One Stop Systems makes some pretty high end stuff

This comes out of another piece of Cisco equipment, I think a Catalyst 4500 but I'm not positive.

This is a DCA 80-20048-000 IRMA. Gotta love a finger card that might grade higher than a finger card!

This is an Octel LAN Card 300-6049-001. Love how densely populated this one is!

This is from a transmitter module from a cell phone tower. Sooooo much gold on this one, grading a little complicated by the small plated stainless plates on the back side.

The mother of all VCRs! All the boards here that take up more space than my liftgate allows are from a Sony Betacam SP BVW-70 Videocassette Recorder. I cleaned a couple of them but these are mostly before cleaning and include 2 power boards, 2 backplane boards (one quite large!), a couple of telecom boards, some mid-grade and, with the gold connectors on each of them, cards that I think go with fingercards (otherwise a mix of mid-grade) and a couple of low-grade boards (upright at the top corner). One card is missing from the photo that I'd dropped without noticing. It was a.....chore let's call it to disassemble. Nothing was easily accessible. You have to unscrew every screw, rotate it, unscrew every screw, rotate it, unscrew every screw, rotate it, ad infinitum. Several items were attached with screws on both sides. With practice might be able to disassemble on of these in less than a half-hour. Have six to practice with so.... Each unit also has a couple pounds of aluminum, a couple pounds of motors and maybe 1.5-2lbs of wire. Posting a little more info about this in the Scrap Room.