Breaking down a power supply vs selling whole

Originally Posted by Gravitar

Why put the shell back together? That seems like a waste of time to me. Just leave the low grade screwed onto the bottom half and toss it into the shred. It would be the same as leaving tires on bicycles and plastic on appliances (at least to me.)

Because yards are getting particular about escrap. If they look at your load and see a bunch of circuit boards in it they will reject the load. Now on the other hand if they look at it and see metal boxes then the odds are much better of your load being accepted.

They deduct on cars if the tires are left on them by the way. Same thing with appliances, you are paid at a reduced rate over clean sheet metal/shred. Car bodies are clean sheet metal and are paid at top dollar.

500 Mixed Scrap & White Goods $200
501 Cars with tires (5 max) $210
502 Cars no tires $220

Originally Posted by jghilino

Because yards are getting particular about escrap. If they look at your load and see a bunch of circuit boards in it they will reject the load. Now on the other hand if they look at it and see metal boxes then the odds are much better of your load being accepted.

They deduct on cars if the tires are left on them by the way.

500 Mixed Scrap & White Goods $200
501 Cars with tires (5 max) $210
502 Cars no tires $220

Ok, I'm going to assume that you can sell low grade separately. Wouldn't it be easier to just sell the low grade separately? And what about when people toss whole computers in the shred? IDK, maybe I'm just an idiot when it comes to what shred is.

Originally Posted by Gravitar

Ok, I'm going to assume that you can sell low grade separately. Wouldn't it be easier to just sell the low grade separately? And what about when people toss whole computers in the shred? IDK, maybe I'm just an idiot when it comes to what shred is.

Nowhere in town buys low grade and its not worth shipping. I have to process it down and throw away the boards or sneak it in with the shred.

5 years ago you could sell boards as shred, its alot harder to now