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For example, this microtec scan maker V310 I acquired? I know for a fact it doesn't work. I started ripping it down, found some interesting things. I was just wondering if anyone else has ripped a scanner down before and can give me some pointers on anything special to look for. and yes I have searched through the archives. o:)
thanks for the help love you guys!:kiss::kiss:
Check this link out , post 32
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/gener...@-@%*-@-2.html
This is epic!! And I giggled a lot reading it. Thank you!!
I have broken apart several of these...really not much in them actually...low grade power board and possibly a mid (rarely a high grade) controller board. I think there is 1-2 small motors and a bit of wire....rest is plastic and the glass. they are pretty easy most of the time...just a few screw..not like D#$M printers which are built like friggin Fort Knox.
Save the round metal bar. I sold a box of them on ebay for $40. Also these bars are in printers. Black smiths and metal art crafters want them.
Love those round bars. I have several sizes of them that I use for punches working on farm equipment.
Scanners, I kinda quit tearing apart because the yard will take them as shred and it just wasn't worth it.
careful with the glass, it's untempered plate glass and will shoot shards if broken. Their in all-in-one printers also.
I just toss them whole into the tin pile, making sure to toss them high up on the pile in case of glass. I don't even take apart computers anymore really. I just pull the ram and processor and into the shred pile it goes!
Doesn't your yard at least take PCs as a separate item?
Nope. I used to buy computers from them, then prices went to crap. I dont really care about ewaste. It just takes up room in the garage as far as I'm concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by RevenantDusk
I see, to each their own I guess. Here in NY all the yards Ive heard of buy PCs at 15 to 20 cents a lb. I used to completely dismantle the whole PC and sell the motherboards online but with prices the way they are now I just pull the wires, CPU, RAM, finger cards and hard drive and sell the rest for 20 cents a lb as a PC. I don't find it worth it to ship the MBs anymore with the low prices. I figure most motherboards weigh a lb or maybe 2 if you're lucky, and if I take the the MB out the power supply will go 10 cents a lb for breakage and the rest is light iron at 5 cents a lb, MBs are a dollar a lb at my yard. So I make more money if I sell the case with the MB inside and also the power supply and CD drives since that's most of the weight. I found a server recently, I pulled all the wire, cards and most of the hard drives, the MB was so tiny it probably weighed a little under a lb but the case was thick heavy steel, didn't make any sense to pull the board imo so I just sold it for PC price at my yard.
Why don't you work a deal with another area scrapper to maybe trade computers for their steel, copper, or alum. At least someone could use them besides "the yard".Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravitar
WOW...that is crazy talk around here! LOL.....wish I was near you, I would take all of it off your hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravitar
I make GREAT money with WAY LESS effort off ewaste. 100 lbs of steel...$5 (YES FIVE WHOLE BUCKS)....100 pounds of motherboards...WELL in excess of $100....not even close. Plus loading enough steel to make a difference means kicking my a$$ plus gas and time to drive to the yard. I can do all the ewaste I want in my garage if I wanted to and make far greater paychecks.
Of course, my opinion. I have ZERO desire to kill myself with scrap metal.
I used to get a lot of computers from the yard, for a pretty good price. Then one of the big dogs came and started buying their stuff for a price I can't compete with, which is ok with me. That being said, I hardly ever get computers anymore. Like maybe 1 every two months. I probably should have mentioned that in my origional post. When I do get a good load of computers, I do take them apart. So I guess I should have been a little bit more specific. The way I made it sound like I was dumping truck loads of computers into the shred pile, which is NOT the case at all.
I agree but everytime I turn around I stumble over some, but I'm the kind of person that will stop and pick up a penny off the ground.Quote:
Of course, my opinion. I have ZERO desire to kill myself with scrap metal.
I was gonna say.... too bad you aren't my way! I would have traded with you too!!