Originally Posted by
Julie
I worry that all I do is trip over the dollars for the dimes! I don't have any other scrap work to do right now so it's not like I'm choosing this over something else so at first it seemed like it was worth it but now i'm starting to wonder... If I had employees i wouldn't pay them to do this though - their hourly would most likely be over what i would be gaining.
Thats something you have to look into as part time said. Sometimes its not worth spending the hours it will take to make a small amount. So take an item and work on it to get good at it (so you can get a good test) and then time your self to see how long it takes you to do X amount of weight. Don't rush your self to "beat" the clock, just work as you would any other day, this way you will know how much more you made by doing blank.
Another thing to take note, I will "dumb" it down to make it simple. But lets say copper is $3.00 and you have wire that recovers at 45% and they pay you $1.45 or $1.50 a pound. Its not worth cleaning at all. Reason being you are getting the same price either way.
Back when I first started with motherboards and I still see it from other people who sell to me. They will remove the metal on the PCI card. That metal strip can be left on as the pricing is based with it on..not off so why remove it and lose that steel weight. Another item that's removed alot that does not really need to be removed is the north bridge heatsink on the motherboard. They want to remove it to add it to there AL bucket that will sell at $0.8 or so when they could leave it on the board and get $3+ per pound.
Some things are worth braking apart, Something are best to leave as they are for the fact of the time it takes or the weight factor.
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