Originally Posted by
bear
what did you do with all the cards that you cut those fingers off of, did you figure up how much they all weighed, and do you have any idea if you came out better by cutting them off ?
I still have the fingerless cards. Waiting to see what I was going to do with them (find a good local payout place). I did not weigh them before/after. The cards are a mix of sizes and types. In the case of fingers, I believe you will make more by removing the fingers. If it took say 50# of cards to get 1# of fingers, if you sold them to a place like boardsort, they pay $4.15# with fingers and $3.15# without fingers. Running those numbers:
$4.15 x 51# = $211.65
or
$3.15 x 50# = $157.50 + $75.00 x 1# = $75.00 = $232.50
Is $22 worth your time to cut the fingers is the question. I can easily ship the fingers to boardsort or whoever is paying top dollar at the time, but will probably find a local place to drop off the fingerless cards due to the shipping costs.
Originally Posted by
happyscraper
What did you do with the mother boards? You said you only got the innards, what did you do with the disc drives? OH and the power supplies?
Here is what I get out of each pc:
Motherboard
CPU
Heat sinks
Memory
Hard Drive
Any expansion cards (not usually any, but do get a lot of video cards and nic cards)
Logic board from CD-ROM
Logic board from floppy drive
Ribbon cables
Occasional Fans
Occasional Power Supplies
I have to leave some stuff in tact. I can't get everything, but I get enough! I was mainly interested in the gold content to process myself, but knew to get everything else I could as well.
And thanks Mechanic for the links!!!!!! Looks like I would have got an extra $25 from ewasted. Live and learn. This is only a portion of what I have. I needed some cash to flow in for some stuff I need!
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