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    what are you guys doing with your brown boards

    What are you doing with your brown boards? who is buying them? like everyone else money is getting thin for me. I never messed with them. But at this time I'm wondering if its worth it to pull and ship?


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    If clean I send them to Ewasted when I ship out a few pallets (not sure on current price). If they are a pain to clean then I send them to my scrap yard and get 5 cents per pound.

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    One of my local yards pays 10 cents a pound for all circuit boards.

    Right now transformers, electric motors and anything that might be considered copper bearing is 5 cents a pound.

    So all of my low grade boards for now are sold with any transformers still attached at 10 cents a pound.

    I keep the good boards. They go to a different buyer who pays good money for them.

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    I am getting $.12 to $.22 for them

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    I sell mine for .14/lb locally. I do not clean them of anything anymore. I can even throw whole old cheap mouses in with mine. Heck, i love brown boards now a days!!

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    Clean all the goodies off - cb motors, Al heatsinks, chips and even some gold (thank you Mech) - toss them in with my shred and sell for a whopping 0.02 a pound. They've been outside all summer so I hoping for some spider weight.

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    My local yard buys low grade for .10 lb and now the motors and transformers are the same price so they can stay.(one less thing for me pull off.)
    I still pull alum. and IC's and any easy CBM (copper bearing material) that the copper can be removed easily.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ScrapperTrecycling View Post
    Clean all the goodies off - cb motors, Al heatsinks, chips and even some gold (thank you Mech) - toss them in with my shred and sell for a whopping 0.02 a pound. They've been outside all summer so I hoping for some spider weight.
    Black Widow Spider war going on for me I killed 7 on my back porch and one I found under the lip of my 5 gal bucket that holds dirty aluminum.

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    I sell them for .23 cent/lb to my buyer whenever I send out an ewaste truckload. (Not too often nowadays, for it to be worth my time, I need to be able to operate on higher margins)

    So far as spider wars, my Father is my General manager, going back and forth to jobs sites, ordering tools/lumber/misc building materials, and one day I got a call from him because he managed to set a gooseneck filled with trash on fire. Everyone I know in the good ole NC heat has had it happen once. He saw a huge infestation of brown recluses and he used brake parts cleaner to light them up. Well, usually that would be alright because it burns off quickly, however, today it was 95 degrees and the thing went up in flames instantly. So he calls me "Robby, I have good news and bad news." "Yeah, Dad?" "Good news is we got rid of a huge nest of brown recluses on the job site. Bad news is one of the goosenecks may or may not be on fire with flames 10 feet in the air." We let those D*** spiders burn.

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    We just had something similar right north of us in Michigan. A man lit his car and the gas station on fire by trying to light up a spider in his gas tank door. .




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    what are you guys doing with your brown boards

    I sell them locally for .23 a lb. I just take off any easy copper and ics.

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    Yeah Mechanic, when i saw that I sent it to him and said "Look familiar?" He reminded me that he was still my Father and he would whoop me up one side and down the other if I ever spoke of it again. We had a company meeting the next day about the hazards of open flames by dump trailers. You know, purely for educational value.....

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    Did your dad lead that company meeting?

    There's nothing better than a teacher, that teaches based on personal experiences, especially when they have "working knowledge".

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    I wouldn't say he led it... but if it counts for anything, he sure inspired it!

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    I pull all transformers and unwind them to get clean #2. It is theraputic to crush them with vice grips and grab the wire out any way I can.. Gives me a repetitive short term goal that keeps me from stressing about other things. Really thin stuff I leave in the transformers and sell as copper bearing. Heat sinks come off and get sorted into aluminum, steel and copper. The boards themselves I save in a big box to be dealt with later.. If I can't find anything else to do with them, I sell em at the yard as copper bearing.

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    I sell them locally for around $0.25-0.30 per lb. I seldom remove anything, except very large aluminum or copper heat sinks. To get that price I need to bring in 500+ lbs at a time.
    I don't mind to collect them at this price.




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