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Always been a junker. It is just my wife who won't let me keep any of it. lol. Anyway live in Houston, TX. Definitely interested in e-scrap. Have a good bit of old stuff and always seem to find more and more of it.
I am interested in learning more how to estimate what something is worth so I can purchase intelligently.
The easiest way on prices would be to look thru the buyers threads and check their prices.
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Thanks for the tip. I actually started looking right after I posted and basically answered that one for myself. I guess I am of course really wanting to learn more about the extraction process for all of the scrap materials.
I was wondering outside of the scrap metals if there were certain chips or other components that could be removed from various boards and sold as parts as well. Like servo motors and potentially even specific IC chips. I will be reading through the forums of course and not necessarily looking for a direct answer. But if this hasn't been discussed before I would be curious about it for sure.
Welcome to the forum and there is a full education avail just for the reading. Check out the old threads and remember that prices have gone down. Mike.
I will definitely be reading around without doubt. I have never been one to ask many questions. I just usually read until I figure it out.
Sucks about the prices though. Just about perfect timing on my part like usual.
Love your quote by the way.
Welcome aboard from Indiana!
Well prices went down because gold went down and the newer computers use less gold. Think of computers and other electronics as gold mines.
In the gold mining business some mines produce more gold per ton than others. When the price of gold goes up it makes the lower producing mines profitable because they produce enough to cover expenses plus make a profit.
Its the same with electronics, when the price of gold went down the price of ewaste went down . Read Read Read.
On this forum we don't discuss refining of the material there other forums that do a great job of that. Refining involves dangerous chemicals and demands proper educating in their use. Mike