
Originally Posted by
mikeinreco
I'm going to give my opinion and take it for what it is worth.......Laws here may be diff but anyways..........Monitors are the absolute last thing I work on.........I work the re-sell first (separate it first).....Then on to the bulk scrap or towers whichever yields the least waste.......After that I work any items that may yield minimal waste but mid to high grade boards I can send to a buyer on the forum (Office Phones, Routers, ETC....).......The next item I usually work is the printers.....I buy a large amount of industrial printers and re-sell what I can the rest gets stripped for parts or scrap..........Eventually when and if I ever get this done I move onto CRT monitors.......I never want to do less than at least 15 at one time and by then something better usually comes up (Re-sell item gets a call off CL or something sells on
EBAY)...........Anyways my point is this.......Monitors as a biz plan are a waste.........I do them because I can get rid of them but I currently have them in 3-4 diff locations piled up.......They are all stored out of sight or in unmarked storage buildings............Please re-consider your biz plan.........You have been talking about this for weeks and have collected 3 monitors..........I can drive around my neighborhood and collect that.......I don't even stop to get them as I have so many.............When I buy gov't surplus they give them to you for free by the pallet............I am far from the best scrapper here or the biggest money maker I know that but take it from someone that has literally torn down at least 10,000 monitors in the last five years it is not something you want to do............These numbers are not inflated as that is 5.75 monitors per day which is probably about right.............I had a partner for the first two years but the last three I have done every single one myself and moved them all by hand............PLEASE re-consider this............I wish you all the luck but I am going to try to figure out how to block this thread because I can't read it anymore.........Note I'm not blocking you Logan (my little son's name) just this insane thread about some company named Nu-Life (NOT EVEN A MEMBER).....and these CRT monitors
It is true the laws on monitors are different here then in TN. Up here people aren't putting them out at the curb or setting them outside or any of that is because of the
E-Waste law that went into effect on the first(people seem to be forgetting this even happened). CRTs aren't my main business model by any means. I buy whole electronics based on what their going for on the market, scrap them down to their components, then sell them on ebay for projects or whatever. My issue with that lately is the soldering pot I ordered before Christmas hasn't arrived so I have boards in boxes ready to go but nowhere to go, and i'm starting to have an issue with ebay their failing to rectify so I'm on the hunt for a place to sell the components I have. I only even started accepting appliances from people because they wanted them gone but I've even restricted myself as to which appliances since I don't have the proper equipment for refrigerants. I've been hammering CRTs for the past few weeks because it became a hot topic and I thought I found the solution. Someone on here mentioned NuLife Glass to me as a processor for them and that's how I came to know who they are, what they do, what they charge, etc.. their process for seperating the lead from the glass is this country's answer if their willing to pay, but thanks for the kind words.
-Matt
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