@ H.G. I hear you. I don't have as much time for e-waste & scrapping as i used to. My day job has been physically taxing this winter. I'm worn out by the time Friday rolls around. The stuff has been building up in the shop. Have a couple of water heaters and a 275 gallon fuel drum to pressure test and clean out along with some sky boxes to break down. Don't even want to think about it till the weather warms up.
Did manage to refurbish a core i 5 dell tower a couple of weeks ago and sell it for 160.00$ but otherwise haven't done all that much over the last couple of months.
@ Sledge It just puzzles the heck out of me sometimes. Most obvious thing is that they just don't know how to bid the auctions. The best way to lose your money is to charge headfirst into an investment that you know little or nothing about. Sometimes they learn and other times they don't. There's one of the local scrappers here that goes straight for the power supply & the processor heat sink then tosses the rest on the metals pile. He's been doing it for years. Makes me wince when he gets his hands on a core i machine but it is what it is. He just doesn't see a difference between one and another. Can you imagine how many power supplies he has to break down for the copper to make a 160.00$ at the scrap yard ?
( Sorry ... i should try to be more positive and not speak ill of another scrapper but ???? )
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