Future of Scrapping TV's looks ok..
I've just done a bunch of flat screen tv's and I have to say the future looks good.
not sure what the situation in the US is with crt tv's and the analogue system, I would of thought
the US switched analogue tv off years ago, we're just doing it next year and for the past year or so
retailers haven't sold crt tv's so it's all digital from next year on.
this won't really stop the ammount of tv's being dumped and available to scrappers.
infact, tv's are now designed to be obsolete almost in 2 years as technology increases demand for the new.
What i'm liking about flat screen digital tv's is there's little waste, appart from some plastic around the face edge and most times the back cover, the rest is either aluminium or steel.
so remove the back, take out all the boards and the steel brackets ect and your left with a glass sheet one side and a steel or aluminium sheet on the other, basically it's shred steel.
so instead of carting chunky crt's to the transfer station ect and generally being a pain to handle, these flat screens can be at least sold as shred, they have some weight, I worked it out here at about $2.40 in shred steel on average after removing the outer plastic frame, the back and the pcb's.
so $2.40 isn't bad at all compared to a heavy crt that i'm happy to dispose of just for free, some pay to dispose.
The boards are at least interesting, they still have a tv board with extruded heat sinks, nice transformers and some copper. no degaussing cable or yolk but mid grade boards, some high and gold finger strip boards.
I haven't done enough to get a good average on value of 'em but i'm thinking it's more like $8 then $4 as crt's are,
and with the steal going with shred there's a saving in time as your going to the scrap yard anyway.
So yeah, I'm looking fwd to the day I don't see a crt on the street, will probably miss the degaussing cables but pcb's with fingers turn me on a bit more anyway.
