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CanIScrapIt
Thank you very much for the information!
Okay, so THAT'S how you sort wire. 3 grades of shielded wire? I was always so confused about that.
$5 is also what I've heard, I will try to stay around $2 or $3. They are pentium 4 chips but they are the ones with AU tops...aren't those $30/lb or am I mistaken?
Thank you!
Edit: Oh and also, my scrap yard buys any computer components, torn apart or not, as low grade breakage, about 2x shred pile value at about .18-.21/lb. I suppose instead of shredding the power supplies and drives w/o boards, I can get a little extra for them.
Sweet deal on the yard buying components as breakage.... I would kill for something like that, would definately up my bottom line a lot. I'd still pull the copper out of the power supplies I've found some supplies have single copper/ferrite 'donuts' that have over a 1/4 of copper on them. Rip em out with pliers, two whacks with a hammer and all the copper is free and the ferrite goes into the shred pile.
When it comes to wire each yard is different... my yard has three grades and they pay out based on copper yield. IDE cables are low grade, 30% recovery so I keep those seperate and get about $.45/lb. Power cords, and the rainbow colored computer wire all goes in the middle category 55% recovery which I get about $.95/lb. My yard classifies high yield as 85% of weight being copper and there isn't any of that in computers. I'd just keep them seperate then take them in different bins to make sure.
I've been accumulating them and havn't sold any yet but I believe one of the larger
escrap buyers is currently paying $8/lb for the P4 chips.
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